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Feb 3rd Rally & Press Conference to Support Hunger Strike in Riverside County Jail

Posted on February 2, 2017 by prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity

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On July 8th 2013, more than 30,000 California prisoners initiated an indefinite hunger strike in response to the CDCR’s failure to meet their 5 Core Demands. 60 days and 1 death later, strikers suspended the strike, and California legislators committed to hold public hearings.
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Towards Liberation! After 40 days, Palestinians suspend mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons - UPDATE: New details released on agreement to suspend Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike Read here http://samidoun.net/2017/05/breaking-palestinian-prisoners-suspend-hunger-strike-after-40-days-of-struggle/ May 26, 2017 — After 40 days of hunger strike, Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike and announced that they have achieved victory in their humanitarian demands, following 20 hours of negotiations between the strikers’ leadership and Israeli occupation prison […]

PRISONERS UNITED of Silicon Valley Thank Each Other & Supporters for a Largely Successful Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement - Read full article in SF Bay View (includes video from a TV interview with hunger striker inside the jail) January 25, 2017 by Mary Ratcliff In late September, prisoners in the Santa Clara County jails who are part of what they then called the Prisoners’ Human Rights Movement sent a letter to Sheriff Laurie Smith […]

PRISONERS UNITED OF SILICON VALLEY Newsletter #1 - Link to full newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/gwhq2hp PRISONERS UNITED OF SILICON VALLEY ▼ December 22, 2016 – Newsletter 1 – LETTER OF APPRECIATION – Greetings and solidarity to each other and all who participated in our initial Hunger Strike to end the arbitrary use of solitary confinement and inhumane treatment in Santa Clara County Jails. Before we […]

Report back from Prisoner Representatives’ first monitoring meeting with CDCR - published by the Center for Constitutional Rights May 23, 2016 By Todd Ashker Last September, in Ashker v. Governor of California, California prisoners reached an historic settlement agreement with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that is bringing an end to indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons. The Settlement Agreement includes hard-won (and […]

PHOTOS and REPORTBACKS from Rally Against the Torture of Prisoners - On February 1, 2016, people from all over California gathered in Sacramento at the headquarters of the CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCr) to demand an end to the dangerous and deliberate sleep deprivation being inflicted on the people in solitary in Pelican Bay State Prison SHU, under the guise of “welfare checks”. Before […]

Historic settlement to end CA indefinite solitary confinement finalized in court - For Immediate Release – Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Press Contact: Mohamed Shehk – 408.910.2618 – mohamed@criticalresistance.org | Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition OAKLAND – On Tuesday, Federal Judge Claudia Wilken approved the final agreement to end indefinite solitary confinement in California calling it humane, innovative and fair. Prisoners celebrated the settlement agreement, whose terms were agreed on last September, […]

Take Action Against Ongoing Sleep Deprivation Torture! EMERGENCY PROTEST Photos Included - People in solitary confinement have been loudly awakened by guards every 30 minutes 24/7 since the night of August 2nd! Please help stop this sleep deprivation torture. On Nov 30th, the 119th day of interrupted sleep 48 times a day, about 20 people took part in an EMERGENCY PROTEST at CDCr headquarters in Sacramento to […]

Summary of Settlement Terms in Ashker v. Brown (Governor of California) - from Center for Constitutional Rights, outlined summary is below background info When Ashker v. Brown (Governor of California) was filed as a class action in 2012, California held thousands of prisoners in solitary confinement, in Security Housing Units (SHU). Hundreds of these prisoners had been isolated for decades. They spent nearly 24-hours-per-day in cramped cells, […]

Report and Photos from 1st Monthly Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement, March 23 - [This article was first published March 28, 2015 in the San Francisco Bay View ] Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC) began March 23, 2015. Actions were held in California from San Diego to Arcata (Arcata-Eureka, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Cruz) and Philadelphia, Penn. Activists in more locations will […]

The Hunger Strike One Year Later - To celebrate the movement: The California prisoner hunger strike one year later “This is the third anniversary since we began using peaceful actions collectively to push for an end to the use of long-term solitary confinement. If we look back and remember before July 2011, we prisoners were alone, isolated, not being heard. We wrote […]

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