The fucking queen is in ireland!

So a million years ago there were these Irish people who fought for self determination. Anyway there was a super sad hunger strike and Maggie Thatcher with her iron fist or whatever let them all die. It was the subject of a great book, Ten Men Dead. I think you should go out and get this for your kindels tout suite (Sp?)!

Anyway so like the world has the history of a flea and even Irish people, who've been fighting a war of occupation for approximately 1200 years forgot I guess, and allowed her majesty to come ashore in an emerald green suite and practice her Irish. I write this to let you know that there is about to be a hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison, right here in California, on July 1, 2011! I ask all the Trendsters to get rid of the SHU, and support these incarcerated people as though they were your favorite freedom fighters!

Here is some more information:

n July 1, 2011, between 50 and 100 prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in the Security Housing Unit (SHU), Corridor D, are going on an indefinite hunger strike. The D corridor (also known as the "short" corridor) has the highest level of restricted incarceration in the state of California and among the most severe conditions in the united states. The rules of their confinement are extremely harsh in order to force them to "debrief" or offer up information about criminal or prison gang activity of other prisoners. Most inmates in the SHU are not members or associates of prison gangs, as the PBSP staff claims, and even those who are put their lives and the lives of their families and other prisoners at risk if they debrief.

Using conditions of severe mental and physical harm in order to force prisoners into confessing is torture! Many debriefers simply make up information about other prisoners just to escape the isolation units. This misinformation is then used to validate other prisoners as members or associates of prison gangs who in reality have nothing to do whatsoever with gang activity.

This widespread hunger strike has the potential to become the most significant event in California prison reform in the last decade. Public support is crucial. Outside support work will be coordinated by California Prison Focus and other groups.