Mike Farrell Helps Rally for Justice

Actor/activist Mike Farrell, a longtime resident of Studio City, took to the streets with other celebrities and activists on Wednesday as part of a worldwide protest.

People around the world fasted and took other peaceful, non-violent action in solidarity with the California Prisoner Hunger Strikers. 

Family members of some of the hunger strikers were rallying along with James Cromwell (also a local resident), Angela Davis, Danny Glover, Elliott Gould, Chris Hedges, Alice Walker and Cornel West. 

On their Hunger for Justice website, it says: "We fast knowing the criminalization that killed Trayvon Martin, and the criminalization that justifies the torture of prisoners in solitary confinement are one and the same."

Other organizations involved include Alexandria House; Alliance for Global Justice; American Muslims for Palestine; Anti-Racist Action-LA; Arab Resource & Organizing Center; Asian Prisoner Support Committee; Black Organizing Project; Brandywine Peace Community; California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement; California Coalition for Women Prisoners; California Justice for Youth Network; California Prisoner Solidarity Coalition; Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB); Causa Justa – Just Cause; Critical Resistance; Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails; DCFS/DHS-Give Us Back Our Children; Ecosocialist Horizons, Every Mother is a Working Mother Network; Erotic Service Providers Union; FACTS Education Fund; Fair Chance Project; Flying Over Walls; Food Empowerment Project; Friends of Deir Ibzi'a; Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement/ Nat’l; Freedom Archives; Martin Luther King Coalition of Greater LA; the MOVE organization; National Hood Alliance; Ordinary People's Society/ Alabama; Palestinian Youth Movement; Payday men’s network; the Philadelphia Innocence Project; Pier 5 Law Offices; Peter Laarman/Progressive Christians Uniting and Justice not Jails; POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE; Prodigal Child Project, Alabama; Project South; Queer Strike; Rev. Louis Logan; Ruckus Society, Scientific Soul Sessions; Sin Barras; Stuart Hanlon, partner in Hanlon and Rief; Theresa Shoatz - Maroon Philly Committee; Transgender, Gender-Variant, Intersex Justice; US PROStitutes Collective; White Noise Collective; Women of Color/Global Women’s Strike; Youth Justice Coalition, Decarcerate PA, PeacehomeCampaigns, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.