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Hi-Tech Lynching
Omar Askia Ali
My name is Omar Askia Ali. I’m at SCI Coal Township in Pennsylvania, and my topic today is on white men are allowed to stand on the steps of a government building in protest of… Full Transcript
I Can’t Breathe (We Are All George Floyd)
Khalfani Malik Khaldun
My name is Khalfani Malik Khaldun. I am calling from Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. This is my cry of support [], in celebration [] for George Floyd; power to the people and all those that… Full Transcript
Hood Culture
Dontie Mitchell
I want to tell you a quick story about a young man who does eleven years in prison from the time he’s 18. While in prison, he really doesn’t learn how to be an adult… Full Transcript
How Do You Fight an Unjust Racist System?
Dontie Mitchell
How do you fight an unjust and racist system? Definitely not by being their good nigga. How do you find an unjust and racist system that uses the power of the state to grind people… Full Transcript
World On Fire
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Guess what? The world is on fire! I don’t mean environmental degradation or global warming, no, although that too is true. I refer to protests, not just all across the United States, but all around… Full Transcript
Wealth and Change
Dontie Mitchell
The problem is that rich keep getting richer while the rest of us barely make ends meet. People must work two, three jobs just to live the American Dream. Many of you will have to… Full Transcript
When Good People Do Nothing, Tyranny Reigns
Dontie Mitchell
When good people do nothing, tyranny reigns. Let us analyze why people are looting and rioting in the wake of George Floyd’s death. It’s because people lose respect for law when the very people responsible… Full Transcript
George Floyd: What Do You Expect To Happen
Dontie Mitchell
George Floyd and state power: what do you expect to happen? The death of George Floyd is on a long list of unarmed black people murdered by the police. His death is sad and tragic.… Full Transcript
I Can’t Breathe Pt. 2
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The furious struggle for justice for the late Eric Garner took years, long hard years. But his family and friends before a bare pittance was granted in the belated decision to dismiss the cop who… Full Transcript
Hypocrisy of DOCCS
Dontie Mitchell
It seems to me that prison officials don’t want to accept responsibility for their own conduct. However, they will punish those of us who are behind these walls for the things that we do wrong. … Full Transcript
After One Hundred Thousand
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“After One Hundred Thousand.” What happens when the counter strikes one hundred thousand? Nothing. One hundred thousand Americans dead. That means for all intents and purposes, nothing much. So does the counter stop counting? Or… Full Transcript
Frances Goldin: Housing Activist, Radical, and Literary Agent
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Francis Goldin: Housing Activist, Radical, and Literary Agent.” Who knows the name, “Francis Goldin?” The better question may be: “Who doesn’t know her?”. She had spent a long and colorful life on behalf of the… Full Transcript
When All Things Changed
Mumia Abu-Jamal
The crisis created by the coronavirus has revealed, with amazing speed, how vulnerable the United States, and indeed nations around the world, is to something that the human eye cannot see. In a matter of… Full Transcript
Immigration Reform
Aquiles Serpa
I just want to, how to say, hello to the world. My name is Achilles Serpa. I’m 25 years old and I-I just want to bring an awareness to the immigration reform pack that I… Full Transcript
COVID-19 Response Questionaire
Reginald Sinclair Lewis
I am Reginald S. Lewis. The watchful eyes of the prison officials behind the mass oppression discourages us from talking to each other, and so a free exchange of communication is severely obstructed. After one… Full Transcript
Phone Wars 4: Organizing Against Mass Incarceration
Dontie Mitchell
Organizing against mass incarceration. I was reading the interview of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who I never heard of until now. She wrote a book entitled “Golden Gulag,” which analyzes the buildup of the California prison… Full Transcript
In Memory of May 13th
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“In Memory of May 13th.” In a matter of hours, the calendar will ring in May 13th, and it will mark the 35th year since the massacre on Mother’s Day, 1985, when police armed with… Full Transcript
Disaster After Disaster
Mumia Abu-Jamal
“Disaster After Disaster.” In a matter of weeks, the novel Coronavirus known as COVID-19 has claimed the lives of over 75,000 people, the highest death rate in the world now in the United States of… Full Transcript
How COVID-19 Affects Me
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia: Well, we don’t see much because we’re locked up 23 hours and 15 minutes every day. That is to say, everybody in prison all across the state of Pennsylvania are under this emergency decree,… Full Transcript
![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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He was born under the name Delbert Orr, but is known in the world as Delbert Africa, a prominent member of the MOVE Organization.In the 70s in Philadelphia he was perhaps its best known and… Full Transcript