Prisoners in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay State Prison (Crescent City, California) will begin an indefinite hunger strike July 1, 2011 to protest the cruel and inhumane conditions of their imprisonment.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
has been found guilty of constitutional rights violations by federal courts, and its practice of long-term isolation, particularly at Pelican Bay, has been identified by human rights monitors as constituting a form of psychological torture.

The lives of the prisoners who say they are going to participate in the strike are at great risk.

CA Prisoner Hunger Strike Starts July 1st!

Pelican Bay SHU Prisoners' Formal Complaint and Final Notice

Todd Ashker, who is in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit, has asked us to expose
THESE DOCUMENTS, Complaint and Final Notice,  in place of the one circulated at the end of March 2011 (below).

The new material is in the Final Notice. The Complaint was part of
the previous hunger strike document but Todd asked me to send it along with
the Final Notice.

The men who intend to go on hunger strike on July 1, 2011 have
collaborated on five core demands that they plan to present, along with their
"Formal Complaint" to the Governor, Secretary of Corrections, and Warden, about
30 days prior to July 1. They have expanded their demands to include
eliminating long term confinement in Security Housing Units and Administrative

The Year of the Corrupt Cop 

The only question is whether CoCo County or San Francisco has dirtier ones. Plus, Brown may become first governor to close state parks.

By Robert Gammon

It's not even half over, but 2011 looks as if it might be the Year of the Corrupt Cop in the Bay Area. The only question right now is whether Contra Costa County or San Francisco has the dirtier police officers. As of late last week, CoCo County had taken the edge with the disclosure that one of its top commanders had allegedly operated a brothel in Pleasant Hill and regularly ripped off prostitutes and other whorehouses.

All of California now linked up to immigration enforcement network

By Matt O'Brien Contra Costa Times Posted: 02/25/2011

MARTINEZ -- The federal immigration agency has finally linked all California police agencies to reveal immigrants -- legal or not -- arrested for violating laws and subject to deportation.

The action, to be announced Friday morning in Southern California, enables U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to tag arrests and travel to all of the state's county jails to pick up immigrants accused of committing crimes.

In essence, local police, willingly or not, have become an arm of the federal immigration agency.

We only have until the end of October to submit public comment on the Navy's intent to do war testing 12 to 50 miles off our coast.

*Please help to get the word out.*

EPIC's website has more detailed information:
http://www.wildcalifornia.org/blog/navywarfaretraining/

The official to email with your comments is: jane.lubchenco@NOAA.gov.
Call members of Congress at: 1-866-220-0044 (toll free)
         Ask them for a Congressional hearing on this issue.

*Rally at the Samoa Cookhouse* Sunday morning (Oct. 31) when Jerry Brown and MEDIA will be there. Get there by 7am, bring signs protesting the Navy's Five Year Warfare Testing Program.

In California?  Flood the Attorney General phone with messages for Jerry Brown. 

Between 8am and 12 noon, and 1pm-4pm.
Phone: (916) 445-9555

Tell Jerry Brown that you don't want S-Comm in your area!! 

from the Center for Political Education:

California town to lay off all city employees, disband police