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Mumia Speaks on the Cops and Today’s Deadly Economy
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
25 Feb 2020
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The nation’s best known political prisoner sees parallels between the plight of today’s low wage workers and conditions during the Great Depression, when workers were brutalized for seeking unionization and a living wage. “I though of that dismal history when I heard of cops breaking the bones of U-Cal graduate students who are only striking to get the ability to pay their rent,” Mumia Abu Jamal told Prison Radio.

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