Detroiters including ex-prisoners support last year's Geogia prison strike
The Georgia prisoners who led the massive December 9th, 2010, prisoner strike have organized the December 9th Georgia & International Prisoners’ Rights Movement to challenge the Governor and the Department of Corrections to meet their demands to be paid for their labor, to have decent living conditions, education and medical care, for an end to cruel and unusual punishments, a halt to harsh mandatory sentencing, fairness in parole decisions.
At noon on Saturday, February 18, prisoner families, friends and supporters will hold a mass meeting at Atlanta’s Auburn Avenue Library to organize and launch statewide protests and demonstrations, legislative actions and a national effort to challenge the State’s violations of prisoners’ human rights before the International Criminal Court and the United Nations.
Prisoners were viciously beaten after weeks-long strike
The December 9th Movement includes black, Latino, white, Christian, Muslim, Rastafarian and other prisoner organizations, along with The Ordinary People Society, The Nation of Islam Southern Region, The Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee, The National Action Network Southern Region, The Committee to Free Chip Fitzgerald, The Prodigal Child Project, The National Justice Coalition, Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement, Project South. The Steering Committee includes prisoner leaders, Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, Elaine Brown and Charles Muhammad. Despite that many of the December 9th leaders have been brutalized and locked in isolation, the Movement has grown inside and continues to petition the Department of Corrections for their human rights.
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PRESS CONFERENCE HELD LAST YEAR TO SUPPORT GA. PRISONERS
