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crippled No. 2 reactor, and will continue trying to pinpoint the cause next
week.
Experts fear more nuke reactors may be sited over active faults
More nuclear power plants could be found to be sited over active
fault lines as the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) conducts safety
reviews of facilities, experts say.
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
The Unsilenced Voice of a ‘Long-Distance Revolutionary’
by
Chris Hedges
I am sitting in the visiting area of the SCI Mahanoy prison in
Frackville, Pa., on a rainy, cold Friday morning with Mumia Abu-Jamal,
America’s most famous political prisoner and one of its few authentic
revolutionaries. He is hunched forward on the gray plastic table, his
dreadlocks cascading down the sides of his face, in a room that looks like
a high school cafeteria. He is talking intently about the nature of empire,
which he is currently reading voraciously about, and effective forms of
resistance to tyranny throughout history. Small children, visiting their
fathers or brothers, race around the floor, wail or clamber on the plastic
chairs. Abu-Jamal, like the other prisoners in the room, is wearing a brown
jumpsuit bearing the letters DOC—for Department of Corrections.
Abu-Jamal was transferred in January to the general prison
population after nearly 30 years in solitary confinement on death row and