Five Day Hunger Strike/SHU to Expose Prison Torture!

FIVE DAY VIGIL BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT HALLOWEEN NIGHT AND ENDS ON TUESDAY, ELECTION DAY AT MIDNIGHT On October 31, 2002 at 12 midnight, Halloween Night, Quetzaoceloacuia of the Barrio Defense Committee and All People’s Coalition Against the U.S. Occupation and Terror will begin a 5-day vigil and hunger strike on Powell and Market in downtown San Francisco calling for the abolishment of torture inside the California prison system. Quetzaoceloacuia, mother of Jose Luis Aviña, will spend 24 hours inside a replica of a California Corrections Department "Security Housing Unit" or SHU to bring public attention to the sensory deprivation tactics that her son is subjected to inside of Corcoran State Prison. Other activists from the member organizations of the All People's Coalition will spend 24 hours inside the "SHU" to expose the slow death of prisoners who have been put in the SHU because they have spoken up against the U.S. prison brutality.