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Last night Mumia Abu-Jamal was moved out of Administrative Custody and transferred to Disciplinary Custody at SCI Mahanoy.
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Write Mumia and call the prison Warden John Kerestes at 570-773-2158. Tell the him that Mumia must not be kept shackled during visits. He must have contact visits (after 30 yrs of non contact vistis). He must have access to his family, his lawyers, and communication with the outside world.
On Thursday the 9th, I attended the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) rally. More accurately, I went to the FOP Klan rally in Glenside PA. It was a shocking display of naked calls for harm to Mumia. Maureen Faulkner asked the 900 strong, 99% white police officer audience members to call the Governor and demand that Mumia be transfered where he could be threatened or killed. The head of FOP said, “The next time I want to hear about him is in his obituary.”
Bemoaning the fact that Mumia has slipped out of their FOP noose was the usual parade - Hugh Burns, Tigre Hill, Seth Williams, Maureen Faulkner, Joseph McGill, and Michael Smerconish. They sowed hate and delivered vigilante propaganda to a blood thirsty crowd.
What a dramatic contrast to the defense rally the next night at the Constitution Center with Johanna Fernandez, Cornel West, Amiri Baraka, Ramona Africa, Marc Lamont Hill, and others. One was all about love, the other all about hate.
While we strive for justice and stand with life-affirming committment to healing, we must also take action in defending all of our brothers and sisters inside prison.
Tell the prison that the world is watching, and that you care about Mumia and the conditions of all prisoners. After Desmond Tutu visited him at SCI Greene they took off the hand and waist shackles. For the last week he has been back in shackles during non contact visits.
Please visit our new improved website at http://www.prisonradio.org where you can find coverage of Mumia Abu-Jamal on Democracy Now! as well as links to the historic Dec. 9 Constitution Center event. We also are making available copies of Mumia’s brand new books: The Classroom and the Cell and Message to the Movement. You can link to our Facebook, Twitter , Blog and Podcast. And as always, you can find Mumia’s latest commentaries as well as access to the entire Prison Radio Archive.
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Pennsylvania Articles
Pennsylvania Court Deals Blow to Secrecy-Obsessed Fracking Industry: Corporations Not The …
“In the absence of state law, business entities are nothing.” A Pennsylvania judge in the heart of the Keystone State’s fracking belt has issued a forceful and precedent-setting decision holding that there is no corporate right to privacy under that state’s constitution, giving citizens and journalists a powerful tool to understand the health and environmental impacts of natural gas drilling in their communities. “Whether a right of privacy for businesses exists within the prenumbral rights of Pennsylvania’s constitution is a matter of first impression,” wrote Washington County Court of Common Pleas Judge...
Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet 12 Apr 2013 Hits:318 Pennsylvania
Read morePa. Republicans have a Plan B to steal the 2016 presidential election
They just won't quit, will they? The New Castle News (where I get most of my information these days*) is reporting that Harrisburg legislative powerhouse Sen. Dominic Pileggi has yet another scheme in which Pennsylvania would award a number of electoral votes to the losing candidate under a system not used in any of the other 49 states. As you may know, the losing candidate in every presidential election in Pennsylvania since 1988 has been a Republican. In 2012, President Obama got just under 52 percent of the popular vote and...
Will Bunch | Philly.com 05 Feb 2013 Hits:418 Pennsylvania
Read morePennsylvania Republicans To Introduce New Election-Rigging Plan
Last month, Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus called up “states that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” to rig future presidential elections by changing the way electoral votes are allocated. Under Priebus’ proposal, blue states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania would stop awarding electoral votes to the winner of the state as a whole, and instead would award them one-by-one to the winner of each congressional district. Meanwhile, red states would continue to award 100 percent of their...
Ian Milhiser | Think Progress - Justice 04 Feb 2013 Hits:577 Pennsylvania
Read moreHershey's Charity for Children Became GOP Slush Fund
Milton and Catherine Hershey signed the deed of trust establishing the Milton Hershey School as an orphanage in 1909, funding it with revenue from the famous candy company. Since then, the school has officially been dedicated to “the purpose of nurturing and educating children in need.” Because its founder gave MHS Trust a controlling interest in the Hershey Company, today it boasts a massive $8.5 billion in assets and also owns Hershey Entertainment & Resorts (operating hotels and an amusement park). In keeping...
F Frederic Fouad | The Nation 20 Oct 2012 Hits:954 Pennsylvania
Read moreOn the Road With Working America
One September night in the western Pennsylvania borough of Monaca, a disillusioned resident told a labor canvasser that he’d once “backed all of the Democrats all the way through,” only to realize “both sides” were “really full of shit.” Then he said something I heard often during my week in the region: “If all these factories were still running here, we’d all still have jobs.” In the mostly white, once unionized, postindustrial towns around Pittsburgh, outsourcing casts a long shadow over undecided or uninspired ...
Josh Eidelson | The Nation 11 Oct 2012 Hits:312 Pennsylvania
Read moreJudge blocks enforcement of portion of Pa. voter ID law
HARRISBURG -- A judge has blocked the state from discounting ballots cast next month by voters who lack the photo identification required under the new voter ID law. Voters will be asked for their identification at the polls, but will vote by normal procedures and their vote will count regardless of whether they have an ID, according to officials on both sides of the case. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson wrote in an order released this morning that the injunction would have the effect of...
Karen Langley | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 02 Oct 2012 Hits:406 Pennsylvania
Read morePennsylvania Voter ID Law Ruling: Judge Halts Enforcement Of Law For Election
A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday postponed the enforcement of the state's new strict voter ID requirement until after the November presidential election. In a much-anticipated ruling, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert E. Simpson Jr. ordered that voters without government-issued photo ID should be allowed to cast regular ballots. "That's a huge win," said Witold J. Walczak, an attorney with the ACLU of Pennsylvania, "because last week the judge was suggesting that he was going to have every [voter without ID] vote provisionally." At the same time, the...
Dan Froomkin | Huffington Post 02 Oct 2012 Hits:474 Pennsylvania
Read morePA Voter ID Hearing Report
Commonwealth promises that this time they really, really mean it when they say every voter will be able to get ID. Today’s hearing was déjà vu all over again, as the saying goes. Once again the Commonwealth produced a last-minute new ID procedure right before trial – this time literally the night before. And once again the Commonwealth asked the court to rely solely on its assurances that the new IDs would ensure that all eligible voters will get to vote in November. The biggest news of the trial (also announced in...
Sara Mullen, Associate Director, ACLU of Pennsylvania 26 Sep 2012 Hits:431 Pennsylvania
Read moreTea Party Threatens Revenge Against Pennsylvania Justices For Not Upholding Voter ID Law
Earlier this week, every single sitting Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice rejected a lower court decision allowing that state’s voter ID law to take effect. Four justices joined a majority opinion requiring the lower court judge to look at the case again due to concerns that voters were unable to obtain the IDs they were supposed to have easy access to as a matter of law, and two more justices joined a dissent arguing that the law should simply be suspended right away. Three of the justices in...
Ian Millhiser | Think Progress Justice 22 Sep 2012 Hits:786 Pennsylvania
Read morePennsylvania Voter ID Law Hits Roadblock as Court Orders Review of Decision
State Supreme Court sends decision back to lower court The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday has ordered the lower court to revisit its decision in the controversial voter ID law, which voting rights advocates have said would have disenfranchised as many as 750,000. The ruling stated: The court is to consider whether the procedures being used for deployment of the cards comport with the requirement of liberal access which the General Assembly attached to the issuance of PennDOT identification cards. If they do not, or if the Commonwealth Court is not still convinced in...
Common Dreams Staff | Common Dreams 19 Sep 2012 Hits:593 Pennsylvania
Read moreWhat I Spent to Comply With Pennsylvania’s New Voter ID Law
This past winter I moved to Philadelphia from Washington, D.C., where I had lived for about 3.5 years. I never bothered to register to vote down there, since the District doesn’t have voting representation at the federal level. (Yes, reader: The denizens of our nation’s capital live in a world of taxation without representation. They even slapped the phrase on their license plates in protest.) So for the interim I sent absentee ballots back home, even though they couldn’t have meant much in true-blue New...
Matt Bevilacqua | Next American City 12 Sep 2012 Hits:3575 Pennsylvania
Read morePa. Voter ID Law Leads to DMV Trips from 'Hell'
Two government offices, three hour-long lines, two 78-mile trips, two week-long waiting periods, four forms of identity and two signed affidavits later, Pennsylvanians will be allowed to vote. Under the state's new voter ID laws,, which require every voter to show a government-issued photo ID at the polls, that is the epic process thousands of native Pennsylvanians have to go through to get the ID required to cast their ballots in November. And they now have just 56 days to complete it before the...
Amy Bingham | ABC News 12 Sep 2012 Hits:750 Pennsylvania
Read moreLIVE on Sept. 13: Supreme Court Redistricting and Voter ID arguments
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania today announced that its entire Sept. 13 oral argument session, which includes hearings on the state’s second legislative redistricting plan and the voter ID law, will be televised live on PCN. The hearings are being held in the court’s Philadelphia City Hall courtroom. Oral arguments will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Supreme Court’s Philadelphia courtroom, room 456 of City Hall. Strict decorum will be observed. Because of limited seating, observers will be admitted on a first come, first...
Diana Robinson | PCNTV 27 Aug 2012 Hits:603 Pennsylvania
Read moreAnti-Fracking Residents Follow and Confront Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett as He Kayaks Dow…
Posted every few miles on the river's banks were groups of protestors, challenging the governor's pro-drilling policy with signs and chants. At just after 8 am on Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett got into a blue kayak in Beach Lake, Pa to begin a 15 mile trip south on the scenic Delaware, the nation's most pristine and ancient river. Some 30 kayakers, friends and associates, including Richard Allan, Pennsylvania's Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources, on the misty morning, part of a two-day promotion...
Nora Eisenberg | AlterNet 24 Aug 2012 Hits:786 Pennsylvania
Read moreCommonwealth of Pennsylvania Settles National Voter Registration Act Case
On Wednesday, the Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP) and ACTION United entered a Court approved Settlement Agreement with the Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele, Secretary of Public Welfare Gary D. Alexander, and Secretary of Health Dr. Eli N. Avila resolving claims relative to the Commonwealth’s compliance with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Since its 1993 enactment, the NVRA has helped ensure that low-income residents receive an opportunity to register to vote by mandating that all public assistance agencies offer voter...
DEMOS 23 Aug 2012 Hits:791 Pennsylvania
Read morePennsylvania is Just the Latest Ruling Upholding Voter ID Law
On Wednesday, in a closely watched case, a state judge in Pennsylvania declined to block the state’s controversial voter ID law from taking effect. If the ruling is upheld on appeal, registered voters in the state will be required to show acceptable photo ID during the general election in November. There’s been a lot of attention on this lawsuit, given the closeness of the election and greater focus on voter ID laws, which critics say could disenfranchise voters who are likely to lack photo ID, often the poor, elderly, and minorities....
Suevon Lee | ProPublica 17 Aug 2012 Hits:571 Pennsylvania
Read morePennsylvania Judge Keeps Voter ID Law Intact on Its Way to Higher Court
A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday declined to block a new state law requiring specific kinds of photo identification to vote. Liberal groups, arguing that minorities and the poor would be disproportionately deprived of the ballot, said they would appeal to the State Supreme Court to stop the law before the November elections. The groups said the law, like those recently passed in 10 other states, was a Republican attempt to suppress participation of the less privileged, who tend to vote for Democrats. The laws’ backers...
Ethan Bronner | New York Times 17 Aug 2012 Hits:499 Pennsylvania
Read moreThe Voter ID Struggle in Pennsylvania: Losing ID Is About Losing More Than The Right to Vo…
We’re taking up a collection at my office, here at the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia, PA, for some of our radio producers and campaigners. For six years, we’ve believed that the right to speak means little without the right to be heard--and hundreds of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania residents have agreed with us. We’re poor and working people producing media that tells the untold stories of people in Pennsylvania--and developing those people into leaders united to change our city and state. We’re a tight crew, so...
Hannah Jane Sassaman, Media Mobilizing Project 10 Aug 2012 Hits:597 Pennsylvania
Read moreWhy Pennsylvania’s Voter ID Law Will Create Chaos On Election Day
As states fight to implement voter ID laws in time for the November election, it is becoming glaringly obvious that the current election system cannot handle the added burden of implementing voter ID laws. Judging from a new report on ballot design flaws by the Brennan Center for Justice and a recent study of chaotic election procedures in another swing state, Ohio, voters with or without an ID stand to be disenfranchised through a fragile bureaucratic maze likely to collapse under the extra burden of the...
Aviva Shen | ThinkProgress Justice 01 Aug 2012 Hits:459 Pennsylvania
Read moreScrewed in Scranton: Why Is This Just a Local Fight?
“Did he [President Obama] not get the message in Wisconsin [the June 5 recall vote]? [He wants] more firemen, more policemen, [and] more teachers. The American people did. It's time for us to cut back on government.”—Mitt Romney, Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 8, 2012 Mitt Romney’s vision of radically depleted, enfeebled public institutions for America is so extreme that even union-busting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker felt obligated to distance himself from it. But the Romney formula for reducing government is being enthusiastically applied in Pennsylvania,...
Roger Bybee | In These Times 15 Jul 2012 Hits:665 Pennsylvania
Read moreVoting Rights Organizations File Suit to Enforce NVRA in PA
Today, the Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP) and ACTION United filed suit against Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele, Secretary of Public Welfare, Gary D. Alexander and Secretary of Health, Dr. Eli N. Avila in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The plaintiffs, represented by a coalition of national voting rights groups including Demos, Project Vote and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, allege that the Commonwealth has systematically failed to comply with the National Voter Registration...
DEMOS 05 Jul 2012 Hits:595 Pennsylvania
Read morePennsylvania Voter-I…
The impact of Pennsylvania’s new Voter-ID law could be much wider-reaching than the state’s Republican officials claimed when passing the bill, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. In fact, over 758,000 registered voters in…
Philadelphia City Co…
Philadelphia City Council, by a vote of 15-2, passed today a resolution "calling on the U.S. Congress to bring all U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, to take the funds saved…
Sneak Attack on Teac…
On Feb. 14 2012 Pennsylvania public school students, parents and teachers converged at the Capitol Rotunda to denounce Gov. Corbett's education calls and demand better schools. (Photo By: Kara Newhouse) Republican…
Why Isn't Closing 40…
If some racist made an inappropriate remark about the First Lady or her children our national "civil rights leaders" Obama fans all of them, would be all over…
Philadelphia School …
Philadelphia public schools are on the operating table, reeling from a knockout blow of heavy state budget cuts. It was too much to bear after decades of underfunding…
Underdog Critz defea…
Up 8 points at 10:15 p.m., the campaign for U.S. Rep. Mark Critz, D-Johnstown, announced tonight that Democratic foe Jason Altmire has called to concede the primary tonight. Mr.…
Rep. Holden, dean of…
Matt Cartwright U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, Pennsylvania's longest-serving congressman, lost his re-election bid in the Democratic primary, while Rep. Mark Critz beat fellow Democratic incumbent Rep. Jason Altmire in another contest…
Longest-serving Pa. …
PITTSBURGH (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, the longest-serving member of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation, has lost his re-election bid in a Democratic primary race in a newly redrawn district. Personal injury…
Right-Wing, Anti-Pub…
How far is the school privatization juggernaut willing to go to disguise and promote their agenda? The Betsy DeVos-led American Federation for Children, through its PA affiliate Students…
Direct from Beaver County Blue
PA DEP Forced to Reveal Drilling Damage in 161 PA Water Supplies
Oil, gas drilling damage in 161 Pa. water supplies SCRANTON (AP) — Oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to state...
Labor Unions to Oppose Obama Nominee for Commerce Secretary
EXCLUSIVE: Organized labor to oppose President Obamas nomination of Penny Pritzker for commerce secretary National hotel workers union upset with Pritzker for labor practices at Hyatt Hotels, the source of her familys fortune By James Warren...
‘Clean and Green’ Industrial Laundry Comes to Pittsburgh as a Worker Cooperative
By CUNY CED Pittsburgh, PA is the home of a new worker cooperative, the ‘Clean and Green Laundry.’ The industrial-scale cleaning firm was brought into being by a joint effort of the United Steel Workers and the City University of New York...
North Carolina ‘Ground Zero’ in Fight vs. Voter Suppression
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“Right to Vote” Constitutional Amendment Introduced
Representatives Pocan and Ellison Introduce Right to Vote Constitutional Amendment Saturday, 18 May 2013 11:25 By Brendan Fischer, PRWatch | Report The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected, ...
Banks in Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever By Matt Taibbi April 25, 2013 1:00 PM ET (excerpt) The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial...
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PA Legislators with ALEC Ties
House of Representatives
- Rep. Matthew Baker (R-68), paid ALEC membership dues in 2001, 2005 and 2008 using campaign account[145] and "used an ALEC Model Bill to challenge federal health care reform"[146] but later threatened citizen activist group for exposing his ties to ALEC[147]
- Rep. John Evans (R-5), ALEC State Chairman[148] and Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member
- Rep. Matthew Gabler (R-75)[145][146]
- Rep. Kate Harper (R-61)[148][146] - announced in April 2012 that she is no longer an ALEC member[149] See Legislators Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more.
- Rep. Dick Hess (R-78)[148][146]
- Rep. Sandra Major (R-111)[145][146] - announced in April 2012 that she was not renewing her ALEC membership[149] See Legislators Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more.
- Rep. Ron Marsico (R-105)[20],[150][151][146] ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member
- Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-12),[152][146][153] ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member
- Rep. Ronald Miller (R-93)[145][146]
- Rep. Harry Readhsaw (D-36)[145][146]
- Rep. Stan Saylor (R-95), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force[154]
- Rep. Richard Stevenson (R-Butler, Mercer)[148][146]
- House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-28)[155][146] (a spokesman says he is no longer involved with ALEC as of August 2011[156])
- Rep. Stephen Barrar (R-160), ALEC Committee on Election Reforms[157][146]
- Rep. Paul Clymer (R-145)[158][146]
- Rep. Jim Cox (R-129),[159][146] ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member
- Rep. Robert Godshall (R-53)[160][146]
- Rep. Seth Grove (R-196),[161][146] ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Member
- Rep. Nick Kotik (D-45), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member
- Rep. Thomas H. Killion (R-168), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member
- Rep. Kathy L. Rapp (R-65), ALEC Education Task Force Member
- Rep. Scott Hutchinson (R-64), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member
- Rep. Marcia Hahn (R-138), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member
- Rep. Glen R. Grell (R-87), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member
- Rep. Mark Mustio (R-44), ALEC Member 2010-2011[162] - announced in April 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[149] See Legislators Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more.
- Rep. Harry Readshaw (D-36), ALEC Member 2001-2003[163] - Told Keystone Progress in April 2012 that he was never an ALEC member.[149] See Legislators Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more.
Senate
- Sen. Stewart Greenleaf (R-12) , Public Safety and Elections Task Force[164][146]
- Sen. Jeffrey Piccola (R-15)[165][146]
- Sen. Charles McIlhinney (R-10)[166][146]
- Sen. John Pippy (R-37), former State Chairman[167][146], announced in April 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[149] See Legislators Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more.
- Sen. Robert Robbins (R-50), ALEC's Thomas Jefferson Award-winner[168][146]
Full List of Legislators Who Have Cut Ties With ALEC
- Rep. Ted Harhai (D-58) - Harhai announced in May 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[15]
- Rep. Kate Harper (R-61) - Harper announced in April 2012 that she is no longer an ALEC member[16]
- Rep. William Keller (D-184) - Keller announced in May 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[15]
- Rep. Nick Kotik (D-45) - Kotik announced in May 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[15]
- Rep. Sandra Major (R-111) - Major announced in April 2012 that she does not plan to renew her ALEC membership[16]
- Rep. Joseph Markosek (D-25) - Markosek announced in May 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[15]
- Rep. Nicholas Micozzie (R-163) - Micozzie announced in May 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[15]
- Rep. Mark Mustio (R-44) - Mustio announced in April 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[16]
- Rep. Joseph Petrarca (D-55) - Petrarca told Politics PA in May 202 that he "has no ties and has never been a member of ALEC.”[17]
- Rep. Harry Readshaw (D-36) - Readshaw claimed in April 2012 that he was never an ALEC member[16]
- Rep. Curtis Thomas (D-181) - Thomas announced in May 2012 that he was cutting ties to ALEC.[18]
- Rep. Mike Turzai (R-28) - Turzai told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in March 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[19]
Senate
- Sen. Lisa Boscola (D-18) - Boscola announced in May 2012 that she is no longer an ALEC member[15]
- Sen. Jacob Corman (R-34) - Corman announced in May 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[18]
- Sen. Stewart Greenleaf (R-12) - Greenleaf told Keystone Progress in May 2012 that "I have a membership with ALEC but because of concerns that have [been] raised by my constituents I will not be renewing it."[20]
- Sen. John Pippy (R-37) - Pippy's staff announced in April 2012 that he is no longer an ALEC member[16]
- Sen. Leanna Washington (D-4) - Washington announced in May 2012 that she is no longer an ALEC member[15]
- Sen. Anthony Williams (D-8) - Williams, who has used PA state funding for ALEC,[21] "vociferously protested being identified with ALEC," according to Keystone Progress. "As a staunch advocate for school choice, I’m often invited to attend and speak at myriad events, locally and nationally, held by those who share my beliefs and those who vigorously oppose them. I make no apologies for my views on choice, because a broad set of educational options is among the best hopes students have to attain the skills needed to be productive and competitive in a global, 21st century society. However, I’ve never sought membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council nor have I ever been a member,” said Williams. “Lastly, ALEC does not represent my values or beliefs.”[15]