On a Move. This is Delbert Africa and I just want to reach out to everybody on the radio and tell them that I and the rest of the MOVE 9 are still On a Move! After 35 years of this oppressive incarceration, we still ain’t giving up. I want to assure all of our supporters, all those that believe in the example we’ve been setting for these years, that we ain’t stopping! That we keep going on.
This year the parole board, as they’ve done for the last five times, recently gave all the MOVE members hits, in other words, sent us back from one to two years again, using the same lame excuse that we show no remorse. And as I and other MOVE members have told them, “We don’t show no remorse for something we did not do!” August 8, 1978 it was the police who came out there to our house with murderous intent. It was the police that came out there 600 strong ready to kill and we stood in our house and said, “We will not be moved by your threats of oppression” and so forth. In their murderous rage to eliminate MOVE, they shot up one another and we got the blame for it.
So I just wanted to call in and hopefully get everybody to call up the Pennsylvania Parole Board and voice your opposition to the illegal incarceration of MOVE. The parole hotline number in Pennsylvania is 1(717) 772-4343 and I hope that people will jump on that hotline and call them up and voice your opposition. There has to be a stopping, not only to the horrendous deaths of people like Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, Amadou Diallo, and the murderous assault against MOVE May 13, 1985, but there has to be a stopping of this political incarceration of those who protest the injustices of this system. I hope that people will call up and get on the horn and voice how you feel to the Pennsylvania Parole Board.
And for everybody on the East Coast, I want to say that MOVE is having programs about oppression and calling for a united demonstration – not just those that are affiliated with MOVE, but everybody. Those who are protesting the incarceration of Leonard Peltier, Lynn Stewart, Jalil Amin, all the political prisoners that are in America and on Wednesday, August 7th at the rotunda at 4014 Walnut Street in Philadelphia, there will be an opportunity for people to come out and voice their opposition, so we can stop this thing. For more information on that, call 1(215) 386-1165. I urge people, if you’re anywhere within driving distance or walking distance, come on out there. Show your support, not only for the MOVE 9 but for all oppressed people.
On a Move. This is Delbert Africa calling from Dallas State Prison in Pennsylvania and I want to thank Prison Radio for the opportunity to shout out to everybody. That’s my On a Move to everybody. Keep on pushing! Thank you.
![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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