Posted by
Defend America on Saturday, September 05, 2009 7:38:56 AM
From Verum Serum:
At the risk of piling on, I made a discovery of my own related to
Jones’ past. As has been detailed elsewhere, Jones was the founder and
long-time executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.
One of the Center’s projects that Jones was involved in has been little
noted or discussed at this stage: a record label sponsored by the
Center called Freedom Fighter Music.
The label appears to have been created in the 2002-3 timeframe, and to
have fizzled out by 2005-6. And apparently, Freedom Fighter only
produced 2 or 3 albums.
However, one of these albums was an anti-Iraq-war compilation album that caught my attention because it was narrated by Mumia Abu Jamal,
a Black Panther Party activist who is on death row for murdering a
Philadelphia police officer in 1981. One of the controversies over
Jones this week has been his prior statements and activity in support of Jamal.
I managed to track down an MP3 of the full album entitled WarTimes: Reports from the Opposition.
And lo and behold, not only did Jones run the organization which
sponsored the creation of this album, but he is also featured on the
album itself. I created a highlight clip featuring Mumia Abu Jamal and
some of the more outrageous song lyrics (NSFW WARNING: EXPLICIT
LANGUAGE). The clip featuring the short interview with Jones begins at
about 3:45…but the whole clip is worth a listen, IMO.
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=8166