Hunger Strike

72 People Needed To Stand With Gitmo Prisoners

December 3, 2014 Chris Knestrick, www.popularresistance.org Organize! Guantanamo Bay, Hunger Strike, Wars and Militarism

We wanted to let you know that our annual fast for justice in Washington D.C. is just about a month away. We hope that you are making your arrangements to join us in DC. This January 11th, 2015, marks 13 years of torture and indefinite detention. Right now 142 men remain, 73 of whom have been cleared for release but remain held without charge or trial. You are receiving this email because you have been a important participate in the past and wanted to let you know about the details of our activities. This year, we will be gathering from January from Monday, January 5th until Tuesday January 13th, to fast in solidarity with the men at Guantánamo. We would like you to consider two things as we approach our time together: 1) Are you coming to some or all of the Fast 2) Consider becoming on of the 73 who are risking arrest on January 12th.

Hunger Strike In Greece: For A Breath Of Freedom

December 3, 2014 Danai Limneou, www.roarmag.org Resist! Greece, Hunger Strike

Twenty days ago anarchist prisoner Nikos Romanos went on hunger strike to demand his educational furlough. His situation is described as ‘critical’. Nikos Romanos’ name is closely tied to the equally well known Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas in Athens, on December 6, 2008. Only 15 years of age himself, Romanos witnessed his best friend die in front of his eyes. The murder sparked weeks of nationwide rioting. Several years later, Romanos was caught together with four of his comrades while trying to flee from a bank robbery in Velvento. Following their arrest they were beaten up under police custody to such extent that the photographs released by the police had to be overtly photoshopped to hide their injuries.

Private Prison Nightmare For Immigrants In Georgia

December 2, 2014 Azadeh N. Shahshahani, www.thehill.com Educate! Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Immigration, Mass Incarceration

Reports are mounting of a living nightmare in Lumpkin, Georgia, at Stewart, a 1,750-bed detention facility housing immigrants facing potential deportation. According to multiple interviews with detained immigrants at Stewart, they are dealing withmaggots in food, improper medical care, sweltering temperatures, and in many cases no communication with staff due to no translators on site. The Corrections Corporation of America operates the facility for profit, adding fuel to an already roaring fire of opposition. While President Obama’s expanded deportation relief is a welcome move—the truth is that without addressing immigration detention, immigrants will continue to suffer horrifying conditions in detention centers.

Activists Go On Hunger Strike Against Homeless Laws

November 25, 2014 Mark Douglas, www.wfla.com Resist! Florida, Homelessness, Hunger Strike, Protest

Tampa activists Dezeray Lyn and Chris Mince are joining two South Florida food sharing activists on a hunger strike to protest a recent crackdown on feeding the hungry in Ft. Lauderdale. "There's nothing that would stop me from expressing my humanity for the people I've grown to live,"said Lyn. The arrest of 90-year-old Arnold Abbott, a longtime social activist who feeds the homeless in Ft. Lauderdale, has sparked national attention and outrage among people who routinely organize food sharing in parks. Lyn says one of her fellow activists in South Florida has now gone without food for 22 days and another hasn't eaten anything in 11 days to protest the food sharing crackdown.

150 Hunger Striking Students Tortured In Egypt

September 28, 2014 Staff, www.middleeastmonitor.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Egypt, Hunger Strike, Students

Al-Azhar Students' Union has said that there are over 150 students on hunger strike and they are subjected to severe torture, including verbal and physical abuse inside prisons. In a statement the union said that prisons' administrations threaten the hunger strikers with burning, killing them or moving them to be with criminal detainees. The prisoners, the statement said, are banned from getting water for long periods of time. One hunger striker is the head of the Faculty of Commerce in Al-Azhar University, Usama Zaid, who is in Abu-Za'bal Prison. According to the statement the prisoners receive bad medical treatment and are even subjected to torture inside the prisons' clinics. Hunger strikers are put in solitary confinement for long periods or put with criminal prisoners, who are encouraged to beat and kill them without being liable to judicial trials.

Global Fast For The Climate Comes To NYC

September 24, 2014 Staff, www.fastfortheclimate.org Resist! Climate Change, Hunger Strike

Fast for the Climate calls on Heads of State for urgent action at New York Summit on Climate Change Supporters of the worldwide Fast for the Climate movement will join together in New York in a vigil showcasing their own climate action and inviting Heads of Government meeting in the city to join them. The movement includes many environmentalists, youth groups and people of faith who are showing the strength of their commitment by going without food one day a month to call for world leaders to do more to solve the climate crisis. In the run up to the Climate Summit in New York.the movement is making a special appeal to heads of governments, and will be meeting in New York for a vigil at the UN at time of the summit.

Egypt: Hunger Strikes Against Mass Arbitrary Arrests

September 16, 2014 Revolution-News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Egypt, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Mass Incarceration

156 people are now on hunger strike in Egypt, 82 inside Egyptian prisons and 74 outside, in solidarity with all those who have been arrested by the Egyptian military and police forces. Estimates say around 41,000 people have been arrested in Egypt since the ousting of Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. Human rights groups report at least 25,000 people have been arrested this year and many have died while in custody. Reports indicate that torture is still widely used on prisoners. While many in Egypt and abroad are elated with today’s news of the Shura Council detainees being released on bail, there are still way too many people locked up in deplorable conditions for ridiculous reasons in Egypt. It is difficult to keep track of who exactly is in Egyptian jail but here’s a list of some recent arrests.

Human Rights Defender’s Hunger Strike Against Arrests, Detentions

September 3, 2014 Bahrain Center For Human Rights, www.bahrainrights.org Resist! Bahrain, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Torture

01 September 2014 - 8th day hunger strike - Updates Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja is now in his 8th day of his hunger strike, and his health is in extreme danger. The family visited Adbulhadi Al-Khawaja this morning, and reported that he is very weak. Last night, doctors feared for his life after his blood sugar level would stubbornly not rise above 2.0, despite providing him with glucose in drinking water. They begged him to be transferred to a hospital, but he refused to be taken to any medical clinic. However, Abdulhadi consented to receiving an IV, and after this his blood sugar level rose to 11; it has stabilised this morning at 6. His blood pressure is at 80/55. He is suffering from a urinary track infection because of dehydration, and he has very little energy. The family requested an independent medical report from an Irish expert on these issues, and the full report can be found here. 30 August 2014 - 6th day hunger strike - Updates AlKhawaja has called his wife today. His blood sugar dropped to 2 and his blood pressure reached 90/55. He took water with glucose and his blood sugar increased to 3.1. He was visited by an official from the ombudsman for not more than five minutes. The official asked AlKhawaja about the reason of his hunger strike and if he knows it’s dangerous on his life. Alkhawaja passed a request through his wife to all NGOs to support the case of the prisoners who are currently on hunger strike at the dry dock detention center in Bahrain.

Bangladesh Police Fire Tear Gas At Striking Garmet Workers

August 9, 2014 AFP, www.abc.net.au Resist! Bangladesh, Hunger Strike, Labor

Bangladesh police have fired tear gas and stormed a garment factory where workers were staging a hunger strike over pay, a union official says. The police, armed with batons, forced 400 workers to flee the factory in the capital Dhaka where they had been holding a 10-day strike to demand back pay and a holiday bonus, the official said. Bangladesh's garment industry, the world's second largest, which supplies top Western retailers such as Wal-Mart and H&M, has a woeful history of poor pay and conditions for its four million workers. "Police fired tear gas and baton charged us, they forced us out of the factory, where we were staging the hunger strike," said Moshrefa Mishu, head of Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee, which represents 15 garment unions. An AFP reporter at the scene saw workers running out of the factory crying due to the tear gas, while others were bleeding from head injuries. Angry at the police action, the workers then took to the streets, vandalising cars and buses and prompting officers to fire more rounds of tear gas, the reporter said. The workers have been on a hunger strike on behalf of 1,500 employees who stitch clothes in five factories belonging to the Tuba Group in Dhaka's Badda district.

First Nation Protester Ends Hunger Strike

August 2, 2014 Nicole Ireland, www.cbc.ca Resist! Environment, First Nation, Hunger Strike, Mercury, Protest

Steve Fobister Sr., an elder at Grassy Narrows First Nation suffering from mercury poisoning, ended his hunger strike on Wednesday morning. Fobister announced the hunger strike at a news conference on Monday, in Toronto, stating that he hoped his protest would help to draw attention to the issue of mercury contamination in his community. The news conference called on the Ontario and Canadian governments to acknowledge that Grassy Narrows residents continue to suffer from mercury poisoning four decades after a Dryden paper mill dumped the toxin into the Wabigoon-English River system. On Tuesday, Ontario Minister of Aboriginal Affairs David Zimmer issued a statement expressing concern about Fobister's health and promising to "champion a review of the Mercury Disability Board, to determine how best to help those with mercury-related health issues." Grassy Narrows has said many mercury poisoning victims have been denied compensation, partly because the board is using 30-year-old science to determine who is affected and eligible for a claim. Zimmer also said he "agreed the government would explore the options for more on-site treatment for Grassy Narrows First Nation residents" and that he would visit the community on August 6. In a statement posted Wednesday on freegrassy.net, a Grassy Narrows' advocacy website, Fobister said he ended his hunger strike so he could "live and continue to fight for Grassy Narrows, for all aboriginal people, and for environmental justice."

Dozens Of Palestinian Detainees On Hunger Strike Are Hospitalized

May 29, 2014 Isabel Kershner, www.nytimes.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Hunger Strike, Israel, Palestine

Sixty-eight Palestinians detained in Israel have been hospitalized after refusing food for almost five weeks, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prison Service said on Wednesday. Participants in what has now grown into a mass hunger strike, they are protesting Israel’s practice of detention without charge or trial; at least 160 such administrative detainees are currently being held in Israeli prisons. The spokeswoman, Sivan Weizman, said that the condition of the hunger strikers was not life-threatening at this point and that those who had been striking the longest had been put under supervision in nine hospitals around the country. But the minister of prisoner affairs for the Palestinian Authority, Issa Qaraqe, described the situation as “very dangerous” and said the health of many prisoners was deteriorating. “Most are vomiting blood and fainting,” Mr. Qaraqe told the official radio station Voice of Palestine on Wednesday. “They cannot walk, they are in terrible pain. We are afraid some will die if the situation continues.” Up to 350 prisoners have by now joined the hunger strike, according to Palestinian representatives, and the number is expected to rise in the coming days.

Guantanamo Detainee Reveals Brutal Punishment Of Hunger Strikers

May 14, 2014 Reprieve, www.reprieve.org.uk Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Hunger Strike, Torture

A prisoner in Guantánamo Bay has revealed to his lawyers the increasingly brutal punishment meted out to detainees peacefully protesting their indefinite detention via hunger strike. Emad Hassan wrote in a letter to his lawyers: “One Yemeni is 80 pounds and he was brought to his feeding by the Forced Cell Extraction (FCE) team, Guantánamo's official riot police. Yesterday the F.C.E team beat him when they came into and out of his cell. He is 80 pounds with one broken arm. He cannot walk, just crawl from his bed to the faucet or toilet once he needs to use it! How can someone with this condition fight 8 armoured guards?” Emad, himself a Yemeni who has been on hunger strike since 2007 and cleared for release from the prison since 2007, has never been charged with a crime. He said in another letter: “As I write now, [a detainee] is vomiting on the torture chair, having been brought there by the Forced Cell Extraction (FCE) team. The nurse and corpsman have refused to stop the feed, or to slow the acceleration of the liquids.”

Guantánamo Protest at Korea Law Center Conference

April 18, 2014 World Can't Wait, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Hunger Strike, Torture

Advocating “No War Criminals On Campus!” and “Shut Down Guantanamo, End U.S. Torture,” activists will demonstrate at the Korea Law Center’s Inaugural Conference, where John Yoo is among a day of speakers including high level Korean government officials and business representatives. As the Guantanamo prison camp remains open into its 13th year – and Obama’s promises to shutter it remain unkept -- 154 men remain imprisoned there. Most of them have never been charged with a crime. 76 were cleared for release by the US government years ago, 56 of them Yemeni. Since the prisoner’s hunger strike of over one year ago which thrust Guantanamo back into world headlines, approximately 40 men continue this strike.

Immigration Hunger Strike Leader Deported In Middle Of Night

April 9, 2014 Not1More, www.notonemoredeportation.com Resist! Hunger Strike, Immigrant Rights

Yesterday I got a call from Manuel Martinez-Arambula, one of the leaders of the hunger strike inside the Joe Corley Detention center, from Mexico. Without his family’s or his community’s knowledge, he had been deported in the middle of the night, as retaliation for his leadership in the hunger strike. That night was also Manuel’s 50th birthday. While Manuel was being forced into a deportation van, immigration officers lied to us, and told us he was only being moved to another detention center. Manuel had spent his life in the U.S., having lived here since he was 8 years old. His wife is a legal permanent resident and he has a 13 year old daughter who is a US citizen. He is a civil rights leader who had been on hunger strike for 10 days, protesting the conditions inside the detention center. He is one more of over a dozen organizers who have already been deported.

Immigration Hunger Strikes Spread To Texas

March 20, 2014 Staff, www.notonemoredeportation.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Hunger Strike, Immigration

After a massive hunger strike inside the Tacoma Detention Center reached its 11th day, detainees found their effort spreading to other facilities inspired by their demands. Last night at midnight, immigrants held at the Joe Corley Detention Center in Conroe, TX initiated their own fast in protest of their treatment at the facility run by the same company, the GEO Group, and as part of the nation-wide call for an end to deportations. Immigrant rights activist Maru Mora Villalpando sees momentum building for reforms but expressed concern over the reaction of ICE and the GEO Group: “The hunger strikers are civil rights leaders taking a brave stand against inhumane treatment. At the Northwest Detention Center, GEO Group and ICE have retaliated by putting leaders in solitary confinement and threatening to force-feed others. With the strike spreading to Texas, it’s time for ICE and GEO Group to recognize the detainees’ demands instead of engaging in retaliation.”

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