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8th July 2017, 14:38
Honoring Struggles - Four Years Since the CA Hunger Strikes
Fighting State Repression and Isolation
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Rose Braz's work for abolition was foundational in California and across the movement. Please save the date and join us in celebrating and honoring all Rose has given us at her memorial on July 30th in San Francisco. Visit the event page, Remembering Rose Braz (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=2b2ee4f2e2&e=f269152a76), for more information.
Tomorrow, July 8, marks the four-year anniversary of prisoners in Pelican Bay’s solitary confinement units initiating what became the largest hunger strike in California’s history. Over 30,000 prisoners refused meals to protest against the use of solitary, rallying behind the strike's imprisoned leadership, known as the Short Corridor Collective, to achieve five core demands. The 2013 strike built on years of prisoner organizing, coming after an initial hunger strike in 2011, and followed the 2012 release of the Agreement to End Hostilities (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=30e04f71c4&e=f269152a76), a powerful document drafted by the Short Corridor Collective that called for an end to racial conflict among prisoners. The strike resulted in a victorious and historic legal settlement (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=b9baa67ba1&e=f269152a76) that sharply limited California’s ability to hold prisoners in isolation, and advanced the continuing struggle against the reach of the prison industrial complex (PIC).
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Working alongside many tireless prisoners' family members, loved ones, and advocates in the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, Critical Resistance served as the strike's media house, and worked to attract global attention to the prisoners and their demands As we continue deepening our fight against the PIC, we understand that isolation is fundamentally a tool of state repression, particularly when used against imprisoned organizers who the prison regime labels “the worst of the worst.” We strive to fight such repressive moves – whether it be through supporting a recent hunger strike (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=179a34ccb1&e=f269152a76) by solitary prisoners at Folsom in CA, amplifying prisoners’ voices (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=b84e981112&e=f269152a76) against further isolation and cuts to family visits in NY’s maximum security prisons, or uplifting imprisoned organizers' analysis (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=bd657d3678&e=f269152a76) of resistance in the current moment.
Such efforts to fight and dismantle the PIC are deeply interwoven and our collective resistance cannot be repressed by the state's attempts to isolate these struggles or those who wage them. For that reason, it is important that we build with imprisoned people enduring isolation, connect our struggles both inside and outside prison walls, and uplift our work as deeply embedded in a long legacy of movements fighting for liberation. We take this time to honor the sacrifices of people across CA prisons whose actions in 2013, along with the organizing that came before and after, energized the fight against the PIC across the country and world.
In Struggle,
Critical Resistance
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Fighting State Repression and Isolation
View this email in your browser (http://mailchi.mp/criticalresistance/honoring-struggles-four-years-since-the-ca-hunger-strikes?e=f269152a76)
Rose Braz's work for abolition was foundational in California and across the movement. Please save the date and join us in celebrating and honoring all Rose has given us at her memorial on July 30th in San Francisco. Visit the event page, Remembering Rose Braz (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=2b2ee4f2e2&e=f269152a76), for more information.
Tomorrow, July 8, marks the four-year anniversary of prisoners in Pelican Bay’s solitary confinement units initiating what became the largest hunger strike in California’s history. Over 30,000 prisoners refused meals to protest against the use of solitary, rallying behind the strike's imprisoned leadership, known as the Short Corridor Collective, to achieve five core demands. The 2013 strike built on years of prisoner organizing, coming after an initial hunger strike in 2011, and followed the 2012 release of the Agreement to End Hostilities (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=30e04f71c4&e=f269152a76), a powerful document drafted by the Short Corridor Collective that called for an end to racial conflict among prisoners. The strike resulted in a victorious and historic legal settlement (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=b9baa67ba1&e=f269152a76) that sharply limited California’s ability to hold prisoners in isolation, and advanced the continuing struggle against the reach of the prison industrial complex (PIC).
https://gallery.mailchimp.com/b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686/images/87214a2c-9f30-419c-a630-a10cf73ed7da.jpg
Working alongside many tireless prisoners' family members, loved ones, and advocates in the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, Critical Resistance served as the strike's media house, and worked to attract global attention to the prisoners and their demands As we continue deepening our fight against the PIC, we understand that isolation is fundamentally a tool of state repression, particularly when used against imprisoned organizers who the prison regime labels “the worst of the worst.” We strive to fight such repressive moves – whether it be through supporting a recent hunger strike (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=179a34ccb1&e=f269152a76) by solitary prisoners at Folsom in CA, amplifying prisoners’ voices (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=b84e981112&e=f269152a76) against further isolation and cuts to family visits in NY’s maximum security prisons, or uplifting imprisoned organizers' analysis (http://criticalresistance.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b64cbc94231b3bae71ab83686&id=bd657d3678&e=f269152a76) of resistance in the current moment.
Such efforts to fight and dismantle the PIC are deeply interwoven and our collective resistance cannot be repressed by the state's attempts to isolate these struggles or those who wage them. For that reason, it is important that we build with imprisoned people enduring isolation, connect our struggles both inside and outside prison walls, and uplift our work as deeply embedded in a long legacy of movements fighting for liberation. We take this time to honor the sacrifices of people across CA prisons whose actions in 2013, along with the organizing that came before and after, energized the fight against the PIC across the country and world.
In Struggle,
Critical Resistance
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