Hi. My name is Donald C-Note Hooker, and I’d like to tell you about a hunger strike this September, 21 2025. Hunger Striking For True Freedom, is a hunger strike by Donald C-Note Hooker, the world’s most prolific prison artist, to draw attention of the practice by the California prison system to deny eligible third strike African-Americans access to nonviolent parole board panels.
Five core demands: Immediately release Donald Hooker, number K94063, to supervised parole. Number 2) conduct an investigation at the ombudsman level as to why delay of more than four years has elapsed to recognize Hooker’s status as a nonviolent offender and for him to be immediately released to supervised parole. Number 3) conduct an investigation at the ombudsman level as to why nonviolent African-American third strikers are being denied access to nonviolent parole board panels. Number 4) hold accountable any state employee responsible for breaching the will of activists, voters and lawmakers whose advocacy created specialized parole panels such as youth, elderly and nonviolent, in firing, pay-docking, retraining or any other form of disciplinary action. Number 5) to ban any and all retaliatory actions against Hooker and or his supporters for raising awareness regarding their concerns with the operations for youth, elderly and nonviolent.
I chose the 21st of September because I want to align my hunger strike to an earlier time when men and women have put their bodies on the line in servitude to prisoner human rights. On September 21, 1971 there was a prisoner hunger strike at the Kansas State Prison Farm in Lansing, Kansas. My call to action to all who’s listening, beginning on Sunday, September 21, flood the California State Prison Los Angeles County with phone calls demanding answers to my well being, and you absolutely must call the governor of California and the Department of Corrections headquarters in Sacramento, California.
To learn more about the hunger strike, visit the website: Parole Elder Abuse Concerns Everyone, acronym P.E.A.C.E. and read the article “Hunger Striking For True Freedom, Five Core Demands.” Thank you for listening to my story, and I earnestly urge you to support my calls for immediate release by making the appropriate phone calls and to tell others in your social circle to do the same. And in the words of Mumia Abu-Jamal, – Love not fear. Thank you.
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