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DESCRIPTION:EMERGENCY CALL! JOIN US IN STOPPING TORTURE IN U.S. PRISONS!  Billy 'Guero' 
 Sell, a hunger striker at Corcoran State Prison, died July 22.\n\nTens of 
 thousands of people imprisoned in the US are being subjected to torturous, 
 inhumane conditions.  Many are:\n•   Held in long term solitary 
 confinement; locked in tiny, windowless, sometimes sound proof, cells;  cut 
 off from fresh air and sunlight for 22-24 hours every day and given small 
 portions of food that lack basic nutritional requirements.\n•   Denied 
 human contact and violently taken from their cells for petty 
 violations.\n•   Put in solitary arbitrarily, often because of 
 accusations for being members of prison gangs based on dubious evidence, 
 with no way to challenge the decisions of prison authorities to place them 
 in solitary.\n\nMany are forced to endure these conditions for months, 
 years and even decades!  Mental anguish and trauma often results from being 
 confined under these conditions.  Locking people down like this amounts to 
 trying to strip them of their humanity.  These conditions fit the 
 international definition of torture!  This is unjust, illegitimate and 
 profoundly immoral. WE MUST JOIN IN AN EFFORT TO STOP IT, NOW!\n\nPeople 
 imprisoned at Pelican Bay and other prisons in California launched a 
 nationwide Hunger Strike on July 8, 2013.  Prisoners at Pelican Bay also 
 issued a call for unity among people from different racial groups, inside 
 and outside the prisons.  People who are locked down in segregation units 
 of this society’s prisons, condemned as the “worst of the worst,” are 
 standing up against injustice, asserting their humanity in the process.  We 
 must have the humanity to hear their call, and answer it with powerful 
 support!\n\nA nationwide and worldwide struggle needs to be built NOW to 
 bring an end to this widespread torture and to support the prisoners who 
 have put their lives on the line.\n\nTo the Government: We Demand an 
 Immediate End to the Torture and Inhumanity of Prison House America – 
 Immediately Disband All Torture Chambers.  Meet the Demands of Those You 
 Have Locked Down In Your Prisons!\n\nTo People in this Country and Around 
 the World: We Cannot Accept, and We Should Not Tolerate This Torture.  Join 
 the Struggle to End Torture in Prisons Now!\n\nTo Those Standing Up in 
 Resistance Inside The Prisons: WE SUPPORT YOUR CALL FOR UNITY IN THIS 
 FIGHT, AND WE WILL HAVE YOUR BACKS!\n- See more at: 
 http://www.stopmassincarceration.net/content/emergency-call-stop-torture-us-prisons#sthash.HTgeahGX.dpuf\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/05/18741028.php
SUMMARY:Oakland: In Solidarity to Mark the 30th Day of Hunger Strike
LOCATION:Oscar Grant Plaza 14th & Broadway, Oakland 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/05/18741028.php
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