The New Afrikan Independence Movement has lost a very important, dedicated, and tireless freedom fighter. He happened to be one of my oldest friends in the struggle. Very few individuals do you go to junior high and high school with in the same neighborhood, become friends, and join the same …
The following has gone out over the Prisoner Hungerstrike Solidarity Coalition’s Emergency Response Network. Please take a moment to make a call or send an email, to protest the retaliation being directed at the prisoner representatives: Greetings to all Pledge signers, Thank you for your support of the hunger strikers. …
Today marks day nine of our peaceful protest hunger strike/work strike. We have heard on the news that people are being rehoused in an effort to isolate people further! The whole purpose of what we are doing is to protest isolation and as a result this concentration kamp reacts by …
As the largest hunger strike in North American history nears its first week, supporters in California are preparing today to rally outside of Corcoran State Prison. For those of us further afield, this is the time for solidarity actions – vigils, pickets, rallies, civil disobedience, disturbances … if you can …
Greetings to our supporters and all people of conscience. We are grateful for your support of our peaceful protest against the state-sanctioned torture that happens not only here at Pelican Bay but in prisons everywhere. We have taken up this hunger strike and work stoppage, which has included 30,000 prisoners …
News has come in that prisoners at Oregon’s Orwellian Snake River Behavior Modification Unit have organized to join the hunger strikes that commenced today in California (and perhaps elsewhere too). Snake River is Oregon’s solitary isolation unit. While there are differences from Pelican Bay SHU, the end goal is the …
This statement was created by Members of The Prison Birth Project: As Prisoners across the country prepare to strike, our hearts and thoughts are with them. As incarcerated women we know first hand many of the abuses the strikers face on a daily basis—as well as many of the repercussions …
Today me and thousands of other prisoners in California and beyond have begun our peaceful protest against the inhumane conditions that we have been living under for so many years. This hunger/work strike is an act of desperation that we have chosen where our health is put on the line …
The Free Maroon Philly Collective supports the prisoners at Pelican Bay who have resumed a hunger strike after the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation have failed to comply with prisoners’ demands. As a collective fighting for freedom and an end to the violence of mass incarceration, we salute the …
To understand what may be about to occur in prisons across the united states – a potential hunger and work strike of unprecedented scope – it is necessary to look back two years, to 2011. In California, 2011 witnessed one of the most impressive prison struggles in recent memory. For …