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Occupy San Quentin - Voices from Inside the Prison Industrial Complex

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OCCUPY SAN QUENTIN - VOICES FROM INSIDE THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

The following soundbites are only a sampling of what people shared when more than 700 gathered in front of San Quentin on February 20, 2012. For a full, unedited video account of the day, watch http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20586595

For text versions of some of these messages, as well as many others, and reports from coordinated actions elsewhere that day, including the solidarity hunger strike by prisoners in Ohio, please see http://occupy4prisoners.org/

INSIDE, OUTSIDE - WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME SIDE!

All audio from Making Contact (http://www.radioproject.org/)
except * from Bella Eiko video stream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bellaeiko)

20 clips - Total combined time 82 minutes
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From INSIDE - Leonard Peltier (message read by Morning Star Gali) (4:08 minutes)*

http://www.leonardpeltier.net/
http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
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From INSIDE - Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers (message read by Marie, sister of striker) (4:53 minutes)

http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
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From INSIDE - Veronica Hernandez, youth tried as adult, SF County Jail (message read by Tahti Session) (2:19 minutes)
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From INSIDE - William Noguera, on San Quentin Death Row (message read by Chris, OO/TAC) (2:10 minutes)

http://www.ifuc.org/noguera.html
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From INSIDE - Kevin Cooper, on San Quentin Death Row (message read by Crystal) (2:49 minutes)

http://www.savekevincooper.org/
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From INSIDE - Mumia Abu Jamal (recorded message from general population) (3:19 minutes)

http://www.laboractionmumia.org/
http://www.freemumia.com/
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OUTSIDE - Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourd, former hostages in Iran (12:27 minutes)

http://freethehikers.org/
§OUTSIDE - Kelly, former Pelican Bay hunger striker
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OUTSIDE - Kelly, former Pelican Bay hunger striker (3:14 minutes)

http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
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OUTSIDE - Daniel Hazen, survivor of prison and psychiatric incarceration, with letters from inside (3:58 minutes)

http://psychrights.org/
http://www.ushrnetwork.org/
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OUTSIDE - Robert King of the Angola 3 (message read by Ali, OO) (2:06 minutes)

http://www.angola3.org/
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From INSIDE - Alisha Coleman, in SF County Jail (poem read by Tahti Session) (2:05 minutes)

http://www.aclunc.org/news/press_releases/asset_upload_file913_10784.pdf
§OUTSIDE - Deirdre Wilson and Tahti Session
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OUTSIDE - Deirdre Wilson, who lost her children while incarcerated, and Tahti Session, formerly in solitary in juvenile prison (7 minutes)

http://www.womenprisoners.org/fire/000885.html

http://www.allofusornone.org/
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From INSIDE - Jane Dorotik, at CIW, Chino (message read by Diana) (2:13 minutes)

http://jnow.org/
http://truthinjustice.org/dorotik.htm
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From INSIDE - Steve Champion, now Adisa Kamara, on San Quentin Death Row (message read by Jack Bryson) (3:05 minutes)

http://ccadp.org/stevechampion.htm
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OUTSIDE - Sundiata Tate and Bato Talamantez of the San Quentin 6 (10:49 minutes)

http://www.hugopinell.org/
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/San_Quentin_Six
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From INSIDE - December 9th Prisoners Movement of Hunger Strikers in Georgia (message read by Elaine Brown) (3:11 minutes)

http://www.elainebrown.org/Free_Little_B_.html
http://www.correntewire.com/ga_inmates_stage_one_day_peaceful_prison_strike_authorities_react_violence
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From INSIDE - Oscar Lopez Rivera, Puerto Rican political prisoner, and Gerardo Hernandez of the Cuban 5 (messages read by Claude Marks) (2:56 minutes)

http://www.prolibertadweb.com/id40.html
http://www.libertadparaoscar.org/

http://www.freethefive.org/
http://www.thecuban5.org/
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From INSIDE - Ramon Labanino Salazar of the Cuban 5 (message read by Gloria La Riva) (1:39 minutes)

http://www.freethefive.org/
http://www.thecuban5.org/
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From INSIDE - Occupy Oakland prisoners Truth, Khali, and Momo (update from Laleh, OO Anti-Repression Committee) (5:27 minutes)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Occupy-Oaklanders-in-Jail/286805291386058?v=info
http://occupyoakland.org/
§INSIDE - Lynne Stewart (message read by Carole)
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From INSIDE - Lynne Stewart (message read by Carole) (1:38 minutes)*

http://lynnestewart.org/
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