STARTING in 2010 a series of work and hunger strikes took place in US prisons involving thousands of prisoners. These actions culminated in 2012 in a historic statement an Agreement to End Hostilities issued by men held in long-term solitary in Pelican Bay State Prison.
It reads: “Beginning on October 10 2012, all hostilities between our racial groups…will officially cease… We can no longer allow [the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] to use us against each other for their benefit!”
They urged their families campaigning for them to also cease racial hostility.
This agreement laid the basis for more unified collective action and a groundbreaking two-month hunger strike the following year of over 30,000 prisoners in California which accomplished massive change – starting with visibility and respect for this prisoner-led struggle, but also the release of over 1,600 prisoners from solitary, the prospect of parole for thousands more, concrete improv
Sushila Phillips died aged just 36, following a 20-year struggle with anorexia
Eve Simmons met Sushila through her eating disorder campaigning website
Eve and Sushila, who last spoke just over year ago, were treated in same hospital
They were treated a decade apart, but their experiences were strikingly similar
Warning: This article may be upsetting to people with eating disorders
When did environmentalists become so boring and sinister?
9 May 2021 • 11:00am
When I was a child watching Dad’s Army, I used to look at the characters and evaluate what it might be like to be married to each of them. (I was a precocious only child - don’t judge.) Spivvy Private Walker was obviously the most exciting - but Sergeant Wilson was so suave. In the second division, Private Pike was cute but wet and Lance Corporal Jones could give out extra rations. Scraping the bottom of the barrel, Private Godfrey reminded me of the grandad I’d never had. It was Private Fraser, though, who always came very last on my list of lust. The dour Scottish under-taker with this cries of “We’re doomed!” and “A terrible way to die!” disturbed me in a way my childish mind couldn’t quite define. Who would have thought that the creepy Private would one day become the role model for environmentalists - a group which once seemed so fresh and funky?
THE need to deliver mental health therapy for children across Dorset has soared since the start of the pandemic, figures reveal. Data from NHS England show 49,360 mental health treatment sessions were delivered to under-18s by NHS services in the Dorset CCG area between April last year and January this year – 16.1 per cent more than in the same period 12 months before. It reflects the trend across England, where the number of sessions delivered increased by 16.1 per cent to around four million. This has prompted organisations such as the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) to warn children and young people are at risk of lifelong mental illness due to the mental health crisis triggered by the pandemic.