SAVE THE DATES AUGUST 9TH, 13TH AND OCTOBER 7TH

ALL OF US OR NONE / A NEW WAY OF LIFE RE-ENTRY PROJECT

On August 9, 2011 our meeting will attend an agenda for the purpose of establishing the committees for our Peace and Justice Summit. On August 13, 2011, Saturday, our training session shall commence. Linda Evans, Dorsey Nunn, and Manuel La Fontaine from All OF US OR NONE from San Francisco will be here to help with the training as to defining what we will need to have the summit become a great success.

The elected officials invite list is growing, which we shall discuss further on the 9th. Having to identify our demands and to strategically plan what our language will conclude makes for everyone that will participate on the committees to be in attendance. Our goals and objectives are imperative to have a voice with expectations of results that we can continue our efforts to improve re-entry, housing, employment, and other services needed for the formally incarcerated person, their families and community.

Ban the Box will positively be an item of discussion and I hope that everyone is as excited as I am for being able to be in the position to help make changes for the benefit of our lives and those we serve as a whole.

Our venue for the Peace and Justice Summit will be held at the Houssels Fourm @ Memorial Hospital in Long Beach.

Please come on join us for the planning and execution of the anticipated and needed summit that we all have been waiting for.

FB

On August 23, 2011, the Assembly Public Safety Committee will hold an informational hearing on CDCR's policies and practices with the SHU (security housing units) in Sacramento. Committee Chair Tom Ammiano scheduled this hearing at the request of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition. The legislative committee will hear testimony from speakers called by both sides. There will also be a comment period when family members and others can speak. The coalition urges everyone concerned about the torturous conditions in California's prisons to attend this hearing. People will be coordinating transportation from all over California.

For more information, you can visit the coalition's website at prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com or email prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity@gmail.com or call: 510. 444.0484