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[Abuse] [Suwanee Correctional Institution] [Florida]
Guansuwanee Mo Bay Brutalities Continue
by a Florida prisoner January 2013 permalink
October 2012: A captive, B (an old white man), a known writ writer, was placed in G1112 cell with a younger Black captive, R. Lt. Harrold and Sgt Green told R that B is a racist, causing R to beat up B. R was rewarded with the head orderly job in G-Dorm, while B is to never get off close management due to receiving constant fabricated disciplinary reports against him because he is a writ writer. The beating occurred between October 13th and October 31st in G1112 cell.
Early November 2012: another writ writer was beaten and cut with a razor blade by another prisoner placed in G1106 cell working for Sgt Patton. This is not his first time he was set up by the police. Currently he is on CM-1 slapped with numerous fabricated Disciplinary Reports (DRs) and won't get off CM until he is broken.
Early November 2012, prisoner W, a mentally ill prisoner in G1103 cell, after continuous daily harassment, was gassed by Sgt Green and his crew, for no other reason than implementing mass terror and intimidation. He was made an example of via procedural lynching for all to see and fear.
December 3, 2012: CO Maguire and another CO beat up a prisoner in G1209 cell, while the prisoner was handcuffed behind his back. After being beaten the prisoner was slapped with a fabricated assault on a CO DR. How do you assault a CO with your hands cuffed behind your back?
December 5, 2012: two prisoners in G1203 cell were gassed by Sgt Harvey, all in retaliation intended against one of the prisoners due to some incident months prior.
December 9, 2012, A prisoner was taken from G1103 cell in handcuffs, hands behind his back, and jumped on in the hallway by Sgt Green and his crew. Sgt Green had planned and called in the incident moments prior to its actual occurrence.
December 17, 2012: A prisoner in G1210 cell was gassed for simply declaring a psychological emergency. All captives declaring a psychological emergency are gassed and slapped with fabricated DRs to justify and cover up the gassing.
December 30-31st, 2012: Two prisoners in F1213 and two other captives in F1214 cell were placed on strip (72 hour property restriction - no mattress, no bedding, no clothes - left in only boxer shorts) the temperature outside was in the 20s and the heaters were off. They were placed on strip for fabricated reasons by Sgt Fisher.
December 31st, 2012: two prisoners in F1110 cell were gassed and slapped with fabricated DRs because they refused to speak to Sgt Kelly when he approached their cell in his two faced (smile in your face, stab you in the back) manner.
Jan 5, 2012: Sgt Kelly placed two captives beefing with each other on strip together in F2103 cell so they could fight, they're fighting as I write.
These prison guard brutalities are only a few of the many that occur here on Close Management at Suwanee Correctional Institution here in Florida. Many of the identities of the victims are unknown to me, but can be obtained by simply viewing camera/document evidence which can be obtained by anyone via request of public information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. Do not just take my word at face value, please request the evidence and speak with the victims mentioned for a more detailed truth of what transpired. (Some may fear staff retaliation and refrain from speaking). We beg that you help by simply calling in or emailing concerning these brutalities.
Just recently in October 2012, Taylor and Union CI underwent a major purge by higher authorities during which approximately 60 officers of all ranks were escorted off institution grounds due to their brutal and tyrannical practice. Suwanee CI needs to experience the same purge of its tyrants like Lt Martin (aka white widow), Lt Harrod, Sgt Harvery, Sgt Patton, Sgt Silver, Sgt Green, Sgt Kelly, Sgt Fisher, CO Barton, CO Maguire, CO Lynblade, CO Diaz, CO Landrum, CO Lane, CO Murman, CO Pope - who brags to captives how he pays captives extra lunch trays to beat up other captives - and all their superiors - captains, majors, colonels, classification officers and warden and secretary of FDOC - who all encourage, condone and even orchestrate these many use of excessive force brutalities and procedural lynchings and fabrication coverup reports.
Many captives are falsely accused of gunning (masturbating) by female COs just so captives can be jumped on, gassed or placed on strip by these male COs. These tyrants and sadists will not stop on their own.
MIM(Prisons) responds: The list of people this writer suggests need to be purged from Suwanee demonstrates our point that it is not possible to reform the Amerikan criminal injustice system. This is not a case of just a few bad apples, but rather a system of oppression and violence, in which employees must participate to receive a paycheck. We must expose the brutality, and fight the individual cases to create some livable space for our comrades, but we will only end the violence by dismantling the criminal injustice system entirely.
Guanswaneemo Bay Continues
[Education] [Recidivism] [Massachussetts Correctional Institution Shirley] [Massachusetts]
MCI Shirley: Welcome to the Murder Factory
by a Massachusetts prisoner January 2013 permalink
Welcome to MCI Shirley Prison where low-level drug dealers are turned into murderers. Where minor felons are instilled with such anger and resentment that they are talking mayhem as they depart through the razor wire gates. Where un-professionalism and abuse are the norm and the seeds of future killings are being sown one thousand at a whack. It is a place where it is hard to distinguish the real criminals. Do they wear gray scrubs? Do they wear paramilitary jump suits and badges, do they wear a shirt and tie, or do they wear Dolce & Gabbana skirts with Prada shoes? It is truly hard to tell.
Young men enter MCI Shirley (or "ShirleyWorld" as it is largely known) thinking they may be able to get an education through college courses or the trades. Those hopes are dashed upon the rocks of guard overtime, administrative nepotism, and complete lack of any semblance of order. The warden is deaf, the deputy is dumb, and the captain is blind. This barrel of monkeys chews upon taxpayer dollars while the young prisoner is further separated from the societal norms the rehabilitative process was meant to instill. You can see the death in their eyes. It is scary.
This vast criminal conspiracy that is the department of corruption is as much a killer as Charles Manson or Adolph Hitler were. They see with perfect vision the folly of their ways but press on with malicious intent: premeditated job security equaling death in the Mattapan Corridor. Drunken guards bring in drugs and cell phones, take out their ire on weaker prisoners and all the while talk about pay raises, time off and pension plans. They are the thieves and murderers!
The prison system spends $517,000,000 per year to diminish the safety of the streets. Criminal guards suck up $360,000,000 of that yearly budget while rehabilitative programs and education are allotted only 2% of that budget. An equation which is designed for failure. It assures repeat customers but that assurance comes at the cost of far too many lives. When will you, the taxpayer, become outraged? When will your ire replace the apathy that belays commonsense? This is a state, a country, and a land that is founded in second chances.
If you were ever afforded the tragic opportunity to tread the pathways of MCI Shirley you would witness first hand the systemic failures. There are guards everywhere — sergeants, lieutenants, captains, and multitudes of line staff — but each and every day some rehabilitative aspect of the prison is shut down due to "under-staffing." It is a lie. The DOC has 5500 employees for about 12,000 prisoners. The guard's union has injected so much propaganda that even Hitler would be proud of their achievements.
The time has come to reorganize the prison budget, to use these vast taxpayer dollars to actually protect the safety of the public. We must terminate the excess of secretaries, deputies, assistants, aides, clerks, etc., and invest that revenue in expansion of the college degree program. Prisoners who earn that degree in prison do not come back: they do not commit any more crimes. The recidivism rate for in-prison Boston University graduates is less than 1%. The statewide recidivism rate has hovered at about 47% for over a decade. Did you know UMass offered to come into the prisons and provide college courses for free? The DOC rejected them. Did you know that Fitchburg State had a free program at ShirleyWorld but the facility failed to support it? The reason for the folly is that there is no money in it for the DOC to have these programs.
Prisoners need real job training. Prisoners need transitional housing in lower security prisons. Such prisons cost only a fraction of what it costs to run the higher security prisons as they need less staff. This is why the guard's union fights this at every turn. Please join forces with those who have a plan for real and effective public safety reform. the time is now for you to get involved.
MIM(Prisons) responds: This comrade does a good job exposing the Massachusetts prison system's lack of interest in rehabilitation and education. It is true that in Massachusetts, and across the country, prisons are providing good jobs to guards who have formed strong unions to lobby effectively for expansion of the system. It is a system whose employees have every interest in expansion and no interest in rehabilitation. The very fact that education has been proven to dramatically reduce recidivism but prisons across the country have cut or eliminated education programs is clear evidence. Further, programs such as MIM(Prisons)'s led study groups are censored as a threat to the safety and security of the prison. It's not the criminal injustice system that cares about safety and security, they care about job security and social control. And prisons conveniently provide both: locking up the oppressed nation lumpen who might organize against imperialism and giving jobs to the labor aristocracy in the prisons.
But we disagree with this prisoner that tax payers are going to become outraged and fight this system. Both the social control and the good jobs are benefiting those tax payers. The labor aristocracy wants to protect it's own jobs: and the prison provides a good number of these. If tax money didn't go to prison jobs it would go to some other labor aristocracy services. And these would not be jobs benefiting the oppressed nation lumpen: that's not something tax payers are going to get behind. On the contrary, prison guard unions successfully campaign for more pay and funding for defending white power, unlike most labor unions.
With that said, we do think there is value in exposing the lack of safety and security in the current prison system. We may gain some allies in certain battles, people who will see that the streets of Amerika are objectively less safe. But we don't want to mislead them by appealing to their persynal interests and pretending that substantive change to the criminal injustice system is going to actually benefit them in the long run. Anti-imperialism is not in the interests of the majority of the Amerikan people, because they benefit financially from this system. And the criminal injustice system is an integral part of Amerikan imperialism.
[Police Brutality] [National Oppression] [ULK Issue 30]
Connecticut Youth Killings Underscore Unequal Response in Amerika
by USW88 of United Struggle from Within January 2013 permalink
Like many of you who are reading this issue of Under Lock & Key, I was saddened to hear about the senseless killing of 20 young humyn beings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. They were babies, taken away from us far too soon. After shaking off the initial shock, my analytical Maoist mind kicked into overdrive. I went into my locker and I retrieved my July/August 2012 issue of Under Lock & Key 27. I would like to quote comrade Soso of MIM(Prisons) in her/his piece entitled "Trayvon Martin National Oppression Debate." "A recent report by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement cited at least 110 Black people killed by Amerikan cops and security in the first half of 2012."
Is this report not alarming? Should there not have been public outcry? Did not President Obama state: "If I had a son he would look like Trayvon." Well then why the hell didn't he form a special task force then to address gun violence? Was not Oscar Grant enough? What about James Craig Anderson in Jackson, Mississippi? What about young Jordan Davis of Jacksonville, Florida, murdered in cold blood because his music was "too loud"? All these young men of color murdered by white men, however, for some reason their deaths did not solicit the same response. Five hundred murders on the streets of Chicago this year! One fourth were under age 18. President Obama barely mentioned the gun violence in Chicago during his campaign. Why?
Comrades, the sad truth of the matter is, a Black life is not equal to a white life in Amerikkka. And it is not just the lives of Black youth that are under-valued. Latino, Arab, Asian, all are viewed as less than, undesirable, or expendable by the Amerikkkan Injustice System. This problem is pervasive and saturates the racist news media. Now here comes new gun legislation and "new" task forces. Who do you think the alphabet boys are going to be carting off to U.$. penitentiaries? Not white bread gun fanatic NRA members, that's for sure. It's going to be us! The Black, Brown, Asian and Arab lumpen underclass.
I recently was listening to a Houston hip-hop radio show on KPFT (90.1 FM) called Damage Control. The host "young Zeke" said "if a Black man shoots a bunch of people in Amerika he is a criminal. If a foreigner does it, he is a terrorist, and if a white man does it he's classified as mentally ill - that's bullshit!" Remember comrades "to be aware is to be alive!"
MIM(Prisons) adds: Since this comrade wrote this reflection, there was an incident in New York City where an Amerikan womyn pushed an Indian man in front of an oncoming train and killed him. She's been widely quoted as saying, "I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims — ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I've been beating them up." The victim, Sunando Sen, was Hindu.
Sunando Sen's funeral in Queens, New York.
Erika Menendez was charged with murder as a hate crime, but has been ordered to have a mental health exam. Whatever Menendez's mental health, it is not like she said she killed Sen because he had brown eyes, or was too tall. She killed him because of his perceived religion and ethnicity, which are both proxies for national oppression. Sen would not have been murdered if Amerika did not promote hatred of other nations who try to free themselves from the grip of U.$. imperialism.
Just because most Amerikans aren't sophisticated enough to distinguish different religions and cultures does not make their national oppression any less real. Islam has been branded by Amerikans as the culture of a dangerous foreign enemy people. Armed resistance against imperialism has been strong across South and Central Asia for over a decade and it continues to spread. This is the material basis for Menendez's actions.
Some theorists that dabble in Maoism have hypothesized that nation is no longer principal in the age of neo-colonialism (simply defined as white power in black/brown face). But MIM(Prisons) still holds that the principal contradiction remains nation under imperialism today, even if it is not as black and white as it used to be. In the discussion around Trayvon Martin, we already said that George Zimmerman's Latino family does not preclude him from being associated with white supremacism. Similarly, we do not need more info on Menendez's background to state that she was clearly acting within the ideology of white supremacism. Neo-colonialism isn't just for those with political power anymore. There is a whole movement to enlist young men from Latin America to fight for U.$. imperialism in the Middle East.
The concept of nation is based in social conditions, not in phony ideas of genetics as race is. So while Amerika was a nation built on a racist ideology, it is in constant flux, like all things are. Similarly, nations can be transformed through assimilation. And even as separate nations exist in the United $tates, different segments of those nations will have different interests at different times. Those who use identity politics and simplistic expectations to negate the national contradiction ignore these ever-changing and interacting forces. In the United $tates the national contradiction is at a bit of a crossroads, but internationally the contradiction is stronger than ever. This is why the internal semi-colonies would be smart to stay on the right side of history and stand against imperialism as their ancestors did.
As we've discussed elsewhere, there is ample evidence that most "mental health" problems are social problems, which can be addressed with a re-ordering of the society we live in. By ending national oppression, ending militarism and ending the competitive individualism of capitalism where people get left behind and become alienated from society, we can prevent the types of incidents that happened in New York and Connecticut.
[Censorship] [Crossroads Correctional Center] [Missouri] [ULK Issue 30]
Censorship Victories are Possible
by Royal Council of Black Order Revolutionary Organization January 2013 permalink
In 2010, the Black Order Revolutionary Organization (BORO), with the assistance of MIM(Prisons), initiated a campaign to fight censorship. BORO last provided an update on this campaign in ULK 17. Since that time there has been censorship of some issues of ULK and IRRs (appeals) and grievances were filed. Issue 28 was censored in October 2012 and we fought it. On 19 December 2012, we won the grievance and were issued the ULK on the same day.
Prison activism can be very discouraging at times, but we must hold firm to our commitment to struggle. Whenever an issue of ULK, or any other material, is censored, our advice is to not sign the censorship notification and covenant not to sue forms. Although signing these forms will allow you to send the material to whomever you want, you effectively give up your right to grieve the issue or file a legal complaint in the courts.
Another new development is that the mailrooms now have to notify publishers when they censor any of their mail sent to prisoners. This is a strategic win for us and should be further encouragement for those of you who complain "we can't beat these people".
MIM(Prisons) adds: To the comrade who wrote in asking for more news on Missouri in ULK 27, this is a good example of how to make news by carrying out work over the long term and reporting on it. We got another response to that letter from a comrade in Missouri who reported being on a solo hunger strike going on fifteen days on 1 January 2013. S/he wrote, "I'm hoping some other prisoners in Missouri will read this article and start to ride on some shit. The way they run prisons in Missouri is screwed up and it's time to stick together and change some stuff." We warn our readers that hunger strikes without support and planning can be dangerous and reckless. But make no mistake, not all prisoners in Missouri will accept abuse.
Campaign Update from Missouri
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[Culture] [ULK Issue 30]
Movie Review: Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
by a California prisoner January 2013 permalink
U.$. Militarism saves the day from invading aliens
Here we have a movie (again) of extraterrestrials invading earth and killing its inhabitants. Meteors fall to earth that are actually complex life forms. Once again we see jingoism at its best by showcasing the Marines at the forefront of the fight for freedom and democracy. Scientists are at a loss to explain why the aliens are here until they see the water from the ocean receding. This is one thing the movie gets right when it shows a scientist saying that when a people are colonized for their resources, the colonizers must kill off/exterminate the indigenous population. My, are the chickens coming home to roost? Throughout the movie the director propagates heroism and sacrifice from the Marines, who in reality are at the front lines of genocide.
This movie has no use besides its sound effects. Perhaps an E.T. can come and obliterate the bourgeoisie in Amerika. That'll leave a power vacuum which we communists would be happy to fill. Another self promotion is what this movie is, as if Amerika has the solution to the world's problems. As a pile of shit walking around telling everybody they stink, so too does Amerika ignore the fact that it's the problem.
[Campaigns] [Estelle High Security Unit] [Texas]
USW Grievance Petition Wins Battles in Texas
by a comrade of United Struggle from Within December 2012 permalink
Well comrades after months of trying to get the grievance department to produce a grievance that they insisted was returned, the truth has come out! In June 2012 I was housed on C-wing on Estelle Unit High Security which is located in Huntsville, Texas. At the time, my cell and many others were infested with roaches, every meal was served cold, and the smell of sewage was extremely pervasive. I and a fellow comrade filed a Step 1 (I-127) grievance.
Unit Grievance Investigator Mr. Allen Hartley lied to me, his co-worker Ms. Monica Nichols, and numerous other TDCJ (Texas Department of Criminal Justice) employees and insisted that he returned my Step 1 with response on August 22, 2012. However, I never received it. A TDCJ employee told me that Mr. Allen Hartley has a "special relationship" with the prison administration on the High Security Unit in which he has agreed to destroy any offender grievances which may shed a negative light on the High Security administration.
On October 22, 2012 I sent a grievance petition courtesy of USW-MIM(Prisons) to Senator John Whitmire who happens to be the Chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee in the Texas state legislature. I requested that the senator have someone investigate my "mysterious" disappearing grievance. I also addressed the cold-substandard meals served on the entire unit, rampant racism among officers, and administration, as well as the collusive and conspiratorial relationship that exists between unit grievance investigator Mr. Allen Hartley and Assistant Warden Steven T. Miller and Major David M. Forrest (bonfire Klansman extraordinaire). The USW Grievance Petition does an excellent job of articulating the true nature of the problem here in Texas. Our due process rights are being trampled on and we can't get fair and unbiased resolution of our grievances under the current system (period).
Comrades I am glad to report that the food service department at Estelle Unit - High Security has been issued "Hot-Carts" which really keep our food hot/warm! The portions have improved a little and so has the quality. We even get salt and pepper once a week. This may not be fantastic in some prisoners eyes but it is progress. I believe it was a collective effort by a small group of motivated comrades who got tired of being treated like sub-humyns.
In reference to the grievance problem, the central grievance office wrote me and stated that the grievance in question has been "lost." They offered me the opportunity to re-submit the grievance. However, they failed to address the main root of the problem and that is Mr. Allen Hartley's blatant disregard of the U.S. Constitution! This is not the first time that these prisoncrats have played this game. This is an ongoing problem. Their actions have rendered the grievance process ineffective. So with that being said, I have filed a complaint with the Department of Justice - Civil Rights Division - utilizing the grievance petition as my guide.
MIM(Prisons) adds: We currently have grievance petitions for many states. Write to us for a copy and if you are in a state not currently covered by the grievance campaign, we will send you a template for the petitions and you can look up citations and policies specific to your state for reference. If you do this research and send us what needs to be rewritten for your particular state, we will gladly send an edited, accurate copy back to you.
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[Censorship] [National Oppression] [Legal] [Waupun Correctional Institution] [Wisconsin] [ULK Issue 30]
Court Rules BPP Program is Gang Material
by a Wisconsin prisoner December 2012 permalink
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
"Give me liberty or give me death." - Thomas Pain
The above two quotes are admired citations that most Amerikans with any educational degree deem to be master slogans this country's freedoms are based on. But these same quotes or those similar, if stated by Black men or Black women, are deemed contraband and gang related.
On August 2, 2012 the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision aimed at silencing and caging the spirit of the Panther. The court ruled that the ten point platform that the Black Panther Party (BPP) cited in every newspaper and later put forward as the core demands of the New Africans in the Amerikan ghettos, is gang-related when found in the possession of Black men. This decision was rendered from a case in one of the most racist and oppressive prison systems in Amerika: Wisconsin DOC.
The 7th Circuit Court's ruling in Tani Toston vs. Muchael Thurmer et al, no# 10 cv 288 stated that Waupun prison officials in Wisconsin could punish a Black man who allegedly has a tribal background (they used the pejorative, "gang") and who checked out two BPP books from the prison's own library, and purchased a 3rd book (To Die for the People) and copied from all three the Panthers ten point platform.
The oppressors argued that these ten points were being used to construct a gang structure simply because of the DOC's slant that he had a tribal background of defunct Gangster Disciples. They offered no evidence but their ethnocentric opinions. They punished the prisoner and gave 90 days segregation for learning Panther knowledge.
The plaintiff, who I call the Panther seeker, argued to the 7th Circuit Court that the ten point platform could not be a gang related security concern because the two books in the library recited the same program, and prisoners are permitted to get the books and to buy them. They were not on the state's book ban list.
In opposing the Panther seeker and rationalizing their reactionary measure, the prison defenders in the 7th Circuit stated: "...prison librarians can not be required to read every word of every book to which inmates might have access to make sure they contain no incendiary material. There is no reason to think that a librarian or other employee of the prison read cover to cover any of the three books that contain the ten point program."
Yet, they expect prisoners to know they could not write down the same, though they did reverse and remand the due process claim that the prison never told him he could not do so.
They further stated: "And even if the prison read the books and made a determination the book was not gang lit. on whole, that does not preclude disciplinary proceedings if an inmate copies incendiary passings from it."
It seems the court took issue with point #8 of the program, which calls for "freedom for all Black men held (implicit also women) in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails." The court states the seeker is Black and that the BPP were implicated in many acts of violence including murder, and Huey himself may have killed a cop. Their source is Hugh Pearsons The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America.(p. 145-46 1995). They also cited the case People vs. Newton, 87 Cal. Rptr, 394 (CA), app. ct. 1970) and the case in which Black Panther leader Richard Moore was convicted of assault in a shootout between Black Panthers and Oakland police (Clener vs. Superior Court, 594 p.2d 984, 985-86 (Cal. 1979), In Re Cleaver, 72 Cal. Rptr. 20, 23-24 (Cal. App. Ct. 1968)).
They even went so far as to cite a coloring book as their source research in coming to this ethnocentric ruling. "Black Panther coloring books" depicting children murdering police, which were developed and distributed under their own FBI's COINTELPRO.
Then they had the disrespect to cite our beloved brother Fred Hampton's estate lawsuit which was filed after the Chicago pigs' assassination of the beloved. Hampton vs. Hanrahan 600 F. 2d 600, 654 (7th Cir. 1979) (dissenting opinion).
They wish to project they are fair. But how fair are they when they cite all these biased cases and omit the fact that the police, FBI, and others were actively seeking to destroy the BPP and even pacifists like MLK, and these incidents were self-defense. The BPP was a self-defense response to a racist system. How can you fault a people who stand up for their human and constitutional rights and label them criminals for defending the same principles this country was established on? The answer is clear: what white leaders say, Black ones cannot say.
The court defended their ruling by saying: "The BPP is history. But the ten point program could be thought by prison officials as an incitement to violence by Black prisoners - especially since there is a new BPP active today, which claims descent from the original. And like its predecessor both advocates and practice violence."(Citing: Southern Poverty Law Center, New BPP).
They go on to cite disputing evidence to their conclusion by stating: "In context, in the book of Huey's writings, point #8 is much less inflammatory than when read in isolation on the paper the plaintiff wrote down and had in his foot locker." They claim, in all three books, there are explanatory commentary around each of the ten points and that explanation is "innocuous" on point #8. "We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial." (To Die for the People. Bk. At. p5)
They seek to soften the blow of their ethnocentric cudgel: "...although Newton's book advocates revolution, it could no more be regarded as a criminal incitement than the Communist Manifesto could be. But this underscores the difference between a book as a whole and an arguably inflammatory nugget plucked from it." So what say they if we cite Thomas Pains "give me liberty or give me death"? Same as Huey's statement in point #8.
The court went on to justify their favoritism to a ethnocentric/racist prison by stating: "Not being experts in prison administration, but aware of the security problems in American prisons, judges sensibly defer within broad limits to the judgements of the prison administration."
How can the court make a fair ruling if they don't acquire some expertise in prison administration? That is the court's job as arbitrators of the case. We as prisoners need to present evidence on the expert level of how prison administrators exaggerate the facts and cite spookisms in their affidavits and summary judgement motions. As prisoners we are and should be experts in prison administration operation and the lies they tell. So why are we not illustrating the same in our litigation.
On the question of the "security problems in american prisons," again, these perceptions are all based upon what the prison officials report and claim; hardly a fair assessment as to what is really going on. This is possible because we are not disputing and putting the truth out there. We are not uniting and pooling our resources to fight the lies the prison system puts out.
The Beard vs. Banks case illustrates this fact. The lawyers/prisoners did not submit anything disputing the alleged facts in the defendant/prison official's summary judgement motion. As such, the court accepted all their exaggerations as true. Though they probably would have accepted the prison exaggerations anyway, we cannot make it so easy or allow them to justify it without exposing their favoritism and bias. The fact is that this case had lawyers, so the court could have given the disputes more weight than pro se disputed facts. This is the litigation war we are engaged in. No capitulations allowed.
The Van den Bosch case shows how censorship is allowed when we write articles like this one here. There, an article on how Wisconsin is #1 in creating conditions in segregation for petty stuff and these conditions leading to what I call intentional conditions for "suggestive ideation" (suicide). The court accepted the Wisconsin prison administrator's exaggerated security claim that criticizing these conditions could be viewed as incitement because people were killing themselves and the article stated officials were to blame. We cannot even complain or express our opinions.
We see how the court forgets that the BPP was attacked by the pigs and FBI, and they also forget all the cases in which the prison administrations have been proven busted and exposed for presenting lies. However, I stress again, it is our job to present such overwhelming facts/evidence to not allow the courts to easily accept the judgements and defer to the prisons, because we know they are straight up liars. This is war in facts.
This fact is shown by what the court wrote: "The nexus between plaintiffs copying the ten point program from "To Die for the People" and gang activity may seem tenuous, but the defendants argue that the likeliest reason the plaintiff copied the ten point program was to show it to inmates whom he hoped to enlist in a prison gang, a local cell as it were of the Black Panthers, the ten point program would be the gang's charter". They go on to say "this is merely a supposition, but it is not so implausible that we can dismiss as groundless the prisons concern."
They support that racist logic on the affidavit submitted by the prison's so-called gang coordinator, a racist named Bruce Muranski, who has been discredited in at least one case as possibly manufacturing so-called informant statements. "In the U.S. the main organizations that monitor intolerance and hate groups are the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) have deemed the new BPP as a hate group... there would be no other purpose...in the ten point program other than recruiting group members and establishing, reinforcing and maintaining an organizational structure for furthering gangs..."
In another part of the affidavit Muranski claims: "isolating the ten point from these library books allows it to be taken out of context, easily circulated and simultaneously possessed by gang members and changed or adopted for the specific needs and activities of the group... (another prisoner, other than plaintiff) was alleged to have unsanctioned security threat group items in his cell...(including) a hand written paper titled 'notes on African American leaders'. This sheet of paper contained the ten point which was identical in content to the ten point found in plaintiff cell..."
There we have it. All Black leaders who were willing to say in their own words or actions "give me liberty or give me death" are deemed contraband. Yet, I can have all the quotes I wish of white revolutionaries and Amerikan founding fathers. White "inciteful" language against the British crown is protected expression while George Jackson, or a Hoover or Malik, or Huey Newton is contraband.
The fact is that damn near every BPP or associated case, in law books or on the computer, has the same ten point program in it. So all we would need to do is buy a Panther case and circulate it if we wanted to share the ten point program. We see this decision is about intimidation and instilling inferiority. For even the cases the court cited have the ten points in them. Surely they knew that.
Still more, the case in which they made this racist ruling itself can now be used to promote and propagate the ten point program. So it's clear: the prison has no lawful reason to exclude the ten points even if they subsequently ban the books, which I'm sure they might try. The ruling is a joke and more about suppression and control.
MIM(Prisons) adds: While it is a set back for revolutionaries when important historical literature is banned or access limited to sharing this literature, it is something of a public admission of the strength and value of the Black Panther Party political line that this court felt the need to decree it as gang material. Prisoners who are labeled as part of a "Security Threat Group" are often actually organizing for the betterment of oppressed people, and promoting the peace and security of prisoners. This exposes the lie of the prison's claim that they want security. The only security prisons promote is job security for the guards and other prison workers. Prisoners' lives are far from safe and secure, due to conditions created by the guards and the criminal injustice system in general.
CA Gov. Brown Threatens to Further Curb Prisoner Lawsuits
Amerikan Torture Culture Hits Migrants
[Control Units] [Gang Validation] [California]
Challenging Conditions of Confinement in SHU
by a California prisoner December 2012 permalink
I have a habeas corpus petition in the Superior Court which challenges the "conditions of confinement" in California Department of Corrections and "Rehabilitation" (CDCR) Security Housing Units (SHUs), and the pro forma sham "periodic reviews" that CDCR purports to conduct for possible release from SHU.
My "conditions of confinement" challenge is based upon the fact that 30% of the validated "gang affiliates" in SHU are actually "gang associates," which are basically prisoners who had a social relationship with one prisoner who was a former gang "associate" [or member], or an "associate" who had been classified by CDCR as no longer "active" in the gang, i.e. a guy who has been "inactive" for a minimum of six years, or who had a social relationship with a "gang" member. How such a one-on-one social relationship constitutes "associating" with the gang is a leap of logic only a CDCR mentality could make.
It is unconstitutional for the government to find a person guilty of "association" sans any overt acts of personal misconduct. So it is very curious that prisoners are the only group of citizens who are consistently placed in SHU on the sole basis of being "guilty by association" without any charge of personal misconduct, and without any finding of guilt of any acts of personal misconduct, or of any acts of misconduct on behalf of or at the behest of a "gang."
Since Title 15, Section 3312(A) mandates that all prisoner misconduct be handled in the specific manners set forth in that section/regulation. Either CDCR is in violation of Section 3312(A), or there has been no misconduct! If there has been no misconduct, then a prisoner cannot be subjected to punitive treatment. Punitive treatment includes conditions of confinement that are historically recognized as punishment. So, it is all about identifying the conditions in SHU that are historically recognized as CDCR (or general prison) punishment, such as: loss of privileges, loss of property, solitary confinement, etc.
I know that making the SHU more comfortable is not an acceptable alternative to closing the SHU. But if you take the whip away from the CDCR, and SHU becomes just another general population facility with just a "maximum custody" designation, it then loses its value to CDCR.
MIM(Prisons) responds: Why would the government want to torture people for talking to someone? Presumably they fear this persyn. This has nothing to do with "misconduct" or "safety" and everything to do with politics; one group oppressing another. Yet, control units are still torture, no matter if the population decreases or increases by 30%. As this comrade states, there is no humane alternative to abolishing the SHU altogether.
Shut Down the Control Units
[Gender] [ULK Issue 31]
Debating Trans Rights
by a Pennsylvania prisoner December 2012 permalink
The sentiment expressed in the Men Against Sexism review in ULK 29 that we should not be fighting for sex reassignment surgery or hormone replacement therapy, is exactly the type of infighting that cuts comrades off from each other. How can a man be against sexism, yet support the oppressor's sexist stance on hormones? This is exactly why resistance is so watered down in Amerikkka. All the so-called resisters make a hobby of petty posturing and holier-than-thou attitudes which is nothing more than sugar-coated (and thinly at that) bourgeois ego games. The sad part is the gay crowd was at one point the outsider like us trans people are now but they are playing pass the shit-stick. How pathetic.
MIM(Prisons) responds: In the article this prisoner criticizes, we wrote that we do not fight for sex reassignment surgery in the same way we don't fight for gay marriage, because both amount to further privileges for people already benefiting from imperialism. We could equate these struggles with the fight to get more women in executive positions in companies, or the fight to get a Black man in the white house. They represent steps forward in equality for Blacks, wimmin, gays and trans people in reaping imperialist spoils of war and gender oppression on Third World peoples. These struggles do not help advance the fight against imperialism, to liberate the Third World peoples.
Most trans people in the Third World don't have the privilege of even thinking about hormone replacement therapy, and Third World gays certainly are not pre-occupied with their right to marriage. These people are focused on day-to-day survival, getting enough to eat, and avoiding getting raped or killed by Amerikan-backed militias. We mislead people when we focus on battles that distribute the imperialist privileges more equally among the already privileged labor aristocracy. We must focus on the real enemy of the majority of the world's people, an enemy that won't stop exploiting and killing through the ballot box. Gay and trans people in Third World countries deserve all of our attention and energy, to help ensure their survival and ultimate liberation.
Review: The Anti-Exploits of Men Against Sexism
Trans Debate: Combat All Forms of Gender Oppression
[Theory] [Organizing] [ULK Issue 31]
Expanding the Debate over the Political Prisoner Label
by a comrade of SAMAEL December 2012 permalink
I'm responding to ULK 29, "Less Complaints, More Agitation and Perspective." While most of the position is on point, I believe that important considerations were left out by both this comrade and MIM(Prisons)'s response.
I agree with the broad definition of political prisoners as announced in MIM Theory 11: Amerikan Prisons on Trial (article "Political Prisoners Revisited") precisely because courts are maintained as a tool of political oppression and inseparable from political oppression. Thus the political component is inseparable from those who become further oppressed by imprisonment. The hierarchy of society, cops, courts and state is one of a functioning cadre in this country.
I also understand the distinctions this comrade makes between inmates, convicts and the rest — an inmate is the prison version of the "sleeping masses," but whether or not these people recognize their oppression does not determine whether they are oppressed. And we can't forget that distinctions such as inmate, convict, POW, PPOW, PP, PS, GP are meaningless outside of the prison context, rendering these issues inapplicable to society.
In terms of the bigger fight for prison revolutionaries, these labels are also somewhat moot outside of a strategic context as well; everyone will get the benefits brought about by revolutionary action or they will simply be "washed away when the dam breaks."
What was missed is part of a larger problem (largely analytical). Whether one is or is not a political prisoner speaks directly to the conditions which led to one becoming a member of their class (under the broad definition), but not the class perception and what it means, nor what to do as a member of that class. The political conditions of our confinement being a given, our focus, especially insofar as making revolution is concerned, should not be on whether or not one is a political prisoner, but rather if one, as a prisoner, is political (i.e. moved to political action). If we must distinguish between members of the same class (i.e. prisoners), and to a certain extent we must in order to accurately assess conditions on the ground, then let it be a functional distinction which advances the revolution as a whole.
Subcategories of class must be used in such a way that it produces knowledge, not conjecture. Even an "inmate" can be turned to use. Further, people change and there's no way to know the moment of awakening of political consciousness in others without objective observation. By assigning static labels and categories, we limit our objectivity.
I wholeheartedly agree with this comrade: there are many tactics which can be tailored to circumstance but the labor of these tactics is necessarily dispersed to many people of differing skill sets and levels of political awareness; some are dupes, others are not, some are soldiers, others are tacticians and printers.
Finally, I believe a common mistake we all make as revolutionaries is to become solipsistic. We forget that not everyone wants change or revolution; some are satisfied with their condition. In prison or out, this distinguishes one as counter-revolutionary. This distinction is functional and applies to society without getting bogged down in specific labels. It is part of the equation we must, as revolutionaries, deal with, but in the end, revolution depends on maximizing our resources, exploiting the weaknesses of our enemy and most important, unification of the people.
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Instant and automatic data logging has long become the new norm. It is applicable everywhere from the sites that you browse to any corporate system that you have adopted in your company. All the Whos, Whens and Wheres are logged automatically to provide uncompromised data.
No wonder that our partners and their clients requested to integrate this tool to their monitoring solutions as well – and here it is. Now let's see what this feature is about.
Before anything else, Activity log is a tool for monitoring. It is reliable, easy-to-use and automatic. And unbiased: the entries can't be edited or deleted even by the account owner. Activity log displays the exact date and time an employee (identified by a User name and an IP-address) has interacted with the system. Managers can view the current situation or check data for any past period to define the responsible person and action type on the click.
But it's not all about Big-Brother(ish) control. Employees and supervisors have their fair share of benefits.
First of all, Activity log shows the actual working hours from when an employee started using the system to when they logged out.
Secondly, it builds accountability between the teams: when they know that their actions can always be verified (this very day or months after), the employees become more responsible and work more efficiently.
In some companies, however, Activity log is more than just a nice tool. Recently one of our partners received a request from their client in Eastern Europe, a worldwide logistics and delivery giant DHL. Due to international security requirements they had to implement a solution for daily logging in and logging out operations in their GPS tracking system. Needless to say, we were more than happy to help.
Let's see the feature in operation.
It shows Date, User name, Action type, and the IP-address of a user. For your convenience any data can be grouped and filtered by date, by action type or by employees.
Probably the best thing about this feature is its limitless growth potential. For now we have introduced the most requested and the most essential parameters: authorization, session start, session end, and login from the owner's account. But there can be more! A few of our partners have already introduced this feature to their clients and received a great deal of positive feedback. The most frequently asked question in this regard however is…'what's next'.
Well, the next portion will entirely depend on the customers' requests. That's the reason why we introduced this feature in the first place. Based on popular demand we guess that the new addition to the action types will concern geofencing and POIs: who it was created, edited or deleted by and when. But it's only one of many possible scenarios.
So make sure you offer this feature to your clients and provide a most accurate feedback. Share your Navixy experience and insights at [email protected].


Jess Brightwell is in a very precarious situation. Masquerading as his twin brother, he is a prisoner of the Library, and he needs to come up with a way to defeat the Archivist Magister and save his friends quickly, or it's not just himself and his friends that will suffer–an institution that was always supposed to be for the people will be taking a dive into a totalitarianism that puts all countries served by the library at risk.
This is the next installment to the Great Library series, which gave us a wonderfully dynamic story with action, political intrigue, and a dash of romance. It's the fourth in the series, with the fifth and last expected next year. This book is a little bit different from the last one, in that we get multiple points of view. This gives a bit more of a view of what goes on in the multiple locations our heroes are split up in, and gives us a look at places like the inner workings of the Tower. The multi-POVs also made me like each of the characters more in their own right, as there's more of a glimpse at what goes in in their heads.
This isn't a series you can just jump into the middle of–I recommend starting with Book one if you haven't been following the series already.


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Q: Removing paragraphs in txt file with R Using the readLines() function, I have imported a txt file, which stored sentences within multiple paragraphs like this:
sentence1. sentence2. sentence3.

sentence4. sentence5.

sentence6. sentence7.

For further analysis I would like to apply the sentiment_by() function on my imported txt file. When I do so, I receive sentiment values for each paragraph rather than the whole txt file itself. Therefore I want to remove the paragraphs within the txt file so that I receive only one sentiment coefficient. To do so I would need to transform my txt file so that the text looks like this:
sentence1. sentence2. sentence3. sentence4. sentence5. sentence6. sentence7.

If I were to run the sentiment_by() function on this piece of text it would yield one coefficient for the whole text. Is there a way I can transform the text by removing the paragraphs in R before I carry on with the analysis?

A: If each paragraph you grab is a character vector you can strip tabs and newlines away (and other whitespace characters if needed).
trimmed_text = trimws(text_var, which = "both", whitespace = "[\t\r\n]")

There are other things you can tweak as shown here.

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This week Team TYR athlete and 5x Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky shared a Lyft with none other than Golden State Warriors Pro Steph Curry and one of his inspirational fans Riley Morrison.
In Curry's celebrated YouTube series 5 Minutes From Home, Katie, Curry and Riley had the chance to trade dad jokes, try on swim caps, rate popcorn stands and discuss the importance of believing in your dreams.
To check out the full episode, scroll down below.


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In Country In USA
Larry Jay - 'What Do I Have'
A piano plays along with Larry's voice offering a deep message through this song, one which may be personal to almost everyone. A simple and gentle composition gives away a lot of emotion, especially through Larry's vocals. Easy going instrumentals and short guitar solos with layered harmonies accompanied by glittering acoustic and electric guitars are the core part of the music. Tight drums support the rhythmic pattern and also make space for crispy cymbals and hi-hats. The bridge section hits harder with interesting variations. The lyrics have exceptional importance in this song, especially the way they are conveyed. Merging the lyrics and music of this song truly makes it sound impressive.
Definitely listen to 'What Do I Have' by Larry Jay on YouTube.
About Larry Jay:
"It's been said that country-pop singer-songwriter Larry Jay's songs are "Five chords and the truth." The New York native, now residing in California, injects that truth with hopeful lyrics and tasty melodies, to create his own brand of Award-winning Americana-tinged southern-fried music. A first runner-up in multiple songwriting contests, including the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Larry Jay says he started writing and performing music "To set my soul free." Jay has performed at the famed and historic Troubadour in Los Angeles, and he's shared the stage with Neil Young sideman and member of Crazy Horse, Sonny Mone. "When I perform, it's just me and my guitar, and my rhythm tracks looper. I like to keep things intimate. While I've been told I sound like Keith Urban, I think I sound more like Neil Young. Either way, being told I'm a really great songwriter is the best compliment I could ever receive." Larry Jay shows off his songwriting skills on his latest single, "Night School," in addition to his #1 iTunes international smash single "Wow" featuring Caeland Garner of Team Blake on The Voice and his "end the pandemic" anthem, "Worldwide Party Day." You can hear Larry Jay weekly via Livestream on his Facebook page. When he's not focusing on his performances and, of course, writing new songs, Larry volunteers with the local VA Hospitals and addiction recovery centres."
Website | Spotify | Instagram | Twitter
Tags: Country, USA

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02. 14. 2019 Press Releases
ITMS Website is a Manifestation of Design Trends to Watch for in 2019
ITMS kicks off new year with a new website. Illustrations play a growing role in agency's portfolio.
Clear, quick and responsive. ITMS Marketing relaunched its website today with the aim of better presenting its competencies and services. The website was technically updated and renewed with new content, a user-friendly interface and an appealing layout. It features a responsive design, cross-browser and multi-device compatibility, which enable it to resize and accommodate the website's layout according to the screen size of the device over which it is being accessed.
The look of the new website is neat and tidy. The facelift helps users better navigate through the site. The design includes larger titles and shortened messaging to capture audiences and expedite their time to convert. Scrollable storytelling makes articles easy to read and guides the reader down the page. By using movement opportunities and video, the website keeps visitors on the page for longer periods of time.
Under "Portfolio", the success stories of client initiatives are presented in the form of case studies. This completely redesigned section gives the user insight into the behind the scenes of some of the agency's recent projects. In revealing narratives, successful projects such as the major media launch of the Airbus A350XWB for Qatar Airways, or an activation of a sponsorship for Taiwan Excellence during the 2018 Berlin Marathon are looked at in detail.
"Our skills and work for our clients go beyond the expected. That's why we wanted to make sure our website and specifically the portfolio section, reflects this," says founder and Executive Director George S. Pascal. "All of our clients have very individual needs, strategies and performance expectations. It is important and indeed, part of our philosophy, to constantly innovative and develop new formats. We create and execute unique solutions for each of our clients and this is the best way to successfully achieve their brand positioning objectives," explained Pascal.
Time-tested features such as a news section and an agency blog, which are combined under the collective name SPEKTRUM, have been retained and optimized. The launch of a new cartoon section takes a witty look at everyday life at the agency through the eyes and pencils of the agency's in-house illustrators. The new monthly drawings are a testament to the growing importance of individual hand-drawn artwork, sketches and illustrations in advertising, and in the agency's range.
"It's nice to see that our website reflects what we do, what sets us apart, and what we are passionate about," says Pascal. "We want to demonstrate that we are exceptionally-positioned to develop innovative and contemporary campaigns that drive success for our clients in 2019."
08. 02. 2018 Press Releases,
ITMS Launches In-House Animation Unit
Hidden Champion 2018
ITMS Turns Frankfurt Aviation-Event Into a Buzz-Worthy Summit
New Ad Campaign Takes the Sting Out of Omnipresent Taboo
ITMS Lays the Foundation for the Next 25 Years
ITMS Marketing Website Now Available in Polish
Fahrrad-PR.de Searches for Hidden Champion of Eurobike
ITMS Positioning Leading Stroller Manufacturer in the German Market


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NY Governor Andrew Cuomo May 26 Press Conference Transcript
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Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo held coronavirus press briefing on Tuesday, May 26. Cuomo held his press conference from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which is reopening with new safety precautions.
Andrew Cuomo: (00:03)
Good morning to all. Thank you for being here. We introduced the people who were with me today to my left, Mariah Kennedy Cuomo who I thank very much for running the competition that we had announced last week on the best wear a mask video. She's going to report on that today. To my right Melissa Derosa, secretary to the governor, to her right Gareth Rhodes, who's been an essential component of what we've been doing from day one. It's a pleasure to be here today. I hope everyone had a good weekend. I had a great weekend. Stayed at home Saturday, went to the beach Sunday, went to the Intrepid yesterday. Plus I changed the oil in the car, so I had a good day. Good weekend. I want to thank the stock exchange for hosting us today. This is a beautiful room. I was here this morning, the stock market reopened today.
So it's a pleasure to be here. I want to thank Stacy Cunningham, who is the president of the New York Stock Exchange for her hospitality and courtesy. Let's start with the facts, facts first. That's what the American people need. Number of hospitalizations down. Great news. Rolling average down. Number of intubations down. Number of new COVID cases down to the lowest level since this ever started just about 200. Amen. Number of lives lost 73, that's the lowest level that we have seen since this started. So again, in this absurd new reality, that is good news. Any other time and place when we lose 73 New Yorkers, it's tragic. It's tragic now, but relative to where we've been, we're on the other side of the curve and that is the lowest number that we've had. So, we thank all the healthcare staff. Once again, doctors, nurses who have been doing a fantastic job and you see, we went up the mountain very quickly.
That spike took us up very quickly and it took a long time to come down, but we're still coming down. Yesterday was Memorial Day and traditionally Memorial Day is a pivot point. It's a transition point. Summer is starting, fashion changes, mindsets change, and it shouldn't be that much different this year. Memorial Day is going to be a point where maybe we don't all run back to the beach, but we're going to turn the page on COVID-19 and we're going to start focusing on reopening and how we reopen and how smart we are in reopening, because that's the whole issue. You look at what's happening across the country. It's not, it was never a question of reopen or not reopen. The answer was always reopen. The question was always, how smart are you on the reopening? How intelligent are you on the reopening? How informed are you? How disciplined are you on the reopening?
Because that determines how successful the reopening is. The stock market reopened today. I had the honor of ringing the bell and it didn't reopen the way it was, it reopened smarter than before. Fewer people, wearing masks, new precautions that the stock exchange has incorporated, not because government said they had to, but because the stock exchange is smart and they wanted to get back to business, but they wanted to be smart and they're doing it in a way that keeps people safe. And that's an example of exactly what we've been talking about. So two tracks going forward from Memorial Day, number one, monitor the reopenings, we're reopening in regions all across the State because regions are different all across the State, so we're reopening and regions. Monitor the regions. We have a dashboard that is up, every new Yorker can see the numbers. And what we're doing is gauged by the numbers.
Mid Hudson opens today. They met all the metrics, all the numerical criteria. So they're opening today. Long Island will open tomorrow. We're going to bring on the last of what's called the tracers, who do the contact tracing after testing. And they'll be coming online today and Long Island will open tomorrow. Each region has a regional control group. I've spoken to many of the County executives across the State who are key on these regional control groups. And I said to the County executives, "Watch the numbers. When you see a cluster of cases, jump on it." That's what the contact tracing is all about. What happened? Where did they come from? Is there any commonality among the people in the cluster? Is there a geographic identity to that cluster, but that has to be done region by region.
You have to stay disciplined and focused, study the numbers, the numbers inform you. The numbers tell you what's happening, that dashboard tells you what's happening. And those regional control groups have to be disciplined. Steve Balone in Suffolk and Laura Curran in Nassau and Mark Polancos in Buffalo and Adam Bellow in Rochester and Ryan McMahon in Syracuse, focus on what's happening on those numbers. You see a little movement, you pounce on it, find out what it is, explore it and resolve it. New York City is the one region that has not reopened yet in New York. And that's for obvious reasons, the numbers have been worse in New York City. The number of cases were worse than New York City. Again, nothing endemic to New York City. What happened in New York City was the virus was coming from Europe, we didn't even know. Nobody told us. It was, we all were told it was coming from China, China, China look to the West, it came from the East.
We're looking West. It came from the East. It was coming from Europe and January, February before we did a European travel ban, 3 million Europeans landed at our airports and the virus came that way. So once the virus got here, it spread. This is a dense area, New York City, public transportation. So it had the worst problem in the nation. One of the worst problems on the globe. So it's the one region that's not reopened yet. And we're now going to focus on reopening New York City. And again, we do it smartly. We have data, we have tests. We can focus on the new cases in New York City. Where are those infections still coming from? And we literally can now focus on those areas by zip code. We've done so much testing. We do more testing in New York than any State in the United States of America. We do more testing per capita than most countries on the globe.
We do so much testing that we can actually identify zip codes that are generating the new cases. If you have that kind of intelligence, that kind of data, then you can target your resources right to those areas. Those zip codes tend to be predominantly minority communities. The infection rate is not spreading among the central workers, it's spreading among workers who have stayed home or who are unemployed. So it's spreading in the home, it's spreading in the community. We're going to focus on those zip codes. We're going to focus on those communities and we want to slow the infection rate even in those communities. And that will really bring the numbers down in New York City. We've started that last week, but we're going to bring it to a new level starting this week. And you can see that the infection rate in some of these zip codes is double the infection rate in the city.
The infection rate in the city general population is about 19%, almost 20%. In some of these communities, the infection rate is 40%. Literally double the citywide average. And when we look at those new COVID cases coming into the hospitals, where are they coming from? They're coming from these zip codes and we can literally identify it. So we want to attack the virus at the source. That's what we're going to be doing in New York City. In New York City, we also have to get the number of tracers up and trained and online. And we'll be focusing on that. Statewide, we all have to remain smart. Regions that are opened, regions that are reopening, New York City, that hasn't opened yet where we have to get the numbers down. It's about citizens and it's about what people do.
That's been the great riddle in this whole thing. We don't understand it, it's about government, government this, government that. Forget government, this whole trajectory is decided by people. It's personal behavior. That's all it is. You tell me what people do today. I'll tell you what the infection rate is tomorrow. And it's simple, it's wash your hands, it's socially distances, it's use the hand sanitizer and it is wear the mask. And this is almost a point of cultural communication, wearing a mask is now cool. I believe it's cool. If I could sign an executive order that says wearing a mask is officially cool.
There is a certain amount of informing the public and accepting a new type of standard. Wearing the mask has got to be something you do every day when you get up, when you walk out of the house, you put the mask on. And I said the other day, New Yorkers want to reinforce it for other New Yorkers. This is cool. You want to encourage people to do this. By the way, they have all sorts of colored masks, you don't have to have a boring mask like my mask, I'm a boring guy. They have colored masks, they have masks that say things. Some people coordinate their outfit with the color of their mask. And this has to be part of literally who we are and what we do every day. That does not mean when someone doesn't wear a mask, we should be rude to that person or be obnoxious to that person. But this has got to be part of every New Yorker's fashion and design and clothing and outfiting, wearing the mask.
Design, and clothing, and outfitting, wearing a mask… It makes a real difference. If you think that's all talk, answer for me why all the first responders have a lower infection rate than the general population. The only difference is they wore a mask, and they wore the PPE. Wear a mask. Everyone has to do their part. Second track is, while we're reopening, supercharge the reopening, right? Stock market opened today. We want that economy to come roaring back. We want it to come roaring back. That's not going to happen just by wishing it to be so. We have to take an affirmative action. We have to be part of that. Today is page one of that chapter. I don't believe that the economy just bounces back. Some economists say, "We artificially stopped the economy. We release it. It went down. It's going to come right back in a straight line."
I don't believe it comes straight back. I believe it bounces back, but it bounces back differently. We talk about the normal and the new normal. I think you're going to see the same thing with the economy. I don't think it comes right back to where it was. It's not like bouncing a basketball. You bounce a basketball. It goes down. It comes straight back up. It's like dropping a football. You drop a football. Depending on how it hits, it goes off on different angles. The economy is going to come back up. I don't think it comes straight back up. I think there will be winners and losers in this new economy. I think the top end of the economy will be fine. They always are. It always works out for them.
You look at the 2008 recession. After the mortgage fraud, we did the bailouts. The big banks were the first one to come back fine, but I don't think the economy comes back for everyone everywhere the same way. I think you're going to see American workers who are laid off. That's why I'm pushing the Americans First Law in Washington. I think you're going to see corporations use this as an opportunity to, in their words, restructure, to get lean, to show the analyst we can increase the profit. How do you increase the profit faster than a corporation? You lay off workers. That's what you do. I think you're going to see corporations do that. We've lost thousands of small businesses that just are not going to reopen their doors. You're going to see pain in this new economy. Let's start to anticipate that. Let's start to deal with that now.
We know that government can stimulate the economy. This country has done it in the past where we have engaged in major public works that made the nation better. When we did it, we stimulated the economy. You look at all the great things that this nation did: building the Hoover dam, the Lincoln tunnel, all these magnificent public improvements that made the nation the nation and created thousands of jobs at the same time. Now everyone has been talking about the need to do major infrastructure in this nation. Every president, Democrat, Republican… President Clinton talked about it. President Bush talked about it. President Obama talked about it. President Trump talked about it. Vice President Biden talks about it. "We have major infrastructure needs we're not building. The rest of the world is passing us by." It's true. Well, then do something about it. Don't just talk about it. Everybody's identified the same problem, Democrats and Republicans, but nobody has done anything.
If there's ever a time to actually take on this overdue need, a major infrastructure construction, now is the time. There is no better time to build than right now. You need to restart the economy. You need to create jobs. You need to renew and repair this country's economy and its infrastructure. Now is the time to do it. It's especially the time to do it when some of the volume is lower, right? "The time to fix the hole in the roof," we would say in Queens, "is when the sun is shining." That's when you… Why? You don't think that's a Queens's expression? That was a Queens's expression as far as I'm concerned. That's when you fix the hole in the roof, when the sun is shining. The time to do this work is now when you need the jobs and the volume is low. New York will lead the way.
We are going to accelerate our big infrastructure programs. We have the Empire Station project, which is building a new Penn Station, which is long overdue. That Penn Station has been torturing people for too long. Let's now accelerate the Empire Penn project while the ridership is low and when we need the jobs. Accelerating LaGuardia Airport, which is… be the first new airport in this nation in 25 years. Traffic is low. Passenger volume is lower. Let's accelerate that construction now. Let's do things that we've been talking about for a long time, but we've never actually pulled the trigger on. We know that we need renewable power. We know we can generate renewable power in upstate. We know we need it downstate. Let's build the cross-state transmission lines to develop that renewable market upstate and satisfy the need downstate. We know they have low-cost hydropower in Canada. Let's run the cable, the transmission lines from Canada to New York City to get that power down here. Let's stop talking, and let's start doing. Let's invigorate this whole renewable market.
There are other big infrastructure projects that we've been talking, talking, talking about, which we have to do, where we need federal help and federal approval. Let's put those on the table. The air train to LaGuardia… New York city is one of the only major cities that has no train from the airport into the central city. We've been talking about the cross-Hudson tunnels, where the Amtrak trains come through, that are old and that are crumbling, and that if they become a problem, you literally stop Amtrak travel to the entire Northeast. Let's stop the politics on it, and let's get it done. Let's build those new tunnels. The Second Avenue subway… The next extension for the second Avenue subway, goes from 96th street to 125th street, would open up that whole 125th street area. It would bring a whole new chapter of revitalization to New York City. Let's do that in partnership with the federal government.
I'm going to go to Washington tomorrow. Scheduled to meet with the president to talk about a number of things, but this is one of the things I want to talk to the president about. You want to restart the economy. You want to reopen the economy. Let's do something creative. Let's do it fast. Let's put Americans back to work. Let's make America better. It is common sense. It is common sense. So many of the things that we need to do, you don't need to be a government expert or an engineer to figure out. It's common sense. You have an infrastructure that's crumbling. You need to jumpstart the economy. You need to create jobs. Do it now. Do it now. That's one of the things I'm going to talk to the president about tomorrow.
Last point, we did the Wear a Mask New York PSA Contest. I asked my daughter, Mariah, to help out, volunteer pro bono, no money, supervised by a very nice, easygoing boss, moi, and Mariah agreed. She did a fantastic job. Frankly, this contest has gone much bigger and generated much more energy and excitement than I anticipated. With that, I will turn it over to Mariah.
Mariah Cuomo: (21:13)
Thank you. We launched the Wear a Mask Ad Contest in May, asking New Yorkers to create ads about the importance of wearing a mask in public. We received over 600 video submissions from across the state. We selected five finalists and put it to a vote. People cast 186,117 votes. Today we are proud to announce the winning ad, which is We Heart New York. With that, we'd like to-
I love New York.
We love New York.
We've been stuck inside our homes.
While our everyday heroes have been working overtime.
For New York to reopen.
And stay open.
We all need to do our part.
Speaker 10: (22:00)
And show that we care.
Look, man.
I wear a mask to protect you.
You wear a mask to protect me.
Let's all wear a mask.
To stop the spread of coronavirus.
And save lives.
When we show up in a mask.
We're showing up for each other.
Show your love for New York.
Because New York loves you.
Great.
Thank you. Congratulations to Bunny Lake Films, a female-founded boutique production company based in Brooklyn, New York, who created that incredible ad. We'd now like to show the second place ad, which is You Can Still Smile.
I wear a mask for my fellow New Yorkers.
My mama who's a healthcare worker.
Nurses and doctors.
For my father.
For the marginalized communities who don't have access to adequate healthcare.
For my children.
My community.
Essential workers.
Transit workers.
The immunocompromised.
I wear a mask so we can get back to work.
Go to school.
Share a meal.
See a movie.
Hug my friends.
Dance together.
Go to the theater.
See our families.
Continue to show support.
Take care of each other.
Save lives.
Stay strong.
Thank you to everyone who submitted ads, who voted, who shared ads, and helped spread this important message, that it's absolutely critical to wear a mask in public. We'll be continuing to reach out to New Yorkers for help in spreading the message about how we can get through this together because New Yorkers are clearly ready, willing, and able to help.
Beautiful. That is a great job. Now I have to make an executive decision, not order. There was no election that we have nowadays that doesn't raise issues, it seems. This was extraordinary. We opened this up to competition. There were 96, 000 votes for the first…
… 96,000 votes for the first and second place winners. 96,000 votes, only a 500-vote differential between number one and number two which, if it was a normal election would normally trigger an automatic recount. All right. It's that close. There is also an issue with this election that we never really defined an eligible voter, and we have people who voted in this competition all across the state, all across the country, all across the world. We had international people voting in this competition, which I did not really fully think through.
So rather than have a debate about who would've been an eligible voter, because at 500 votes between first and second is so small, if you start to have a question about who's an eligible voter, it could get dicey. So I'm going to make an executive decision. The state will run both ads first and second because they're both great. And obviously, yes, one won by 500 votes, but it was a tremendous turnout. People love both. That's clear. So the state will run both and we don't have to get into a debate about who is ineligible voter in a video competition. So we'll run both of those PSAs.
I want to thank all of the voters who participated. That tremendous number just shows how engaged people are all through this. This is about life and death. This is about their lives. This is about their community, and they're engaged and they should be because they are New York tough, smart, united, disciplined, and loving. Questions?
Governor, on the bill in Albany that would authorize the city of New York to borrow $7 billion, are you open to signing that bill? My understanding is they're having trouble meeting basic operating expenses without it, assuming the federal government doesn't come through. And assuming that the economy comes back unevenly and the people at the top are okay, would you ever favor raising taxes on the wealthy?
Yeah. Let's deal with the here and now, now, and then we'll deal with the future when we figure out what the future is. There's no doubt that governments are hard stretched. State government is hard stretched; we have $13 billion deficit. City is stretched, local governments are stretched all across the state, all across the nation. That's why I think the real answer is the federal government has to step up and provide state and local aid.
There was also a piece in the Wall Street Journal that said, "In those situations when the state and local governments are starved, the economic recovery is slower than when you actually fund state and local governments," which makes sense. Because if you starve the state government, what happens? I turn around. There's less funding for schools, less funding for hospitals, less funding for local governments and that's police and fire.
So, we need funding from Washington. If we don't get funding from Washington, we're going to have a serious financial issue, and it's going to compound our state problem overall. What do you do if you don't get federal funding? Well, then you have to be fiscally responsible. And for New York City, New York state, Suffolk, Nassau, it's going to be the same question. We'll borrow a lot of money. Well, is it fiscally responsible what you're borrowing? Do you have any chance to pay it back? When you start talking about borrowing to pay operating expenses, this is a whole new situation. Normally, you borrow for capital expenses. You're making an investment. It's going to increase future revenue. Borrowing for operating expenses is fiscally questionable. So it's an issue that we're going to face for the state, an issue we'll face for the city, and fiscal responsibility is very important here.
We don't want to create more debt than the state can pay going forward. We don't want to create a situation where the state or any local government borrows so much money that they can't repay it, and then you have to start to cut services, and now you're in that vicious, downward spiral. Right? We've been there before. New York City has been there before. So I'm still banking on Washington doing the intelligent thing. It's prudent for everyone. If that does not happen, we're going to have to make hard choices, but they're going to have to be fiscally responsible. And I haven't even looked at those issues for the city or for the state because I still don't want to create the possibility or the excuse for Washington to say, "Well, we don't have to act. You can just go mortgage your future." I'm not in the mortgaging for future option scenario.
Andrew: (29:30)
You mentioned in recent days that CDC guidance changed with regard to transmission of the virus on surfaces. In light of that, has the MTA's nightly disinfecting of every surface on every train been a misallocation of resources? Would you instead instruct them to get ready for the reopening by handing out masks to every single rider or to increase capacity?
Andrew, all of the above. First of all, the CDC did not say you can't get it from surfaces. They said, "You can get it from surfaces, but it's not a major transmission source." What does that mean? And they previously had suggested that it was a major source. But even if it's not a major source… This is tricky. If I get the virus, I don't care if I got it from a minor transmission source. I don't want to get the virus. So even if only 20% of the people get infected from surfaces, I'm still worried about those 20% of the people.
So, I think for the MTA, for any organization, it's all of the above. Yes, masks. Yes, hand sanitizer. Yes, social distancing, and yes, clean and disinfect the surfaces. Because even if they're right, and again, that assumes they're right… And let's be honest, the experts have changed their opinions and their numbers and their projections three times through this thing. So even if they are right and it's only a minor source now, it's still a source. And do everything you can, do everything you can, do everything you can, and that's what we're doing.
[crosstalk 00:31:22] the rider should do if they're going back to work and there's someone on their train who's not wearing a mask?
Look, New Yorkers are tough, right? As we've said, there is a social responsibility, I believe, to wear a mask. I believe it should be part of our culture. I think we should encourage each other to be responsible and to wear it. I encourage people. When I'm walking around the street and somebody doesn't have a mask and they're walking past me, I encourage them nicely, politely point out some facts. But it's New York. We have to be careful that that nice and polite stays nice and polite. People are afraid now, and you can see tempers flare, and you can see the energy goes up. I think that's not helpful. I think you can have conversations with people and point it out, but keep it friendly and helpful and constructive.
Over the weekend, I did some interviews out on the boardwalk in Long Beach, and people were already expressing concern about a second wave coming. They were happy that the boardwalk was opened, but it's going to get crowded and there's going to be a second wave. Have you started forming a new plan for a second wave, and how would it be different from what we did this time?
The way we are reopening, in many ways anticipates the possibility of a second wave. It is built into our reopening plan. When we say you must reserve 30% capacity in the hospitals, that's anticipating either a current surge or a second wave. 30% of the ICU beds have to be available. That's anticipating either a current surge, people around undisciplined, you have a hotspot, or a second wave. Hospitals must have 90 days of PPE on hand. We're not going through that can't find a mask crazy scramble again, right? All the PPE has to be in place for 90 days at the COVID level.
All those early indicators, getting the testing capacity up. What's going to happen when you get to the fall, even if there's not a second wave? People will need flu tests for the normal flu. Right now, we're using basically all our testing capacity to do the COVID tests. So we're planning for testing in the fall, split between the flu test and the COVID test. But what we are now doing builds in the anticipation of the possibility of a second wave.
And, look, I don't even know if it's a second wave anymore. They now talk about, basically it's not going away. It's not that it's going to go away and come back like they first talked about the second wave. It's just that there may be a lull, a seasonal lull because of the summer climate, but then it comes back, it increases in the fall because it never really went away.
The Stock Exchange recommends employees to avoid taking public transit to work. Do you think that's a wise policy? Do you think that the subway is a super spreader of the virus? [inaudible 00:35:10] have you identified which phase of the reopening the overnight subway service will resume? What date are you looking at on that?
As I've said, I don't pick dates in the future. We have had projection models from day one on this. We follow the projection models. Remember the projection models said we could need about 120,000 hospital beds. We only had 50,000 hospital beds. I spent one month developing thousands of hospital beds off the projections, and we did it. It was probably the largest single undertaking that I've undertaken as governor, and we did it. And then the projection model didn't come true. Now, in defense of the projection models, they'll say, "Well, we had a number of variables that changed and-
Number of variables that changed. And we didn't know how effective social distancing would be, and social distancing turned out to be more effective because people were more responsible. So the numbers came down. But I don't think you can project into the future. I don't think anybody can say, "I'll tell you what's going to happen in four weeks." So I know the numbers today, we'll know the numbers tomorrow, make decisions based on the facts you know, and that's what we're going to do. So I am not going to give you a future projection. The MTA, public transportation, has to be ready when you reopen. Everything has to be staged and public transportation has to be working. You can't do a full reopening without public transportation. You just can't. You don't have an option, of everybody walks or everybody drives or everybody bicycles. You can't do that in this metropolitan area.
You have people coming in from New Jersey, Connecticut, et cetera. So you need Metro North, et cetera. So the question becomes, how do you reopen public transportation? And we have trains cleaner than ever before, remarkably so. We'd need social distancing precautions. You'd need the masks. You need the sanitizer. You need to schedule in a way so you don't overload a train. But I'll tell you one of the silver linings here. The subways have never been as clean as they are now, and we're helping more homeless people than ever before. For me, this has been an issue that we've worked on for a long time, and there's been a lot of dissension. And I spent my whole life working on the homeless issue. And finally, finally, we've had the wisdom to understand that you're not really helping the homeless by letting them sleep on the train.
That was a misguided theory. "Well, we respect your civil rights and civil liberties. We're going to let you sleep on a subway car and risk getting molested or hurt during the night." No, they deserved better. Offer them safe shelter, offer them services. That was always the answer. And now, because we close the subway to clean the cars the homeless have to be off the subway, otherwise you can't clean the car. And it's the first time you've actually had a real outreach program. So out of crisis comes positive.
What about the stock exchange policy? Do you think that the subways spread the virus right now? Is it safe for that?
The subways have never been cleaner. And people are social distancing and they're wearing masks. There's no configuration on a subway done right, that's not a sidewalk done right, that's not any other place done right. If you have an overcrowded subway car, well then you're where you are with an overcrowded sidewalk or an overcrowded lobby or an overcrowded elevator. Then it's the same thing.
One company this morning, I think it was JP Morgan, I could be wrong on that, that refused to participate in the opening of the floor. [inaudible 00:39:37] bacteria and other things. What do you say to a company who doesn't even want to participate?
I think you will see people making their own decisions. I think you'll see companies make their own decisions. We've never been here before. They opened some parts of China, and just because the government says, "Okay, we're back," some people said, " I'm not ready to be back. I'm not ready to get on public transportation. I'm not ready to walk down the sidewalk. I'm going to sit home and I'm going to watch to see what happens." People have gone through a trauma. People are scared. So I think you'll see all sorts of individual decisions by companies, by people. And some people are going to hang back and say, "I want to see the facts. I don't want to be the first one out." I think that's all fine. And I think that's to be expected. I think there's an emotional transition here as much as there is a physical transition.
And again, I don't think this is about government rules. I think it's about, everyone has informed themselves. "You're talking about my life now. You have my attention. You're talking about my kids. You're talking about my mother. I'm taking this very seriously and I've informed myself and I'm going to make my own judgment, thank you very much." Well, the federal government says, the President says, the Governor says. "I don't care what they say. I'm going to make my own decision." And I think that's fine, because this is really about restoring confidence and comfort. And it doesn't happen until you feel confident and comfortable. Anyone want to make some points? Melissa, Gareth? Any more votes? How come you got more votes for that competition than you got for your own dad? Let's take one more.
[inaudible 00:41:37] fund the federal government will give the state? Do you anticipate that the state will unveil the state budget cuts before or after [crosstalk 00:00:41:49]?
You tell me what the federal government does, I will tell you what the state budget looks like. And I want them to have that responsibility. Right now you have a $13 billion deficit. We will cut schools … With no money from the federal government, schools get cut 20%, local government gets cut 20%, and hospitals get 20%. Cut. That's what happens today. That's the budget. It's done. And by the way, the budget is done. It was passed in April. That's the budget. How do you avoid those cuts? It's purely dependent on what the federal representatives do. And remember, the House is controlled by congressional Democrats, the Senate is controlled by Republicans. But I've said to them very clearly, this is a situation where the people of this state are going to know what you did. Right now if you do nothing, we have a 20% cut to schools. If you want to cut schools 20%, then don't fund New York. If you want to cut police and fire 20%, then don't fund New York. If you want to cut our hospitals 20%, don't fund New York.
And the way to avoid those cuts is that Congress has to deliver. I believe that politicians should be held accountable. When I would watch TV with my grandfather, my father's father Andrea, the Italian name Andrew, and a politician would start to talk on the TV, my grandfather would go like this. And a lot of his mannerisms were Italian and I didn't understand them so I didn't ask, but he would go like this. And then one day I said, "Grandpa, what is that? What are you doing there?" He said, "It's all they do, these politicians, is talk." He didn't mean my father, but that's a different conversation. "That's all they do is talk." Yeah, federal representatives, it's your turn to deliver. We need help. I don't care federal politics, Washington politics. We need help. And we need you to deliver.
And we need you to deliver the SALT repeal, which is also in the House bill, which was a theft from the people of the state of New York in the first place. And I want to keep the focus right there so they are held accountable. Nobody really knows any more who does what, what does the state do, what does the federal government do? And if they're not held accountable, then it can become too easy. This one can't be easy. We need federal help. If we don't get it, call your congressperson. And I want to keep the focus there.
Yeah. Why not use the crisis to push forward an actual subway extension instead of the current plan, which is pretty unpopular among transit experts?
You know what's more unpopular? Forget your transit experts. You know what's more unpopular than the people in the neighborhoods that are affected? The subway plan. So look, you have two questions. You have, funding is an issue, and then you have feasibility of the project. I don't want a project that's going to be in court for 150 years and that gets kicked the can down the road, which is what happens with so many public works. When I say I'm going to do something I actually do it, which is a little different. I say I'm going to build Mario Cuomo Bridge, I build it. I say I'm going to redo tunnels, I do it. I say I'm going to build a new airport, I do it. And I do it in real time. And I want projects that are real as opposed to theoretical, I have a great idea, in a perfect world we could do this. Yeah. When the world is perfect then I'll do it. Thank you for taking time.
[inaudible 00:46:16] the meeting with the President tomorrow. So this was part two continuing your last discussion?
Well, we've had talks. It's not part two. It's probably part 28.
Is it the fiscal package you're trying to get out of Washington primarily, would you say?
Literally [inaudible 00:10:37]. My three favorite topics. And the state of New York. Talk to you later. Thank you, Stock Exchange, for this beautiful room.
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