Tacoma, WA: The Strike Screening

Look2Justice is partnering with the Represent Justice to hos a local film screening of the documentary film “The Strike”! Don’t miss this gripping documentary on the historic Pelican Bay hunger strike, featuring an intimate panel with the film’s subjects Jack Morris (formerly incarcerated at Pelican Bay) and activist Delores Canales.

Presented with Elliott Bay Books and sponsored by Disability Rights WA, Unlock the Box Campaign, Represent Justice, End Solitary WA, Social Documentary Network, and WA Prison History Project.

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Synopsis:

Amidst the redwood trees on the California-Oregon border sits one of the most infamous prisons in US history. Pelican Bay is a labyrinthine construction of solid cement blocks – a supermax prison – opened in 1989 and designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement. For decades, it held men alone in tiny cells indefinitely. Then one day in 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on hunger strike.

THE STRIKE weaves together, thread-by-thread, a half century of personal and criminal justice history into a single, compelling narrative around the drama of the 2013 hunger strike to end indefinite isolation. Grounded in testimonies from the hunger strikers themselves, the film details how the protest was conceived from a whisper inside the halls of Pelican Bay to a colossal feat across California prisons. With unprecedented access to state prison officials and never-before-seen footage from inside Pelican Bay, THE STRIKE reveals the panic that gripped the highest echelons of state government.

Told through the stories of the men who bore the brunt of this practice, THE STRIKE goes
beyond making a case against solitary confinement; it illuminates the power of organizing and prisoner-led resistance, and in doing so, flips the true-crime genre on its head.

Watch the trailer here.

Follow the film on Instagram here.

Find out more at thestrikefilm.com and https://www.representjustice.org/the-strike