Hunger Strikes

Israel Treats Prisoners Worse Than Apartheid

June 1, 2017 Adri Nieuwh, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Hunger Strikes, Israel, Prison

By Adri Nieuwh of for Electronic Antifada - On 15 May, many South Africans fasted in solidarity with more than 1,300 Palestinian prisoners who have been on hunger strike in Israeli prisons to demand their basic rights. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, more than a dozen members of the government, trade union leaders, icons of the liberation struggle, celebrities and others joined the one-day fast, sending a powerful message of support to imprisoned Palestinians. During apartheid, South African political prisoners also used hunger strikes to protest their inhumane conditions. The prisoners on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada and other leaders were held, were forced to work in a lime quarry in all weather with unsuitable clothing, insufficient food and violent prison guards. Mandela and his fellow prisoners launched a protest hunger strike in 1966. Their prison commander felt compelled to address the grievances after only a week, former Robben Island prisoner Sunny Singh recalls. But now, even as the Palestinian mass hunger strike approaches 40 days, many prisoners have been hospitalized, and yet Israeli prison authorities are refusing to negotiate. Instead, Israel has reacted with punitive brutality, including placing leaders in solitary confinement.

Folsom Prisoners Declare Hunger Strike, Mainstream Media Silent

May 29, 2017 Staff, www.liberationnews.org Resist! California, Corporate Media, Hunger Strikes, Prisons, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of PSL - Folsom State Prison, also known as Old Folsom, is the second oldest state prison in California, behind San Quentin, and is highly recognized as one of the first maximum security prisons. Folsom State Prison is also known for the executions of over 90 inmates over the course of 20 years in addition to being where former Black Panther, Eldridge Cleaver, was held for a short period. The decades of oppression behind bars has never failed to produce resistance by those most affected. This most recent hunger strike was declared in response to the harsh conditions that prisoners in Administrative Segregation Units are facing. Prisoners are given food without plates or bowls and they’re not given any cups to drink water from thus being forced to eat from plastic bags and drink from old milk cartons. Mail is withheld from prisoners for months without any explanation. The prison refuses to provide them with basic rehabilitation programs or even cleaning supplies for their cells. Prisoners have reached out to multiple people and have received no response or help for the conditions that they are forced to live with on a day to day basis.

The Prisoners’ Revolt: The Real Reasons Behind The Palestinian Hunger Strike

May 4, 2017 Ramzy Baroud, www.ramzybaroud.net Resist! Hunger Strikes, Palestine, Prison, Prison Strike

By Ramzy Baroud for Politics for the People - Gaza is the world’s largest open air prison. The West Bank is a prison, too, segmented into various wards, known as areas A, B and C. In fact, all Palestinians are subjected to varied degrees of military restrictions. At some level, they are all prisoners. East Jerusalem is cut off from the West Bank, and those in the West Bank are separated from one another. Palestinians in Israel are treated slightly better than their brethren in the Occupied Territories, but subsist in degrading conditions compared to the first-class status given to Israeli Jews, as per the virtue of their ethnicity alone. Palestinians ‘lucky’ enough to escape the handcuffs and shackles are still trapped in different ways. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon’s Ein el-Hilweh, like millions of Palestinian refugees in ‘shattat’ (Diaspora), are prisoners in refugee camps, carrying precarious, meaningless identification, cannot travel and are denied access to work. They languish in refugee camps, waiting for life to move forward, however slightly – as their fathers and grandfathers have done before them for nearly seventy years.

Why We Are On Hunger Strike In Israel’s Prisons

April 18, 2017 Marwan Barghouti, www.nytimes.com Resist! Hunger Strikes, Israel, Prisons

By Marwan Barghouti for The New York Times - HADARIM PRISON, Israel — Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have been both a witness to and a victim of Israel’s illegal system of mass arbitrary arrests and ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners. After exhausting all other options, I decided there was no choice but to resist these abuses by going on a hunger strike. Some 1,000 Palestinian prisoners have decided to take part in this hunger strike, which begins today, the day we observe here as Prisoners’ Day. Hunger striking is the most peaceful form of resistance available. It inflicts pain solely on those who participate and on their loved ones, in the hopes that their empty stomachs and their sacrifice will help the message resonate beyond the confines of their dark cells. Decades of experience have proved that Israel’s inhumane system of colonial and military occupation aims to break the spirit of prisoners and the nation to which they belong, by inflicting suffering on their bodies, separating them from their families and communities, using humiliating measures to compel subjugation. In spite of such treatment, we will not surrender to it.

Immigrants Prison Hunger Strike Demand To See Deportation Officer

March 1, 2017 Spencer Woodman, wwwtheverge.com Resist! Deportations, Detention Centers, Hunger Strikes, Immigration

By Spencer Woodman for The Verge - Beginning last April, and picking up in the weeks following the November election, dozens of detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in rural Georgia went on hunger strike in protest of their detention. The private prison corporation that runs the facility, CoreCivic — formerly Corrections Corporation of America — responded swiftly to the expanding demonstration: as immigrant detainees refused to eat, CoreCivic staff began immediately locking them in solitary confinement for their participation in the non-violent protest. According to ICE detainment logs obtained by The Verge through a Freedom of Information Act request, more than two dozen detainees were put in solitary confinement for hunger striking — some simply for declaring they would refuse to eat, even if they hadn’t yet skipped a meal. The logs also show that CoreCivic may have attempted to gather information on hunger strike organizers through cultivating detainee informants, who were later locked in solitary confinement themselves for protection.

Why Is Former Guantánamo Prisoner On Hunger Strike In Uruguay?

September 13, 2016 Aisha Maniar, www.truth-out.org/ Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Hunger Strikes, Prisoner rights, Uruguay

By Aisha Maniar for Truthout - Adapting to life after lengthy imprisonment and as a refugee in a strange land are challenges. Coupled with the trauma of years of torture and the stigma of Guantánamo, the challenge is colossal. Nearly two years after being released to Uruguay with five others in December 2014, Syrian refugee Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, also known as Abu Wa'el Dhiab, 45, has faced all of these problems. Dhiab spent more than 12 years at Guantánamo after he was sold to the US military by the Pakistani police in 2002.

Chelsea Manning Begins Hunger Strike Against Prison Conditions

September 12, 2016 Editor, www.countercurrents.org Resist! Chelsea Manning, Hunger Strikes, political prisoners

By Editor of Counter Current News - U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning announced she began a hunger strike in protest of her prison conditions as she serves a 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents. Advocacy group Fight for the Future shared a statement from the 28-year-old transgender woman as she demanded written assurances from the Army she will receive all of the medically prescribed recommendations for her gender dysphoria and that the “high tech bullying” will stop.

Chelsea Manning Begins Hunger Strike: ‘I Need Help.’

September 10, 2016 Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Chelsea Manning, Hunger Strikes, Prisoner rights

By Mollie Reilly for The Huffington Post - Imprisoned Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has begun a hunger strike to protest what she describes as “high tech bullying” at the hands of military and prison officials. Manning is serving a 35-year sentence for providing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. The soldier, who came out as a transgender woman shortly after she was sentenced in 2013, sued the government for access to hormone therapy drugs while in prison so she could transition to living as a woman.

Refugees Mount Hunger Strike And March To Protest Closed Borders

August 5, 2016 Sarah Freeman-Woolpert, www.facebook.com Resist! Hunger Strikes, Protests, Refugees

By Sarah Freeman-Woolpert for Waging Nonviolence - A seven-day hunger strike organized by refugees along the Serbian-Hungarian border came to an end last Friday, when the strikers were disbanded by authorities. Many wore silver duct tape over their mouths, while holding signs that said “Fleeing war is no crime,” “Stop wars if you want to stop refugees,” and “Prove that humanity is still alive.” At least 12 required medical attention after refusing food, blankets and tents from humanitarian agencies. The demonstration — which began on July 22 by mostly young men from Afghanistan and Pakistan — reached around 300 people at its height, but was down to 60 men by the end of the week.

San Francisco State University Student Hunger Strike Victory

May 13, 2016 Michael Barba, www.sfexaminer.com Resist! Hunger Strikes, San Francisco

By Michael Barba for San Francisco Examiner - Faculty and students reached a sweeping agreement Wednesday afternoon with San Francisco State University President Leslie Wong to end a hunger strike over funding for the College of Ethnic Studies, according to both sides of the deal. Four students were on a hunger strike since May 2 with a list of 10 demands for SFSU, including the investment of $8 million into the college. One of the students was reportedly hospitalized Monday night after experiencing chest pains, but later returned to SFSU where students and supporters camped for almost 10 full days.

San Francisco Protesters Against Police Brutality End Hunger Strike

May 9, 2016 Steven Rosenfeld, www.alternet.or Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Hunger Strikes, police brutality, San Francisco

By Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet - Five San Franciscans protesting police brutality and institutional racism against the city’s Black and Brown youths ended their hunger strike after 17 days, despite City Hall rejecting their key demand to fire Police Chief Greg Suhr. “As the health of #Frisco5 grows uncertain, the whole San Francisco community took the step to demand the hunger strikers suspend their hunger strike so they can return to the front lines and help shape this movement

San Francisco Hunger Strikers Enter 9th Day To Protest Police Brutality

May 4, 2016 Steven Rosenfeld, www.alternet.org Resist! Hunger Strikes, police brutality, Protests, San Francisco

By Steven Rosenfeld for AlterNet - A hunger strike protesting police violence and racial injustices against black and brown people has entered its ninth day in San Francisco. Eight men and women—including a Board of Supervisor candidate, two pre-school teachers, local rappers and family members—are camped out on a sidewalk outside the police station in the city’s gentrifying Mission district, which has experienced an exodus of Latino residents and artists in recent years.

Hunger Strike Continues As Food Security, Environmental Concerns Persist

March 19, 2016 Alyse Kotyk, www.rabble.ca Resist! Environment, Food Security, Hunger Strikes

By Alyse Kotyk for Rabble - Five days ago, Kristin Henry started a personal hunger strike to protest B.C. Hydro's Site C Dam project. She, along with some other supporters, have camped outside the provincial utility company's head office in downtown Vancouver. Earlier this month, supporters of Treaty 8 Stewards of the Land began a daily, 9-hour hunger strike after B.C. Hydro was granted an injunction against protesters at Site C. This culminated in a rally outside of B.C. Hydro on Sunday March 13, which drew about 50 protesters.

Court Order Fails To Halt Protests Over $9bn Canadian Dam Project

March 9, 2016 Shaghayegh Tajvidi, www.therealnews.com Resist! Canada, Dams, Hunger Strikes, Protests

By Shaghayegh Tajvidi for The Real News Network - This action by hunger strikers in Vancouver marks the latest in the fight against BC Hydro's $9 billion infrastructure project, along the Peace River valley. Site C, which sits on the traditional land of Treaty 8 First Nations, has been approved and aggressively championed by Christy Clark's Liberal government, although the project was introduced at least three decades ago. NEWS REPORT: BC Hydro says the project will generate 1,100 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 450,000 homes a year. The dam would flood more than 5,500 hectares of land along the Peace River.

Hunger Strike At Texas Detention Center Swells Into The Hundreds

November 12, 2015 Kanya D'Almeida, www.rhrealitycheck.org Resist! Hunger Strikes, Immigration, Women

By Kanya D'Almeida for RH Reality Check - for The number of hunger strikers at a Texas immigrant detention facility has swelled to almost 500 since last Wednesday, an Austin-based advocacy group revealed in a phone call with RH Reality Check. When news of the protest action broke on October 28, about 27 women at the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, 35 miles east of Austin, were reportedly refusing their meals. While grievances ranged from abusive treatment by guards to a lack of medical care, the women, hailing primarily from Central America, were unanimous in their one demand: immediate release.

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