My email address is kjcongo@yahoo.com. My Instagram is @kjcongothree. My inmate number is ND7568. This Kenjuan Congo, Jr. calling from a prison camp behind enemy lines.
The title of this piece is “Women’s History Month:” Societal Hypocrisy.”
First of all, happy Women’s History Month to all the women. This Women’s History Month of 2023, I’m calling out societal hypocrisy. How can society praise the weary women that they’re subordinating?
This civilization teaches woman to measure their personal importance, their personal worth, and their personal satisfaction in terms of their physical appearance. They teach woman to prize relationships with men whom they’re supposed to attract with their physical beauty. Innocent women being taught wicked expectations of how to look and how to behave.
These rules, norms, and behaviors are not produced by us the people, but they’re created by some elitists. They associate our daughters, sisters, and mothers with passitivity and subordination. How can they stand up and praise women at the same time they demand them to embrace specific roles and attitudes that confine them to social inferiority?
These social restraints come from low-down patriarchal traditionalism. Men hold a disproportionate share of managerial and executive positions and hold a disproportional share of political offices. Men hold a disproportionate share of social resources. It seems as if men hold a disproportionate share of everything.
Then they jump up to your face and tell you “Happy Women’s History Month!” How can they tell you to be happy after placing you in an unequal position of wealth, power, and privilege? The fight for women’s rights is the fight for human freedom. This Women’s History Month, I’m calling up societal hypocrisy.
This is Kenjuan Congo, Jr. calling from a prison camp behind enemy lines. Thank y’all, all power to the people.
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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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