It is said that history repeats itself. There is some truth to be found within this statement. All existing matter, be it organic or inorganic, and social phenomenon alike, have a history of endless development, a process of becoming, being, and passing away and into something qualitatively new altogether. But …
Michelle Alexander is the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, an essential work exposing the white supremacist core at the heart of the u.s. drug war and its system of mass incarceration. November 25, 2013 To the Hunger Strikers in California’s Prisons: I …
āIt was over 20 years ago that the book Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member exploded on the scene and gave us all a front row seat to explore the genocidal brutality of the neo-colonial world of gangbanging. A world that exists at the expense of New Afrikan …
Greetings of Solidarity and Respect! The PBSP-SHU, Short Corridor Collective Representatives hereby serve notice upon all concerned parties of interest that after nine weeks we have collectively decided to suspend our third hunger strike action on September 5, 2013. To be clear, our Peaceful Protest of Resistance to our continuous …
Editorial by Ed Mead āIf we give in the terrorists win.ā ThatĀ is essentially what Secretary Beard told theĀ mediation team. He said there will be noĀ negotiations with prisoners or their outsideĀ representatives. I write this on August 4th,Ā just four days before the hunger strike hasĀ gone on for a full month. Things may …
We are now approaching the end of the second month of the California prisoners’ hunger strike. So far there has been one death, in a strike that was supported by 30,000 participants at its beginning, and still remains strong with several dozen who have gone eight weeks without food, risking …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE–AUGUST 1, 2013 Press Contact: Isaac OntiverosPrisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity CoalitionPh: 510.444.0484 Oakland–California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano issued a statement today urgingĀ the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to meetĀ with prisoner hunger strike mediators and work toward meeting the prisoners’Ā demands. Prisoners throughout California have been on hunger strike …
The above image is a self-portrait of Billy “Guero” Sell, hunger striker who died at Corcoran state prison on July 22, 2013. CDCR attempted to cover this up, not even informing prisoner advocates it met with in the following days that a death had occurred. When outside supporters were informed …
Press Contact: Isaac OntiverosPrisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity CoalitionPh: 510 517 6612 Oakand–Mediators working on behalf of hunger striking prisoners haveĀ received disturbing news that Billy Sell, known to his friends as Guero,Ā died while on strike at Corcoran State Prison Security Housing Unit (SHU)Ā on Monday, July 22. His death is being ruled …
Panel Discussion: The California Prisoner Hunger Strike & Ending Long-term Solitary Confinement on 7-17-13 at Revolution Books in Berkeley, CA Andres Thomas Conteris, CloseGitmo.net – Stop U.S. Torture in Gitmo and U.S. Prisons; Director, Program of the Americans of Nonviolence International — recently interviewed hunger strikers in Pelican Bay SHU …