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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of an award-winning feature documentary, The 
 Strike, about the Pelican Bay hunger strikes against solitary 
 confinement.\n\nFollowed by a Q&A with the directors JoeBill Munoz and 
 Lucas Guilkey, and the hunger strikers and solitary survivors featured in 
 the film. Moderated by Lisa Armstrong.\n\nThe Strike is a feature 
 documentary that tells the story of a generation of California men who 
 endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the 
 largest hunger strike in U.S. history.\n\nAmidst the redwood trees on the 
 California-Oregon border sits one of the most infamous prisons in US 
 history. Pelican Bay is a labyrinthine construction of solid cement blocks 
 – a supermax prison – opened in 1989 and designed specifically for 
 mass-scale solitary confinement. For decades, it held men alone in tiny 
 cells indefinitely. Then one day in 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on hunger 
 strike.\n\nTHE STRIKE weaves together, thread-by-thread, a half century of 
 personal and criminal justice history into a single, compelling narrative 
 around the drama of the 2013 hunger strike to end indefinite isolation. 
 Grounded in testimonies from the hunger strikers themselves, the film 
 details how the protest was conceived from a whisper inside the halls of 
 Pelican Bay to a colossal feat across California prisons. With 
 unprecedented access to state prison officials and never-before-seen 
 footage from inside Pelican Bay, THE STRIKE reveals the panic that gripped 
 the highest echelons of state government.\n\nTold through the stories of 
 the men who bore the brunt of this practice, THE STRIKE goes beyond making 
 a case against solitary confinement; it illuminates the power of organizing 
 and prisoner-led resistance, and in doing so, flips the true-crime genre on 
 its head.\n\nTickets can be purchased [for approximately $15] on the Grand 
 Lake theater website:\nhttps://www.renaissancerialto.com/ \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/15/18870002.php
SUMMARY:The Strike: Documentary Film
LOCATION:Grand Lake Theater\n3200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610\nOakland, CA\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/15/18870002.php
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