Oakland--Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement

We will be distributing literature and engaging members of the public in conversations about torturous conditions within California's prisons. Please join us.

END SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

June is Torture Awareness Month.
Torture Awareness Month is recognized around the world. On June 26, 1987, the Convention Against Torture (CAT) and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment was adopted. The UN declared June 26 “International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.”

More than 80,000 people in U.S. are caged in tiny cells for 23 or more hours every day, often for years and decades on end.

SCATESC Co-sponsors: Abolitionist Law Center; ACLU of Northern California; American Friends Service Committee (AFSC); Anti-Racist Action-LA; California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC); California Prison Focus; Coalition for Effective Public Safety (CEPS); Critical Resistance Oakland; Direct Action Monterey Network; Fight For Lifers West Pittsburgh, PA; Food Not Bombs; Freedom Outreach Ministries; Global Women’s Strike; Human Rights Coalition Philly/Pittsburgh; Human Rights Pen Pals; Justice for the Dallas 6 Support Campaign; LA Laborfest; Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC); National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter; Payday Men’s Network; Peoples' Action for Rights and Community (PARC-Eureka); Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC-Oakland); Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS); Project: Pollinate; Santa Cruz Resistance Against Militarization (SCRAM!); Sin Barras; Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee; Women of Color/Global Women’s Strike; Youth Justice Coalition.


SCATESC Endorsers: Ramona Africa and The MOVE Organization; Dr. Nancy Arvold, PhD, MFT, member Psychologists for Social Responsibility; Black and Pink San Diego; Cabrillo Col-lege Justice League; Cafe Intifada; Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB); California Peace and Freedom Party; Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR); Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action (COPA) Restorative Justice Institutions; Darrell and Karen Darling; Ella Baker Center for Human Rights; Family of Frank Alvarado Jr., killed by Salinas Police, July 10, 2014; Freedom Archives; Free Our Minds, Free Radio Santa Cruz; Rabbi Borukh Goldberg; Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP); Justice for Palestinians, San Jose; National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)-Santa Cruz County; National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT); Dylcia Pagán, former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner held in US prison; Leonard Peltier Support Group Silicon Valley; Queer Strike; Redwood Curtain CopWatch; San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper; Santa Cruz County Community Coalition to Overcome Racism (SCCCCOR); South Bay Committee Against Political Repression (SBCAPR); T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights; United Against Police Terror San Diego; US PROStitutes Collective; Donna Wallach; Women's Council, California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.