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Everyone has an opinion about Mumia Abu-Jamal. Have an informed opinion. Read his story.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the most controversial icons of our time. He has become the face of the death penalty, and of America's failure to address fundamental issues of race, justice, and dissent. Yet despite years of widespread demonstrations calling for his freedom, few people really know who Mumia was before he became a death row "celebrity."

Most people know Mumia through his books Live from Death Row (1995), Death Blossoms (1996), and All Things Censored (2000), which cemented his reputation as a "voice of the voiceless." In On A Move: The Story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, award-winning author Terry Bisson brings to life the man behind that voice. Now, for the first time, you can meet Mumia as student, radical, lover, father, and reporter. Covering a childhood in Philadelphia's projects, a turbulent youth in the Black Panther Party, a promising career in radio journalism, and a fateful sidewalk altercation that changed everything, Bisson's colorful sketches tell the story of one of the stormiest periods in American history, and of a young rebel who came of age in its crucible.

A long-time friend of his subject, Bisson makes no attempt at an exhaustive account. On A Move will tell you how Mumia became the figurehead he is today, and why almost every progressive organization in the world has called for his freedom or at least a new trial. However, it does not dwell on the contradictory details of his conviction. Instead, in a readable style aimed at a broad audience, Bisson fleshes out the complexities and warmth of a man constantly dehumanized and reduced to two dimensions, both by those who want to see him dead, and by his supporters' tendency to make him a poster-perfect "cause."

Mumia's story raises fundamental questions about our commitment to freedom of speech, while the political climate of his trial casts serious doubt on whether a reporter famous for exposing police abuse could find justice in an openly hostile court. But whatever one's views on freedom of speech, racial discrimination, capital punishment, or even Mumia's guilt or innocence, this book will give you a vital understanding of a man and a movement that have already left their mark on history. ... Read more

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Gripping reading
This book is very interestingly written.It's not exactly "street prose" as one reviewer put it, but just shockingly to the point.The writer says in one sentence what most would take paragraphs to convey.It doesn't seem to matter to the writer whether he is writing in first/second person etc, he just conveys his message - beautifully.

Whether you believe in Mumia's innocence or not, this book is a good start to look into the complicated issue.For those reviewers who don't even review the book and simply blast Mumia or his followers, you have missed the point.I personally believe in Mumia's innocence and the system's failure to give him a fair trial (I'm a law studend and have read his trial transcripts, the opinions, etc).But that isn't the point.This is a good book, thoroughly gripping - I read it in 5 hours or so.

Only Fudges Some Major Facts
This book is interestingly written in 'street' prose, with certain lines and bits emphasized and then re-emphasized to hit home.This story will help a reader looking to find a first hand perspective into the Black Panther movement of the sixties and into the Philadelphia police nightmare of the seventies. As long as you approach this book knowing that Mumia is NOT a political prisoner (he is a murderer) and was NEVER silenced for writing the truth (he spread vicious libel throughout his career as a journalist), and you look into those facts for yourself, then this book can be for you what it is for me... a dishonest biography of a man set against an honest background of the turbulant and nightmarish time for African- Americans in the years following the Civil Rights Movement.

WHAT ELSE IS NEW
Civil Disobedience is one thing and murder quite another. It is obvious since the days of Martin Luther King and Tolerence of the 60s that all sub-culture groups jump on the same ole band wagon of," It's not my fault." Blame the goverment. Point the finger at racism or an abused childhood. Fact is," Murder is murder!" Whether one is able to manipulate masses of naive believers is a good tool for digging out of prison, but the truth is," What else is new?"

Call the Sanitation Department
This book is a predictable re-hash of the laughable attempts to free a cop killer and an attempt to turn him into some kind of noble, cudly revolutionary.Jamal shot and killed a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.Jamal has since become a cause celeb for a quite amazing amalgamation of leftists, including the Euro-trash left, anti-death penalty activists, black nationalists, anarchists, the Amnesty Int'l crowd, and your standard Ed Asner wacko-lefty Hollywood crowd.This book is an apologetic for Jamal, your time could be better spent reading the trial transcripts from his trial in 1982.Jamal's attorneys, which alternate from year to year, have abused the criminal justice system for 15 years with one story after another of fantastic conspiracies (which are always different) and new and exciting social degenerates as the stars.

Save your money.Watch your tv news for the next Economic Summit.The collection of trash that are rioting in the streets about that Summit are the same mob that will show up at a Jamal rally, they just bring different signs, and a different form of a "hey hey ho ho" chant.Take a good look at the cover of this book, that is what evil looks like...

AMAZING!
This book is written in a way that you can;t put it down. It takes only a few hours to read the whole book. A wonderful must-read about a great revolutionary ... Read more

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OMNI MAGAZINE - AUGUST 1992 - EXCLUSIVE! MYSTERY OF THE SPHINX'S AGE, THE MUMMY TALKS, UFO UPDATE: ALIEN ABDUCTIONS, LAUGHING AT THE FUTURE WITH MYSTERY SCIENCE 3000, INSIDE TIPS ON BIOTECH INVESTING, ELECTRONIC WARFARE AT HOME, FICTION: TIME TRAVEL BY TERRY BISSON ... Read more

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Golden Age science fiction stories by Stephen Baxter, Terry Bisson, Terry Bramlett, Tobias S. Buckell, Tom Dupree, James Gunn, Max Habilis, Paul E. Martens, G. David Nordley, Alan Purestem, Mike Resnick, Rudy Rucker, Robert Sheckley, Justin Stanchfield, Trent Walters.Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.Edited by Eric Reynolds.NEW stories written as if during the Golden Age (from 1938 to 1957): the authors have transported themselves back to the Golden Age, suspended their memories of all events that have taken place since then and written science fiction stories about the "future" . . . tales of a bygone future. (We've included a couple of great reprints, too--one of which is seeing its first reprint since 1951.) ... Read more

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Back to the future
These stories are the reason I fell in love with SF in the first place. If the following names mean anything to you, buy this book; Kuttner, Simak, Clarke, Asimov, "Doc" Smith. If they don't, buy the book anyway and give yourself a treat (then go buy books by those quoted above). ... Read more