I am fasting in Solidarity with Pelican Bay Prisoners: Prisoners in California Continue Hunger Strike v. Torture of Solitary Confinement affecting 80,000 U.S. prisoners Protests today in solidarity. See NYC For updates and news coverage of the hunger strike, see stopmassincarceration.net and prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition notified us that the leaders of the hunger strike have been singled out for harsh treatment, sent into punitive isolations cells: “At least 14 prisoners being held in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California’s notorious Pelican Bay State Prison were forcibly removed from their cells and placed in more punitive isolation late last week, according to lawyers who visited their clients on Tuesday. “‘They have been singled out for their participation in the ongoing California prisoner hunger strike and targeted because they are outspoken prisoner activists,’ according to Kamau Walton of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition. The 14 were placed in Administrative Segregation last Thursday. “This is a clear attack against a non-violent protest,” says Anne Weills, attorney for several hunger strikers. “It is pathetic that in response to prisoners’ calls for basic human and civil rights, the CDCR responds by violating those rights.” Weills also notes that all 14 prisoners retaliated against had signed onto last summer’s Agreement to End Hostilities Among Racial Groups–a document issued from the Pelican Bay SHU, urging prisoners to resolve conflicts peacefully amongst themselves and to work to end wider violence in the prison system. The CDCR has refused to distribute the Agreement among prisoners.” prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress/
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 21:52:25 +0000
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