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DESCRIPTION:Following the Prisoners’ hunger strikes in California and in Palestine, a 
 panel of activists and doctors from around the world discuss community 
 responses to mass incarceration, solitary confinement and torture. 
 \n\nAccompanied by an exhibition about the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger 
 strikes.\n\nPanelists:\n\nDr. Ruchama Marton is the founder and president 
 of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and a practicing psychiatrist in 
 Israel. Contributing editor of Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and 
 the Case of Israel, Ruchama has been a leading voice in Israel against 
 torture, administrative detention, solitary confinement and doctors’ 
 complicity.\n\nManuel La Fontaine is an organizer for All of Us or None, a 
 project of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children. Manuel incorporates 
 his experience inside California prisons with his organizing efforts on the 
 streets to shed light on inhumane prison conditions and the resistance both 
 inside and outside. \n\nDr. Allam Jarrar is a physician specialized in 
 rehabilitation medicine and one of the leaders of the Palestinian Medical 
 Relief Society, the largest non-governmental organization providing health 
 care to people of the Palestinian occupied territory. \n\nDr. Terry Kupers 
 is a psychiatrist and an expert witness in class action lawsuits about 
 prison conditions in the U.S. He was a member of the prisoners’ mediation 
 team during the hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison, a contributing 
 editor of Correctional Mental Health Report and author of Prison Madness: 
 The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It. 
 \n\nSponsored by: American Friends Service Committee,  Jewish Voice for 
 Peace, Global Exchange, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, San 
 Francisco Friends Meeting, Middle East Children’s Alliance, CODEPINK 
 Women for Peace, Bay Area Women in Black, Free Palestine Movement, 
 Interfaith Peace-Builders, International Solidarity Movement - Northern 
 California, Break the Silence Media and Art Project, Arab Resource and 
 Organizing Center\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/15/18723841.php
SUMMARY:Communities Behind Bars: From Palestine to Pelican Bay
LOCATION:San Francisco Friends Meetinghouse\n65 Ninth Street (btw Market and 
 Mission), SF\n(near Civic Center BART station)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/15/18723841.php
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