One Day Hunger Strike on National Occupy in Support of Prisoners Day (Feb 20th)

From a press release that the SF Bay View published and sent us:

At least 20 prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP- Ohio's Super-Max prison) will refuse food on Monday February 20th in Solidarity with the National Occupy for Prisoners Day of Action.

The fast was called by Siddique Abdullah Hasan, a Muslim Imam on death row at OSP for his alleged involvement in the 1993 Lucasville Uprising. In January of 2011 Hasan and other death row prisoners wrongfully convicted in relation to the Lucasville Uprising staged a successful hunger strike, winning their demands for improved conditions and access to legal resources.

Outside supporters in Columbus OH will be staging a demonstration downtown, delivering symbolic letters to politicians and officials involved in maintaining, managing and expanding the prison system in Columbus, in Ohio and across America. They will demand increased state pay and reduced commissary and telephone prices in Ohio prisons. The continuous rise of commissary and telephone prices, while prisoner pay remains the same creates an artificial economy and living conditions akin to modern slavery.

More information about the protest can be found online at RedBird Prison Abolition's website: http://www.redbirdprisonabolition.org/2012/02/occupy-for-prisoners.html
Contact: RedBirdPrisonAbolition@gmail.com
Phone: 330-333-0826

Note from OH Prison Watch: You can follow activities, read words from the prisoners who are also involved in Occupy on the website of the National Occupy in Support of Prisoners Day (Feb 20) here: Occupy4prisoners.org