BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18770055 SEQUENCE:18890412 CREATED:20150317T194500Z DESCRIPTION:STOP THE TORTURE!\n\nThe Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS) has helped launch Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC) to start Monday, March 23, 2015.\n\n\nActions will happen on the 23rd of each month .\n\n\nThis date emphasizes the 23 or more hours every day that people are kept in solitary confinement.\n\n\nPHSS Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Prisoner-Hunger-Strike-Solidarity/117053298383319\n\n\nStatewide Coordinated Actions every month respond to the Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers’ Proposals (November, 2013). They stated:\n\n“ We want to consider the idea of designating a certain date each month as Prisoner Rights Day. On that date each month prisoners across the state would engage in peaceful activities to call attention to prison conditions. At the same time our supporters would gather in locations throughout California to expose CDCR’s [CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] actions and rally support efforts to secure our rights. We can see this action growing from month to month as more people inside and out become aware of it and join our struggle.”\nThese coordinated actions will acknowledge the importance of organized, community-based pressure as a core strategy (along with courts and legislators) of our work outside the walls to end solitary confinement.\n\n\nActions are planned in CA from San Diego to Eureka (including San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland,Santa Cruz, Eureka…); also, nationwide and internationally.\n\n\nCO-SPONSORS & ENDORSERS:\nStatewide, nationally, and internationally, we invite all organizations and prominent individuals to:\n\nendorse the Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement; or\nco-sponsor : help plan statewide, national, international, and local actions; do outreach, attend, and/or speak out.\n\nCo-sponsors and Endorsers are listed HERE on the PHSS website and HERE at the facebook event page, Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC)…\n\n\nPlease let us know at phssoutreach@gmail.com if you will endorse or what you will do to co-sponsor, and describe action(s) in your locale.\n\n\nIf you want to be part of the Outreach Group organizing this effort, please email Verbena and Willow. Verbena ; Willow < kohenet@sbcglobal.net >\n\n\nLOCATIONS & TIMES: \nEach locale participating in the Statewide Coordinated Actions will decide their locations and the time of day/night. We suggest places and times where and when there are plenty of people so that the actions are visible, and we can reach people with leaflets/information. If people-heavy locations also happen to be strategic for other reasons (e.g., a CDCR parole office in a busy area), all the better.\n\n\nFLIERS & HANDOUTS: \nThere will be a universal flier for all actions, with a space for each area to insert local logistics. Also, there will be handouts that can be used by everyone for these actions. PHSS can send out packets of these fliers and handbills by request at phssoutreach@gmail.com . Local groups can hand out additional literature, as well.\n\n\nThese actions will help keep hidden torture in the public eye, build the movement to end solitary confinement, and serve as one way to update people as to the conditions inside and about the needs and goings-on in this human rights struggle. Organizations outside of CA and outside of the US are already joining and supporting this effort.\n\n\nThe courage that prisoners continue to demonstrate—after leading two hunger strikes in 2011 and a third, the largest hunger strike in history in 2013– while upholding their Agreement To End Hostilities across racial lines should give us all the strength to organize in our own communities.\n\n\nHERE you can find details about March 23rd Actions in your locale (i.e. L.A., Oakland, San Jose) More will be posted as we receive the information from various locales\n\nCo-sponsors and endorsers as of morning of 3-17-15:\nCo-Sponsors\nCalifornia Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC)\nCalifornia Prison Focus \nFood Not Bombs\nGlobal Women’s Strike\nHuman Rights Pen Pal program\nLA Laborfest\nPayday Men’s Network\nPeoples’ Action for Rights and Community (PARC)\nPrisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS) \nProject: Pollinate\nSanta Cruz Resistance Against Militarization (SCRAM!)\nSin Barras\nWomen of Color/Global Women’s Strike\nEndorsers\nRamona Africa and The MOVE Organization\nAnti-Racist Action-LA\nDr. Nancy Arvold, PhD, MFT, member Psychologists for Social Responsibility\nBlack and Pink – San Diego\nCabrillo College Justice League\nCafe Intifada\nCalifornia Peace and Freedom Party\nCommunities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA) Restorative Justice Institutions\nDarrell and Karen Darling\nFamily of Frank Alvarado Jr., killed by Salinas Police, July 10, 2014\nFreedom Archives\nFree Our Minds, Free Radio Santa Cruz\nRabbi Borukh Goldberg\nInterfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace\nJustice for Palestinians, San Jose\nNational Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)-Santa Cruz County\nNational Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT)\nDylcia Pagán, former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner held in US prison\nLeonard Peltier Support Group Silicon Valley\nPrison Activist Resource Center (PARC)\nQueer Strike\nRedwood Curtain CopWatch\nSan Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper\nSouth Bay Committee Against Political Repression (SBCAPR)\nUnited Against Police Terror – San Diego\nUS PROStitutes Collective\nDonna Wallach\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/17/18770055.php SUMMARY:Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC) LOCATION:14th and Broadway, Oakland, CA (11am–1:15pm) URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/17/18770055.php DTSTART:20150323T180000Z DTEND:20150323T200000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR