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On Wednesday, June 22nd, a speaking and film screening event entitled “Protecting Glen Cove” was held at the Vallejo Naval & Maritime Museum in downtown Vallejo. Over 40 Vallejo residents were in attendance, including residents of the Glen Cove neighborhood. Young Ohlone, Pit River and Mexica singers from the ongoing prayer vigil at Sogorea Te (Glen Cove) opened and closed the evening with songs accompanied by clappers and a hand drum.

Pelican Bay Warden Greg Lewis: 707-465-1000 x500
Secretary of CDCR Matthew Cate:  916-323-6001
Governor Jerry Brown:  916-445-2841

The demands:

Inmates in at least a third of California's prisons are believed to be refusing meals in solidarity with maximum-security prisoners at Pelican Bay.

Transmitted on behalf of the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee: Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness... justice for all. These are the lofty ideals celebrated each year on the 4th of July. The government often confuses the saying with the doing, however... like in the case of Leonard Peltier. On June 27, Leonard Peltier was removed from the general population at USP-Lewisburg and placed in solitary confinement. We know this was not done for Leonard's protection. We also are certain that Leonard has done nothing wrong.

Dear Jeanne Woodford,

I am writing this to say to you that I and many others are glad that you
have had a change of heart and mindset concerning this State’s use of
the death penalty.

by Angola 3 News                          Jun 14th, 2011 11:54 PM While spotlighting the Solitary Watch website, this new interview also focuses on the upcoming hunger strike at the Pelican Bay supermax prison in California (it begins on July 1), and Hugo Pinell, of the San Quentin Six, who has been in continuous solitary even longer than the Angola 3.
                  

by Richard Mellor

Tuesday Jun 14th, 2011 1:53 PM
This is where the concessionary policies of
the Union hierarchy have led us. The Bay area Labor movement has the
potential power to turn this tide, but the leadership will not fight
until a movement from below forces them. This is what activists have to
help build.

SACREMENTO BEEPublished Sunday, Jun. 05, 2011

The fearmongering responses to the U.S. Supreme Court declaring
California's prison system "cruel and unusual" in violation of the
Eighth Amendment were predictable. The court ordered the population
thinned so medical services can be effectively delivered to the state's
wards, a necessity given the uncontested fact that "an inmate in
California's prisons needlessly dies every six or seven days." Some
justices, politicians, law enforcement and pundits insist on a coming

By Trey Bundy on June 6, 2011 - 3:50 p.m. PDT