Events are happening World Wide and in Philadelhia. here are the Philadephia events.
The kick-off event on April 24 will be special program dedicated to Amiri and Amina Baraka and the Black arts movement. The ticketed dinner to celebrate Mumia’s birthday will feature Cornell West, the Last Poets, Marvin X, Ewuare Osayande, video presentations from Angela Davis and Mama Charlotte O’Neal, a live jazz band, and more. Tickets can be purchased at Aytia Ola’s Spirit First Foods at 4505 Baltimore Ave. in Philadelphia or on-line at http://celebrationformumiaandamiri.eventbrite.com .
On April 25, Books & Beats Free Mumia Edition will be held at Black Angel Café at 4414 Germantown Ave in Philadelphia featuring local poets. Admission is $10 at the door and proceeds will benefit local work to free Mumia.
A Sons & Daughters of the Revolution March will take place on April 26 from 10am-11am starting at former Black Panther Headquarters at 19th Street and Cecil B. Moore Ave. going to the historic Church of the Advocate at 18th & Diamond. The former BBP headquarters is where Abu-Jamal got his start as a youth with Captain Reggie Schell in the fight for social justice. The Historic Church of the Advocate is where Father Paul Washington housed his meetings and the voices of resistance to the government and the mental terrorism of that time.
At the Church of the Advocate marchers will join a Celebration of Life/Constitutional Protest through the Arts. The 10am to 6pm. event will feature performances by Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Dice Raw, Jasiri X, Taina Asili, the Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble, Hakim Green (Channel Live) and more.
Starting at 11:30am inside the church there will be workshops and panels on political prisoners, know your rights, gentrification, the school-to-prison pipeline, the attacks on progressive lawyers, and updates on Mumia’s case. There will be vendors and activities for children throughout the day.
![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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