It’s Jamil from ISP.
It’s important that we respect and we protect the red, black, and green flag. And what I mean by that is it’s a lot of time that we see a lot of these flags that have this bad connotation in a sense, energy on it. Let’s say for example, like the Confederates. If it didn’t mean nothing bad then, it do now by the things that it has been attached to over the years.
You know what I’m saying? So we got to make sure that we protect the red, black, and green flag, because we know that they stand for something that’s liberate, not just to black or brown but to mankind. So we have to make sure that we protected from these certain images that can last for so long. You know what I’m saying?
Using the flag to do this or using the flag for that. You have to keep your intentions pure when you waving the flag. So we have to make sure we protect the red, black, and green flag, because thirty years down the line, we don’t want them to say, “Oh, this belongs to something that’s radical.” Even if they do already, we don’t want to give them nothing.
You know what I’m saying? We gotta make sure we keep protecting that flag. And I appreciate everybody who out there standing up with justice and, you know, all the beautiful things that go with that. That’s beautiful. Thank you.
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![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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