News (most recent 99)
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News from the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition:
- From N.C.T.T. at Corcoran SHU to the Occupy Movement
- Feb. 20th: Occupy National Day in Support of Prisoners!
- Prisoners at Cocoran Continue Hunger Strike, Concerns Rise Over Health Conditions
- A Call for Every CA Prisoner: 150,000 Calls on the CA Legislature Supporting the Hunger Strike
- Status of CDCR’s New Regulations
- Prisoners at Corcoran Administrative Segregation Unit Challenge the CDCR & Advance Prisoners’ Struggle
- Update from the Pelican Bay Short Corridor
- Suicided
- Hozel Blanchard Presente!: Open Funeral Service in Oakland, CA
- Three Prisoners Die in Hunger Strike Related Incidents: CDCR Withholds Information from Family Members, Fails to Report Deaths
Key Documents
Agit Prop
Letters from Prisoners
Recent News
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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!
