Founded in 1934 in response to the violent suppression of hunger marchers and in the shadow of the rise of totalitarianism in Europe, our early membership was as rich in writers as lawyers and political activists.
As a result, the prison was the site of many protests and violent activities, including hunger strikes, attempts at mass escape, and murder; it was considered by some to be a "university of terror," where both unionist and nationalist prisoners learned how to commit deadlier terrorist offenses after their release.
But alas, the controversy last week stems from the Motion Picture Association of America granting an R-rating to the anti-bullying documentary Bully for a few f-words, while giving money-making juggernaut and violent movie The Hunger Games a PG-13 rating.
Other areas where revolutionary progress would be needed to meet the SDGs include significantly reducing violent deaths and ending hunger.
The old softness is taboo, but the new hardness may be a trap — a form of exploitation that merely feeds the public's hunger for violent movies.
First to go is smell, then taste, then hearing, with each loss preceded by a spell of extreme derangement: crippling grief, rabid hunger or violent rage.
Deborah Hoffman, a spokeswoman for the corrections department, told the Times Tuesday that the agency "has taken thoughtful steps over the past two years to improve security housing units because these units serve a vital role in state prisons, keeping staff and other inmates safe from the same violent gangs leading the hunger strike and terrorizing communities across California".
Is "The Hunger Games" too violent for children?
Max's adventures are far from the violent, carnal world of "The Hunger Games," but also far from that trilogy's sharp-edged social lessons or even from the steady excitements of the Percy Jackson series.
There were sporadic hunger riots and violent disturbances in several of the states, but the signal for a concerted uprising did not come until early in 1848 with the exciting news that the regime of the bourgeois king Louis-Philippe had been overthrown by an insurrection in Paris (February 22 24).
