At the end of the notorious tax bill’s passage, leaders of the Republicans did everything but fall on their faces in supine servility to President Trump.
They praised him with words of wonderment, almost thanking him for granting them air to breathe.
For Americans, for men, for free people, the sight was as shocking as it was sickening. Early Americans fought a bloody Revolution to end the practice of free men bowing to Kings. At the time, most of Europe believed that kings were ordained by God.
A radical nation, the United States tossed that idea into the trash heaps of history.
Look today at these men who claim fealty to some so-called ‘founding fathers’” fathers, maybe, but these are not their sons.
They are Tories, servants of wealth, servants of capital, not their fellow citizens.
At the UN, the US threatens the world to cut off foreign aid – unless they bow to the Empire.
The world answered: 128 countries against; 9 in favor: the US loses by a landslide.
The politics of bullies now reigns, both here and abroad.
They reign, but that doesn’t mean that they always win.
![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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