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DESCRIPTION:Leonard Peltier Support Group Silicon Valley invites you to our next event 
 to honor Leonard Peltier and also shine the light on the impact of solitary 
 confinement on prisoners. Every jail and prison, including juvenile 
 detentions in the U.S.A., use solitary confinement over long periods of 
 time.\n\nSaturday 6th February, 2016\n6:00p.m. - 8:00p.m.\nSchool of Arts 
 and Culture, Mexican Heritage Plaza\n1700 Alum Rock Ave.\nSan Jose, CA 
 95116\n\nFebruary 6th is the 40th anniversary of Leonard's illegal arrest 
 in Canada by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Although Leonard fought his 
 extradition from Canada to the U.S.A., Canadian officials illegally 
 extradited him. He was brought to trial in 1977 and the judge allowed more 
 than 30 violations of Leonard's Constitutional rights during the trial. 
 Leonard is now over 71 years old and is in very serious health. We need to 
 get him out of prison NOW!\n\nWe are honored to have Charlie Hinton perform 
 his solo performance play:\nSolitary Man: My Visit to Pelican Bay State 
 Prison\nWritten and perfomed by Charlie Hinton \nDirected by Mark 
 Kenward\n\nIn July, 2013 Charlie Hinton responded to an action alert to 
 write letters of support to a number of hunger strikers held in the Pelican 
 Bay Security Housing Units (SHUs), also known as solitary confinement. 
 Several of them wrote him back. Through their letters, conversations with 
 former prisoners, and his personal observations, Charlie Hinton created a 
 solo performance for theater - Solitary Man: My Visit to Pelican Bay State 
 Prison, which takes place in late fall, 2014.\n\nIn Solitary Man, Charlie 
 visits a lifer named Otis Washington, a 64 year old native of New York 
 City, who’s been locked up since 1975, and at Pelican Bay since it 
 opened. To quote Otis, "There are people who say they have no regrets in 
 life, and if they had to do it all over again, they wouldn’t change a 
 thing. Well, I’m just the opposite. Ignorance guided me to this present 
 predicament. Over the decades I’ve worked hard to better myself and 
 recover from my raggedy past.” In Solitary Man, Otis explains some of 
 what he has learned and experienced.\n\nCharlie Hinton Bio:\nSolitary Man 
 is his second solo show, after Lifewish. He grew up in Joplin, MO, and 
 spent 3 years in the Peace Corps in Bolivia. His political awakening came 
 through his time in South America, then his return home to the anti-war in 
 Viet Nam movement, LGBT liberation, and prison work. He worked the last 19 
 at Inkworks Press, a worker owned and collectively managed printing company 
 in Berkeley that recently closed its doors, leaving him 
 “retired."\n\nOther speakers and performers TBA.\n\nThis event is a 
 potluck. \nPlease bring something to share that is prepackaged, i.e. not 
 made at home.\n\nPlease save the date and invite your family and friends to 
 join us.\n\nSchool of Arts and Culture at Mexican Heritage Plaza is 
 wheelchair friendly.\nThis event to honor Leonard Peltier is children 
 friendly. \n\nFor more information please contact Donna Wallach, 
 FreedomNow4LeonardPeltier@gmail.com\n(h) 408-557-8824\n(cell) 
 408-569-6608\n\nSponsored by Leonard Peltier Support Group Silicon 
 Valley\nco-sponsored by: Justice for Palestinians\n\nPlease let us know if 
 your organization or group would like to co-sponsor and help promote this 
 event. We would really like to have many people attend.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/27/18782293.php
SUMMARY:Honoring Leonard Peltier & Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison
LOCATION:School of Arts & Culture, Mexican Heritage Plaza\n1700 Alum Rock 
 Avenue\nSan Jose, CA 95116
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/01/27/18782293.php
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