Friday, October 28, 2005

San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year

San Francisco Bay View - National Black Newspaper of the Year: "'We need a movement of millions'


Commentary recorded for - but not delivered at - the Oct. 15 Millions More March

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Long live John Africa. On a move! I want to thank Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Millions More Movement for the kind invitation to join y'all here. As we gather, in person or electronically, we do so in a time of peril.

We do so in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when the state showed us all that they don't give a damn about Black life. But every day of our lives we see smaller but no less lethal Hurricane Katrinas. Every year in public schools, millions of Black, Latino and poor kids are miseducated, thereby destroying, as surely as any hurricane, their life hopes and chances."

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