This Saturday, March 8th - International Women’s Day Women Against Repression & Occupation: Rock, Rap & Speakout vs Poverty, Prisons & War Come out this Saturday to hear family members speak about their organizing to get their loved ones out of solitary confinement. All welcome! Wheelchair accessible. Children’s activities/childcare, food, action tables, door prizes, musical and spoken word performers, speakout and more… Suggested donation $10-20, more if you can, less if you can’t. Proceeds to Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, Medical School of Dr. Aristide, and prisoner family groups. A recent article on the struggle to end juvenile solitary confinement in New York state: https://medium/solitary-lives/26ab1e09632d Sixteen, Alone, 23 Hours a Day, in a Six-by-Eight-Foot Box Ismael Nazario’s longest stretch in the box lasted four months. He paced a lot, talking to himself and choking back tears and rage. He tried to block out the screaming of the teenage boys in other jail cells in his unit, but he couldn’t. Sometimes, he would stand at the door of his tiny cell and yell. “You just get angry with hearing people constantly hollering all day,” he says. “There’s so many people that have been in that cell and screamed on that same gate, it smells like a bunch of breath and drool.”
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:12:15 +0000
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