Community Film Screening: The Strike (2024)
- March 7 @ 6:30 PM
- until 8:30 PM
- Walls Turned Sideways
- 2717 W. Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
- 2717 W. Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612
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 is a feature documentary that tells the story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history. More information @wallsturnedsideways