I've broken with chronology to bring you dispatch #12. Dispatches 6 to 11 will follow shortly. The decision was made because of the time sensitivity of the issue at hand - California's Prisoner Hunger Strike.
"I think the tragedy of this situation is not the prisoners willingness to give up their lives, I think the tragedy is that the CDCR does not see them as human beings," says Isaac Ontiveros, Communications Director for Critical Resistance and part of the press team for the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity (PHSS) coalition.
The PHSS is made up of grassroots organizations & community members committed to amplifying the voices of hunger strikers.
The strike originally ran from July 1st - July 22nd. It was suspended briefly to investigate the viability of concessions made by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. These were unsatisfactory and the strike resumed September 26th.
Ontiveros and I spoke on October 11th, day 15 of the resumed hunger strike.
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