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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDay 40 CA Prisoners Hunger strike: Countdown for Human Rights
http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/day-40-countdown-for-human-rights/
Today, Day 40, imagine what the prisoners themselves are suffering feel their pain that has been decades long the pain of isolation, the pain of suffering and broken families, the pain of the reality that society has come to be so hardened towards the prisoner, the only solution continues to be more prisons, more jails, longer sentences. The pain of the solitude that has been endured for decades while being held in isolation, suffering the most severe sensory deprivation .the pain that is stretching across the world as we watch and wait and wonder where the power is really coming from.
We have witnessed the power of the prisoners in Unity, the power of Unity that is giving them the inner strength to continue this hunger strike, to enter into the 40th day.
According to medical guidelines created by foreign governments for monitoring hunger strikes in other countries, after a month without food, protesters can experience nerve damage that causes difficulty swallowing and vomiting. After 40 days, the expected effects include progressive confusion, incoherence, loss of vision and hearing, and bleeding.
And we are also witnessing the power that has created a state with more prisons than any other place in the world. We witness the power that holds human beings in isolation for longer periods of time than any other place in the world. We witness the power to deny that solitary confinement even exists.
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Call Governor Jerry Brown
Phone: (916) 445-2841, (510) 289-0336, (510) 628-0202
Fax: (916) 558-3160
Suggested script: Im calling in support of the prisoners on hunger strike. The governor has the power to stop the torture of solitary confinement. I urge the governor to compel the CDCR to enter into negotiations to end the strike. RIGHT NOW is their chance to enter into clear, honest negotiations with the strikers to end the torture.
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Day 40 CA Prisoners Hunger strike: Countdown for Human Rights (Original Post)
annm4peace
Aug 2013
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Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)1. How horrible it has been if people are willing to die to escape, how can people not understand. nt
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)2. Stay strong