Support the Dallas 6: ENDORSEMENTS

ORGANIZATIONS
(Click on the highlighted links to visit websites of endorsers)

Abolitionist Law Center
Art for Justice
Brandywine Peace Community
California Families Against Solitary Confinement
The Coalition Demanding Reinstatement of Dr. Monteiro

Decarcerate PA
Defending Dissent Foundation
Every Mother is a Working Mother

Fight for Lifers West
Germantown Friends - Mass Incarceration Working Group

Global Women's Strike Philadelphia

Global Women's Strike UK
The Green Party of Philadelphia
Human Rights Coalition Fed Up

Human Rights Coalition Philadelphia
Human Rights Defense Center
International Action Center - Philadelphia
Jewish Voice for Peace - Philadelphia
Marcellus Shale Earth First
Mishkan Shalom New Jim Crow Study/Action Group
Men United for a Better Philadelphia
National Exhoodus Council

Payday Men's Network
Peace and Freedom Party
Peacehome Campaigns
Philadelphia Coalition for REAL Justice
People's Opposition to War, Imperialism and Racism POWIR
Principles NOT Parties
Shalefield Organizing Committee
Sin Barras -Without (Prison) Bars
TCRC The Center for Returning Citizens
T'ruah
Welfare Warriors
WHAT'S UP?! Pittsburgh

Women of Color @ Global Women's Strike
Women's International League for Peace And Freedom - Greater Philadelphia Branch

PARTNERING WITH
American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch

INDIVIDUAL ENDORSEMENTS
Pam Africa, International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Patrice Armstead, Building People's Power
Pastor Antoinette Johnson, King Solomon Baptist Church
Dr. Anthony Monteiro
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of African American Studies & History, Temple University
Dr. Cornel West
Dr. Carla Willard - Franklin & Marshall College, Africana Studies

Who are the Dallas 6?

At SCI Dallas (PA), after a series of abuses at the hands of corrections officials, some prisoners housed in the solitary confinement unit decided they had enough and decided to stage a protest in response to the inhumane conditions and mistreatment of prisoners. Each prisoner involved in the protest is now collectively referred to as the Dallas 6.

On April 28th 2010, one prisoner by the name of Isaac Sanchez was subjected to a planned attack by the Restrictive Housing Unit (RHU) staff, forcibly removed from his cell and brutally beaten by officers in star wars uniforms (riot gear).

Prisoner Sanchez was subject to this attack as a result of speaking out against the abuse at Dallas prison on behalf of his fellow comrades.

After a series of abuses, official misconduct and outright administrative corruption, 6 prisoners at SCI Dallas decided it was time to do something about the inhumane conditions, immediately, before another prisoner dies or is brutally harmed.

As revealed in the Human Rights report, there has long been a policy within the prison walls of Dallas and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) to operate a corrupt administration under an iron wall of silence.

Under this iron wall or code of silence, SCI Dallas, PA DOC, District Attorneys Office, Attorney Generals Office as well as the Pennsylvania State Police operates in participation and conjunction with one another to cover up crimes and misconduct by state offices by overlooking video footage of officers caught on video tape committing human rights violations.

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