SF Bay View, October
26, 201
Our
resolve remains as strong as ever, and we continue to press forward despite our
torture being taken up a notch. We send a clenched fist salute to everyone who
has been supportive of our on-going struggle to be liberated from these
man-made gulags called Security Housing Units (SHUs) and Administrative
Segregation Units (ASU).
The
30,000 prisoners who spoke out against the dismal reality in which prisoners
are being held should be a clear message to CDCr [California Department of
Corrections and rehabilitation – prisoners often write the “R” in lower case
because rehabilitation is denied them] officials that the dire, desperate conditions
that we continue to endure are unacceptable!
No one
should receive a sentence from a court and then have those responsible for
carrying out that sentence exact revenge and arbitrary punishments at their
whim. This is the reality that 30,000 men and women lent their collective voice
to opposing.
No one
should receive a sentence from a court and then have those responsible for
carrying out that sentence exact revenge and arbitrary punishments at their
whim. This is the reality that 30,000 men and women lent their collective voice
to opposing.
The
“crying gang” game is all cried out. It’s time to treat human beings like
humans. A third of the prison population has clearly said that the inhumane
conditions of long term solitary confinement and prison oppression must end.
The
exploitation of prisoners must end. The exploitation of California taxpayers
must end. There is no justifiable reason why a man or woman imprisoned in the
1960s or 1970s or even 1980s should still be languishing in prison.
We stand
in solidarity, continuing to press forward with our protracted struggle to end
these inhumane conditions.
Against
all odds
Within
Pelican Bay SHU, within our struggle to shed light on the inhumanities of
prison conditions and state sanctioned acts of aggression and torture, we would
like to extend our prayers and thanks to the 16 hunger strike representatives
who were kidnapped from Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) Short Corridor on July
11, 2013, and unjustly placed on “hell row” in the Ad Seg torture chambers. New
Afrikan Abdul Olugbala Shakur was unceremoniously kidnapped from the Short
Corridor as well, on July 24, 2013, and subjected to the same atrocities. We
stand with you.
With the
addition of Abdul Shakur, one should take notice that he is not a rep, but
instead is a critical New Afrikan thinker, who is a strong adherent to New
Afrikan politics and an accomplished jailhouse lawyer. He has five pending
lawsuits against the state tools of repression, CDCr and PBSP, for the
injustices and inhumane conditions and treatment in blatant disregard of
prisoners’ First Amendment rights that are continuously inflicted upon
kaptives.
It’s a
clear fact that Abdul was targeted by prison officials for removal and
containment with the 16 reps in order to subject him to the pain and suffering
handed down to all our reps, for his and their unwavering stances against
prison injustice.
As a
result of this system’s propensity for corrupt practices and the constitutional
violations of prisoners’ rights, we contend the following prison officials
conspired against Abdul Shakur and all 16 hunger strike reps to place them in
Ad-Seg torture chambers [the first three with the CDCr’s Division of Adult
Institutions and the second three at Pelican Bay State Prison]:
Chief Deputy
Administrator for Special Projects Susan Hubbard,
Chief Administrator for
Special Projects George Guirbino,
Director of Adult Institutions Michael
Stainer,
Pelican Bay Warden G.D. Lewis,
Investigative Service Unit (ISU) Capt.
G. Barnenburg,
and Institutional Gang Investigator (IGI) Lt. J. Frisk.
It’s a
clear fact that Abdul was targeted by prison officials for removal and
containment with the 16 reps in order to subject him to the pain and suffering
handed down to all our reps, for his and their unwavering stances against
prison injustice.
These
acts against Abdul and the reps were purely retaliatory by CDCr officials, who
utilized a peaceful protest as a pretext to justify subjecting each and every
one of us to a more intense and discriminatory torture.
We will
not be broken by vicious systematic attacks carried out by the CDCr hierarchy.