"DYING FOR SUNLIGHT"

| | TrackBacks (0)
bd12ff12be_tall_four_hundred.jpga radio commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal

The demands of the strikers seem relatively tame, which gives us some insight into the level of repression... 

A sub-demand is adequate natural sunlight - sunlight.  There are few things more torturous than dying by starvation. These men are killing themselves potentially for fresh air and sunlight, and about a third of California prisoners, 11 out of 33 prisons, have joined them. 


photo by Richard Ross: Isolation exercise yard, Security Housing Unit, Pelican Bay State Prison | Crescent City, California 2006

0 TrackBacks

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: "DYING FOR SUNLIGHT" .

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.firejohnyoo.net/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1874

UC Berkeley Billboard

press conference, protest, photos, video, reports

Donations via PayPal
are not tax deductible.




Events & Calendars

War Criminals Watch Events



Important Reading

Physicians for Human Rights
Broken Laws, Broken Lives

NLG White Paper
ON THE LAW OF TORTURE...

The President's Executioner

Detention and torture in Guantanamo



About this Entry

This page contains a single entry published on July 27, 2011 1:28 PM.

Where We At* was the previous entry in this blog.

Where We At* is the next entry in this blog.

Find recent content on the main index or look in the archives to find all content.



Login

  AUTHOR'S LOGIN

Contact

  info@firejohnyoo.net