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Madison, July 5: Hunger Strike Solidarity Pickett at WI DOC

On Tuesday July 5, employees of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) will return from a long holiday weekend of cooking out and summertime patriotism to a day of protest at their workplace. Starting before the office opens and continuing until the DOC commits to stepping down from the use of long term solitary confinement, we will protest in fierce solidarity with the prisoners who have been refusing food since early June.

ROUGH SCHEDULE (if you can attend for only a short time, these are important times):

7:30 AM – arrive and set up
8:00 AM – DOC employees arrive
11:30 – 1PM testimonials, speeches, and increase activities while DOC staff come and go for lunch
1:30 PM- delivery of letter, demands and policy reccomendations by prisoners.
5:00 PM – DOC empoyees leaving for the day
6:00 PM – DOC office closes

There will be testimonials from prisoner’s letters, families, supporters, formerly incarcerated people, solidarity calls from solitary confinement units in other states with less restrictive communication access than WI DOC, theatrical re-enactments of solitary confinement, force feedings and other DOC torture practices, musical performances and singing, spoken word poetry readings, and other activities over the course of the day.

State Senator Lena Taylor and Representative David Bowen are unable to attend, but will send staffers to the rally. Members of The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) of the IWW, ExPrisoners Organizing, WISDOM, and other organizations will be in attendance.