Calendar of Events in Solidarity with California Prisoners' Hunger Strike
California - Eureka
July 8: on the lawn in front of Humboldt County Courthouse. 825 Fifth Street Eureka, CA; 5pm. Wear orange to show support for the striking prisoners. For more information: barnonearcata@gmail.com
California - Los Angeles
Saturday, July 9th 11:00-1:00pm: Noise Demo in front of Men’s Central Jail: 441 Bauchet Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Please come out to support!! Contact is 323-978-3322.
California - Oakland
Friday July 8th, 6pm sharp: March & Demonstration. Meet at intersection of Broadway & Telegraph in downtown Oakland. Click here for more info.
California - San Francisco
July 9: Solidarity Rally in San Francisco, from 11am-1pm @ UN Plaza (Civic Center Bart). Contact: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity@gmail.com
New York - Harlem
July 9: Solidarity Picket; 1pm-2pm Harlem State Office Building (corner 125th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., Harlem, NYC). Contact nyc@nodeathpenalty.org about NYC action and to endorse.
New York - Manhattan
Friday, July 8th – 8pm: Noise Demo in Solidarity with Pelican Bay Prison Hunger Strikers. Metropolitan Correction Center – Manhattan-150 Park Row (J to Chambers St, 4,5,6 to City Hall). Contact New York City Anti-Racist Action for more info: antiracistactionnyc@gmail.com
Ohio - Cleveland
Sat., July 9, 12:00 noon: Rally & informational leafleting in support of the Pelican Bay hunger strikers. At Market Square, across from the West Side Market, W. 25th St. and Lorain Ave.
For a more up to date and extensive list of activities in the u.s., see http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com
Canada
Montreal
July 8, 15, and subsequent Fridays:12 - 1.30 pm Picket at the American Consulate. 1155, rue Saint-Alexandre corner René Levesque, metro Place des Arts.
July 16: 1 pm Contractor Crawl, Meet at Dorchester Square, metro Peel to discover some of Montreal's prison contractors
For a more extensive and up to date list of activities in canada, see http://contrelesprisons.blogspot.com
CLICK HERE TO VIEW INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR OF SOLIDARITY EVENTS
News from the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition:
- 25 Ohio Super Max Prisoners Start a Hunger Strike
- “The SHU [Security Housing Unit] is abosolutely a form of torture…”
- Thursday (4/26): Urgent Mobilization to Sacramento!
- Testimony of Validation Practice
- Contraband Watch Proliferates
- CDCR Proposed Changes to Conditions of Solitary Confinement March 2012: Response from California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement
- Bay Area: Join Us for a free event with the Angola 3 to Support the Hunger Strike, Friday (April 6th)
- CSP – Corcoran Officials Retaliate Against Hunger Strikers in Administrative Segregation Unit (ASU) 1
- Short Corridor Collective rejects CDCR proposal & presents counter-proposal
- THE NEW BOSS LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE OLD BOSS
Key Documents
Agit Prop
Letters from Prisoners
Recent News
this will only show the last ten news items, for older items click here.
Support Organizations
Audio
Off The Hour, CKUT 90.3FM, interviews Ed Mead, June 9, 2011
Sojourner Truth Radio, Update on Pelican Bay Hungerstrike, July 6, 2011
July 7 Interview with Canadian prisoner Peter Collins about the California hunger strike, and isolation-imprisonment in CanadaPeter Collins has been incarcerated some 28 years. He is an artist, creating artworks from cartoons to paintings of wildlife to portraits, of which his latest portrait, that of Ashley Smith* the young woman who died in prison while guards watched on and did nothing, was confiscated by prison authorities and written up as a charge of Contraband. Peter is also an activist behind the walls and in 2008 he won the Canadian Award for Action which was given jointly by The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Human Rights Watch. He is also a prolific writer and has been published in various magazines and blogs and he’s also a regular radio commentator reporting on prisoners’ struggles, the realities of Canada’s law and order agenda and the abuses that prisoners are subjected to in prisons in Canada. It is said by his outside supporters that its because of his activism that the Correctional Service of Canada doubly punishes him, by not supporting him for parole and writing up bogus ‘contraband reports,’ setting up a censorship board for his artwork at the Bath prison, where he is incarcerated and other various forms of oppression. In this interview Peter is asked about his thoughts on the hunger strike which began with the prisoners in the SHU of the Pelican Bay State Prison in California, and his own reflections of what a SHU is like, having been incarcerated in one before in the province of Quebec. (*The inquiry into the death of Ashley Smith is still going on.)
Solidarity Words & Action
Background Material
Outside support work for the July 1st hunger strike is being coordinated by the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) Coalition, based in the Bay Area and made up of grassroots organizations committed to amplifying the voices of and supporting the prisoners at Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) in their hunger strike to end tortuous conditions. Support is crucial; to get involved check out prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com or telephone 510-444-0484.
A blog has been produced my comrades in Montreal with a focus on support activities in canada: http://www.contrelesprisons.blogspot.com/
i also have a page up with as complete a calendar of solidarity events as i have been able to manage.
The Kersplebedeb website is in support of the goals of the hungerstriking prisoners, and of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, but is a completely separate project, and PHSS and the prisoners in question are in no way responsible for or necessarily in agreement with anything here. If you see any links or resources you think would belong on this page, please get in touch!
