HUNGER STRIKE: 30,000 prisoners protest torture

[Luminous Animal]

10. Hunger Strike Solidarity

http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/

Sign the petition
http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/51040/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=11455

The Pelican Bay Five Core Demands:
1. Eliminate group punishments and administrative abuse.
2. Abolish the debriefing policy and modify active/inactive gang status criteria.
3. Comply with the recommendations of the US Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons recommendations and end long-term solitary confinement.
4. Provide adequate and nutritious food.
5. Create and expand constructive programming.

To: Jerry Brown, Governor of California
Jeffrey Beard, Secretary of CDCR (California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation)

I support the prisoners & their reasonable demands. I am alarmed by the CDCR's refusal to recognize, address, and implement the changes outlined by prisoners being held in Security Housing Units (SHUs). I am further disturbed that, rather than addressing the crisis created by locking people for years and decades in extreme isolation, this peaceful hunger strike is being deemed a "mass prison disturbance" by the CDCR, putting prisoners in further danger.

I urge you to initiate accountable negotiations with these prisoners and/or their chosen representatives. I urge you to take action to implement the fair and reasonable demands immediately, and in good faith. I also want your guarantee that peaceful hunger strikers will not be retaliated against.