{"id":1480,"date":"2011-08-08T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2013-02-03T17:39:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:39:44","slug":"california-prisoner-hunger-strike-to-continue-if-demands-not-met-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"California: Prisoner hunger strike to continue if demands not met this week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>from <a href=\"https:\/\/prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/03\/urgent-strike-may-continue\/\">prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity<\/a> (please note that 2-3 weeks after July 20th, which Todd Ashker mentions as the date the strike may resume, is <strong>the end of this week at the latest<\/strong>):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We received a letter from Todd Ashker, one of the hunger strike  leaders at Pelican Bay, dated July 24th, 2011. He says the hunger  strikers are giving the CDCR 2-3 weeks from July 20th to come up with  some substantive changes in response to their five core demands. <strong>If the CDCR does not follow through, prisoners at Pelican Bay plan to go back on hunger strike.<\/strong> Todd writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s very important that our supporters know where we stand, and  that CDCR knows that we\u2019re not going to go for any B.S. We remain as  serious about our stand now as we were at the start, and mean what we  said regarding an indefinite hunger strike peaceful protest until our  demands are met. I repeat\u2013we\u2019re simply giving CDCR a brief grace period  in response to their request for the opportunity to get [it] right in a  timely fashion! We\u2019ll see where things stand soon enough!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have also received information from prisoners at other prisons.  Many prisoners are just now receiving letters sharing updates on the  strike from July 15th. However, supporters outside prison have received  confirmation that prisoners across the state are no longer refusing food  since the leaders at Pelican Bay agreed to the CDCR\u2019s offer on July  20th. According to prisoners who were striking at Centinela, the  majority of hunger strikers work in the prison\u2019s kitchen and lost their  jobs for participating in the strike. Many prisoners who were coming up  for review by the parole board are now worried\u00a0 their participation and  support of the strike will result in denied parole.<\/p>\n<p>These updates from Pelican Bay and Centinela mean the legislative  hearing coming up on August 23rd is incredibly important, and a serious  opportunity for outside supporters to apply pressure on the CDCR and  state legislature to make substantial changes. Prisoner Hunger Strike  Solidarity and hunger strike supporters throughout California are <strong>calling  for a statewide mobilization to Sacramento for the Legislative Hearing,  and for supporters everywhere to continue supporting the strike.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com\/join-support-the-statewide-mobilization-to-sacramento-august-23rd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to hear more ways people can support the strike and statewide mobilization to Sacramento. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity (please note that 2-3 weeks after July 20th, which Todd Ashker mentions as the date the strike may resume, is the end of this week at the latest): We received a letter from Todd Ashker, one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[882],"tags":[176,27,215],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-california","tag-hunger-strike","tag-pelican-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}