What is so incredible to me about "Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary" is that against all odds -- from decades of isolation on death row -- that Mumia has persisted so elegantly at being what he always was, a righter of wrongs. His body of work -- his numerous books, essays and commentaries distributed by Prison Radio -- rank him in a class by himself when it comes to fighting for human rights and the dignity of man. He's the greatest example I've ever come across of a person the government wanted so badly to silence and could not. The documentary shows him to be the one-man revolutionary who comes along once a generation. More than anything, the documentary shows what a terrible loss society has sustained by keeping Mumia imprisoned under the bleakest of conditions for over 40 years.
My only regret is that the documentary did not make the overwhelming case for Mumia's innocence or show how our so-called justice system has failed him at every turn. Mumia's trial was contaminated with numerous constitutional violations that should have merited him a new trial many years ago. A documentary on that -- as well as his outright innocence -- subject is long overdo.
My only regret is that the documentary did not make the overwhelming case for Mumia's innocence or show how our so-called justice system has failed him at every turn. Mumia's trial was contaminated with numerous constitutional violations that should have merited him a new trial many years ago. A documentary on that -- as well as his outright innocence -- subject is long overdo.