This is Bilal Abdul-Salam Bey, also known as Charley Hughes, uh, inmate at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson Correctional, Kansas. This piece is called “What We Want.”
Well, first part of the 10 point program for the NABBP.
Number one: we want power to determine the destiny of New Afrikan communities.
Two: we want full employment for all our- all our people.
Three: we demand housing fit for the shelter of human beings.
Four: we want New Afrikan men exempted from military service.
Five: we demand decent education for New African people, an education that teaches the truth about this jaded, racist society and teach New Afrikan children their rightful place in society.
Six: we want an end for the robbery of New Afrikan people in their own communities by white business interests.
Seven: we demand the end to police brutality and the murder of New Afrikan people in America.
Eight: we demand the release of all New Afrikan men and women held in city, county, state, and federal jail and prisons.
Nine: we demand the trial of New Afrikan people before New Afrikan juries, trials by one’s- by one’s peers who comes from the same economic, social, religious, historical, and racial community.
Ten: we want land, just as we want clothing, housing, education, justice, money, and peace.
What we believe, we believe that New Afrikan people would not be free until we are able to determine our own destiny. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American business [inaudible] would not get full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businesses and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living. This concludes the first part of what we want and what we believe.
Again, this is Bilal Abdul-Salam Bey. Those wishing to reach me about this topic may do so by writing Charley Hughes, #96576, P.O. BOX 1568, Hutchinson, KS 67504.Thank you for your time, effort, and energy.
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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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