U.N.I.O.N.
United for No Injustice, Oppression
or Neglect
UNION CURRENT CALL TO ACTION
Alerts!
Ways you can fight for yourself today!
U.N.I.O.N.
United for No Injustice, Oppression or Neglect
UNION CURRENT CALL TO ACTION
Sunday, August 27, Protest Against Visiting Abuses Happening Statewide - Out front of Salinas Valley Prison and Ca. Treatment Facility at dawn - Be there(click here for flyer)
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UNION Families Object to CDCR being given $600 million with which to build bogus mental hospitals on the prison grounds. All these will turn out to be are more ad seg and SHU units. We encourage everyone to write letters to editors of 7 to 10 sentences (only)objecting to this allocation and waste of tax dollars. Sample letters to editors can be read at this link. Please continue to demand release of the frail elderly and terminally ill as well in your posted comments at the news sites and letters to editors
http://www.1union1.com/mentalhospitals.html
Sunday, August 27, Protest Against Visiting Abuses Happening Statewide - Out front of Salinas Valley Prison and Ca. Treatment Facility at dawn - Be there(click here for flyer)
UNION families are planning a protest at Salinas Valley Prison/California Treatment Facility. The primary reason is verbal abuse to visitors and turning them away for absurd reasons.
We were able to get a guard fired and several wardens fired or demoted by protesting at prisons in the past to expose their wrongdoings.
This is the Green Wall at SVSP/CTF (two prisons on one grounds, and if we don't stand up to it, our silence is consent.
Everyone needs to spread the word, mail the flyer into inmates, and plan to bring ten people with you.
We will operate fully within the law, the warden has acknowledged our First Amendment right to protest on the public property in front of the prison. Look for our UNION banner and join us.
Even if your loved one is not at Salinas Valley or CTF, and you have a loved one in prison, it is very important that you back us up with this protest.
The power of numbers in action is the only solution and you are needed. The Green Wall accuses prisoners of crimes they didn't commit simply because they question policy.
They turn people away who have spent hundreds of dollars for wearing white, or some making up an excuse to turn them away.
A large, funded citizen's group can demand employees such as Sgt. K. Nuckles to be fired off the taxpayer payroll.
This is a call to action for everyone with a prisoner inside, which means three million potential voters
Older people, especially those with clear records and small children, handicapped are encouraged to attend.
Please confirm how many you are bringing or sending with rightor1@yahoo.com
If you have a ride to offer or you need a ride, please email Susan Randall at uniondatabase@aol.com. Vans can be rented for $59 a day unlimited mileage and people can share costs, that way it is very inexpensive to make the trip
See the flyer for more details, it will be a beautiful day, high expected late afternoon is only 85 degrees
We will begin protesting at dawn, stay until we drop if we have a large enough crowd.
To worm out of working to make this protest successful is to worm out of winning the media coverage that we need to put this prison on the hotseat over these cruel and unnecessary practices.
Click Here for the flyer -http://www.1union1.com/August27protest.html
I need everyone's support and participation because this abuse must come to an end. Only the size of the crowd determines whether or not that will happen. Will you back me up?P> Rev. B. Cayenne Bird
Journalists want to interview families whose loved ones died during or just after the bacteria outbreak at ll prisons in California. Please report all deaths, riots and fights to your local media or rightor1@yahoo.com for more information. Your name will be protected. An attorney is interested in filing a class action lawsuit over the latest filth disease outbreak. Urge your loved one never to drink the milk produced by the Prison Industry Authority PIA, if this had been a bird flu outbreak, 85,000 prisoners would already be dead
CSATF Letter by Guard
Describes inmate deaths by starvation and beatings - information
sought.
The following volunteers are needed
Web page assistants must know basic html
People who will join our protests three or four times a year in Sacramento to stand up for prisoners and their families
Paralegal and legal assistants who can assist as volunteers for individual criminal and civil cases including wrongful deaths
People who will report all deaths, riots and lockdowns to the UNION Daily Newsletter to keep the press informed of what is taking place behind the walls in California only, send info to rightor1@yahoo.com
Writers who can make short editorial statements of 7 to 10 sentences on prison issues
People who will recruit new subscribers to the UNION Daily Newsletter so they can get trained on how, when, where to fight back for themselves and others
We need at least 100 people to attend important hearings at the legislature in Sacramento and to offer testimony on behalf of prisoners and their families when important bills are on the table.
Writers, protesters, recruiters and those who will register others to vote for candidates who are really going to represent our interests are needed by the thousands. Please write to rightor1@yahoo.com to volunteer your services
We need a call to action for people to write to editors about the dangers of heat meds, no air conditioning and no ice. Cells in Sacramento today were over 105 degrees. This is against the law but it takes a couple hundred people writing to editors about it for anyone to listen
Beverly Bittner wrote a good sample letter a few days ago. If the families don't care enough to write, people are going to die and the prisons get away with killing people. Your silence allows this suffering - nothing more - sqeaky wheels get the grease.
http://www.1union1.com/union_addresses.html
Psych meds cause the person taking them not to be able to handle temperatures
above 90 degrees.
Has anyone considered how this extreme summer heat may affect inmates
who are on certain medications referred to as "hot meds? Prisons do not
have air conditiong and only a few facilities are designed with an air
conditioned area specifically for inmates on these particular medications.
These meds cause the body temperature to rise very rapidly when the
person's exposed to high heat. Unless there's a way to keep this individual
cool, the result will be heat stroke and even death.
An inmate on "hot meds" died because his jail cell was too hot. His
body temperature had become so high that the skin broke out all over in
blisters! The coroner was shocked by the negligence that caused the death
of this inmate.
Why does our prison system feel the need to torture inmates in this
manner until it results in another preventable death?!!
Lawsuits and initiative campaigns are the language of reform. Anything
less than that isn't heard. Thank you for fighting for yourself and
others. Please confirm your attendance and the number of people you are
bringing with rightor1@aol.com
. The outcome of this lawsuit will affect every inmate in California and
we need to all get behind it.
Judge Thelton E.
Henderson - Ordered Federal Receivership
July 5, 2005
Honorable Thelton E. Henderson
We have an audio and the sign up forms on how you can learn how, when,
where to fight back posted at this link There is a daily newsletter
but you must subscribe to it to get it
http://www.1union1.com/Join_the_UNION.html
Other newspapers are doing a good job at covering inmate deaths when they know about them
We need information and family contacts on all inmate deaths
at all prisons sent to rightor1@yahoo.com. Silence is deadly for everyone!
We are preparing to support a lawsuit against CSATF, a mother believes that he son was murdered by the prison guards in ad seg. We need information
to support this lawsuit. There are 27 families in the UNION whose loved ones have died preventable deaths. There are 25 lawsuits filed and everyone needs to support these legal actions before disaster knocks on their door.
2. The families of prisoners have absolutely no place to go
for help even in life and death emergencies (unless it blossoms in the
media) then politicians become interested.There needs to be a person in this multi-billion dollar industry that is going to take care of inmate and family complaints to prevent deaths. Keep pressing for that in your letters to editors and posted comments at the news sites.
Civilian oversight.
No place to go.
Keep on writing until we get through. I think we are exceeding the
word count on the letters to editors which means they won't get used and
of course, hundreds of letters must be received before anyone recognizes
it as important. Limit your letters to editors to 150 words unless
you are a professional writer
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We need the name of the guard who shot Daniel Provencio.
Families with incapacitated inmates may be entitled to get their
loved one paroled on compassionate release.
We need the names of inmates who have died at San Quentin, and other
prisons and the names of their families who should contact U.N.I.O.N. Rightor1@yahoo.com
Also need letters to editors about ad seg and SHU torture with that
going before the Supreme court and the legislators claiming "the prisons
are fixed" we need a whole lot more noise out there.
http://1union1.com/Sound_tracks.htm
Put the newsletter form on the back of it. http://www.1union1.com/newsletter.html
Hand it out in the line up at the prison, at jails, juvenile halls
and the warrants office. Use the YOU word a lot, there are no rescuers
and there can be no justice in anyone's case without fixing the system.
Only a large, funded citizen's group can change laws. So work on
this each day!
All visits - not just family visits - were eliminated by SB2601 passed
in 1996 before the UNION existed. This one is complicated and requires
a large base of support before we even attempt to do it. Everybody
thinks someone else is going to do their share of the fighting for them
which means nobody can win anything important. What a shame when
the families of prisoners outnumber all these law enforcement labor unions
with the number of votes we could collectively cast
The Health Department will tell you that they don't have jurisdiction
over any prisons except the two that are hospitals.
California Medical Board
Ms. Anne Sheehan
John W. Ward, M.D., Editor
Our television show Cayenne Common Sense
will air on two Cox stations in San Diego County on Dec 3.
Our television show focusing on prison, jail and criminal justice
dysfunction is Cayenne
Common Sense. It is airing in the following time slots.
Make certain that you call a friend with cable and ask them
to record and circulate the shows.
A local resident must turn in these shows to each public access station.
If you will do this for the good of public education and the UNION, please
let me know right away, rightor1@aol.com
Every Thursday on Channel 17 at 8:30 p.m., Sacramento
County Channel 19 Time Warner Cable San Diego, Every Saturday 9:30
pm Channel 20 In Santa Clarita (Newhall,
Saugus, Valencia, Canyon Country -- with access to Lancaster, Palmdale,
Castaic, Acton, Agua Dulce.) Every Thursday at 3 p.m. Channel 25 San Fernando
Valley every Tuesday at 9:30 pm San Rafael Comcast Channel 26, every
Wednesday at 7 PM Now airing in Novato! Channel 27
click on the top television set Each show will be aired twice every
Wednesday at 10:30 am and 10:30 pm. The series is now seven shows long
so this at least a fourteen week run, be certain to tune in. It will
also air on regular television on Channel 56 Pasadena in the same time
slots.
Also coming to Long Beach, San Francisco, a second channel in San Diego
and Orange County. If your city isn't listed here, we need you to
take the show into your local cable station. Radio Show, Cayenne Common
Sense Hour Sacramento County, 88.9 Cable Radio, Sacramento County,
go to Channel 17 and hit the SEP button on your television.
Every Friday from 5 to 6 pm one full hour of the Cayenne Common Sense
Hour will play. Be sure to tape the shows and pass them around to
your friends. If It isn't playing in your area, please notify
rightor1@aol.com so we can help you get it on. We have
five audio files but they can only be sent to AOL subscribers since they
are large. Be sure and download these to CD's! We have three
videos of Cayenne Common Sense available on one tape now available, regular
vhs, $18. Package Ban Rips Off Inmate Families, Visit Regulations
Keep Families Apart, State Murder by Medical Neglect 90 min long - all
three episodes on one tape.
The Second Set of Four Shows (Approx. 120 min total) is now available
on VHS dubs for $18 each. Hidden Costs of Incarceration, Crime of Statistics,
Lockdowns Cause Mental Illness, & Officials Violate First Amendment.
Or you can tune into the stations and tape them directly for free
Cayenne
Common Sense - Schedule
Ms. Anne Sheehan
Dear Editor
To announce the filing of a lawsuit against state employees at four
prisons - CSATF, CMF Vacaville, Salinas Valley and Tehachapi for the long
term torture and medical neglect of Mark Grangetto
What you're hopefully working on today.
United States District Court
450 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, California 94102
Inmates are dying at Pleasant Valley, CSATF and Corcoran and the Fresno Bee is not covering these deaths in the news. We may need people to call their advertisers and boycott their products if this protection of the Prison Guards continues
We need to find the family of Philip Allen who was murdered by guards
at CSP Lancaster in September of 2004.
We need 100 volunteers to attend hearings
in the legislature in 2006 and 2007.
The focus right now is downloading and emailing the television
shows to friends and family members posted here. So far they
can be sent one at a time via email just fine! You may also copy
these to diskettes and CD's and mail them as gifts to people.
Public education is everyone's job!
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We have inmate addresses for people who will send in the August 27, 2006 Visiting Protest event flyer. There's still a lot of work that needs to
be done on this one.
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How many names, addresses, phone numbers and emails have you collected
from people who will support a big lawsuit against changes in the visiting
regulations. This one needs to be done right! We aren't collecting
any money at this time but an email address will save us the expense of
a stamp when the time comes that we reach 2,750 supporters.
The Medical Board will you tell they don't get involved with prison
doctors.
But if all 200 families file complaints on the doctors (forms are online)
they just might get involved. I feel that a lawsuit is in order here
but the first priority is to get medical help for these stranded inmates.
So let's raise a huge stink.
1426 Howe Avenue, #54
Sacramento, CA 95825
(916) 263-2382
E-Mail:
Webmaster@medbd.ca.gov
http://www.medbd.ca.gov/
National Commission on Correctional Health Care
1300 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL 60657
Phone (773) 880-1460 | Fax (773) 880-2424
E-mail: http://www.ncchc.org
Complain about callous State and CDC Employees by Sending Letters
to:
State Personnel Board
801 Capitol Mall, MS #22
P. O Box 944201
Sacramento, CA 94244-2010
Epidemiology Program Office MS C-08
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30333
Fax: (404) 639-4198
Audio
Sound tracks of several programs TV programs
9pm Every Wednesday
Pasadena - ONLINE AND ON REGULAR PROGRAMMING ON TV Cayenne
Common Sense: Revised Schedule/ONLINE Prisoner TV show On Streaming Video
on Internet -- Pasadena56. TV website Go to http://www.pasadena56.tv/
Complain about callous State
and CDC Employees by Sending Letters to:
State Personnel Board
801 Capitol Mall, MS #22
P. O Box 944201
Sacramento, CA 94244-2010
Contact: U.N.I.O.N.
Rev. Dr. B. Cayenne Bird
Volunteer Director
P.O. Box 340371
Sacramento, CA 95834-0371