two articles about the Pelican Bay hunger strike

For the past few weeks, I've been working on an article about the (just-ended) Pelican Bay (and other California prisons') hunger strike. It went up on Truthout yesterday: http://www.truth-out.org/california-prison-hunger-strike-ends-conditions...

A week earlier, after bringing my daughter to the tail end of the big union march to Zuccotti Park off Wall Street, I wrote a shorter piece about the strike, hoping to use some of the momentum around Wall Street to get people fired up about ending SHU conditions (or at least supporting the hunger strikers): http://www.newclearvision.com/2011/10/14/strike-zone/#more-1005