Santa Cruz-Together to End Solitary

11:30 am - set up.
12 noon – signs and outreach to passersby.
12:30-2:00 pm – rally, speak-out, readers’ theater, take action, write letters to end sleep deprivation torture of people in CA solitary units.

Readers’ theater: Hell is a Very Small Place, If the SHU Fits, and Other Voices from Solitary Confinement.

youtube.com/watch?v=lVcEUuByoQE&feature=youtu.be, Solitary Confinement | Readers Theater | Temple Beth El 2016, lucaswolfvideo (Lucas Guilkey @ lucasguilkey.com)

Deep gratitude to our readers’ theater sources:
? Survivors of solitary & family members named in the script
? The book Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement, available wherever books are sold, edited by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway of Solitary Watch (solitarywatch.com) & Sarah Shourd
? If the SHU Fits: Voices from Solitary Confinement, Reader's Theatre compiled by Melvin Ishmael Johnson and Andy Griggs (iftheshufits.net)

End sleep deprivation torture of people in CA solitary units.

Supposedly to prevent suicide, guards are doing “security/welfare checks,” awakening people in isolation units throughout California prisons every 30 minutes night and day. (In Pelican Bay State Prison, people are now awakened every 60 minutes at night.) This has no security interest. It is torture. People need compassionate mental health care, rehabilitation, and restorative justice, not torture.

Take Action

? Write a letter to END SLEEP DEPRIVATION TORTURE of people in CA solitary units: prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com, see the “Take Action” sidebar: “Security/Welfare Checks”
? Promote the AGREEMENT TO END HOSTILITIES (English & Spanish),
available at prisonerhumanrightsmovement.wordpress.com

Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/
Together to End Solitary (nationwide) togethertoendsolitary.org/

#STOPsolitary
#together

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