“Trump Fever.”
Are you sick yet? Major American media outlets covered U.S. President Donald Trump so much that CNN, for example, should be called TNN: Trump News Network.
From morning to night, the scribbling, screeds, and paranoid fantasies of Trump fill the air like a rotten miasma. It’s Trump, Trump, Trump all the time, a hurricane of curses and insults enough for all fueled by ego and excess. It’s a gas attack in a war against all he deems enemies.
I must ask you: aren’t you tired of it? Doesn’t it seem like he’s been there forever? Doesn’t it seem like he’ll never leave? Curses, insults, lies, and idiocies assault the ear, the mind, the air, the nation. Trump’s America is a nation of madmen and a nation of mean men.
Babies are snatched from parents for cheap political points. This nation born of immigrants hates all new recent immigrants for being too brown, too poor too Spanish. And as hatreds bubble like split pea soup, the nation falls into a new low funk. I call it Trump fever.
From imprisoned nation, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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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