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DESCRIPTION:On Saturday, August 24th at 5pm join us at Oscar Grant Plaza to march in 
 solidarity with the California prisoners on the 48th day of their hunger 
 strike. As they organize behind the closed doors of solitary, let our 
 support ring loudly through the streets. Let us voice the demands of the 
 prisoners and demand justice for Guero, the first prisoner to die 
 participating in the hunger strike (may he rest in peace.)\n\nSaturday 
 August 24th\n5pm Rally at Oscar Grant Plaza (14th and Broadway) and 5:30pm 
 March. Come ready to make some noise!!\n\nThe five core demands of striking 
 prisoners:\n1. End Group Punishment & Administrative Abuse – This is in 
 response to PBSP’s application of “group punishment” as a means to 
 address individual inmates rule violations. This includes the 
 administration’s abusive, pretextual use of “safety and concern” to 
 justify what are unnecessary punitive acts. This policy has been applied in 
 the context of justifying indefinite SHU status, and progressively 
 restricting our programming and privileges.\n\n2. Abolish the Debriefing 
 Policy, and Modify Active/Inactive Gang Status Criteria -\n\n    Perceived 
 gang membership is one of the leading reasons for placement in solitary 
 confinement.\n    The practice of “debriefing,” or offering up 
 information about fellow prisoners particularly regarding gang status, is 
 often demanded in return for better food or release from the SHU. 
 Debriefing puts the safety of prisoners and their families at risk, because 
 they are then viewed as “snitches.”\n    The validation procedure used 
 by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) 
 employs such criteria as tattoos, readings materials, and associations with 
 other prisoners (which can amount to as little as greeting) to identify 
 gang members.\n    Many prisoners report that they are validated as gang 
 members with evidence that is clearly false or using procedures that do not 
 follow the Castillo v. Alameida settlement which restricted the use of 
 photographs to prove association.\n\n3. Comply with the US Commission on 
 Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons 2006 Recommendations Regarding an 
 End to Long-Term Solitary Confinement – CDCR shall implement the findings 
 and recommendations of the US commission on safety and abuse in America’s 
 prisons final 2006 report regarding CDCR SHU facilities as follows:\n\n    
 End Conditions of Isolation (p. 14) Ensure that prisoners in SHU and Ad-Seg 
 (Administrative Segregation) have regular meaningful contact and freedom 
 from extreme physical deprivations that are known to cause lasting harm. 
 (pp. 52-57)\n    Make Segregation a Last Resort (p. 14). Create a more 
 productive form of confinement in the areas of allowing inmates in SHU and 
 Ad-Seg [Administrative Segregation] the opportunity to engage in meaningful 
 self-help treatment, work, education, religious, and other productive 
 activities relating to having a sense of being a part of the community.\n   
  End Long-Term Solitary Confinement. Release inmates to general prison 
 population who have been warehoused indefinitely in SHU for the last 10 to 
 40 years (and counting).\n    Provide SHU Inmates Immediate Meaningful 
 Access to: i) adequate natural sunlight ii) quality health care and 
 treatment, including the mandate of transferring all PBSP- SHU inmates with 
 chronic health care problems to the New Folsom Medical SHU facility.\n\n4. 
 Provide Adequate and Nutritious Food – cease the practice of denying 
 adequate food, and provide a wholesome nutritional meals including special 
 diet meals, and allow inmates to purchase additional vitamin 
 supplements.\n\n    PBSP staff must cease their use of food as a tool to 
 punish SHU inmates.\n    Provide a sergeant/lieutenant to independently 
 observe the serving of each meal, and ensure each tray has the complete 
 issue of food on it.\n    Feed the inmates whose job it is to serve SHU 
 meals with meals that are separate from the pans of food sent from kitchen 
 for SHU meals.\n\n5. Expand and Provide Constructive Programming and 
 Privileges for Indefinite SHU Status Inmates.\n\nExamples include:\n\n    
 Expand visiting regarding amount of time and adding one day per week.\n    
 Allow one photo per year.\n    Allow a weekly phone call.\n    Allow Two 
 (2) annual packages per year. A 30 lb. package based on “item” weight 
 and not packaging and box weight.\n    Expand canteen and package items 
 allowed. Allow us to have the items in their original packaging [the cost 
 for cosmetics, stationary, envelopes, should not count towards the max draw 
 limit]\n    More TV channels.\n    Allow TV/Radio combinations, or TV and 
 small battery operated radio\n    Allow Hobby Craft Items – art paper, 
 colored pens, small pieces of colored pencils, watercolors, chalk, etc.\n   
  Allow sweat suits and watch caps.\n    Allow wall calendars.\n    Install 
 pull-up/dip bars on SHU yards.\n    Allow correspondence courses that 
 require proctored exams.\n\nFor more information on the Hunger Strike go 
 to: 
 http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/\nhttp://solitarywatch.com/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/18/18741739.php
SUMMARY:Until All Are Free: A Series of Actions in Solidarity with the Hunger Strikers
LOCATION:Oscar Grant Plaza\n14th and Broadway\nDowntown Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/18/18741739.php
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