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DESCRIPTION:Pelican Bay SHU Struggle Continues!\n\nThe hunger strike among California 
 prisoners, consigned to perpetual solitary confinement in Security Housing 
 Units (SHU), was suspended July 20th. The conditions that drove many 
 prisoners to severely endanger their health by not eating for three weeks 
 persists. Prisoners declared there will be renewed action unless promised 
 reforms are made soon.\n\nThe strike drew widespread attention to the 
 torturous isolation from which SHU prisoners have no exit, caught in a hell 
 in which there is no way to overcome their "validation" as a "gang member". 
 Prolonged isolation and sensory deprivation forced on prisoners are in fact 
 internationally recognized as torture. Dorsey Nunn, an ex-prisoner who 
 testified before a specially called legislative hearing on the Pelican Bay 
 SHU, caught essence of the multi-racial, non-violent strike when he said 
 prisoners were demanding to be "validated" as human beings. Urszula 
 Wislanka, who visited several hunger strikers including some of the strike 
 representatives, will report on the strike and the meaning the prisoners 
 and supporters see in their actions.\n\nUrszula Wislanka is a 
 Marxist-Humanist philosopher and activist, who has been active with the 
 California Coalition for Women Prisoners for 15 years and is now their 
 representative at the Pelican Bay SHU Hunger Strike Support 
 Coalition.\n\nSunday, September 18, at 6:30 pm, at the Niebyl-Proctor 
 Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Ca. Sponsored by Bay Area News and 
 Letters Committee \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/02/18689344.php
SUMMARY:Pelican Bay SHU Struggle Continues!
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library, \n6501 Telegraph Ave., \nOakland, Ca.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/02/18689344.php
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