Hello, my name is political prisoner Khalfani Malik Khaldun, and I’m calling from Indiana. This is an inspiration called “Decades of Inspiration” about the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
In 1987, I was only 17 years old, and I was sent to an adult prison. The first book I read was The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Then I was given a newsletter called Industrial Workers World. On the front cover was a New Afrikan man sporting dreadlocks, and a boy was swinging from his shoulders. This man was who I’ve came to know and love and has inspired me, brother Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Today, all these many years later, Mumia has been overwhelmed by Hepatitis C, and his fastid captors are denying him treatment in hopes he will die like a wounded animal in a cage. Even now, he continues to inspire me. That inspiration is what has compelled me to lend my voice to expose this injustice, while at the same time, I call up on all freedom-loving kind and humanitarians to act in defense of brother Mumia’s life.
As a political prisoner isolated inside the Indiana Department of Corrections, I know firsthand that these people will let your condition advance to a deadly stage before trying to help you. In Mumia’s case, they hope he die. We can’t let them kill Mumia in this type of way.
Standing with Mumia Abu-Jamal is like standing up to defend all the lives of political prisoners everywhere. We are all Mumia Abu-Jamal. Stand tall and beside this great man. We don’t have anything to lose but our chains. This is the message: decades of inspiration by brother Khalfani Malik Khaldun in support and standing with Mumi Abu-Jamal. Thank you.
These commentaries are recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
![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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