It’s a new day as prisoners all over the United States have decided they will no longer be mistreated. According to reports, inmates in at least 21 different cities will go on strike to fight against prison conditions they say amount to modern slavery. From today, August 21, until September 9, convicts plan to refuse to work and some won’t even eat, the NYPost reports. The aforementioned dates have significant meaning, as the strike begins on the day jailed African-American activist George Jackson was killed at the hands of a guard back in 1971. It then ends on the 47th anniversary of the Attica Correctional Facility uprising that reportedly left 40 people dead.