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Show Solidarity

According to the sponsors of the protest-the
Charlottesville Defense Committee, the Radical
Student Union, and the staff of The Virginia
Weekly - the purpose of the activities Saturday
afternoon is "to show solidarity with the
prisoners of Attica and with their justified
rebellion against the inhuman, racist and unjust
conditions in the institution."

The demonstration organizers also condemn
the "slaughter" of prisoners and guards killed
last week at Attica State Prison, and the
support the demands drawn up by the rebelling
prisoners in the New York prison.

The twenty-seven article Manifesto of
Demands presented by the Attica prisoners
condemns the conditions in the prison and the
program of rehabilitation used at Attica State.
Included in the Manifesto are demands for:
upgrading of medical facilities and food; an end
to "discrimination" and "persecution" for
political reasons; permission to work for
minimum wages and attendant privileges; and
an end to "physical brutality being perpetrated
upon the inmates of New York State prisons."