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Press Release: Response To DA Decision on The Mumia Abu Jamal Case

 

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Calls for Mumia Abu-Jamal's Release

 

GEORGIA PRISONS ON FIRE 12/06/11

Georgia prisons on fire

December 6, 2011

by Eugene Thomas

Written Nov. 28, 2011 – On Nov. 25, Hancock State Prison in Sparta, Georgia, erupted into a full scale riot, as prisoners ran off the guards in several of the cell houses (euphemistically called dormitories, as though this was a college campus) in protest over abuses by guards and grievances unresolved by administrators.

Secrecy Surrounds Inmate Suicides in California State Prisons

Secrecy Surrounds Inmate Suicides in California State Prisons

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10th ANNUAL NATIVE COMMUNITY PROTEST AT EMERYVILLE SHELLMOND

For the 10th straight year, community members gathered on Black Friday to protest the desecration of the sacred Ohlone shellmounds in Emeryville that were disturbed when the Bay Street Mall was constructed on top of them. The demonstration was on November 25 this year, and organizers of the event hoped to educate shoppers about the Ohlone burial sites, and that there were other shopping alternatives located nearby.

Occupy Oakland in Solidarity with California Prison Hunger Strike 10/17/2011 October 20, 2011 in Front Page, GA Statements, General Assembly, News

October 20, 2011 in Front Page, GA Statements, General Assembly, News

10/17/2011

A Letter to the prisoners on hunger strike in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) of Pelican Bay State Prison and those in other units joining them.

We, as members of Occupy Oakland, send our support for your strike against the cruel and inhumane conditions of imprisonment.

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