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OVERTURNED. Death sentence of MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, 47, charismatic former Black Panther and journalist whose book Live from Death Row spawned worldwide support among opponents of the death penalty; in Philadelphia. A federal judge upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction in the 1981 murder of white police officer Daniel Faulkner but found that the instructions to the jury were unconstitutional...
...session in the yard of a run-down stone house in Havana's Vedado neighborhood, several hundred fans waited in the blazing sun for an hour as a crew struggled to get the sound equipment working. The walls of the house were scrawled with vivid slogans--VIVA CUBA, FREE MUMIA and NO MORE PRISONS, next to a painting of the Cuban flag. It was easy to spot the trappings of American hip-hop in the animated crowd--baggy pants, and T shirts splashed with the names of American artists (Mos Def, the Notorious B.I.G.) or record labels (Bad Boy, Rawkus...
Making a protest you can party to is tough. Michael Franti and Spearhead's latest album, Stay Human, ambitiously incorporates a running play about a Mumia Abu-Jamal-like death-penalty case; the results are music as stiff and analysis as thin as the CD they're burned onto. But it does point to a potential flash point for the revival of protest music in the West: capital punishment in particular and law enforcement in general are bringing together black and white artists as few issues have since apartheid. The New York City police shooting of African immigrant Amadou Diallo...
...this as someone who went on WBAI last year knowing I'd be a punching bag. I'd written a screed about misguided support for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal and was attacked on-air as a lazy corporate-media hack. They were wrong, of course. But they were damn good...
Rage Against the Machine's lead singer ZACH DE LA ROCHA has decried American imperialism, sweatshops, Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence--you name the lefty cause, he's written a song about it. Now the consummate angry young man is raging against his own machine. "I feel that it is necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed," he says. "It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band and, from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal." ("Creative differences" would have sufficed.) Guitarist Tom Morello...