Elections are underway, and thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, billions of dollars are flooding previously small and uninteresting elections, in states, governorships and Congress.
Pundits are in heaven, predicting which way the polls will go – but in truth, no one knows for sure.
Perhaps the Republicans will win; perhaps the Dems.
The question is, will you?
The answer is, at best, doubtful. For both parties are corporate-owned – and they serve those who can afford their services – and that ain’t regular people.
In a classic study of political timidity, most democrats are in full flight in running from Barack Obama, given his polling in the low 40s.
If they’ll betray the man who gave them 2 overwhelming presidential victories, what makes you think they won’t betray you?
But guess who they won’t betray? Big corporate funders. Big business!
Speaking of big business, there is one big winner in this election: the corporate media.
For them, its Christmas time, New Years and Rosh Hashanah – rolled into one!
But for you – for average people – have you really won?
![Prison Radio is sharing an abbreviated version of a press release covering recent racist incidents at SCI Rockview in PA and the organizing to demand accountability. We are reaching out to people incarcerated at Rockview as well as recently transferred folks, inviting them to call, in hopes of hearing commentaries from them.
Benner Township, PA.-
On November 24th, 2023, imprisoned people at SCI Rockview found two nooses hanging in the CO’s office, displayed visibly for many prisoners to see. When the prisoners asked the staff why the nooses were hung, they were told it was a joke.
By December 4th, prisoners filed a grievance to document what they saw, noting that the hanging of the nooses was “unethical, racially motivated, hateful, [a] deliberate debasement of black inmates" and “unsafe for inmates, staff, [and] the whole prison in general.” In the grievance, they demanded that Sgt. Mosser and CO Richard be fired and investigated for a hate crime, and for CO Kirchner to get therapy. Captain Andrews, the head of security, denied the grievance.
The sergeant and COs are still working in the prison to this day, with no repercussions...
As of March 10th, prisoners have reached out to Pennsylvania officials at the Dept. of Corrections in a letter campaign, sending 100 copies of the grievance. Copies of the letter also were mailed to Governor Shapiro, Senator Fetterman, Senator Street, and various advocacy groups. The demands for relief in the original grievance have now become the platform of demands for this campaign. About 20 of the 100 letters were withheld by the prison.
Activists on the outside are joining forces with prisoners to elevate their demands, flooding the phone lines of DOC offices, assisting with outreach to media, and circulating the stories of prisoners who have found unity in opposition to the facility's virulent institutional racism.
In any other workplace, hanging a noose would be grounds for immediate termination. However, Nicki Paul, the superintendent's assistant and "grievance coordinator" informed the public that they self-investigated their staff and found they did nothing wrong.
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