July 23rd Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement- Locations & Details – more informations

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July 23rd Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement- Locations & Details

Posted on July 18, 2015 by .wordpress.com

Thursday, July 23 ACTIONS by location (alphabetical order)

If you don’t see your locale listed here, click HERE to read the entire post.  If you still don’t see your locale, we haven’t received the details yet or YOU just might need to organize a simple action where you are!!

Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement (SCATESC) has a PHSS Facebook Event page.  SCATESC’s growing list of Co-sponsors and Endorsers is below.

July 23 Locations & Details (so far)

Arcata/Bayside, CA – Boston, MA – Culver City / Los Angeles, CA – Naples, FL – New York, NY – Oakland, CA – Philadelphia, PA – Pittsburgh, PA – San Diego, CA – San Jose, CA– Santa Cruz, CA – Santa Monica, CA – Thunderclap (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr)


ARCATA / BAYSIDE, CA:
BreakingDownTheBox_July23 FlyerOn Thursday evening, July 23rd, come to the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to watch the excellent new film ‘Breaking Down the Box’ (40 min). We’ll have refreshments and discussion afterwards with KHSU radio host Sista Soul and other special guests! The film event is hosted by the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Social Action Committee and PARC, Peoples’ Action for Rights and Community (Eureka).

Earlier in the day (location & time will be posted soon), join us in Arcata. We’ll hand out literature for people to get educated and involved now to STOP THE TORTURE that is solitary confinement.  We will also be promoting the Agreement to End Hostilities.

HERE‘s the Arcata flier!
Arcata Action Details
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm PST
Location: The Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 24 Fellowship Way, Bayside, CA  95524
For more info, call  707-267-4249707-267-4249
Contact Name: Verbena
Contact Email: peoplesarc@gmail.com
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1607915476127367/

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS:
The Coalition for Effective Public Safety – CEPS is engaging in public actions the 23rd of each month to bring attention to the 80,000+ people held in solitary confinement across the U.S. on any given day and to end solitary confinement. This date emphasizes the 23 or more hours every day that people are kept in solitary confinement. Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS) has helped launch statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement in California following the Pelican Bay hunger strike initiated in 2013 by people incarcerated there in response to the deplorable conditions they were being held in. Monthly actions began in California in March 2015, and we started here in Massachusetts in June 2015.

Massachusetts is one of only three states where prisoners who commit disciplinary infractions can be placed in solitary confinement for up to ten years, even though the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture has called for a ban on any solitary confinement that lasts longer than fifteen days.

This month we are hosting a documentary screening outside about solitary confinement. More details will be posted here soon.
Massachusetts Action Details
Time and Location: will be posted here soon
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coalition-for-Effective-Public-Safety-CEPS/353915588130873
Contact person: Rachel Corey
For info or to help plan future actions: director@cjpc.org

CULVER CITY / LOS ANGELES, CA:
July23_ LATwo years have passed since people confined in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison initiated (on July 8) a 60-day hunger strike to protest the conditions associated with the prison’s “security housing unit,” or SHU.  Four years have passed since the initial hunger strike began on July 1.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) continues to claim that “there is no ‘solitary confinement’ in California’s prisons and the SHU is not ‘solitary confinement,’” but people inside the Pelican Bay State Prison’s security housing unit say they remain locked in for at least 23 hours per day.

At this event, we will present If the SHU Fits-Voices from Solitary Confinement, and follow with a session to:
* Share Stories
* Discuss Strategies to make meaningful change and
* Take Action!

“If the SHU Fits” is produced by Dramastage Qumran, LA Laborfest, & Public Works Improvisational Theatre, and supported by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), and the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS).

The event is a part of the Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement, a call by prisoners in solitary to their supporters outside to STOP THE TORTURE with events on the 23rd of each month, signifying the number of hours prisoners are kept in solitary.
HERE‘s the Culver City/LA flier!
Culver City Action Details
Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm PST
Location: Peace Center, West 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA90230
Contact person: Andy Griggs
For info, call 310-704-3217 or email lalaborfest@gmail.com
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1453616404940842/

NAPLES, FLORIDA:
Demonstration in front of the Collier County Jail on the 23rd to End Solitary Confinement.  Details will be posted here soon!

NEW YORK, NY:
Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement invites you to a RALLY at UNION SQUARE on July 23rd.  (Meet by steps on  south side, by E. 14th and Broadway)

Every day in New York prisons and jails, there are more than 5,000 people in solitary confinement and other forms of extreme isolation. There, they spend 23 hours a day locked in a cell about the size of an elevator. In isolated confinement, people are left with nothing to do, no programs, no one to talk to, and no human touch. In these torturous conditions, people experience intense suffering and, often, severe psychological and physical damage. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture determined that keeping a person in solitary more than 15 days is torture; New York regularly holds people in solitary for months and years, and sometimes decades.

Join us on the 23rd of every month in the fight to end solitary confinement. We are joining allies around the country who are holding monthly actions based on the recommendation of people incarcerated in Pelican Bay prison who led the momentous hunger strikes in California.

People in solitary need you.
Together we can HALT solitary confinement and end torture in New York State.
New York City Action Details
Time: 6:00pm EST
Location: Union Square- meet by steps on south side, by E. 14th and Broadway
Contact email: caicny@gmail.com
Website: http://nycaic.org/

OAKLAND, CA:
Thursday evening, July 23rd, the San Francisco MIME TROUPE will perform at Oakland’s Lake Merritt in back of the bandstand.

Please come volunteer to help set up the model SHU (mock solitary confinement cell) beginning at 3:30 PM.

We will distribute information and people can get a feel for the small space that 10’s of thousands of people are confined to 23+ hours a day, often for years.

Please call Penny (cell:  415-412-1969) to let us know if you can be with us for this important date. As the trial in the Pelican Bay class action lawsuit approaches in December, the public needs to know current news and see the model SHU again.

END LONG TERM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT !!
Oakland Action Details
Time: 3:30pm– Set up mock SHU
           5:00pm– Distribute literature and show mock SHU
Location: Lake Merritt, in back of Edoff Memorial Band Stand, Oakland, CA 94610
Contact email: phssreachingout@gmail.com
Contact person: Penny
For more info, call 415-412-1969415-412-1969

PENNSYLVANIA:
Pennsylvania (PA) groups support the Monthly CA Statewide Coordinated Action to End Solitary Confinement.

Join us in fasting for some or all of the July 23rd
in protest of the 23 hours of solitary confinement that tens of thousands of prisoners endure every day for months and years.  Add your group to those committed to taking an action each month.

PA groups so far include Abolitionist Law Center; Global Women’s Strike; Human Rights Coalition Philly/Pittsburgh; Justice for the Dallas 6 Support Campaign; Payday men’s network; Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee; Fight for Lifers West, Inc.
Pennsylvania Action Details
Time: all day
Location: Pennsylvania
For more info in PA, call 215-848-1120
Contact emails: philly@globalwomenstrike.net,
payday@paydaynet.org

SAN DIEGO, CA:
Two years ago in this month, over 30,000 CA prisoners went on hunger strike to stop the torture of solitary confinement. We honor them and will continue in this struggle until solitary confinement is no more. We will be out on the 23rd of the month, talking with people and providing information to END SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. Please come join us for an hour after the work day.
San Diego Action Details
Time: 6:30pm – 7:30pm PST
Location: Rosa Park (park is next to the library) City Heights, San Diego  92105
Contact Person: Martha Esquivel
Contact Email:  emartha42@yahoo.com
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/403818803138425/

SAN JOSE, CA:
As part of the Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement on the 23rd of July: we will distribute literature, hold signs, and put up a banner with signs on it — to END SOLITARY CONFINEMENT and to End Israeli Occupation of Palestine.  Please join us.
San Jose Action Details
Time:  5:00pm – 6:00pm PST
Location: San Carlos Street @ corner of Market Street, south end of Cesar Chavez Park in downtown San Jose
For more info, call 408-569-6608408-569-6608
Contact Person Name: Donna Wallach
Contact Person Email: Palestineis@dslextreme.com

SANTA CRUZ, CA:
Thursday July 23rd, join a coalition of individuals and organizations as we gather for an action in front of O’Neill to stand up against Solitary Confinement, in solidarity with other coalitions all over California and nationwide!
First, we will leaflet and talk with passersby.  Then, a noon RALLY with updates on Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement and SB 124 to Define and Limit Youth Solitary Confinement.  We’ll also have a Readers’ Theater of the Agreement to End Hostilities, Free Lunch from Food Not Bombs, Free Literature, and a model SHU food tray.

Central Coast co-sponsors: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California; Food Not Bombs; Global Women’s Strike Network; Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition Statewide Coordinated Actions To End Solitary Confinement; Project: Pollinate; Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization (SCRAM!); and Sin Barras. 10 other organizations and prominent individuals are endorsers.

July 8th marked the second anniversary of the beginning of the 2013 Hunger Strike to end solitary confinement and abusive prison conditions. It was the largest Hunger Strike in world history. with over 30,000 people in CA prisons & 100’s of other prisoners throughout the U.S., of all genders, young & old, participating. This Prisoner-class-led Human Rights Movement falls within a long legacy of prisoner-led resistance & is connected to global struggles against inequality and powerlessness, and for self-determination and liberation.

We do not want people in prison to have to risk their lives in another Hunger Strike!  Take Action. End Solitary Confinement.  It is Torture.

Here‘s the Santa Cruz flier!
Santa Cruz Action Details
Time: 11:30am — Leaflet & Invite people to Rally & Theater
            12:00pm – 2:00pm –RALLY, READER’S THEATER,    LUNCH
Location: corner of Cooper St. and Pacific Ave. (by O’Neill), 110 Cooper St. Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Contact Email: phssoutreach@gmail.com
For more info, call 831-454-0774

SANTA MONICA, CA:
Friendly Neighborhood Action Committee (805) is honored to join in the Statewide Coordinated Actions Against Solitary Confinement. Join us at the Santa Monica Pier on Thursday evening beginning at 7PM. We will be pamphleting in service of the struggle for dignity and humane treatment of prisoners. This effort will take place during the FREE concert series, “Cubanismo,” 200 Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica CA. As we enjoy the music, let us honor those behind the walls; promote an end to racial hostilities, and fight to end torture.
Santa Monica Action Details
Time: 7:00pm PST
Location: Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica CA 90401
Call 805-850-8327 for meet-up

THUNDERCLAP
Expose and End Solitary Now!
Think Ten Media Group has created a Thunderclap campaign for July 23rd, National Day of Action to End Solitary. The goal is to simply raise awareness of the harsh realities of solitary confinement. It would be great if you could join us now in this effort. It literally takes less than 30 seconds and costs absolutely nothing. Our collective social media “clap” will go out on July 23rd at Noon, PST. You can join us at http://thndr.it/1BQxSFJ.

Ramon Hamilton
Think Ten Media Group
www.thinktenmediagroup.com
ramon@thinktenmediagroup.com
661-600-6320

Co-Sponsors

Endorsers

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