This documentary takes you on a journey with Mumia, the main character, and his love of family, work, people, and what it means to have to struggle as a revolutionary in an open racist society. This story shares a lot about his educational, political and occupational formation, and brings to light an intellectual who takes very seriously his professional career as a journalist. One is able to understand that Mumia never ever gives up even under very repressive and horrendous conditions, and influences you to do the same, which is good. His love for reading, writing and learning is evident in this story. His love for everything that denotes struggling and mass movements organized against the repressive apparatus clearly illuminates his self-determination to press forward with the truth and not to cave into despair and darkness which the system wants to force on him.
This documentary stirs the mind and imagination, what is mentally weak is force and repression, and what is mentally strong is depicted as being under extreme surviellance and repression. One can see how the repressive forces in society conspire against unity and ties of solidarity, and how they tear to pieces family ties through organized crime and murder(Manufacturing Guilt). Mumia's thousands of commentaries are recorded and broadcasted by www.prisonradio.org. There, at that website, one can become educated in a quick span of time, and this contribution somehow offsets the gap in the educational infracstructure. This whole documentary is a journey also through the real love of learning and wanting a decent society where everyone is elevated to succeed in a positive way. See this documentary and you will see other living intellectuals who are part of the progressive historical makeup of the United States express their genuine and loving feelings towards Mumia. Of course others in this film express their negative feelings. Overall, this documentary is very revealing of what it is to struggle and support a family, and get treated malevolently and shafted by the power structure all because one is a bright and shining force for people the world over.And one of the top notched journalist and radio broadcaster in the whole universe.
This documentary stirs the mind and imagination, what is mentally weak is force and repression, and what is mentally strong is depicted as being under extreme surviellance and repression. One can see how the repressive forces in society conspire against unity and ties of solidarity, and how they tear to pieces family ties through organized crime and murder(Manufacturing Guilt). Mumia's thousands of commentaries are recorded and broadcasted by www.prisonradio.org. There, at that website, one can become educated in a quick span of time, and this contribution somehow offsets the gap in the educational infracstructure. This whole documentary is a journey also through the real love of learning and wanting a decent society where everyone is elevated to succeed in a positive way. See this documentary and you will see other living intellectuals who are part of the progressive historical makeup of the United States express their genuine and loving feelings towards Mumia. Of course others in this film express their negative feelings. Overall, this documentary is very revealing of what it is to struggle and support a family, and get treated malevolently and shafted by the power structure all because one is a bright and shining force for people the world over.And one of the top notched journalist and radio broadcaster in the whole universe.
