Welcome back. Brothers and sisters, comrades, former members of the Black Panther Party, we welcome sister Charlotte O’Neal, wife and comrade of brother captain Pete O’Neal of the Kansas City branch of the Black Panther Party.
The O’Neals left the U.S. after the fall of the party and settled in the East African nation of Tanzania where they established a village where Africans from both countries lived in harmonious purpose. The O’Neals welcomed the brave warrior Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt to their community where a former Black Panther elder lived, married, and breathed his last breath under an African sun.
As we hold age into our elder days, it’s important to remember that the Black Panther Party was mostly a teenage organization of young men and women. Older members were branch captains and other officials such as deputy ministers of state chapters, but it was fundamentally a youth group.
Much of this gets lost in the mists of distant history, and even though much time has passed and lives have taken different paths, I don’t know of one man or woman who regrets his or her former membership in the party—not one. Most people remember those days as a high point in their lives when they served their people, body and soul. They remember the camaraderie between brothers and sisters, and they remember a fierce love for the people.
So we all, once again, welcome sister Charlotte O’Neal. All power to the people.
With love, not fear, this is Mumia Abu-Jamal. Thank you. Thank you all.
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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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