“The Secret Superfund Site.”
Schuylkill County. Could it be the coal reservoirs, the Cogen plants, or the fly ash? A by-product that contains toxic carcinogens, including arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium, and selenium, which becomes a drift, carried by the unpredictable winds into rivers, streams, reservoirs, ground wells, etcetera.
Coal wastewater is stored in underground disposal wells that leak and contaminates groundwater aquifers. Abandoned mines are also sources of AMD. Acid Mine Drainage occurs when [inaudible] materials, from mining, reacts with water and oxygen. Acid Mine Drainage makes water more acidic, helping heavy metals like lead, mercury, and arsenic are discharged and dissolved into rivers, streams, etcetera.
About 15 years ago, most of us were unaware about a doctor by the name of Dr. Greco, who was secretly responsible for conducting a government clinical study randomly on unsuspecting citizens throughout Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. They were the subject to go onto certain medical procedures and tests. Certain officers, whom I promised to withhold and protect their anonymity, we’re diagnosed with a medical anomaly called prostatic stones, as a result of consuming and drinking this water at Schuylkill County.
If you didn’t know, there is a 300% rate of children born with asthma, then any other part of the country. You also might not know that there is an astounding 200% rate more citizens, in Schuylkill County, contracting cancer, than anywhere else in the entire country. No wonder why scientists and environmentalists outside of Schuylkill County have declared and conceded to the inevitable facts. Schuylkill County is a cancer cluster, riddled with a myriad of other contributing medical ailments.
I bet you didn’t know that. Every time you cook, clean, eat, drink, this water, it is killing the environment, plants, trees, rivers, birds, animals, its citizens. And more importantly, our progeny bit by bit with every drink. 75% of the people on earth don’t have access to clean water. 11 to 12 million people on earth are exposed to contaminated water. The makeup of human beings’ bodies is comprised of 85% water.
With these high percentages, this means that the existence of human beings, dependent on continuously drinking the water, that is approved by the EPA and DEP. Which is, at the very minimum, contaminated and polluted, is truncating our lives right into the grave prematurely. With a bit of uncommon sense, it would behoove you to know, that the average citizen of Schuylkill County and abroad, would eventually arrive at the same conclusion. This is no longer a secret; it is an open secret. Schuylkill County is literally a Superfund site.
As a social environmental justice advocate, my advocacy is predicated on the united support and mobilization of the people, in and abroad, the nation of prisoners. I must admit, I give to every will to live the same reverence for life that I give to my own. It takes one person to fight for your rights. Just like one person to start a fire. Set your trail blaze by exposing the environmental secrets that affect us all. A human element.
Bryant Arroyo for Prison Radio and Prison Nation of Prisoners.
(Sound of a cell door closing.) 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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