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Hunger strikes and national protests continue
Protesting torture in America continues in and out of prisons BACK TO SAC ON MONDAY! The hunger strike continues in Tehachapi, Corcoran and Calipatria state prisons, so we’ll keep the pressure on...
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Hunger strike recap: California prisoners show the way!
by K. Kersplebedeb Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s hearing in Sacramento Aug. 23 and all the efforts being made in solidarity with the hunger strikers are cutting through the chains and locks that prevent...
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California prisoners make historic call to end hostilities between racial...
by Isaac Ontiveros, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Oakland – Prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) have announced a push to end all hostilities between racial groups...
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End of hostilities holds in prisons statewide and spreads to the streets
by Kendra Castaneda The Pelican Bay State Prison SHU main reps and Short Corridor Collective who originally called for a peaceful hunger strike in July 2011 to persuade CDCR (California Department of...
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‘Settle your quarrels’: Update on End to Hostilities, prisoners’ demands,...
by Arturo Castellanos I’m one of the Pelican Bay State Prison SHU (Security Housing Unit) prisoner representatives. I write this to touch on a couple of issues of immediate importance. Arturo...
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Unity in organization
by Kamau M. Askari Organization is a framework through which collective power can be achieved. Organization is also a byproduct of unity. Prisoners of varying racial and ethnic backgrounds and...
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Sacramento hearing exposes CDCR’s hidden agenda
by Denise Mewbourne Almost two years later, the ripple effect of the 2011 hunger strike organized by the Short Corridor Collective in Pelican Bay prison continues to reverberate throughout California....
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LA Times: ‘California prison officials say 30,000 inmates refuse meals’
by Mary Ratcliff In a story published at 5:35 p.m. today, on the first day of the latest round of the epic hunger and work strike called by prisoners in California’s most notorious prison, the Security...
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Pelican Bay hunger strike reps to legislators and supporters: Tell California...
by the Pelican Bay Short Corridor Representatives Oct. 9, 2013 – As human beings who are committed to securing human rights for all people confined in California’s prisons, the Short Corridor...
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Solitary confinement hearing Feb. 11: Support the prisoner-led movement and...
by Women of Color in the Global Women’s Strike and GWS/LA Following the historic hunger and work strike by over 30,000 incarcerated people in California prisons, California legislators committed to...
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‘Condemned’ by Keith LaMar (Bomani Shakur)
Review by Denis O’Hearn When I was asked to write a review of Keith LaMar’s “Condemned,” I wondered if I was the best person to do it. First of all, I wrote the foreword to the book. Plus, as you’ll...
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The way forward to end solitary confinement torture: Where’s the army?
by Todd Ashker “Solitary Confinement Is Torture” – Art: Michael D. Russell, C-90473, PBSP SHU D7-217, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City CA 95532 On the subject of SHU and Ad-Seg constituting torture, for...
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Black August: The power of prisoner-led organizing
Thousands came to pay their respects to one of the most influential imprisoned writers ever, George Jackson, at his funeral in Oakland on Aug. 28, 1971, a week after his assassination at San Quentin on...
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Artivists in Action and Solidarity: Rattle the KAGE Dec. 7, 4-7pm
Whether you know him as Min. King, the rapper Pyeface or William E. Brown Jr., this young man, the principal organizer of the Artivists show, “met” the Bay View in December 2011, when he was in the...
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