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#OTD in 1956 – Birth of Kevin Lynch, an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry.
#OTD in 1956 – Birth of Kevin Lynch, an Irish Republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry.
Fuair siad bás ar son Saoirse na hÉireann.
Kevin Lynch was a republican hunger striker and member of the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) from Park near Dungiven, Co Derry. The Dungiven Hurling team was renamed Kevin Lynch’s Hurling Club in his honour after his death.
Lynch’s older brother, Frank, was an amateur boxer and he also participated in the sport as well as Gaelic football and…
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Anybody in the HUMBOLDT/DEL NORTE AREA who is willing to join the local mobilization to Pelican Bay State Prison on July 8th for a nonviolent demonstration in support of the 5 DEMANDS of the Prisoner Hunger & Work Strike, please contact People’s Action for Rights & Community at (707)442-7465 or [email protected]
Please join us on July 8th @ Pelican Bay State Prison for the demonstration, we will be rallying in the Safeway parking lot in Crescent City at 12:30pm
Also stay in touch with us if you wanna come join the Humboldt caravan to the statewide mobilization to Corcoran State Prison on July 13th
END LONG TERM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT!
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Following years of abuse at the hands of the U.S. government, imprisoned transparency advocate Chelsea Manning has released a statement announcing that she will be going on hunger strike to protest years of bullying and harassment by the U.S. military, and demand basic respect, humane treatment, and access to needed healthcare related to her gender transition.Chelsea needs our support now more than ever. If you care about free speech, human rights, and government transparency, sign the petition to show you stand with Chelsea during her nonviolent protest for basic rights and dignified treatment.
People in Islam: Mahmud al-Sarsak
Our Palestinian brother Mahmud may have gone through life being a regionally known soccer player for the Palestinian National Team but in 2009 he was accused of being a terrorist by Israeli Occupation forces and placed into jail without ever seeing a trial. In this time, Mahmud al-Sarsak went from a locally known personality, to a person who gained international support to his release through the use of a hunger strike on March 19, 2012 that lasted until June 18, 2012.
If you’d like, listen to Mahmud share his story here.
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23-year-old Bobby Sands was convicted of illegal gun possession and sent to prison in 1977. He had been a member of the Provisional IRA (Irish Republican Army) since he was 18 and had already served 3 years in prison (also for the possession of illegal guns).
Sands and other IRA prisoners demanded that they be treated as political prisoners and not as criminals. They issued a number of demands (including the right not to wear a prison uniform, right not to do prison work, the right to associate with other prisoners, and the right to receive one visitor a week) and in March 1981 began a hunger strike. Sands was the first to go on strike, with 22 others joining at planned intervals (which they thought would maximize the publicity and protect each striker from ending his strike to save the life of another).
In April, Sands was elected to Parliament (the youngest ever). The British government quickly passed a law banning prisoners from being candidates.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to negotiate with the hunger strikers, and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland stated, “If Mr. Sands persisted in his wish to commit suicide, that was his choice.”
After 66 days without food, Bobby Sands died on 5 May 1981. Rioting broke out in Northern Ireland. More than 100,000 people attended Sands’ funeral. Thatcher responded by saying, “Mr. Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life.“
By the time the hunger strikes ended on 3 October, 9 people had died. All but one of the prisoners’ demands (the right not to do prison work) had been granted.
The 7 months of the hunger strike was one of the deadliest in Northern Ireland, and Sands’ death increased recruitment in the Provisional IRA.
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