From: nattyreb <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:31 PM 'London Afire' by Mumia Abu-Jamal
London Afire [col. writ. 8/10/11] Mumla Abu-Jamal After decades of political betrayal by the Labour Party, and the blatant attacks on the working class by the Tories (the British Conservative Party), there has emerged an angry and bitter class that has rocked what was once the center of a global empire: London. Fires have erupted In Birmingham, Croydon, Bristol, Liverpool and Tottenham at last count, sparked by the very same fuse that lit the explosions of the 1960s, and 1990s: police violence-this time against a 29-year old father of four, Mark Duggan. But while this cop violence may prove a spark, that doesn't mean It was the reason. Years of cutbacks, joblessness, slashed educational opportunities and plain old political mean-splritedness aimed at the poor and the dispossessed, immigrants and the like, left sour tastes In the minds of many. Especially In the midst of a city that became the financial center of Europe, who were living a life of excess and plenty. Predictably, pols bum-rushed the mike and spat out words that could've echoed their American cousins in power in the '60s, or after the Rodney King police-beating acquittal, which burned Southern California in 1992. "They're just criminals--this isn't about social conditions!" "These people are just thugs--they're thieves--that's all!" (Last time I checked, thieves don't usually light fires where they steal.) Fires are attempts to destroy: period. The late Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. said, during the tumult of the '60s: "A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard." For those In power in Britain, they've still heard--nothing. (c) '11 maj =============== The Power of Truth is Final -- Free Mumia! Audio of most of Mumia's essays are at: http://www.prisonradio.org http://mumiapodcast.libsyn.com/ Mumia's got a podcast! Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Essays - Subscribe at the website or on iTunes and get Mumia's radio commentaries online. Mumia Abu-Jamal's new book -- JAILHOUSE LAWYERS: PRISONERS DEFENDING PRISONERS V. THE USA, featuring an introduction by Angela Y. Davis -- has been released! It is available from City Lights Books: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100448090 Please make a contribution to help free Mumia. Donations to the grassroots work will go to both INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF MUMIA ABU-JAMAL and the FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL COALITION (NYC). WWW.FREEMUMIA.COM Please mail donations/ checks to: FREE MUMIA ABU JAMAL COALITION PO BOX 16, NEW YORK, NY 10030 (CHECKS FOR BOTH ORGANIZATIONS PAYABLE TO: FMAJC/IFCO) FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: 215 476-8812 212-330-8029 Send our brotha some LOVE and LIGHT at: Mumia Abu-Jamal AM 8335 SCI-Greene 175 Progress Drive Waynesburg, PA 15370 WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM CAN *NOT* REST!! Subscribe: [email protected] Read: http://topica.com/lists/mumiacolumns/read Subscribe ICFFMAJ email updates list by e-mailing [email protected]! ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
