UPCOMING EVENTS
Thousands of people worldwide have come together to support the hunger strike that started at Pelican Bay.
*Please contact us if you can organize an event in a city or town near you*
(Events have already been held in at least 13 cities in the US, Canada & Australia. Click here for a list of past events).
In the US:
California
Los Angeles
Monday, February 20th, 2012, 3pm: Rally & Demonstration @ LA County Court House. Organized by CA Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement as part of Occupy’s National Day in Support of Prisoners. 441 Bauchet St (corner of Vignes & Bauchet), Los Angeles, CA 90012. For more info contact CFASC: cfasc12@yahoo.com or call 714.290.9077
San Francisco
Monday, February 20th, 2012, 12noon-3pm: National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners. Demonstration @ San Quentin State Prison–East Gate. Bus & Carpool leaving @ 10am @ 1540 Market in San Francisco. Sign-up for bus/carpool & get directions at occupy4prisoners.org
Oakland
Monday, February 20th, 2012, 12noon-3pm: National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners. Demonstration @ San Quentin State Prison–East Gate. Bus & Carpool leaving @ 10am @ 14th & Broadway in Oakland. Sign-up for bus/carpool & get directions at occupy4prisoners.org
In Canada
No events scheduled currently. Please check back soon!
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For the Action in Cleveland, OH: Three of the death-sentenced Lucasville uprising prisoners had a victorious hunger strike in Jan. 2011, so we will be chanting: From Lucasville to Pelican Bay, Fighting back is the only way!
I look forward to being in touch with Sharon and others in the labor movement about supporting human rights for prisoners. Even after prisoners have done their time, they still face discrimination in jobs, housing and even voting rights.
Don’t forget about educational discrimination, profiling (before prison is even in the picture) Police brutality, and all of the other OUTLANDISH mistreatments and pocket lining schemes of the federal and state governments with regard to ALL PRISONERS in ESPECIALLY CALIFORNIA. What a racket! As SOAD once put it; “Their trying to build another prison, for you and me”!
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You should definitly contact the offices of Irish Republican Socialist Party and of Republican Sinn Fein in northern Ireland. They are also struggling for humane treatment and conditions. Make this hunger strike known across the world by having solidarity with political prisoners in ireland.
Asking support and prayers for all our brothers in the “SHU” Hundger Strike. Rally this Sat. at the Men’s Central Jail, L.A. 441 Bauchet St, L.A. from 11am to 1pm, questions, 323-978-3322
Lucy from Corona will be there.
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Pray that no one gets sick ,hurt and that they stay strong and united
Another upcoming action in Ohio, of Sat. July 23: From Supermax to Supermax – Rally 2:00-4:00 pm at Ohio’s supermax, Ohio State Penitentiary, 878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd., Youngstown, OH 44505.
Followed by a reception, discussion and DVD on physical & psychological torture USP at Marion.
Come to St. Augustine’s Church, 614 Parmalee Ave., Youngstown, OH 44510.
For more info, contact lucasvillefreedom@gmail.com .
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Great event today in San Francisco comrades lookin forward to the next one.
Thank you for the love & care everyone is working so hard!
I have a son in the SHU in Pelican Bay. I’ve witnessed so many abuse circumstance with-in the 13 yrs. he’s been in prison. Oh what a terrible shame our Leader’s have such little education after all! Furthermore; they just have ego trips! Let’s all keep the faith. Power of prayer works. Work it!
Keep up the good work for our love one’s in the SHU
Teresa, I too have a son in the SHU at Pelican and have been aware of so many abusive acts towards the inmates in that facility and others. I don’t know how to find out how they (our sons) are doing. I pray for your son too.
When I learned that the hunger strike was to begin I was elated. It is one of the few potent tools and avenues of protest open to prisoners, and whenever I hear of one — whether in Pelican Bay or Luragancha in Peru — I see it as a real sign of consciousness and vitality. I’ve committed to joining in solidarity with the people involved by fasting every Monday, which I began on the 4th of July. I will encourage others here on the “outside” to join in. As co-chair of the Erie County Prisoners’ Rights Coalition, our group which has been picketing the jail in Downtown Buffalo, NY, for nearly 2 years, will strive to educate others (especially former prisoners) as to the ongoing action at Pelican Bay. Stay strong. There are many outside who stand with you, and hunger with you, for justice and freedom, and an end to the destructive policies going on where you are and in prisons and jails across America. Peace! Chuck Culhane
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Organizing a rally in support of the hunger strike in Chicago, Tuesday July 12 at 10:30am at the Cook County Courthouse at 26th & California.
Speakers/Endorsers list in formation includes:
Duffie Clark, Illinois Institute for Community Law
Mark Clemmons, Administrator with the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Englewood Political Task Force
Fred Hampton, Jr.; Chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee
Omega; C Number Prisoners Campaign
Dwight Taylor, Citizens Against Violence in Gary
Voice Of The Ex-offender (V.O.T.E.)
Event details on FaceBook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120518901372003
More details on my website as well: http://gregorykoger.com/2011/07/10/chicago-rally-in-support-of-the-pelican-bay-hunger-strike/
Revolutionary greetings. I’m an ex-prisoner, striking in solidarity with the striking prisoners until these common sense demands are met, encouraging the anarchist community out here in Chicago to stand in solidarity with the striking prisoners, with us at Cook County Prison on Tuesday (7/12/11) at noon. Hope to see you there!!
In Solidarity,
-Hybachi LeMar
Go Chicago!
Brattleboro, Vermont: Vermont Action for Political Prisoners will host a call-in 4-6 PM TODAY (Tuesday the 12th) to California representatives and CDCR officials. Email vermontaction@gmail.com for more information!
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Saw a banner over Highway 101 in Santa Barbara in support of the strike on my way to school on Thursday. I wasn’t able to take a decent picture from the bus, but someone(s) in the 805 sends their support.
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PHILLY EVENT TODAY!
RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH PRISONERS AT PELICAN BAY
4:30 – 6pm, MONDAY, JULY 18
West Side PHILADELPHIA CITY HALL
TELL GOV. JERRY BROWN, PRESIDENT OBAMA & THE PELICAN BAY PRISON OFFICIALS:
NEGOTIATE WITH THE HUNGER STRIKERS NOW!
MEET THE PRISONERS DEMANDS!
NO MORE DEATHS AT PELICANBAY!
END INHUMANE PRISON CONDITIONS
AT PELICAN BAY & NATIONWIDE
Rally co-sponsored by: International Action Center, Brandywine Peace Community, Questioning Incarceration, MOVE, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, PRAWN (Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network), Workers World Party
For more information in Philadelphia, contact: 215-724-1618; phillyIAC@peoplesmail.net
Philadelphia Protest in Solidarity with the Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers – Monday, July 18th, 4:30-6pm; 15th & Market Sts.
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Chicago Rally to Support Pelican Bay and CA Prison Hunger Strike
Friday, July 22 · 4:30pm
State of Illinois James R Thompson Center
100 W Randolph Street (downtown Chicago)
Chicago, Illinois
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126316364124701
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A rally has been planned in Santa Barbara for Saturday July 23rd, 3-5 pm. We’re meeting on the 500 block of State Street (East side of the street near the India Market), Santa Barbara CA.
I plan to attend this rally with my family. We live in Santa Maria and have a son who is in the SHU.
We would be so happy to have you there!
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Chicago Forum on the California Prison Hunger Strike & Torture in U.S. Prisons
Thursday, August 4 at 7pm
Grace Place, 637 S Dearborn Street, Chicago
Beginning on July 1, 2011, hundreds of prisoners in California’s Pelican Bay SHU (“Security Housing Unit”) began a historic hunger strike to demand an end to long-term solitary confinement, which constitutes torture under international law, and other demands to end the cruel and inhumane treatment they suffer under. The hunger strike rapidly spread to over 6,500 prisoners in over one-third of California’s prisons, making their heroic stand the most significant prisoner-led resistance in the U.S. in decades. After going without food for 20 days, the prisoners at Pelican Bay ended their hunger strike, with a call to people on the outside to continue the struggle against torture in U.S. prisons and to ensure their demands are met and that they are not retaliated against for their peaceful political protest. As of Friday, July 22, California prison administrators reported hundreds of prisoners at California’s Corcoran SHU remained on hunger strike, and families reported as of July 26 that prisoners at Corcoran continued to refuse food. See http://www.prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com for the prisoner’s demands and more details.
The use of long-term isolation pervades the U.S. prison system, with tens of thousands of prisoners held in conditions that violate international standards against torture. Join us for a discussion of the courageous stand taken by thousands of prisoners across California and the widespread, systematic use of long-term solitary confinement in U.S. prisons – including in Illinois, the effects of torture on its survivors and what people of conscience can do.
The courageous actions of the prisoners in California risking their lives on hunger strike have dragged the hidden humanitarian crisis that is the pervasive use of long-term isolation in U.S. prisons into the light – anyone concerned about human rights must be part of this discussion.
Panelists include:
Dr. Antonio Martinez, a psychologist with the Institute for Survivors of Human Rights Abuses and co-founder of the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture. Dr. Martinez has lectured about the trauma and consequences of torture and abuse throughout the world.
Alan Mills, Legal Director of the Uptown People’s Law Center. The People’s Law Center has has been engaged in litigation to change conditions at Tamms, Illinois supermax prison, since the day it opened.
Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. He is the author of (among other books) Gauguin’s Skirt (1997) and The Abu Ghraib Effect (2007). He is also a prison reform activist with Tamms Year Ten, and regularly publishes his criticisms of the “penal state” in The Chicago Sun Times and Monthly Review. Prof. Eisenman is currently completing a book entitled Meat Modernism concerned with the image of animals in Western Art from the mid 18th Century until today.
Moderated by Gregory Koger, social justice activist who as a youth spent over six years straight in solitary confinement in prison in Illinois.
*Sponsors/Endorsers list in formation
A group of us in Chicago are organizing a demonstration on August 23rd for the day of action. Please get in touch with me at randijoneshensley@gmail.com if you are interested in organizing the demo. We would love to collaborate with others on this event to get as many voices of solidarity out as possible!
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Dear friends and comrades,
Respects and heartfelt thanks for all you are doing. I’m 75 now and
it’s been a long time since I was down. But may I please share a couple of thoughts with you?
Hard core hunger strikers willing to die are too important for the long-term struggle to sacrifice themselves at the onset of the fight.
Long live Bobby Sands and the other IRA brothers that starved themselves to death in a British prison, but such iron resolve and determination might have accomplished even more over in the cause of Ireland had they lived to lead and fight on.
During the farm workers fight, Caesar Chavez fasted on a few occasions, once almost to death. He only relented when Bobby Kennedy and others promised to come to Delano. Many believe this long fast compromised his health, that he never fully recovered, and was a cause of his premature death. It’s possible otherwise that Chavez would still be alive and continuing the fight for the exploited and oppressed.
As the fight against the inhumane prison conditions go forward (if this
was a war, the CDC would be guilty of war crimes), all tactics should be
considered. Like I said, it’s been awhile for me, but coming in from a
trade union background I discovered immediately that the system was
dependent on prisoner labor for most everything to function. Very little got done unless prisoners did it.
Clearly only a small hard-core group of the most militant and dedicated will fast for an extended period of time, but tens of thousands of prisoners in state prisons and county jails might join A Prisoner’s General Strike in solidarity. And not just in California, but nation-wide and beyond to raise the struggle another level both on the inside and outside. Bet that might get Brown’s attention and raise the struggle to another level, both inside and outside.
Whatever the tactics and strategy going forward, I stand with you AS
LONG AS IT TAKES.
Respectfully from California,
-james
belated thanx for insightful analysis. last night we did an informational piece at Burning Books, local radical bookstore, and talked and shared info on the strike before, now, and in futuro, and our chain-fast in Buffalo continuing, need to keep the inside/outside connections going. again, thanks james.
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I want to. Support this movement and attent the events ,i care about my brother, suffering in solitary confinement my phone us 213 273 48 60 ,call. Me
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Another hunger strike. My own. In a fight for justice.
Please, I need driving directions from San Rafael to Oakland: Mosswood Park, 3612 Webster Street, Oakland, CA.
I am traveling from overseas, hopefully visiting my husband in S.Q. the next weekend and I would like to join the social gathering in Oakland on Sat. Oct 8th. Thank you !
I am in solidarity with he men & women on hunger strike, in the name of humanity !
Bridget
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This is @nthony from So. Chicago ABC Zine Distro. We are getting information to as many people as possible and spreading the terrific work of several of these brilliant and courageous strikers. They’re in there for us and we need to be out here for them!
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I am so proud of the hunger strikers! This scares law enforcement because they are used to business as usual- infighting amoung the different races and gangs in prison, now they are united for a righteous cause-The 5 Core Demands must be looked at! Where is the Redemption in criminal justice? Who are the real criminals? I served 10 years in California’s level 4 prisons for drug charges and turned my life around writing novels- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056C0LW4
Race Riot, A Shocking, Inside Look at Prison Life (Prison Killers- Book 1)
Upon Release From Prison: A True Crime Story of Redemption (Roll Call)
GOVERNMENT IS THE POBLEM BY NOT STANDING BY THE CONSTITUTION, THEY TAKE BRIBES / CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND THEY EITHER GIVE HUGE BAILOUTS OR THEY GRANT RETRO ACTIVE IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION,
SBX211 Retro Active Immunity given to California judges for openly taking bribes. Judges are employees of the state they receive their pay and benefits from the state. The Los Angeles Superior court judges are currently receiving an additional $57.688,00 from the county of Los Angeles. there is no bigger user of the court than L.A. County.(A party to the case and has a financial interest in most cases in the courts) Those payments were found to be unconstitutional / illegal in Sturgeon vs L.A. County. After that decision the judges paid a lobbyist to pass SBX211 ( RETRO ACTIVE IMMUNITY )
SBX211 does not restore due process
SBX211 violates Article 1 section 9
SBX211 violates the 14th amendment (no equal protections)
SBX211 violate checks and balances between legislative and Judicial powers.
Judges do not disclose the county payments at the onset of any trial where the county is either a party to the case or has a financial interest. (Judges violate Judicial codes of ethics)
Judges refuse to recuse themselves when requested under CCP170
Judges find themselves unbiased and then file an order striking statement.
In the year of 2010 alone $57,688.00 per year per judge X 460 judges = $26,709.544.00 paid to judges from L.A. County from tax payer money to only have the judges rule against the tax payer in favor of L.A. County or the County’s interest. THE BRIBES WORK.
HISTORY OF RETRO ACTIVE IMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES
1. given for unconstitutional use of torture
2. given for illegal merger of banks (we can see the effects of that now)
3. given to telecom company for illegal wire taps. (Fisa bill that led to the patriot act)
4. SBX211 given to Judges for taking bribes.
SBX211 is evidence of conspiracy of the California legislative branch of government to cover up the multiple felony’s committed by the Judicial branch of government. By an act of Legislation, California’s judicial branch has admitted to be corrupt.
SECTION FROM SBX211
This bill would provide that no governmental entity, or officer or employee of a governmental entity, shall incur any liability or be subject to prosecution or disciplinary action because of benefits provided to a judge under the official action of a governmental entity prior to the effective date of this bill on the ground that those benefits were not authorized under law.
MOTION TO VOID ALL ORDERS BASED ON FRAUD ON THE COURT. A VOID ORDER IS VOID AT ALL TIMES, A VOID CAN NOT BE MADE VALID BY ANOTHER JUDGE, CAN NOT BE MADE VALID THOUGH THE PASSAGE OF TIME, A VOID ORDER IS SIMPLY VOID.
Who are the real criminals? Politicians that say whatever needs to be said to get the vote, and money for polls, donors, etc, Leaders of the free world-or actually leaders of the incarcerated! http://www.lockdownpublishing.com