JUST ANOTHER SMOKE SCREEN / EMPLOYEES SELLING OUT TO MANAGEMENT

The news out of Connecticut Juvenile Training School is more of the same foolishness from KeyStone Cops management. the lawmakers in Connecticut supposedly agreed to reduce the number of residents at CJTS in preparation for closing the facility in 2018. This came on the heels of so called revelations of Youth Service Officers abusing residents during restraints. Once the media got wind of these alleged restraint abuses and lawmakers marched through CJTS on tours... plans to close hat place were locked in stone. Now it has come to this writer's attention that slowly but surely resident intake numbers are on the increase. At one time the residents numbered at CJTS were over one hundred, then due to all the publicity those intake numbers diminished. Now instead of decreasing, an increase happened- there are fifty five residents at CJTS. The increase in numbers is just another incident is just another smoke screen at that facility. It should be noted that no suburban community wants a facility where incarcerated residents are housed... especially black and brown ones. Sources report there are only two-three Caucasian residents at CJTS. Now each time one resident leaves that facility one more is ready to be shipped in. Well this seems just like another smoke screen by management.


Sources report that YSOs are running up to the offices of management like it is Saturday night and the liquor store is about to close. It has been reported that these YSOs are giving management information about possible problems one the horizon, what the YSOs are considering in terms of Union activities and other information. What makes this so hideous is by going to management the YSOs are undercutting the very AFSCME Union representing them. Indeed this is another indication of how instead of banding together to fight corrupt...incompetent... white supremacist management. YSOs are looking to gather favor from their oppressors. So sad !

SELF DEFENSE BRIGADE DELIVERS LETTER TO MAYOR OF HARTFORD

Self Defense Brigade

PO Box 400092

Hartford, CT 06140

Hon. Luke Bronin

Mayor, City of Hartford

Hand Delivered

January 22, 2017

Dear Mr. Mayor,

It has come to our attention that a meeting is being hosted at Faith Congregational Church in Hartford on Feb. 8, 2017 for the purposes of discussing residents’ needs and the allocation of resources to meet those needs.  Only a select number of clergy are invited to this meeting.

We are disturbed to learn that City leaders believe that only select members of the clergy are worthy of participating in such a meeting.  Some members of the clergy who have been heavily involved in community organizing have been excluded from this elite group.  Nor does this group speak for the entire community – in fact they aren’t interested in the opinions of some groups in the community.  

The Self Defense Brigade is composed of members who are dedicated to the protection of their community.  We will protect our community from being victimized from within, from forces with out and power structures over our community.  We will be attending the meeting as well.

Sincerely,

Self Defense Brigade

Cornell Lewis, Founder

WHITE SUPREMACY USES COMPROMISED LEADERS TO PROMOTE AN AGENDA

Dear Colleagues:

                I would like to invite you to a lunch with Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin on Feb. 8^th at noon to be held at Faith Congregational Church, 2030 Main Street in Hartford.

This meeting has been arranged by the Rev. Steve Camp, pastor of Faith and I am grateful that he has made this engagement possible.  Mayor Bronin is interested in hearing from clergy about the needs of the greater Hartford area as well as to discuss some of the challenges he is facing in leading the city at this time

The words above indicate something is brewing in the City of Hartford and it smells like old rotten fish heads resting on sidewalks in June. A perusal of the words above must take into account several things, 1.) white supremacy is seeking to disrupt any chance of popular dissent by the unwashed masses, 2.) only certain selected leaders that white folks feel comfortable with were invited to the meeting above, 3.) the clergy in Hartford is ineffective... weak... and more worried about gaining favor from white folk than seeking egalitarian rights for the oppressed.

We most also note that  clergy activists  that have been involved in social activism for the last 2-3 years in Hartford, and were not invited to this shindig. This writer specifically means religious leaders Pam Selders and her husband Bishop John Selders, founders of Moral Monday CT. These two pillars of social justice have led marches, street demonstrations, visited offices of CT Governor Danell Malloy asking for justice, and both Pam and John were arrested for their beliefs. Now let me juxtapose the Selders work of direct action with the non action of moribund clergy summoned to the above mentioned meeting Feb. 8, 2017. When rallies were held by MMCT, clergy in many instances vanished like Casper the Ghost. In particular Negro clergy did not weigh in on issues affecting people of color. Yet now that ol' Cap'n Boss done summoned the house Negroes to a meeting, it is seen as advantageous to these buck dancing Negro clergy to show up ... grinning in front of Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin like Sammy Sunshine in those old Little Rascals comedy series.

For years the white supremacist machinery in Hartford has used meetings with selected clergy to consolidate a hold on the city's political machinery, power, finances, and thinking of the majority population consisting of blacks and people of color. These same religious leaders coming to this meeting in Feb. seem to have no shame whatsoever in opening churches for whites to hold meetings, that are only good for taking pictures of grinning Negro preaches et al. What is really disturbing to this writer is the unmitigated gall and temerity of black clergy who are comfortable with embracing the white power structure. Well. Maybe it is time to gather people together and protest outside or inside the churches of black clergy in particular who placate the Mayor Bronin in their houses of worship. What the hell, activists have a moral obligation to confront injustice wherever it manifests itself and also to denounce traitors of the unwashed masses. Just perhaps members of the true vanguard will turn up [ protest ] inside of the church of this meeting Feb. 8th and make their voices heard. 

He who allows oppression shares the crime.- Erasmus Darwin

EMPLOYEE BEING SINGLED OUT ? FOR WHAT REASON ?

The rumors coming out of Connecticut Juvenile Training School are disturbing if indeed true. This writer was informed of the story about a Youth Service Officer that is coming under special scrutiny while other employees are not. The YSO in question was sent to a doctor for determination about being able to perform job duties. It is reported the doctor examined the YSO and said "there is nothing wrong with you. Why are you here being examined by me?" The YSO returned to CJTS wondering what the hell is going on. In the years this YSO has worked at CJTS there has never been any mention of not performing job duties.

Now there are plenty of other Unit Leaders, Operations Staff, Clinicians et al. that do not perform job functions in any capacity. For example one female Unit Leader is a Workers Compensation queen, not having been at work consistently for over five years. However this same female Unit Leader can go to the casinos in Connecticut, sit at the Black Jack tables, swinging a leg while sitting in a high chair. Meanwhile the YSO sent to see a doctor for no reason wonders why.

WORKERS COMPENSATION PEOPLE MEET AT PLANTATION TRYING TO BAIT AND SWITCH

There are more shenanigans going on at Connecticut Juvenile Training School with dysfunctional management.  Since November of 2016, Workers Compensation adjusters visited CJTS / met with the Superintendent  at least 2-3 times. The question that needs asking is why ?  This blog has printed stories in the past about a certain female Unit Leader who is never at work because of allegedly being injured on the job [ for 4 years she sang the Workers Compensation song ]. I digress and must get back to the story line. Reliable sources indicate the visits to CJTS by WC adjusters recently seek to place blame on Youth Service Officers for the high rate of staff injury at the male lock down facility. Now take into account how YSOs are required by their job description to work double shifts if instructed by management. And since the worker layoffs and imminent closing of CJTS possibly in 2018, YSOs are forced to work even when tired physically / mentally.

However the truth is that management is either utilizing or abusing WC more than YSOs. Take for example the five Operations Staff that are currently out on WC, all they do is sit in the office all day. Then there are two clinicians out on WC. Let us not forget the female Unit Leader- called WC queen- supposedly repeatedly injured for 4 years or more. She is at this writing out on WC yet again. Well, either she is baking cookies during working hours or injured. The management at CJTS need to stop blaming everything that is dysfunctional at that place on YSOs. When is someone just going to take a broom and sweep all of those high paid white management types out the door for running that facility into the damn ground ?