Imagine living in almost any country in the world, except the United States.
Imagine looking at news accounts reporting on the Ul.S presidency for the last 2 years.
Imagine what millions of people think of the current president, and through him, the American people.
Try to imagine how they could see both as anything other than mad.
America looks and sounds like a nation in the throes of madness.
Loud, abrasive, offensive, addicted to name-calling and an air of meanness, how could they seem otherwise?
Threatening war one day, loving and praising dictators the next, how can the U.S, Empire seem anything other than schizophrenic?
It looks like a circus act; like a clown juggling atom bombs.
The praises of neo-Nazis the siren’s call to fear, the calls for a wall, are all emblems of the fall of Empire.
For an empire that cannot reasonably run itself can hardly run or control other states.
And even when Donald T leaves his imperial throne, the US will long bear the mark of infamy, for people of the world will have seen the real face of America, one it will not soon forget.
![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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