#FloodTheSystem Launch: September 1, 2015 “This September, Rising Tide North America is calling for mass actions to shut down the economic and political systems threatening our survival. Already, hundreds of […]
Why are prisoners striking?
More than anything, the hunger strikers want to put an end to the increasingly common practice of long-term solitary confinement in the state’s prisons. Most of them are inmates in the Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU), where 1,198* people are being held in 11-foot-by-7-foot windowless cells; about 400 have been in solitary confinement there for more than a decade.
Gulf South Rising is collaborating with local and regional organizers to coordinate and support over 13 events from August 23-30 in multiple locations from Gulfport to New Orleans. The Katrina 10 Week of Action represents a powerful coming together of many organizations dedicated to lifting up the leadership and resistance of the people on the frontlines.
U.S. oil workers in 2015 have staged the biggest strike in 35 years, fighting for adequate wages and safe working conditions.