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DESCRIPTION:ON THE DAY OF THE PRISONERS START THEIR HUNGER STRIKE\nSTAND WITH THEM! 
 SPEAK-OUT AT 5PM, MARCH AT 6PM\n\nPrisoners in the Pelican Bay State Prison 
 SHU, the so-called “worst of the worst”, are standing up on July 1st. 
 This is the Security Housing Unit (SHU), a supermax control facility where 
 prisoners are subjected to sensory deprivation, isolation and brutality. 
 The prisoners there have called a hunger strike to achieve five core 
 dem...ands (see back).\n\nMany prisoners in the Pelican Bay SHU, and their 
 lawyers, have bravely fought to expose the torture that is going on. They 
 have written letters and articles, and filed lawsuits. Against heavy 
 repression and censorship they have struggled to connect with people on the 
 outside who are fighting for the rights of prisoners.\n\nThe responsibility 
 to stand shoulder to shoulder with our sisters and brothers locked up by 
 this system is on us. Crimes against the very humanity of people are being 
 carried out every single day at Pelican Bay Prison—and in other prisons 
 all over the USA. This is an intolerable outrage. And a mass and determined 
 movement outside the walls is urgently needed to expose and demand an end 
 to these high-tech torture chambers.\n\n-Revolution Club, Bay Area\n\n“It 
 is up to us: to wake up…to shake off the ways they put on us, the ways 
 they have us thinking so they can keep us down and trapped in the same old 
 rat-race…to rise up, as conscious Emancipators of Humanity. The days when 
 this system can just keep on doing what it does to people, here and all 
 over the world…when people are not inspired and organized to stand up 
 against these outrages and to build up the strength to put an end to this 
 madness…those days must be GONE. And they CAN be.”\n\nPrisoners in the 
 Pelican Bay State Prison SHU recently released a “Final Notice: PBSP SHU 
 D-Corridor Hunger Strike”. This notice calls for a hunger strike, to 
 start on July 1, 2011, and includes five core demands, which in summary 
 are:\n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n1. 
 End “group punishment” where an individual prisoner breaks a rule and 
 prison officials punish a whole group of prisoners of the same race.\n\n2. 
 Abolish “debriefing” and modify active/inactive gang status criteria. 
 False and/or highly questionable “evidence” is used to accuse prisoners 
 of being active/inactive members of prison gangs who are then sent to the 
 SHU where they are subjected to long-term isolation and torturous 
 conditions. One of the only ways these prisoners can get out the SHU is if 
 they “debrief”—that is, give prison officials information on gang 
 activity.\n\n3. Comply with recommendations from a 2006 U.S. commission to 
 “make segregation a last resort” and “end conditions of 
 isolation.”\n\n4. Provide Adequate Food. Prisoners report unsanitary 
 conditions and small quantities of food. They want adequate food, wholesome 
 nutritional meals including special diet meals and an end to the use of 
 food as a way to punish prisoners in the SHU.\n\n5. Expand and provide 
 constructive programs and privileges for indefinite SHU inmates—including 
 the opportunity to “engage in self-help treatment, education, religious 
 and other productive activities...” which are routinely denied. Demands 
 include one phone call per week, one photo per year, 2 packages a year, 
 more visiting time, permission to have wall calendars, and sweat suits and 
 watch caps (warm clothing is often denied even though cells and the 
 exercise cage can be bitterly cold).\n\n\nConnect prisoners you know with 
 and donate to REVOLUTION newspaper and to the Prisoners Revolutionary 
 Literature Fund. Write to them and go to www.prlf.org and www.revcom.us. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/29/18683273.php
SUMMARY:Stand with the Pelican Bay hunger strikers: Speak-out and March!
LOCATION:71st. Ave and International in East Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/29/18683273.php
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