TAKE ACTION in Solidarity with
California Prisoners Hunger Strike
Friday, September 30, 12:00 Noon
Jackson & State in Chicago's Loop
Bring signs and Banners
PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE MUST ACT!!
Support the Just Demands of the California Security Housing Unit (SHU) Prisoners
"More African-American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began."
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
On July 1, 2011 inmates at Pelican Bay SHU (Security Housing Unit)
began a hunger strike that spread, with over 6,000 joining in prisons
across the state. SHU prisoners live in extreme daily isolation for
years...even decades...never leaving their prison cell for 23 hours a
day. Tens of thousands of prisoners are housed in similar units across
the country.
This torture must stop.
Signs indicate that the
California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) may
attempt to quickly crush or isolate hunger strikers and crack down on
other California prisoners to prevent the strike from spreading. This
makes it especially crucial that everyone who cares about justice, who
opposes torture, mobilize IMMEDIATELY and act in support the hunger
strike and the prisoners' demands. We have the moral responsibility to
act in a way commensurate with the justness of the prisoners' demands
and the urgency of the situation. After seeing the state MURDER Troy
Davis what does it say about our humanity if we don't?
For more information: chicagoforPBSP@yahoo.com, 312-933-9586
For more details on the Hunger Strike go to: http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com
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