1: Press release: "Hunger for Justice" International
Day in solidarity with California Prisoner Hunger Strikers & for Justice
for Trayvon Martin, 31 July – TODAY, 5-7pm
2: LGC “Shut Down Guantánamo!” demonstration in solidarity with
Guantánamo Bay and Pelican Bay hunger strikers, 1 August, 12-2.15pm
3: Take action for Shawki Omar, Palestinian-American hunger striker
in Iraq (letter writing campaign)
4: Take action for Ali Aarrass, Belgian-Moroccan hunger striker in
Morocco (petition & letter writing campaign)
An article by Aisha Maniar from the London Guantánamo Campaign about why
the California hunger strike should matter to Guantánamo
Bay activists. For the connections, issues and background: http://onesmallwindow.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/guantanamo-baypelican-bay-uss-prisoners-strike-for-justice/
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1: Press Release: Family Members, Activists and Celebrities “Hunger
for Justice”
Today, Wednesday July 31st is International Day of Action
in solidarity
with California Prisoner Hunger Strikers & for Justice for Trayvon Martin
with California Prisoner Hunger Strikers & for Justice for Trayvon Martin
On day 24 of the California Prisoner
Hunger Strike and Work Strike launched by 30,000 prisoners, communities
across the US will fast and hold events in solidarity with the hunger strikers
and their 5 core demands, and for Justice for Trayvon Martin.
Action is more urgent every day -- one of the hunger strikers, 32-year-old Billy Guero Sell, has already died, after being
refused medical help. People around the world have committed to fast
today, for 24 hours if they can, and take other action in solidarity.
A LONDON PROTEST is being held on Wed 31 JULY, at 5-7PM outside
the US EMBASSY 24 Grosvenor Square W1A 2LQ
Today’s solidarity demonstration outside the
US Embassy in London is organized by Women of Colour in the Global Women’s
Strike and is supported by the London Guantanamo Campaign, along with Legal Action for Women; Free
Mumia Abu Jamal Campaign UK; Friends of John La Rose; International Coalition
to Free the Angola 3; JENGbA (Patricia Brown);; National Forum of African
Caribbean Organisations; Mahmoud Sarsak, Palestinian prisoner hunger strike;
Marcia Rigg; Stop Isolation (Hamja Ahsan), Campaign Against Criminalising
Communities. Plus Kit & Co, blues and soul singer
UK Contact: Sara Callaway, Women of Colour Global
Women’s Strike: 0207 482 2496
Worldwide, more than 1000 individuals and organisations, including US
celebrities have pledged to support the “Hunger for Justice” campaign in
support of the California prisoners.
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2: Thursday 1 August: “Shut Down Guantánamo!” monthly demonstration,
12-2.15pm, US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, W1A 1AE
Join us at 12-1pm outside the US Embassy and 1.15-2.15pm outside
Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park, opposite Marble Arch, to call for the closure of
Guantánamo and other prisons like this.
Prisoners in California have also been on a mass hunger strike since 8
July against the practice of prolonged solitary confinement, sometimes of
decades, which many consider to be a form of torture. This month’s
demonstration will be in solidarity with both prisoner hunger strikes.
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3: Take action for Shawki Omar:
The family of Shawki Omar, a Palestinian-American held in jail on
spurious charges for the past 8 1/2 years in Iraq have joined the LGC’s
protests outside the US Embassy on a number of occasions, and have held their
own too. Mr Omar has been on hunger strike against increasing abuses in Iraqi jails
since February this year. The Iraqis have no plans to release him even though
he has been held for longer than his alleged sentence. In June, our monthly
demonstration was held in solidarity with his case.
Please write to the Iraqi and US authorities and demand actions. Find
out more here:
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4: Take action for Ali Aarrass:
From Amnesty International: Ali Aarrass, a dual Belgian-Moroccan
national detained in Salé II prison near Rabat, Morocco, is on a “dry” hunger
strike (refusing water in addition to food) to protest ill-treatment at the
hands of the prison authorities. He is reportedly in a critical condition,
still conscious but unable to stand and struggling to speak. Today is day 22 of
his hunger strike.
Find out more about his case and take action for this hunger-striking
victim of torture here: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE29/008/2013/en/93d05968-e56d-45cf-96e8-00c58670eb07/mde290082013en.html
And sign the petition to support him:
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