strike organizers, i want to bring in heather ann thompson, american historian, author, and activist. just wrote the pulitzer prize-winning book "blood in the water: the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy." professor thompson, can you talk about the timing of this strike? soon after lee, the prison uprising that led to seven prisoners killed, at least, but , today ofanniversary the killing of george jackson at san quentin, to september 9, the beginning of the attica uprising here in new york. professor thompson? >> as the previous guests have noted, lee was a really serious wake-up calll, not s so much for peoplele on the inside -- they were well aware of how catastrophic conditions were -- bubut certaininly for the outsi. it w was a real wake-up p call t howw bararbaric the conditions e in t the people onon the inside needed to stand together to resist the overcrowding, the terrible mededical c care, the inability to ever getet out because of the dracoconian laws that p put them there. anand the choice of august 21, whwhich w was the d death of gee jackson, is alalso signi