Undoing Borders is a collective writing project that comes out of the Migrant Justice Work Group of San Francisco Pride at Work/HAVOQ (The Horizontal Alliance of Very Organized Queers). We first started organizing together in 2007 when a group of us formed a contingent to the US/Mexico No Borders Camp in Calexico/Mexicali. That summer, at an [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
URGENT: Hunger Striker’s Health Rapidly Deteriorates Posted on July 12, 2011 at http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED IMMEDIATELY. PLEASE MAKE CALLS AND FORWARD WIDELY. Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition received an urgent update from medical staff at Pelican Bay State Prison that the health of at least 200 hunger strikers in the SHU is rapidly worsening. A source with [...]
TODAY: CA Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike!
Friday, July 1st, 2011[Re-posted from Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity] Today, Security Housing Unit (SHU) prisoners in Pelican Bay State Prison are starting an indefinite hunger strike to protest the tortuous conditions of their imprisonment. Prisoners at Corcoran State Prison (also in CA) are joining the hunger strike as well. We need to match their courage and amplify their [...]