USA: Gefangenenstreik für Menschenrechte
Obwohl es bereits schwere Übergriffe von Wachmannschaften gab, reden die Streikenden und deren Angehörige von einem "gewaltfreien Streik".
Sie fordern im wesentlichen die Anerkennung der Menschenrechte für Gefangene.
Entgegen früheren Aufständen kämpfen afroamerikanische, hispanische und kaukasisch "weiße" Gefangene (*) gemeinsam.
Die US Medien ignorieren den Streik bis jetzt.
In bisher zwei Presseerklärungen rufen die Gefangenen dazu auf, die Leitungen der sechs Gefängnisse per Telefon zu kontaktieren und deutlich zu machen, dass der Streik trotz Medien Blackout bekannt ist. Die Gefangenen befürchten schwere Repressalien, sollte die Öffentlichkeit den Streik ignorieren.
Informationen in englisch:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content%2Fga-prisoner-strike-continues-second-day-corporate-media-mostly-ignores-them-corrections-offi
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Sie fordern im wesentlichen die Anerkennung der Menschenrechte für Gefangene.
Entgegen früheren Aufständen kämpfen afroamerikanische, hispanische und kaukasisch "weiße" Gefangene (*) gemeinsam.
Die US Medien ignorieren den Streik bis jetzt.
In bisher zwei Presseerklärungen rufen die Gefangenen dazu auf, die Leitungen der sechs Gefängnisse per Telefon zu kontaktieren und deutlich zu machen, dass der Streik trotz Medien Blackout bekannt ist. Die Gefangenen befürchten schwere Repressalien, sollte die Öffentlichkeit den Streik ignorieren.
Informationen in englisch:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content%2Fga-prisoner-strike-continues-second-day-corporate-media-mostly-ignores-them-corrections-offi ------------
(*) offizielle US-Charakterisierungen
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Durchbrecht die Isolation!
Macht den Knastleitungen klar, dass ihr Bescheid wisst. Das schützt die Gefangenen und hilft ihrem Streik.
Macon State Prison 001 - 478-472-3900
Hays State Prison 001 - (706) 857-0400
Telfair State prison 001 - 229-868-7721
Baldwin State Prison 001 - (478) 445- 5218
Valdosta State Prison 001 -2229-333-7900
Smith State Prison 001 - (912) 654-5000
The Georgia Department of Corrections is at
make the calls today
Make the calls today, since it is unclear how long this strike will continue and the prisoners are already facing harsh repercussions for their action.
Also, let’s spread this out to other lists serves, face book, etc to build support for their demands.
As the prisoners say, “lock down for liberty!”
Marlene Martin
Campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP)
E-Mail an Georgias Knastbehörde
Hier ist ein Kontaktformular von der Knastbehörde in Georgia
DER 3. TAG -Blacked out By Media-
Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia-Blacked out By Media-Guards committing Violence
On Thursday morning, December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners refused to work, stopped all other activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful protest for their human rights. The December 9 Strike became the biggest prisoner protest in the history of the United States. Thousands of men, from Augusta, Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons, among others, initiated this strike to press the Georgia Department of Corrections (“DOC”) to stop treating them like animals and slaves and institute programs that address their basic human rights. They set forth the following demands:
* · A LIVING WAGE FOR WORK
* · EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
* · DECENT HEALTH CARE
* · AN END TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS
* · DECENT LIVING CONDITIONS
* · NUTRITIONAL MEALS
* · VOCATIONAL AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
* · ACCESS TO FAMILIES
* · JUST PAROLE DECISIONS
Despite that the prisoners’ protest remained non-violent, the DOC violently attempted to force the men back to work—claiming it was “lawful” to order prisoners to work without pay, in defiance of the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery. In Augusta State Prison, six or seven inmates were brutally ripped from their cells by CERT Team guards and beaten, resulting in broken ribs for several men, one man beaten beyond recognition. This brutality continues there. At Telfair, the Tactical Squad trashed all the property in inmate cells. At Macon State, the Tactical Squad has menaced the men for two days, removing some to the “hole,” and the warden ordered the heat and hot water turned off. Still, today, men at Macon, Smith, Augusta, Hays and Telfair State Prisons say they are committed to continuing the strike. Inmate leaders, representing blacks, Hispanics, whites, Muslims, Rastafarians, Christians, have stated the men will stay down until their demands are addressed, one issuing this statement:
“…Brothers, we have accomplished a major step in our struggle…We must continue what we have started…The only way to achieve our goals is to continue with our peaceful sit-down…I ask each and every one of my Brothers in this struggle to continue the fight. ON MONDAY MORNING, WHEN THE DOORS OPEN, CLOSE THEM. DO NOT GO TO WORK. They cannot do anything to us that they haven’t already done at one time or another. Brothers, DON’T GIVE UP NOW. Make them come to the table. Be strong. DO NOT MAKE MONEY FOR THE STATE THAT THEY IN TURN USE TO KEEP US AS SLAVES….”
When the strike began, prisoner leaders issued the following call: “No more slavery. Injustice in one place is injustice to all. Inform your family to support our cause. Lock down for liberty!”
Here’s the link to our recent Hard Knock Radio interview w/ Elaine Brown on this historic strike
Here’s an article written by Bruce Dixon editor of the Black Agenda Report on the strike
GA Inmates Stage One Day Peaceful Prison Strike, Authorities React With Violence
In an action which is unprecedented on several levels, black, brown and white inmates of Georgia’s notorious state prison system are standing together for a historic one day peaceful strike today, during which they are remaining in their cells, refusing work and other assignments and activities. This is a groundbreaking event not only because inmates are standing up for themselves and their own human rughts, but because prisoners are setting an example by reaching across racial boundaries which, in prisons, have historically been used to pit oppressed communities against each other. PRESS RELEASE BELOW THE FOLD
The action is taking place today in at least half a dozen of Georgia’s more than one hundred state prisons, correctional facilities, work camps, county prisons and other correctional facilities. We have unconfirmed reports that authorities at Macon State prison have aggressively responded to the strike by sending tactical squads in to rough up and menace inmates.Outside calls from concerned citizens and news media will tend to stay the hand of prison authorities who may tend to react with reckless and brutal aggression. So calls to the warden’s office of the following Georgia State Prisons expressing concern for the welfare of the prisoners during this and the next few days are welcome.
This is all the news we have for now…
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On December 9, 2010, prisoners in several Georgia prisons began a peaceful strike in order to pressure prison administrators to meet the following list of demands:
· A LIVING WAGE FOR WORK: In violation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting slavery andinvoluntary servitude, the DOC demands prisoners work for free.
· EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: For the great majority of prisoners, the DOC denies all opportunities for education beyond the GED, despite the benefit to both prisoners and society.
· DECENT HEALTH CARE: In violation of the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, the DOC denies adequate medical care to prisoners, charges excessive fees for the most minimal care and is responsible for extraordinary pain and suffering.
· AN END TO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS: In further violation of the 8th Amendment, the DOC is responsible for cruel prisoner punishments for minor infractions of rules.
· DECENT LIVING CONDITIONS: Georgia prisoners are confined in over-crowded, substandard conditions, with little heat in winter and oppressive heat in summer.
· NUTRITIONAL MEALS: Vegetables and fruit are in short supply in DOC facilities while starches and fatty foods are plentiful.
· VOCATIONAL AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES: The DOC has stripped its facilities of all opportunities for skills training, self-improvement and proper exercise.
· ACCESS TO FAMILIES: The DOC has disconnected thousands of prisoners from their families by imposing excessive telephone charges and innumerable barriers to visitation.
· JUST PAROLE DECISIONS: The Parole Board capriciously and regularly denies parole to the majority of prisoners despite evidence of eligibility.
After final assessments are made, this may be the largest prison strike in United States history. The strike was orchestrated largely through the use of cell phones, according to Elaine Brown, former chairman of the Black Panther Party, founder of the National Alliance for Radical Prison Reform, and one of the contact persons for information on developments in the strike listed on a press release.
Elaine Brown is interviewed about the strike one day after it had begun. She begins the interview by reading a text message sent to her from one of the Georgia prisoners in which the goals and the make-up of the strikers are stated.
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Georgia Prison Strike. Interview with Elaine Brown.
Expressions of solidarity with the prisoners can be made to the various prisons at the numbers listed below or through the Georgia Department of Corrections website and/or main number:
Macon State Prison is 978-472-3900 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 978-472-3900 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
Hays State Prison is at (706) 857-0400 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (706) 857-0400 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Telfair State prison is 229-868-7721 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-868-7721 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Baldwin State Prison is at (478) 445- 5218
Valdosta State Prison is 229-333-7900 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-333-7900 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Smith State Prison is at (912) 654-5000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (912) 654-5000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
The Georgia Department of Corrections is at
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Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia +++ Blacked out By Media +++ Guards committing Violence
Sehr interessant auch die LerserInnen Komentare darunter zu Sklaverei und ihrer modernen Form in den jetzigen Gefängnissen.
Elaine Brown, ehemalige Vorsitzende der Black Panther Party, ruft zur Unterstützung der streikenden Gefangenen auf.
Ein Interview mit ihr
3. TAG DES STRIKES -MEDIEN SCHWEIGEN
“…Brothers, we have accomplished a major step in our struggle…We must continue what we have started…The only way to achieve our goals is to continue with our peaceful sit-down…I ask each and every one of my Brothers in this struggle to continue the fight. ON MONDAY MORNING, WHEN THE DOORS OPEN, CLOSE THEM. DO NOT GO TO WORK. They cannot do anything to us that they haven’t already done at one time or another. Brothers, DON’T GIVE UP NOW. Make them come to the table. Be strong. DO NOT MAKE MONEY FOR THE STATE THAT THEY IN TURN USE TO KEEP US AS SLAVES….”
This is a major milestone for the class struggle not only in the prison system, but also for the United States in general, people organizing autonomously and across racial lines to assert their demands against capital has been with occasional exceptions, all too rare in this country, especially over the past several years.
Those of us with a social revolutionary perspective should do everything we can to support and defend those who will be targeted in the repressive response to this action.
Georgia Prisoners’ Strike: “We locked ourselves down.”
“We’re not coming out until something is done. We’re not going to work until something is done,” said one inmate at Rogers State Prison in Reidsville. He refused to give his name because he was speaking on a banned cellphone…
The Corrections Department placed several of the facilities where inmates planned to strike under indefinite lockdown on Thursday, according to local reports.
“We’re hearing in the news they’re putting it down as we’re starting a riot, so they locked all the prison down,” said a 20-year-old inmate at Hays State Prison in Trion, who also refused to give his name. But, he said, “We locked ourselves down.
The prisoner strike in the Georgia state system continues, some reports are coming in of phyiscal attacks by COs on prisoners and a number of facilities remain on lockdown, links to further information are listed below:
Prison Law Blog
Why prisoners going on strike in Georgia matters
Grußbotschaft von Kevin Cooper
San Quentin death row prisoner Kevin Cooper's message of solidarity with Georgia prisoners' strike:
In Solidarity
By Kevin Cooper
On Thursday, December 9, 2010, the inmates in the state of Georgia sat down in unity and peace in order to stand up for their human rights.
African American, White, and Latino inmates put aside their differences, if they had any, and came together as a 'People' fighting for their humanity in a system that dehumanizes all of them.
For this they have my utmost respect and appreciation and support. I am in true solidarity with them all!
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SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION to the Obama Administration and the Georgia Corrections Commissioner NOW!
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Sign online to tell President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Georgia Governor Perdue, Georgia Attorney General Baker, Georgia Corrections Commissioner Owens, the Georgia Legislature, the Georgia Congressional Delegation, Congressional leaders, U.N. Secretary General Ban, and members of the media you want no violence and no reprisals against the courageous Georgia Prison Strikers and you want their demands met.
Georgia Prison Strike is Spreading
Support Georgia Inmates' Peaceful Protest
Prisoner Advocate Elaine Brown on Georgia Prison Strike: “Repression Breeds Resistance”
At least four prisons in Georgia remain in lockdown five days after prisoners went on strike in protest of poor living and working conditions. Using cell phones purchased from guards, the prisoners coordinated the nonviolent protests to stage the largest prison strike in U.S. history. There are reports of widespread violence and brutality by the guards against the prisoners on strike. We speak to longtime prison activist Elaine Brown of the newly formed group Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners’ Rights.
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Georgia Prison Strike is Spreading
Support Georgia Inmates' Peaceful Protest
Prisoners in the State of Georgia go on strike to demand pay and prison reforms
TV Beitrag über den Gefangenenstreik
Amy Goodman interviewt Elaine Brown über den Gefangenenstreik im US Bundesstaat Georgia.
Day 7 of Georgia Prison Strike
Day 7 of Georgia Prison Strike
In Georgia, like every other state in the U.S., you’re never far from a prison facility. (See map at BAR Site)
The historic strike of Georgia prisoners, demanding wages for their labor, educational opportunities, adequate health care and nutrition, and better conditions is entering a new phase.
Strikers remain firm in their demands for full human rights, though after several days many have emerged from their cells, if only to take hot showers and hot food. Many of these, however, are still refusing their involuntary and unpaid work assignments.
A group that includes relatives, friends and a broad range of supporters of the prisoners on the outside has emerged. They are seeking to sit down with Georgia correctional officials this week to discuss how some of the just demands of inmates can begin to be implemented.
Initially, Georgia-based representatives of this coalition supporting the prisoner demands included the Georgia NAACP, the Nation of Islam, the National Association for Radical Prison Reform, the Green Party of Georgia, and the Ordinary Peoples Society among others. Civil rights attorneys, ministers, community organizations and other prisoner advocates are also joining the group which calls itself the Concerned Coalition to Protect Prisoner Rights.
Prisoners have stood up for themselves, and the communities they came from are lining up to support them. Today, at a ground breaking for a private prison 300 miles southeast of Atlanta in Millen GA, residents of that local community opposed to the private prison are greeting the governor and corrections brass with a protest.
They will be joined by dozens more coming in from Atlanta who will respectfully urge state authorities to talk to the prisoners. We understand that one person there has been arrested. Black Agenda Report will have photos and footage of that event on Thursday.
The broad-based Concerned Coalition to Protect Prisoners Rights fully supports the heroic stand of Georgia’s prisoners. “This isn’t Attica,” one representative of the coalition explained. “No violent acts have been committed by any of the inmates involved. We hope state corrections officials will be as peaceful and respectful as the prisoners have been, and start a good faith dialog about quickly addressing their concerns.”
Right now, the ball is in the hands of state corrections officials, and reports are that in some of the affected prisons, authorities are fumbling that ball, engaging
“They transferred some of the high Muslims here to max already,” one prisoner told Black Agenda Report this morning. “They want to break up the unity we have here. We have the Crips and the Bloods, we have the Muslims, we have the head Mexicans, and we have the Aryans all with a peaceful understanding, all on common ground. We all want to be paid for our work, and we all want education in here. There’s people in here who can’t even read…”
“They’re trying to provoke people to violence in here, but we’re not letting that happen. We just want our human rights.”
The transfers are intended to deprive groups of leadership and demoralize them. In some cases they may be having the opposite effect, stiffening prisoner morale and making room for still more leaders to emerge.
“The prisoners insist that punitive transfers are an act of bad faith, the opposite of what we should be doing,” said Minister Charles Muhammad, of the Nation of Islam in Atlanta. ”The coalition supports them and demands no punitive transfers, either within or between institutions, and absolutely no transfers to institutions outside Georgia.”
Members of the public should continue to call the prisons listed below, the GA Department of Corrections and the office of Georgia’s governor, Sonny Perdue. Ask them firmly but respectfully to resolve the situation non-violently and without punitive measures. Tell them you believe prisoners deserve wages for work and education. Ask them to talk to prisoners and the communities they come from.
It’s simple. With one in twelve Georgia adults in jail or prison, parole or probation or other court and correctional supervision, prisoners are us. They are our families. They are our fathers and our mothers, our sons and daughters, our nieces and nephews and aunts and uncles and cousins. Most prisoners will be back out in society sooner, not later.
It’s time for us all to grow up and realize that warehousing, malnourishing, mistreating and abusing prisoners does not make us safer. Denying prisoners meaningful training and educational opportunities, and forcing them to work for no wages is not the way to do.
It’s time to fundamentally reconsider prison as we know it, and America’s public policy of mass incarceration.
Bruce Dixon and Glen Ford are reachable at bruce.dixon(at)blackagendareport.com and glen.ford(at)blackagendareport.com, respectively. Black Agenda Report intends to provide ongoing coverage several times per week of the ongoing struggle of Georgia prisoners.
Macon State Prison is 978-472-3900 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 978-472-3900 end_of_the_skype_highlighting 978-472-3900 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 978-472-3900 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Hays State Prison is at (706) 857-0400 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (706) 857-0400 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (706) 857-0400 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (706) 857-0400 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Telfair State prison is 229-868-7721 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-868-7721 end_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-868-7721 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-868-7721 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Baldwin State Prison is at (478) 445- 5218
Valdosta State Prison is 229-333-7900 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-333-7900 end_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-333-7900 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-333-7900 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Smith State Prison is at (912) 654-5000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (912) 654-5000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting (912) 654-5000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (912) 654-5000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
The Georgia Department of Corrections is at
A letter to the prisoners on strike in Georgia
The organizations expressing their support in this letter are sponsoring a rally and march on Friday, Dec. 17, starting at 4 p.m. at North County Jail, 661 Washington St. in Downtown Oakland, and later marching to 14th and Broadway – JOIN THEM!
We, as members of activist and community organizations in the Bay Area of California, send our support for your strike against the terrible conditions you face in Georgia’s prisons. We salute you for making history as your strike has become the largest prison strike in the history of this nation. As steadfast defenders of human and civil rights, we recognize the potential that your action has to improve the lives of millions subject to inhumane treatment in correctional facilities across this country.
This chain gang was photographed on a road near the maximum security South Florida Reception Center in Miami. Chain gangs are becoming common again, especially in the South. If the striking Georgia prisoners draw enough support, prisoners in neighboring states like Florida and around the country are likely to make similar demands.
Every single day, prisoners face the same deplorable and unnecessarily punitive conditions that you have courageously decided to stand up against. For too long, this nation has chosen silence in the face of the gross injustices that our brothers and sisters in prison are subjected to. Your fight against these injustices is a necessary and righteous struggle that must be carried out to victory.
We have heard about the brutal acts that Georgia Department of Corrections officers have been resorting to as a means of breaking your protest and we denounce them. In order to put a stop to the violence to which you have been subjected, we are now in the process of developing contacts with the personnel at the different prison facilities and circulating petitions addressed to the governor and the Georgia DOC. We will continue to expose the DOC’s shameless physical attacks on you and use our influence to call for an immediate end to the violence.
Here, in the Bay Area, we are all too familiar with the violence that this system is known to unleash upon our people. Recently, our community erupted in protest over the killing of an unarmed innocent Black man named Oscar Grant by transit police in Oakland. We forced the authorities to arrest and convict the police officer responsible for Grant’s murder by building up a mass movement. We intend to win justice with you and stop the violent repression of your peaceful protest in the same way – by appealing to the power and influence of the masses.
We fully support all of your demands. We strongly identify with your demand for expanded educational opportunities. In recent years, our state government has been initiating a series of massive cuts to our system of public education that continue to endanger our right to a quality, affordable education; in response, students all across our state have stood up and fought back just as you are doing now.
In fact, students and workers across the globe have begun to organize and fight back against austerity measures and the corresponding violence of the state. Just in the past few weeks in Greece, Ireland, Spain, England, Italy, Haiti, Puerto Rico – tens and hundreds of thousands of students and workers have taken to the streets. We, as a movement, are gaining momentum and we do so even more as our struggles are unified and seen as interdependent.
At times we are discouraged. It may seem insurmountable. But in the words of Malcolm X, “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.”
You have inspired us. News of your strike, from day one, has served to inspire and invigorate hundreds of students and community organizers here in Berkeley and Oakland alone. We are especially inspired by your ability to organize across color lines and are interested in hearing an account from the inside of how this process developed and was accomplished.
You have also encouraged us to take more direct actions toward radical prison reform in our own communities, namely Santa Rita County Jail and San Quentin Prison. We are now beginning the process of developing a similar set of demands regarding expediting processing – it can take 20-30 hours to get a bed; they call it “bullpen therapy” – nutrition, visiting and phone calls, educational services, legal support, compensation for labor and humane treatment in general. We will also seek to unify the education and prison justice movements by collaborating with existing organizations that have been engaging in this work.
We echo your call: No more Slavery! Injustice to one is injustice to all!
In us, students, activists, the community members and people of the Bay Area, you have an ally. We will continue to spread the news about your cause all over the Bay Area and California, the country and world. We pledge to do everything in our power to make sure your demands are met.
In solidarity,
Why Isn’t the GA Prison Strike All Over the News?
NEWS TO THE STRIKE
To The Prisoners of the Georgia Department of Corrections
To Elaine Brown
To Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners’ Rights
To The Georgia Department of Corrections
To Governor Sonny Purdue
We write this letter in support of the Prisoners of the Georgia Department of Corrections who are on strike in protest of the conditions throughout the prison system. We are a collective community based in Humboldt County California, spread throughout greater California and networked with others
throughout the United States and the world who work alongside multiple struggles for justice and against multiple forms oppression such as police abuse, poverty, mass incarceration and systemic racism.
We wish the strikers to know that we hear and support their demands for an end to slavery by providing a living wage for their labor. We hear their demands for an end to the cruel and unusual punishment taking place within the Georgia
Department of Corrections. We Support the prisoners' rights to education, health, food, justice, and fair parole hearings so that they can be reunited with their families.
We applaud the organizing efforts of the prisoners, especially their ability to organize with other races, as racial apartheid among prisoners will only aid the prison system in controlling the conditions in which prisoners are forced to live.
We wish the Georgia Department of corrections to know that the prisoners' voices are not silenced. We demand amnesty for all prisoners involved in this action, and we join in the prisoners demands.
We do not believe that the prison system in the United States (or anywhere) is a solution to social problems such as crime, violence, drugs, or poverty. In fact, the prison industry worsens these problems while incarcerating people of color, the poor, youth, and political dissenters. We therefore support the action of the prisoners and view their legitimate claims to human dignity as part of a broader struggle against state violence and for humanity.
We wish to thank the prisoners for inspiring those of us on the outside whose hearts and actions are in solidarity with prisoners, the poor, the dispossessed, people of color, the houseless, and all oppressed groups who struggle for a better world.
In Solidarity,
Georgia inmates began returning to work Dec. 16 after state correction officials lifted a five-day lockdown at four state facilities Dec.14, following prisoners refusal to leave their cells or report for work assignments.
Georgia inmates staged what they are calling a prison strike in protest of grievances that they said include insufficient health care, poor educational opportunities, limited access to families, no pay and maltreatment at the hands of Georgia prison officials.
The protest, which began Dec. 9, crossed boundaries of race and personal affiliations--Blacks, Whites, Hispanics and even those from opposing gangs joined in, according to The Black Agenda Report.
Georgia Prison Strike Comes to an End with Unfinished Business
Be Our Voice & We'll Do The Rest
GA Prison Inmate Strike Enters New Phase, Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages For Work & audio. This was most of the audio but there is more toward the end.
'Lockdown for liberty!' exposes prison conditions
Hays State Prison is at (706) 857-0400 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (706) 857-0400 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Telfair State prison is 229-868-7721 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-868-7721 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Baldwin State Prison is at (478) 445- 5218
Valdosta State Prison is 229-333-7900 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 229-333-7900 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Smith State Prison is at (912) 654-5000 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (912) 654-5000 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
The Georgia Department of Corrections is at
GA Senators
Saxby Chambliss. (202) 244-3521 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (202) 244-3521 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
chambliss.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Email
Johnny Isakson - (R - GA) (202) 224-3643 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (202) 224-3643 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
isakson.senate.gov/contact.cfm
To Find the GA state representatives
The 13th Amendment
Slavery is still legal in the U.S.
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GEORGIA PRISONER "CONSPIRATORS" IDENTIFIED BY
GEORGIA PRISONERS' STRIKE: CALL TO MEDIA TO HELP WITH VIGILANCE EFFORTS.
This is a call for folks connected to alternative media sources to check
in with the Georgia DOC regarding the prisoners who have been identified by
DOC officials as "conspirators" in the Georgia Prisoner Strike and
subsequently moved to other prisons.
In a conversation with Elaine Brown on Thursday, Dec.23rd, she told us
that officials informed her on December 17th that they had identified 37
conspirators in the prisoners' strike and had transported them to other
prisons. They assured her that they would get the list of the names of the
37 prisoners to her. As of our conversation with her on Dec. 23rd, she had
not received the list from the Georgia DOC.
Please assist in finding out who those 37 prisoners are and use your media
access to help those concerned keep a "watch" over them to make sure they
are not being abused.
Thanks.
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Vicente "Panama' Alba
Tel # 917 626 5847