There exists no magic like the magic of truth and justice. There exists no beauty like the beauty of freedom.

In many places the grass is growing wild. In many places the grass is growing out of control. One day soon you will see the grass growing out of keyholes, over fences, through police barricades. You will see grass growing out of the barrels of guns and you will hear the grass sing of freedom. It is inevitable. Nothing can stop it, nothing can silence it. In the words of Agostinho Neto:

Here in prison
rage contained in my breast
I patiently wait
for the clouds to gather
blown by the wind of history
No one
Can stop the rain.

The grass is growing. Watch!

— Assata Shakur, from the introduction to Hauling Up the Morning: Writings & Art by Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War in the U.S.

The wind of history is blowing. Act!

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Interview with Anarchist Comrade Mónica Caballero

Free The Prairieland Prisoners!

George Floyd Uprising Prisoners

Repression in the So-Called US

Until All Are Free

Josh Williams Will Be Free

Ferguson Uprising political prisoner Josh Williams is returning home!

From Josh on his imminent release:

Thank you for all your support and love you all have been so very loving caring and beyond words in expressions I can’t express enough how much I love you all your fire I’m the gas throughout these 11 years I couldn’t had done it without yall. This has really opened my eyes to alot shit I have not seen are knew what was going on but now I know and now we gotta work so thank you. Now we 2 months out to go home so I need help to get my dream off the ground, a youth center and studio.

Josh Williams is the only remaining political prisoner from the Ferguson/St. Louis uprisings. He was an on-the-ground activist and protester that helped lead one of the largest movements against police violence in modern history. A few months after his 19th birthday, he was convicted and sentenced to a crime with almost no evidence. His unjust and harsh sentence was an attempt to intimidate the movement and make an example out of him. Josh has continued to speak truth to power and use his voice to unify communities against oppression.

Midwest Books to Prisoners is sharing a fundraiser to support Josh returning home. All funds will go directly to Josh in full. You can donate via Venmo @ midwestsolidarity or via Givebutter: https://tinyurl.com/bdcv6fvh. Make sure to write “For Josh” in the note section on Venmo.

Send a letter to Josh :

Joshua Williams #1292002
C/O Digital Mail Center-Missouri DOC
PO Box 25678
Tampa, FL 33622-5678

You can also send Josh text messages by signing up at securustech.net emessaging, selecting Missouri DOC and adding Josh William’s name or prison number 1292002.

More information about Josh at https://www.freejoshwilliams.com

FREE JOSH! FREE THEM ALL!

Nikos Maziotis Is Free

On September 2, revolutionary Greek anarchist prisoner Nikos Maziotis, imprisoned for 20 years as a member of the urban guerrilla Revolutionary Struggle, walked free.

Nikos released a statement on his release:

A special September…Today,

September 2, marks the anniversary of one of the most significant actions carried out by Revolutionary Struggle, and by the domestic urban guerrilla movement in general: the car-bomb attack using 150 kilos of ANFO explosives against the Athens Stock Exchange, back in 2009.

That was when Revolutionary Struggle was already talking about the crisis, starting in 2005, before it broke out in the United States and before it hit our country in 2009-2010. When we spoke about the bailout memorandums before they were even imposed.

When we spoke about the opportunity, at that time, for a systemic overthrow and revolution that unfortunately never came to pass.

September 5, 2003, marks the anniversary of when Revolutionary Struggle began its activity, with the double bombing attack on the Evelpidon courthouse in Athens.

In a few days, on September 14, I will be released upon completion of my sentence, having served 14 years in prison plus six years of work credit, for a total of 20 years of imprisonment, the sentence I was given for the activities of Revolutionary Struggle.

At a time when criminal and ‘correctional’ codes keep changing one after another, extending the length of sentences and the actual time served, even through illegal manipulations regarding the retroactive application of laws, when the state’s ongoing priority has always been dealing with its political opponents, I am the first inmate in Greek prisons, and the first political prisoner with a 20-year fixed-term sentence, to serve his entire sentence without suspension, as had usually been the practice until now. This outcome is the result of the Lamia judicial councils having rejected my conditional release seven times, on the grounds that I have not been ‘rehabilitated,’ have not shown moral ‘improvement,’ and refuse to acknowledge the actions of Revolutionary Struggle as criminal.

They’re right about that! At one hearing of the judicial council, when asked whether I had been ‘rehabilitated,’ I answered that not even in 1,000,000 years would that happen.

So I refuse to adopt their ‘morality,’ the morality of submission, nor have I in any way reconsidered the actions of Revolutionary Struggle, which were beneficial and necessary for the social majority, for the people and the working class, since they were directed against the criminal state-capitalist system of power. Especially under today’s conditions, where the system grows ever more brutal, condemning us to a lifetime of debt slavery, condemning us to poverty and destitution, wiping out peoples and populations deemed surplus through wars, genocides, and the policies enacted to preserve itself, and slowly but steadily killing the planet we live on for the sake of the profit and power of a shameful minority.

Under these conditions, the struggle against the State and capital is not only just but also necessary and imperative.

I would not change my political and activist choices in the slightest, even if I could turn back time.

This outcome, serving my full sentence, does have a positive side, since I will not even be subject to restrictive conditions, meaning I won’t have to report to the local police station wherever I end up living.

From the bottom of my heart, I thank all my comrades, everyone who stood in solidarity with us in any way over all these years, with us, the members of Revolutionary Struggle, who remained faithful to the choices of struggle we made.

NO RECONSIDERATION, NO REPENTANCE

LONG LIVE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE

HONOR FOREVER TO COMRADE LAMBROS FOUNTAS

September 2, 2026
Domokos Prison,
Nikos Maziotis

Comrades were present outside to welcome Nikos home:

Hello there, dear comrades!

A first report from Domokos Prison on the release of comrade Nikos Maziotis

On 14 September 2026, dozens of comrades (from Attica and other cities) welcomed the anarchist comrade Nikos Maziotis in a militant manner, with a gathering, banners and slogans outside the prison gates, as he was released from the prisons of the Greek democracy after completing the sentence to which he had been condemned for the actions of the urban guerrilla organization Revolutionary Struggle.

Furthermore, this particular day marks a pivotal moment for the anarchist/anti-authoritarian/libertarian milieu, as comrade Nikos is, to this day, the longest-held anarchist prisoner in the Greek territory who, during his militant and revolutionary activity in the anarchist milieu, remained captive for at least 18 and a half years in total in “closed” prison (including the sentence he served for Revolutionary Struggle).

Comrade Nikos Maziotis, who has just been released, like comrade Pola Roupa, defended until the end of their many years of captivity, with politically uncompromising consistency, the cause of the revolutionary prospect of creating a world of political freedom, equality and social solidarity. In times when the barbarity of the state and capital is being restructured in an increasingly authoritarian and totalitarian manner, the transhistorical militant course of revolutionaries and the unyielding struggle for the overthrow of the regime itself constitute spearheads for the struggles of the present and the future.

HAVE A GOOD FREEDOM, COMRADE NIKOS
LAMBROS FOUNDAS PRESENT!

SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH TO THE CAPTIVE COMRADES AROUND THE WORLD, UNTIL EVERY PRISON IS TORN DOWN
REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE AND CAPITAL

P.S. In the coming days, video footage from the solidarity gathering at Domokos Prison for the release of the comrade will be published.

*NOTE: 14 September marks a historic moment. During his militant and revolutionary activity in the anarchist milieu, comrade Nikos Maziotis remained captive for at least 18 and a half years in total in “closed prison”: he was first imprisoned in military prisons in 1991 and again in October 1992, as a total conscientious objector to military service. He was released in January 1993, following a prolonged hunger strike (57 days). Five years later, in 1998, he was imprisoned again, this time for the bombing of the Ministry of Industry, which he carried out in December 1997. It was an act of practical solidarity with the struggling residents of northeastern Halkidiki who were fighting against the plans of the Canadian company TVX Gold, the extraction of gold from the mines in their area and the total destruction of the environment in their homeland. For this action, he served three and a half years in “closed” prison (he was initially sentenced to 15 years in prison) and was released—after his sentence was reduced by a higher court—in August 2001.

Subsequently, the anarchist comrade Nikos Maziotis chose—as did comrade Pola Roupa—the revolutionary path of confrontation and rupture with the state-capitalist system of power, through the ranks of the guerrilla organization REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE, which operated from 2003 to 2017, with the arrest of comrade Pola as well. For their actions, they were finally sentenced, by merger of their sentences, to 20 years’ imprisonment, which they served. Comrade Nikos Maziotis was released upon completion of his sentence, having served 14 years in “closed” prison and 6 years through prison work credits, while comrade Pola Roupa was released in November 2023 under restrictive conditions that remain in force until 2030.

With solidarity from Athens (Greece),

Assembly of Solidarity with the Convicted Comrades of Revolutionary Struggle, Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis

US Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle condemned the release, saying that Nikos “and his fellow left-wing terrorists have no place in a civilised society,” while the US State Department said that Nikos was banned from entering the US. Nikos responded publicly:

On the occasion of the statements by U.S. Ambassador, Kimberly Guilfoyle regarding my release from prison, I would like to say the following: when the enemy makes such statements, it means that I am on the right path! I would start to worry if she made complimentary statements about me!

Indeed, I have no place in a society and a system that the term «civilization», means submission, oppression, slavery, racism, inequality, wars, the genocides of peoples, and the destruction of nature and the earth. People like Kimberly Guilfoyle consider these things to be «civilization» and «democracy».

On the other hand, it is hypocritical for the representative of the real arch-terrorists, the slaughterers of the peoples and the imperialists those who bomb and murder civilians in Iran, previously in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those who arm Israel so that it can murder tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, to call me a «terrorist».

They are the same people who previously bombed Vietnam and were behind every fascist-dictatorial regime in Latin America, Asia, and Africa; the ones who trained torturers and supported death squads. They are the same people who tortured prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib after the attack of the 9/11/2001 and the declaration of the war against «terrorism».

The representative of the Empire has the audacity to speak, when her state, through the IMF, imposed the abhorrent regime of serfdom on the Greek people through the memoranda that killed thousands of citizens, at the same time that she herself made disgraceful statements about the Greek people, such as saying that we are lazy.

The US ambassador should know that many in this country do not forget the dirty role that her state played in the history of this country such as the civil war of 1947-49 and the dictatorship of 1967-74.

And he should consider that far too many in this country, as well as internationally cheered and applauded the Revolutionary Struggle’s anti-tank RPG attack on the US embassy in 2007.With this attack, we had responded to the then U.S. president, George W. Bush Jr. –who, in the context of the «war against ‘terrorism», had said that «whoever is not with us is against us»– that WE ARE NOT WITH YOU, WE ARE AGAINST YOU! Just like very many people in this place!

Nikos Maziotis

20/09/2026

Nikos’ co-defendant Pola Roupa also published a statement on her comrade’s release, “Who Is the Terrorist?“:

Revolutionary Struggle was not a terrorist organization, and the social base never perceived its actions as a threat, nor was it terrorized by its acts. On the contrary, this revolutionary organization entered the political history of this country’s resistance movements and became rooted in the social consciousness as a structure acting alongside and in solidarity with the people, fighting for the interests of those who are socially weakest.

Let us recall the fundamentals. What is genuine terrorism for the working classes? What spreads terror on a daily basis in the lives of millions of people in this country?

It is having to work like a slave at one, two, or even three jobs without managing to meet one’s basic needs. It is going to work without knowing whether one will return home alive or dead.

It is having one’s meager wages stolen by the state and multinational corporations. It is being unable to afford a normal diet for oneself and one’s family. It is having everything confiscated by the banks over loans one has taken out, only to end up thrown to merciless debt-collection companies so that they can wrest your home from you. It is returning home from work without knowing whether your key will open the door or whether you will have been thrown out onto the street.

Terrorism is homelessness, that constant threat hanging over millions of people because political power, in close collusion with big capital, has decided to turn housing into a mere profitable commodity for real estate companies, causing rents to soar and swallow up entire salaries. Through a terrorist and predatory plan by the state and the government, rents have exploded in just a few years, and the right to decent housing has become a luxury.

Terrorism is the dissolution of society, the eradication of social and class solidarity, the social cannibalism propagated by the policies of the state and capital, in which the ruling authorities hammer home that “everyone is on their own,” that “only the strong survive,” and that “profit and enrichment are legitimate and moral.” These principles of capitalism and the state ensure that the social majority will remain trapped in a terrorist dead end and a war of all against all. Poor people trampling on others who are even poorer for a few euros, landlords demanding exorbitant rents — within the framework of the housing market and the “law of the market” — without hesitating to throw families out onto the street. Terrorism is a society that loses its soul in the name of profit.

Terrorism is…

Anastasia Kukhta Is Free!

From Belarus Anarchist Black Cross:

On September 10, 2026, after five years in prison, Anastasia Kukhta was released.

She served her full prison sentence after being convicted of participating in protests, calling for sanctions or actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus, and participating in an extremist organization.

We are so happy that Nastya is finally free!

From one of Anastasia’s prison letters via ABC Belarus:

Our whole life is about risk. It is full of obstacles, difficulties, and defeats. And it’s up to you to choose what to do and how to react. Will you let circumstances break you and make you miserable, or will you not give up and look for a million opportunities to get out of a difficult situation with honour and dignity? The decision is yours alone to make. It is your action or inaction that will determine our common future. After all, we are all links of one long chain.

Rebellions

Uprising at Camp East Montana Immigrant Detention Center

Over 100 Venezuelan immigrants imprisoned at Camp East Montana Immigrant Detention Center which is located inside Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso, Texas rose up on on September 1 and September 7, 2026. The detention center is run by private contractor, Amentum Services. DHS said that prisoners threw items, flipped furniture, and disabled security cameras.

“We are starving; they are not giving us medical attention,” one prisoner was quoted in a local news article. “There are fourteen injured people over there, dead bodies there. Please have them help us from the outside.”

Uprising in Kobanê Prison

A fire broke out on September 12 in Kobanê prison after an uprising, leaving at least 9 dead and 17 wounded, some gravely. The victims were treated in local hospitals, and the cause of the fire remains unknown.

The fire broke out after demonstrations in Kobanê demanding an investigation into the kidnapping and death of Sami Hiso, a Kurdish combatant from the Heseke brigade. Several youths were arrested when the security forces intervened, while local sources report that the city is encircled by security forces from the HTS regime.

Uprising at Pisa Italy

Prisoners took over a wing of the Don Bosco prison after discovering electronic audio monitoring devices in people’s cells. Using contraband cellphones, the rebels livestreamed their takeover, erecting barricades and destroying prison property, demanding the world see the abhorrent conditions in Italian prisons. After battling with guards, negotiations with the prison administration led to an end to the rebellion. Translated from a series of TikToks, the protesters shared videos of their living conditions, proof of the police monitoring devices, as well as negotiations with the riot squad and prison administrators:

Please share, please share. And let’s not use bad language, or else they’ll block this TikTok too, because they already blocked my other TikTok. We need to show the reality of the situation, guys— what life is really like in Italian prisons. We’re all in a bad way here in this place. Look at how we live—this is how we live: with rats, look, with rats, with spiders… Look here, bedbugs…Look at the conditions. Look, the squad—the riot squad—is coming up, and they want to shut everything down. Yes, they’ve used force, and they want to keep using it. First, they threw the stun grenades—they’re starting… they threw the stun grenades. We want the supervisory magistrate. We don’t want to stage riots— violent riots or riots against…the prison police just to hurt someone. We want the supervisory magistrate who enforces the law at the Don Bosco prison in Pisa, because… the law isn’t being enforced.

Support the Hunger Strikers!

Free Ian!

On 12 April three activists—the Keysight Three, Joy Gnapi, Steven Davies and Ian Roberts—from People Against Genocide took action against Keysight Technologies in Hampshire, a supplier of the US military and Israeli weapons trade. The firm which produces radar and electronic warfare systems is a key supplier to UAV Tactical Systems, a drone factory owned by Israel’s biggest weapons firm. Keysight also works with the US Army, Air Force and weapons companies including Lockheed Martin, specialising in 5G technology for the ‘battlefield’.

Ian has been on hunger and thirst strike since September 26, 2026 in protest against being held in segregation.

The Free the Keysight 3 support committee shared an update on September 28:

Because Ian is in segregation (solitary confinement as punishment), he only has 10 minutes on the phone a day. It’s now been about 24 hours since anyone in Ian’s support network has heard from him. His loved ones are very worried. The prison have refused to give any information to his registered next of kin, contrary to their obligations under Section 22 of the Prison Rules 1999. They are legally obliged to inform next of kin when a prisoner becomes seriously ill. It’s been 4 days since Ian began a thirst strike. Thirst strike is a dangerous undertaking and severe dehydration causes altered mental status, kidney failure, shock liver, and life-threatening low blood pressure. In late January of this year the Palestine Action prisoner Umer Khalid was hospitalized due to multiple organ failure on the third day of a thirst strike. Yesteday afternoon Mr. Roberts reported fatigue, painful headache, and aches all over his body.

Take action for Ian:

T. Hoxha, a former Prisoners for Palestine hunger striker and Filton 25 prisoner, shared a statement of solidarity with Ian:

Ian Roberts is a political prisoner because he stood by his God-given right to stand in defence of another.

He dared to stop the supply of Israeli weapons from the imperial core — holding the snake by the tail so that our brothers and sisters in Palestine can cut off its head, and THIS is why he is incarcerated, isolated and punished.

Ian’s hunger and thirst strike unsettles the perverse systems that fail to understand the deptgh and strength of our faith. So let’s unsettle them!

Since I have learned of our shared Muslim faith, I would like to share a Quranic revelation that I hope brings you relief during this momentous undertaking.

Surah Ad-Duha was revealed during deep emotional distress for Prophet Muhammed, to comfort him after a temporary pause in divine revelation. The oppressors mocked the prophet, claiming that God had abandoned him.

The verse says, ‘By the morning sunlight and the night when it falls still, Your Lord has not abandoned you.’

God swears by the day and night because they come in certainty, and just as one follows the other (as night follows day), so will His justice.

Free Palestine.

Ian also shared the following reflections and call to action in August after which he was placed again in solitary confinement:

Firstly, a massive shout out to the Brize Norton 6, Filton 25, Instro 10 and SOAS 2 – they’re all family, one body, one fight.

The bravery of our political prisoners to take action and the strength in adversity they have shown and continue to show is something to behold. What they have done is the very essence of humanity. For all the martyred and the innocents who continue to suffer, a stand had to be taken, to save lives and show support to all those living under the shadow of oppression.

We felt that it was important that someone else stood up and let the government and the arms industry know that people will always rise up against the horrific situation in Palestine.

No matter what the losses for us, in the face of THEIR LOSSES, they will always be inconsequential for me. There was no option for us. There is only one way ESCALATION NATION.

We stood on each others’ shoulders and carry each other. The proscription [of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act] makes it more important, more clear for me.

Taking action was the obvious choice, the only choice for every piece of stolen potential, every parent who has suffered. We must not let them get away with this. I have no regrets and still don’t see any other way.

It was important and necessary to take action against Keysight Technology as they are the manufacturers of radar and 5G technology for Elbit Systems. Their research and development arm provides equipment for sighting the drones. They provide surveillance and tracking capabilities to the Israeli military.

Keysight Technologies and every other subsidiary that plies its trade under the cover of government shadow will be exposed and their involvement in these genocides brought to light.

Prison for me is not so bad. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a nice place but when I think of all the innocents wrongly imprisoned for being Palestinian and the horrific conditions they endure, the sickening torture they go through, then who am I to complain?

It is very oppressive and dehumanising, the system tries to crush your spirit and make you voiceless. Upon reception the paperwork said ‘terror link’ with no basis. I’ve been told my clothing is unauthorised and in three months I’ve been to seg and been on Basic numerous times. Whilst down segregation all of my personal possessions were somehow taken from a locked cell. Emails and contacts were lost too. But as I’ve said these are mere mishaps compared to what many others are unfortunately going through. I’m now in a single cell after constant harassment to share, due to the pressure for prison spaces, however, I find peace in my solitude personally.

I have found many prisoners supportive and there are pockets of humanity everywhere, including sometimes among staff?!! A lot of prisoners here are being oppressed by the same system, and we are all humans struggling to be heard.

The support from outside has been a constant source of love and humanity. Emails and cards are really appreciated, and from my heart thank you and bless you all for taking the time. It raises the spirit which is at times necessary.

Keep on supporting the movement in any way you can. No matter how small you think your involvement is, we are all parts that only together can become more than we are. Keep going to rallies, keep going to pickets. Keep on writing to political prisoners. Please attend and support all of those at court. Keep raising your voices and exposing injustice. Never be silent.

Free the Sumud 4!

From Secours Rouge:

Sumud 4 prisoner Wael Nawar, imprisoned by the Tunisian state for participating in the Sumud flotilla to break the blockade on Gaza, suspended his hunger strike after 38 days on September 23, 2026—launched to demand the release of pro-Palestine prisoners. He also called on his comrades Ghassen Henchiri, Ghassen Boughdiri, and Nabil Channoufi, who had been on hunger strike for 14 days to suspend their strike in order to preserve their health. While on strike, the health of all strikers had seriously deteriorated. Nawar said that the suspension of his strike doesn’t constitute abandoning his demands nor his commitment to support Palestine. At the same time, supporters continue to mobilize to demand the release of the four pro-Palestine prisoners. On the 23rd, a demonstration took place outside the Bab Bnet courthouse in Tunis, while several people arrested at a prior support protest were tried and an appeals court weighed on the extension of the flotilla activists’ imprisonment.

Wael’s statement:

After 38 consecutive days on hunger strike, I am announcing today my decision to suspend the hunger strike that I have waged to defend my freedom and dignity, and to protest against my continued detention.

I made this decision in response to sincere calls that were addressed to me by everyone who supported me and expressed their solidarity—national organizations, political and civil groups, and activists—and on the insistence of my defense committee that has followed my health and the gravity of my situation closely.

The messages of my comrades and friends, arrested after protests demanding our release, have also had a profound impact on me and have played a decisive role in this decision. Your appeals reached me, and I have felt all of the loyalty, courage, and solidarity embodied in your positions. I will never forget the consequences that you have suffered nor the sacrifices you have made to defend us and defend our legitimate right to freedom.

I also address my sincere thanks, gratitude, and esteem to Ayachi Hammami for his noble solidarity with me by going on solidarity hunger strike with us.

On this occassion, I am calling my comrades from the “Flotilla of Resilience” imprisoned with me — Ghassen Henchiri, Ghassen Boghdiri, and Nabil Chennoufi — to suspend their hunter strike in order to preserve their health and to continue the path of resolve, struggle, and resistance. The end of the strike in no way means renouncing our demands nor abandoning our cause, but means continuing the fight by other means, all while preserving all lives and our health.

If our commitment to Palestine has cost us dearly, what we have payed is nothing compared to the sacrifices of the Palestinian people and their daily resistance. We were prepared to become martyrs to break the siege, to help shed light on the genocide, and make their voices heard to the whole world. Our commitment to Palestine will remain unbreakable, undeterred by prisons or defamation campaigns.

A finally address my family, who has endured with me the bitterness of this ordeal: to Jawaher, Yassar, and Somoud. I have decided to live for you and to continue the fight with the same determination you know me for…

Wael Nawar

Read Ghassen Henchiri, Ghassen Boughdiri, and Nabil Channoufi’s moving original statement on joining Wael’s hunger strike:

(Mornaguia Prison, Tunisia — 09/09/2026)

To our people, to the free people of our Ummah, to everyone who still believes that Palestine is an inalienable right and that freedom comes at a non-negotiable price, the path to Palestine has never been strewn with flowers, and the terrestrial convoys or flotillas by sea to break the siege have never been a leisurely stroll. From the moment when we resolved to commit to this path, we knew that choosing the side of a people subjected to genocide, to oppose an unjust siege and support a resistance that defends their right to existence and dignity meant accepting the sacrifices that lay ahead. We did not leave in search of personal glory, nor false heroism, but because Gaza called and still calls human conscience, and because Gaza’s children, women, and inhabitants deserve to hear someone say that they are not alone.

Today, while the war of extermination continues in Palestine, while aggression expands in Lebanon, while the threats against Iran proliferate, and while Yemen endures continues strikes for its unbroken support, the United States continues to provide political, military, and diplomatic cover to these crimes, becoming a full-fledged partner in the pursuit of war, the maintenance of siege, and the guarantee of impunity. We were convinced that the freedom of movement granted to the terrestrial convoy and the Global Sumud Flotilla was neither a favor from the authorities nor the result of an official conviction, but the result of a vast popular spirit, driven by an authentic wave of commitment attached to the principle according to which resisting occupation is a moral and human duty before a political choice.

However, the attempt to criminalize support for Palestine through orchestrated defamation campaigns, slander, and fabricated accusations seeking to symbolically assassinate the figures of the flotilla and break its wide popular support. While marches and convoys in support of Palestine have taken place in capital cities around the world, Tunisia today is offering a spectacle of unprecedented severity by throwing partisans of Palestine in prison for having taken its side.

It’s a sad political and moral paradox, a stain of shame that will haunt those who have accepted the transformation of support for a people subjected to genocide into a crime.

The cause that we represent is much more than us as individuals: it’s about the right of an entire people to support Palestine without being criminalized nor facing charges. Our defense of Palestine has never been a defense of some faraway cause, it is a defense of ourselves, our homelands, and the honor of all of humanity. Palestine has become the clearest moral and political test if our era, allowing everyone to evaluate positions and distinguish those that take the side of duty and dignity and those that align with occupation and barbarity.

Defending Palestine means defending the values of justice that preserve the dignity of all peoples; abandoning Palestine means renouncing the very essence of our humanity. Strong in our faith in the justice of ou cause, attached to our right to freedom, and in solidarity with the fight and the resilience of our comrade Wael Naouar, who is on day 25 of his hunger strike, we are announcing that as of Thursday, September 10, 2026, we are going on hunger strike. We demand our release, the dropping of fabricated accusations against us, and the end to this effort to make support for Palestine a crime.

From our cells, the news that reaches us is full of sadness: the whispers of other prisoners speak of death striking prisoners, bodies worn down by illnesses, and extremely brutal prison conditions, worsened by suffocating heat, water shortages, and deteriorating medical care. We also fear for our families who are living in daily anguish. Yet, regardless of their cruelty, prisons have never been able to seize our convictions nor extinguish the certainty that freedom is stronger than chains, and that Palestine will remain our guiding star.

Partisans of Palestine and the people of Tunisia, our support and our bulwark, comrades with whom we have shared so many struggles, this is our moment. It is to you that we entrust our voices, our dreams, and perhaps our lives, certain that the flag that we have carried won’t fall and that the Tunisian people will remain faithful to their history and to the cause of free people. We renew our commitment: we will remain faithful to the cause for which we have risen up, because it’s ultimately one and the same fight against injustice, occupation, and those who rely on prison to break the will of free people.

Former political prisoners Anwar Yassine and Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, as well as dozens of other Lebanese activists, published a call to support the hunger strikers.

Dear comrades,

From the frontlines of the anti-imperialist / anti-Zionist struggle in Lebanon,

Allow us to begin by saluting the courageous Tunisian people who are standing with the popular Palestinian masses and their fighting vanguards as they face the ongoing genocide in Palestine that has lasted nearly three years.

Today, we are calling, with supreme urgency, for solidarity with our heroic comrades: Wael Naouar, Ghassen Boughdiri, Nabil Channoufi, and Ghassen Henchiri, locked in the dungeons of the Tunisian regime.

Since March 2006, they have been deprived of freedom in the context of a sham trial seeking to criminalize their anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist commitments. This is further proof, if there was any need for it, of the Arab bourgeoisie’s alignment with the imperialist-Zionist alliance.

Faced with this abuse of injustice, these comrades have launched a heroic hunger strike, putting their lives at stake to make their cry of dignity heard. Each hour that passes is a call for us to commit ourselves fully for their liberation, by any means necessary.

Faced with the surge of popular campagins of denunciation of their arbitrary detention, the Tunisian bourgeoisie hasn’t delayed responding: escalating direct repression. The day after massive demonstrations in Tunisia on September 19 to demand the release of our comrades on hunger strike, the police orchestrated a wave of raids and searches in the middle of the night. Many people were arrested and others are still wanted. To all of them, we wish to express our full solidarity.

From Lebanon, we raise our voices in protest against the crime of their detention and we hold the Tunisian bourgeois regime responsible for their security and their lives. We demand their immediate and unconditional release, as well as the end to all forms of repression targeting everyone who stands in soldiarity with the Palestinian people and everyone who rejects the ongoing genocide they are suffering and who struggles to break the blockade on Gaza.

At this exact moment, their detention must not pass under silence. Each stance, each voice, each act is indispensable to pressure for the release of these four militants and to stop the Tunisian authorities from continuing the arbitrary repressive measures against them and against all those who raise their voice in defense of Palestine.

Dear comrades,

The most meaningful form of solidarity we can give to political prisoners in Tunisia, in occupied Palestine, in Europe and everywhere else in the world is to commit ourselves even further to the anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle. Because solidarity must never be stifled nor reduced to silence.

As you can see, dear friends, dear comrades, from Tunisia to Gaza, through France, Italy, Belgium, and Spain, an international wave of solidarity is rising to amplify the voices of our comrades. We salute all organizations and campaigns committed to this fight.

Solidarity, all solidarity, with the heroes of the flotilla of resistance!

Freedom for Wael Naouar, Ghassen Boughdiri, Nabil Channoufi et Ghassen Henchiri !

Solidarity, all solidarity, with those who fight back in the Zionist dungeons, and in solitary confinement in Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey, Greece, the Philippines, and everywhere else!

Let a thousand solidarity initiatives bloom in support of the defenders of Palestine and its resistance throughout the whole world!

Solidarity is a weapon, let us use it!

Together—and only together—we will win!

Your comrades,

Anwar Yassine, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Najibet Nicolas, Magdalaine Darwish, Suzanne Maki, Lola Ibrahim, Fidaa Abdel-Fatah, Hassan Hamza, Ola Sharaf-Eddine, Lina Baalbaki, Lina Tabal, Afifa Karki, Ahmad Ashahal, Mouqbel Hamad, Wajiha Zraiqua, Moustapha al Abd, Amar El-Qaq, Nabil Rahmouni, Omar El-Abed, Tala Nassar, Robert Abdallah, Sobhi Al-Nabhan, Kamil Najjar, Samar Najjar, Tarek Ali, Abdallah Hamad, Afif Wihbi, Jamal Mahfouz, Jamal Hassan, Imad Ali Moussa, Khodor Anwar, Maxime Houmid, Najwa Quosaifi, Ghada Joumaa, Vergine Quanso, Hélène Nicolas, Ali Tfayli, Nassim Joumaa, Marina Skaf, Fatima Quanso, Majed Abdel Jawad

Support the Gdeim Izik Hunger Strikers!

Nine Sahrawi members of Gdeim Izik are on hunger strike in Moroccan prison. An excerpt of the hunger striker’s statement:

We, the Sahrawi civilian prisoners belonging to the Gdeim Izik group (see the list of hunger strikers below), after sixteen years of unjust and arbitrary detention, announce to national and international public opinion our determination to begin an unlimited hunger strike as of today, Wednesday, 23 September 2026. We are undertaking this “empty stomach” battle in protest against the Moroccan prison administration’s confiscation of our right to be transferred to the cities of the occupied Western Sahara, as required by the rules of international humanitarian law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention, which constitutes the binding legal framework for the territory of Western Sahara, as a territory where colonialism has not yet been brought to an end through a free and fair referendum expressing the will of the Sahrawi people, the source of national sovereignty.

After public pressure, Bashir Khadda, one of the imprisoned strikers, was transferred to El Aaiún in occupied Western Sahara:

This relocation, which comes amid the continuation of the open-ended hunger strike, is not a gift from the Moroccan occupying state or its prison administration. Rather, it is the direct result of the ongoing struggles waged by the heroes of the Gdeim Izik epic, through their legendary steadfastness and firm determination to achieve their legitimate objectives, as well as their categorical rejection of any form of concession or bargaining over their inalienable rights.

On September 26, 2026, the nine Sahrawi prisoners on hunger strike released a message addressed to the Sahrawi people to continue the struggle until freedom and independence are achieved, in fulfillment of their commitment to the martyrs. The prisoners said:

We remain committed to our pledge, and we renew our commitment to you to continue moving forward toward freedom and independence, in fulfillment of our commitment to the martyrs. Your support for us under the most difficult circumstances surrounding us is an antidote and a balm for our wounds. Any step, idea, or initiative, however simple, is for us a powerful push toward freedom, dignity, and human dignity. [The long years we have spent in prison] mean nothing compared with a mother’s tear for a martyr or a missing person, nor do they mean anything compared with a single moment experienced by those abducted in Agdez and Magouna.

One of the hunger strikers, Mohamed Bani, suspended his hunger strike as of September 26, 2026, due to high blood pressure and other health effects linked to torture he’s been subjected to in detention. He stated that suspending his hunger strike is to preserve his health and doesn’t mean abandoning his demands. Bani was sentenced to life and has been imprisoned since 2010.

Sahrawi diaspora associations in France have carried out several solidarity initiatives in recent days in support of the hunger strikers.

Revolutionary Prisoners in Turkey Continue Open-Ended Hunger Strikes

Several prisoners are continuing open-ended hunger strikes in various Turkish prisons. Cem Dursen and Tacettin Erol Şahin, on strike since April 29 against abuse and permanent video-surveillance, are each on day 155. Güzin Tolga, Emircan Yazı, and Cemil Kurt launched their strike on July 13 against the imposition of “prisoner identity cards,” while Selda Özçelik has been on strike since August 7.

In Bolu Type F prison, Mehmet Bıldırcın launched an open-ended hunger strike in solidarity on September 23 and is on day 8. On the same day, Sevcan Göktaş also went on hunger strike in solidarity in n°1 Type F women’s prison in Kandıra. Meanwhile, Emrah Doğan, imprisoned in Bolu, suspended his solidarity hunger strike after the successful outcome of the resistance waged by four prisoners in Type “Kuyı” prison in Antalya.

Irish Republican Prisoner on Hunger Strike in Maghaberry

The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA) released a statement about repression of Derry Republican prisoner by MI5-led Maghaberry administration, who launched a hunger strike in response.

Kevin is currently being held in isolation in Bann House while the gaol regime deliberately drags its heels over his transfer to Republican Roe House. This prolonged delay is a calculated attempt to isolate another Republican and breach agreed protocols. In direct response to these deliberate delay tactics, Kevin has commenced a protest, refusing all gaol food until the regime moves him immediately to Roe House.

Adding to this systematic hostility, the gaol administration has repeatedly denied Kevin access to basic essentials, including clothing. On the day of his committal, clothes delivered directly by Kevin’s legal representative were arbitrarily turned away at the gate. This spiteful campaign continued today when Kevin’s wife made the long journey from Derry to Maghaberry to drop off essential clothing, only to be callously turned away. The administration attempted to justify this refusal on the grounds that Kevin was not taking an actual physical visit – a transparently petty pretext designed purely to inflict maximum emotional distress on both Kevin and his family.

These coordinated actions expose the inherently bitter and vindictive nature of the Maghaberry regime. Denying basic clothing and prolonging isolation in Bann House are age-old state tactics aimed at breaking the resolve of Republican political prisoners. They failed in the past, and they will fail again.

The IRPWA stands unreservedly with Kevin Brady and his family. We will continue to offer our full support on the ground and will escalate pressure on the outside until Kevin is immediately transferred to Republican Roe House and this punitive treatment ceases.

Free Wilber Perez

A Call for Emergency Mobilizations Everywhere to Free Wilber Perez from ICE Torture

On September 20, ICE shot someone in Austin, TX; now they are trying to disappear and kill him through medical neglect. We cannot let them get away with it

While making a Doordash delivery, Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was rammed by an ICE agent and shot, potentially multiple times. He was taken to the hospital, where the doctors hurried him out the door into ICE custody at Pearsall Detention Center while guards denied his presence there, keeping out his wife and attorney. On Monday, Wilber spoke through the phone to a press conference and after he hung up, guards beat him up in retaliation resulting in him losing feeling on the left side of his body. He was taken back to the hospital briefly where once again doctors did not remove the bullet lodged close to his spine, which would require major surgery and recovery time. Instead of giving him medical attention, ICE is keeping him in a cold, filthy room with only minimal painkillers, putting him at high risk of a deadly infection developing in his still open gunshot wound and spreading to his spinal cord.

There is only one fundraiser approved by Wilber’s family and his attorney, please share widely: http://tinyurl.com/wilberfund

We cannot allow ICE to vanish and murder Wilber in silence. Nationwide, from Central Texas to Minneapolis to Los Angeles, for immigrants like Liam Ramos and Gerardo Reyes, the most effective way to guarantee freedom and safety for people kidnapped by ICE has been mass resistance. In the hours after Wilber was shot, hundreds came from the neighborhood and across the city to chase out ICE and the police, gathering at the intersection for hours, holding it in rage, resistance, and remembrance until police attacked protesters in the smaller crowd at the end of the night. To ensure Wilber is alive, healthy, and free, we must build on through and go further through bold, collective action.

Organize demonstrations immediately in your city to demand freedom and medical treatment for Wilber, alongside freedom for all those kidnapped by ICE! Rally at ICE offices and detention centers; at the places where police and/or ICE have shot or killed people in your cities; the houses and offices of corporate collaborators; or anywhere you can gather people to shut everything down.

Wherever you go, apply heat and melt ICE!

Running Down the Walls

Running Down the Walls 2026 successfully occurred across the country, inside and outside the prison walls, raising money for the Anarchist Black Cross Federation’s Warchest program, showing solidarity with captured revolutionaries, and building up the movement required to free our people.

This year, several prisoners shared messages for Running Down the Walls, which are also available as a zine to print and share:

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Messages from Current and Former Political Prisoners for RDTW 2026

Malik Muhammad

Listen to my words and hear my signal of distress. I’m not just writing a statement. It’s an SOS. I’m running out of gas. I’ve almost nothing left. We’re losing ground thinking what we’re doing is our best. The movement at this juncture is failing this test.

If all we have is this cycle of our people taking action, then facing the brunt of state-sanctioned violence and hope for support during their time held hostage, it’s not enough. If we can muster money for lawyers to negotiate our surrender and get them rich, these agents of the state, this is no better. If paying the state millions for our people to survive inside and communicate with loved ones is our best, our imagination is stunted. We cannot limit ourselves to the confines of the box the state has given us. We cannot work with the ones causing the problem, No! We must do more, do better.

Reaching into hell and pulling those the state has damned from the depths. This is no easy task, tattered, torn, burnt, and charred, one might get, but to break chains of bondage and defy those who would call themselves authorities of us and hold demean over us, it is worth it. To tell the state, No! you cannot have that one. You may not hold freedom’s son, daughter, brother, father, mother, wife, sister, none. None you may keep. For those you steal away, freedom we’ll pursue, to the depths of hell.

And this is hell. Each day we burn, licked by the roaring flames of the state, entombed in this concrete belly of the beast. Every day is a feat to survive. Every action the state takes against us is violence. These $6 phone calls, that should be $3, but because GTL is allowed to rape our families’ pockets, taxing $3 just to double that, that’s violence. The hell we endure goes beyond monetary exploitation, and it doesn’t matter what state you’re in. Under Nikki Haley’s stewardship, South Carolina only gives two meals on the weekends, brunch and dinner. The current Trump-backed candidate says “pack them four to a room and feed them roadkill”. A very moderate stance when you consider these penal colony death camps and what we endure, a slow genocide. It matters none where you are. Some have the audacity to say the federal prison is better or this state is worse. No. Hell is hell. A plantation is a plantation. Because bondage and slavery is bondage and slavery. Whether your plantation is akin to Toni Morrison’s sweet home depiction, or the antebellum super planters, or the ones that forced us to build railroads and trains bites and bridles in our mouths with the tacit threat of lynching for fun, or being strung up head over a fire to boil our brains – plantations are plantations as a death camp differed from a work camp only in how prolonged your death may be, your end is the same.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a political prisoner, politicized prisoner, or a victim of state-sanctioned poverty and circumstances that forced you into acts of survival they criminalized to ensure your demise. It’s a death march, a slow genocide. The end is the same whether you were shuffled into the gas chambers or the ones picking the bodies clean as bid by your captors. Choctaw, Cherokee, Navajo, or Apache, the state, violence, genocide, and subsequent seclusion on reservations by way of colonization in hopes you’d wither and die and disappear into the collective memory black hole of this fascist state is the same end. Prison, detention centers, reservations, work camps, death camps, plantations – all genocide. There’s no difference.

And if you recognize these as such and believe support is our best, then you do not overstand what we’re talking about. You listen, but don’t hear. You care, but don’t feel it. Being here to help isn’t the need, but recognizing this shit is killing you too, and fighting, is. Four people died in SCDC last week. One suicide, one heart attack, two other cancers. This menial food is poison. The conditions, hell. From here to Oregon, to Cali, Washington, New York, Illinois, these straights are dire, and we need action.

You will not be able to run down these walls without a tank, and noise demos aren’t explosive enough alone to open these cages. We can’t let this be the end for us. This cycle of action, criminalization, kidnapping, ransoming, negotiated surrender, and held hostage in the belly of the beast for decades in hopes for release. Abibifahodie means African liberation. Yohuru Sasa means freedom now. Not yesterday. Not in a decade. Sio. No. Sasa. Assata said “it’s our duty to fight and our duty to win””. Ushindi. Victory is the only outcome. But we won’t achieve Ushindi through the state’s allotted means. Only by burning and scorching our hands, digging deep into the pits of the earth, risking life, and limb can we pull out those the state tries to claim. Imagine the actions if our people knew that should they be caught and captured, this is not the end. Imagine if they knew they could evade capture and continue their action because the people got them.

The Underground Railroad smuggled people out of hell to what they thought was freedom, but only a different place than hell. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, but reverse. The Haitians had no illusion of a free north, their only recourse was liberation or death by any means. And that’s our state of being. Liberation or death. Not just for us in these pits licked by flames, but for you in the frying pan, who can be cast into the fire for anything, given the proclivities of the state. There is no free North, no freedom here in America, no innocence either. Everyone is a part of the problem, and everyone can be a solution too.

The map was plotted by our ancestors before. We know what to do. These are plantations, and those who liberated us from plantations in the past were criminalized and demonized. We shouldn’t shirk that, because either you’re an activist or a criminal. Doing the hard things, the things that need done will elicit labels and brandings. The state will call you everything They are. Terrorists, violent, rioter, criminal, but nothing that you truly are. Revolutionary, radical, liberator, or the people. This is because history can only be understood backwards. What is a criminal act today will be resistance in time. What is terrorism today will be liberatory in time. An act of treason today will be revolution in time.

Hear my words. Feel my meaning in pain. This is an SOS. I’ll call to do more. Do better in your best. Do the hard things. Think outside the confines of what caused the problem. Do better than our best. I want to be free. I want to see us all free. I don’t want to write letters and support for decades those I love who, out of love, risked it all. I want to reach into hell and raise those souls out of bondages and flames and never let the state lay claim to another one of us.

Love, rage, and solidarity, siblings.

Write to Malik:

Malik Muhammed #400523
Marion 183
Broad River Correctional Institution
4460 Broad River Road
Columbia, South Carolina 29210

Champagne Song

Hey ya’ll, my name is Champagne. I was sentenced this year to 100 years for, in the words of the government, “[being] the embodiment of Antifa.” Before my sentencing, I spoke the truth clearly and refused to be interrupted in court. I am not afraid. Even as violence rises all around me both inside and outside these walls. I am not afraid because the struggle remains the same. The great disasters and failures we face remain the same. Our duty, as Assata told us, remains the same. I know I am just one in a sea of us.

We are strong. We are smart and capable. We are committed. We will think and love and win. We will care for and protect each other. We will speak and listen, connect and grow. The better world we struggle for is our duty and our birthright. I will continue to fight for it.

We will win it together. Thank you, each and every one of you. I am so grateful for the work and support of the ABCF and events like RDTW. Thank you for supporting us, supporting this, supporting yourself. I will see you when we are all free!

Write to Champagne:

Johnson County Jail, TX
Benjamin Hanil Song, 202502108
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Bill Dunne

Salutations and felicitations to my Running Down the Walls comrades!

Two tomorrows from the edge or another autumn here in the global north, we again lace up our moving gear. We shall run, walk, roll, hop, limp down the barriers, obstacles, impediments, stumbling blocks, and sheer distance—for which we call out prison walls as a symbolic stand-in—between us and our literal and figurative destination.

We may not reach that most equitable social reality in which all people will have the greatest possible freedom to develop their full human potential today. But we will unite across time and space and identity to make common progress for all the tomorrows that will come as we together run down the walls.

We will confront the apparatus of repression’s houses of steel and concrete and pain behind whose walls greed imprisons and tortures our friends, comrades, neighbors, relatives for the crime of being here, wanting enough food, medicine, housing, security, education, seeking living wages for meaningful work.

We will contest a predatory aristocracy’s imprisonment of our class brethren, sistren, nonconren within artificial national borders where that elite can more readily redestribute wealth upward and commit genocide against resisters’ communities.

We will challenge the hegemony of the tiny few who place ballrooms, mega yachts, and extravagant monuments to themselves above we the people. We will contradict their intent that their tomorrows will be better than their todays—at our expense.

We will wage this struggle today, here, now, with our footfalls in person and in spirit from diverse locales. We will let our footfalls in the dust blend together in solidarity with those of our predecessors in running down the walls and with those of new comrades in our writing of history this way. We will broadcast our rage with our footfalls through the earth, concrete, stone in tremors greed will feel as “tomorrow is coming.” I may not be able to see you, but I will feel you and be with you and be empowered by your presence as I join you in whatever version of running down the walls the agency of repression makes available to me two tomorrows before Fall.

The future holds promise!

Write to Bill:

Bill Dunne #10916-086
FCI Butner Medium II
P.O. Box 1500
Butner, North Carolina 27509

Bill also shared a report-back from the inside:

The agency of repression closed the yard for my contribution to RDTW, this weekend before the fall, 2026. The passage of time is revealing a rift between the concrete paving the small courtyards that remained open and the knees. The hamstrings and the ridiculously curved treadmills have a similar schism. So I rode an elliptical into the fray to Run Down the Walls. I let ’em have both legs three days and then again two days before the fall, 19 & 20 September. I had to do some slithering to access the venue the second day, but so it goes in life with big brother And the day before the fall, I write this report. Plus, I may have added one more means of motion to run down the walls: rowing. After my engagements on the ellipticals had ended, I wrestled the rowing machine to wring a few more gritty grains from the walls.

As my feet pushed ever forward and my arms aided and abetted, the elliptical didn’t carry me any where but figuratively. My forced presence in that physical moment, however, let me, made me, invited me me to notice the little drops of sweat hitting the concrete floor as they dripped off me. At first, just a few isolated individuals dotted the scuzzy gym floor–literal drops in the bucket, but without even a bucket. But the drops started coming in numbers, and their dots started running into each other. They started making bigger splats together than by themselves. They started to run together into a puddle. Not much of a puddle, but a puddle. Tiny ripples started to appear–and what is a ripple but a baby wave? Making waves in a social order like ours is always good. Some drops hitting the nascent puddle launched diminutive splashes, maybe reaching as far as the wall, where some of them eroded and ran off with some molecules of wall. Best of all, drops and splats and small ripples from the guy sweating on the next machine started running together with mine. Don’t know where he came from. Don’t know what car he rode in. But he was throwing down some work for a better future like I was. And our collective drops of sweat were conquering the entire floor.

May your Fall be a season of of connection, progress, and feeling good!

The future holds promise!

Bill Dunne
21 September 2026

Peppy

We have within us a strength, both personal and collective, that is capable of much more than we fear. It is okay to recognize fear; however afraid we may be, let us not cower.

Let us not look at empire for one day, but instead into your comrades’ eyes. Those eyes that know hunger, nay—famine! Those freedom eyes of a tiger so fixated on her target. Let’s go!

This year in celebration I join my partner Krystal and fellow veterans Marius Mason, Jessica Reznicek, Nikos Maziotis on the streets for the first time in many moons. We lick our paws from the wounds we have been dealt and we continue to proclaim the struggle for liberation.

We continue to act for freedom.

We continue to run down the walls.

We continue to remember our fallen.

May you feel as I have felt the whole period of incarceration—a thousand hands at my back and the ancestors in front of me who laid the path and broke trail with their efforts.

In solidarity,

— peppy

Oso Blanco

Brothers and sisters in the struggle, this is Oso Blanco. I ask you to come out today to put your all into this 5k again this year. There is something that many of you need to know, if you don’t know already. Political prisoners throughout the system truly need your help in completing this 5k today because what you’re going to do is raise money that allows us to survive in these hell holes.

It has become increasingly difficult to live in here — just to buy soap, toothpaste, and basic essentials has become prohibitively expensive and makes it difficult to survive in state and federal prisons and jails. Needless to say this is because this is a money making scheme; it’s all about profit, not justice in this industrial prison complex.

I ask you to put forth your best effort today. You may feel tired, like giving up, but remember that we need you and we need your help in getting us out of these horrible places.

I love you all.

Oso Blanco

Write to Oso:

Byron Chubbuck #07909-051
USP Atwater
P.O. Box 019001
Atwater, California 95301

Interview with Anarchist Comrade Mónica Caballero

In Contempt is glad to publish a translation of a recent interview with anarchist prisoner Mónica Caballero from the anarchist newspaper El Sol Ácrata translated by Fugitive Distro.

A zine of the interview is available to print and share from with whatever weapons distro:

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As the anarchist newspaper EL SOL ÁCRATA, we have managed to get past the prison barbed wire to interview our anarchist comrade MÓNICA CABALLERO, who is currently serving a 12-year sentence, handed down in December 2023 after three years of “pre-trial detention.” In November 2025, her criminal status was reviewed under the framework of parole, as provided for in the prison code written by the prison guards. Despite meeting the requirements set forth by Decree-Law 321 (which regulates and establishes the benefits and criteria for granting parole), she has been denied parole ever since due to assessments of her “alleged” dangerousness and also because of her anarchist political stance. Our comrade has maintained an active presence through writings and reflections that circulate outside the prison walls, “Constantly striving to break free from the role exclusively of ‘prisoner’ to which the State seeks to confine us.” (Mónica Caballero, 2023, Statement Issued at the Start of Trial Hearings).

As an anarchist newspaper, we once again renew our call for ongoing solidarity with all political prisoners in Chile, across the continent, and around the world. Every act of solidarity and outreach is essential; all protests organized to secure their freedom are indispensable. From the pages of our newspaper, we will continue to closely follow the various reports about our anarchist political prisoner comrades and will disseminate their messages and conditions inside the prisons of corporate totalitarianism everywhere possible. We express our deepest gratitude to comrade Mónica for taking the time to answer our questionnaire in detail. From our newspaper, we send her a hug full of strength, defiance, and rebellion. Freedom for comrade Mónica Caballero and all anarchist political prisoners! Down with the walls of the prisons!

Editorial Group, Anarchist Newspaper, EL SOL ÁCRATA

ESA: In the interview conducted by La Zarzamora (March 2, 2026), we learned that the Gendarmerie are still refusing to grant you parole, despite the fact that you meet the requirements to obtain it. What has your situation been like in prison from March through August 2026?

MONICA: My situation in prison has remained largely unchanged over the past few months, except that, in recent weeks, some internal matters have been changing for the entire prison population.

These changes are part of the current government’s prison policies, which are gradually restricting matters such as the intake of permitted items and reducing the amount of money allowed in, among other things… Perhaps… some of the people reading these words don’t think it’s a big deal that prisoners can only receive half a UTM, but within daily prison life, these restrictions drastically alter the conditions and quality of life for thousands of people. And although this is not an issue that directly affects me (at least at this time), I cannot help but take this opportunity to express my concern about the possibility that prison models, such as that of the recently inaugurated “La Laguna” prison in the city of Talca, will be replicated.

ESA: Has there been any progress in your legal case?

MONICA: My legal situation could change in the coming months; at least I am taking every step within my power to make that happen. I recently applied for all available prison benefits (weekday release, etc.).

Over the years, I had chosen NOT to take advantage of these programs—or rather, to try to leave prison on a “partial” basis—since this means that if I’m granted permission to be outside the prison for a few hours, I have to return on my own… meaning that, one way or another, I’d have to go back into the cage that keeps me locked up of my own free will.

I’m not going to lie to you—just thinking about this situation makes me very uneasy. But, unfortunately, if I want to achieve any change that will radically transform my prison situation, I have to try to get granted “progressive release” into the community.

ESA: How has the overall prison situation evolved during the Kast administration with regard to political prisoners?

MÓNICA: As I mentioned earlier, in my case, my prison conditions haven’t changed significantly under this administration—in other words, I’ve been subject to the same repressive measures that have been imposed on the entire prison population. But I think we can’t rule out the possibility that, in the relatively near future, certain prisoners—those of us who position ourselves as opponents of the economic, political, and social system and act accordingly—will be subject to specific restrictions or a specific prison regime.

It wouldn’t be surprising if they tried to create a model similar to Spain’s FIES¹, which classifies certain types of prisoners into categories to exercise more effective control.

SA: What has been the Gendarmerie’s attitude toward political prisoners since March 2026?

MÓNICA: To add to what was said earlier, this administration’s prison policies have been implemented gradually; as a result, they are less disruptive to the prison population. This approach is not unique to this administration; the previous one acted in a very similar manner. In addition to these recent prison measures, we must also consider the changes brought about by the criminal prosecutions against networks of corrupt prison officials and the massive escape from the (former) Penitentiary.² All of these events I’ve mentioned are forcing the prison system to readjust its security measures.

This scenario is becoming the perfect breeding ground for the jailers of the powerful to give free rein to their masters’ most perverse desires. This government constantly promotes the idea that those who endanger the precious security of good citizens are the ones who don’t conform to the norms of this system of terror, and that these people (apparently everyone?) are part of organized crime. Therefore, it’s necessary to lock them up in large prisons; and for those already imprisoned, the best course of action seems to be to reduce their already limited freedom of movement by confining them in maximum or high-security prisons.

ESA: In light of the daily police repression against the high school student movement (which is predominantly made up of female compañeras) and the legal proceedings against detained students, what message would you share with the students currently protesting?

MÓNICA: I would tell them to take care of themselves!! To learn from experience—from the successes and mistakes of those who came before them. That they will face (and are already facing!) a very difficult historical period; their enemies are strong and have far more resources than they do, so they should never underestimate them.

Finally, I would tell them that consistency and the unwavering belief that they are fighting for things that are just or necessary is a victory! Prepare yourselves ideologically so that you can forge firm foundations that will not crumble no matter how many blows you receive, and always move forward without neglecting individual development within the collective. Only the free association of organized individuals in pursuit of concrete actions fosters the greatest potential of everyone!

ESA: We would also like to ask you about the importance of keeping present the historical example of revolutionary determination in our female comrades—such as Luisa Toledo, Herminia Concha and so many others—in the daily struggle we’re facing right now?

MÓNICA: I could fill several pages with this question… so I’ll try to be brief.

There’s so much to say about our comrades Herminia and Luisa, but I think it’s important to point out that their political experiences are radically different.

Comrade Herminia Concha³ was a woman who, from a very young age, actively participated in political-military groups. I would venture to say that she was a pivotal figure in various struggles against the oppressive system throughout South America. Later, she was involved in numerous initiatives to build historical memory within her community, as well as in dozens of demonstrations in solidarity with those being persecuted or imprisoned by the State. I believe that all of us who knew Herminia will cherish the memory of her walking down the Alameda with her banner, “End the Anti-Terrorist Law. ¡La Pincoya Presente! ”

Luisa Toledo⁴, for her part, was a woman who deeply moved many of us. The strength of someone who lived through the pain of losing three sons to murder is difficult to describe. The mother of the Vergara-Toledo brothers became a vital figure for generations of us who want to dismantle this system of terror because of her tireless fight for the memory of her sons, a fight that I feel transformed into a fight for the memory of every young person who died in combat. Luisa’s pain, her rage, and her strength… became love, a love for those of us who fight.

So, if you ask me about the importance of the participation of these women—and of so many others who made an immeasurable contribution to the daily struggle—it is because they, their lives, their examples, their experiences, and so on… are in some way part of those of us who, day after day, dedicate ourselves to and live our lives within the struggle(s). At least that’s how I feel, and I want to believe that in some way I, too, am making my own contribution to the continuation of the struggle I’m waging today.

To conclude… I’ve mentioned this before: hetero-patriarchy affects us all, but not with the same intensity or in the same way. The conditions of domination experienced by those of us who are not cisgender heterosexual men are more intense, profound, and brutal. Therefore, the fact that women like those already mentioned have subverted the role assigned to them by those in power is truly remarkable.

ESA: What is your opinion on the participation and determination of the various anti-authoritarian media in solidarity with the anarchist political prisoners of the Chilean region and the world?

MÓNICA: First of all, if it weren’t for the anti-authoritarian media, everything—absolutely everything—that we anarchist prisoners think and experience would remain locked up here with us, and one of the greatest desires of those in power would be achieved: to silence us and make us forgotten.

Personally, whenever I’ve been able to or had the chance, I promote anti-authoritarian ideas by all means, but my efforts can be easily thwarted by locking me up, so the work of spreading these ideas falls to my comrades.

At the same time, one of the greatest tools we anarchist prisoners possess is Mutual Aid. I don’t want to sound cliché, but I truly believe this and live by it. I say this because, if anywhere in the world a comrade in prison experiences abuse or reprisals, this situation will be publicized and it is very likely that there will be a response. This is very important for those of us trapped within the jaws of the prison system. While, as I said, the participation of our media outlets is fundamental to solidarity with prisoners, I am critical of our structural deficiencies in maintaining these outlets over time, as well as in their qualitative and quantitative development.

FREEDOM FOR MÓNICA CABALLERO

& ALL ANARCHIST AND SUBVERSIVE

PRISONERS AROUND THE WORLD!

Notes:

1. FIES (Ficheros de Internos de Especial Seguimiento) is a restrictive Spanish prison regime of solitary confinement first imposed on armed struggle revolutionaries such as captured members of the ETA, then extended to rebel prisoners generally. FIES is similar to Italy’s 41-bis regime, currently applied to prisoners like Alfredo Cospito.

2. On February 25, 2026, subversive prisoner Tomás González, along with another prisoner, escaped el Centro de Detención Preventiva Santiago Sur, one of the oldest prisons in Chile known as “la ex or la antigua Penitenciaría.” Tomás was sentenced to more than 21 years in prison (16 years for shooting at police officers to avoid arrest in May 2022) and 5 years (for possession of a Molotov cocktail).

“I cherish every moment in which I can learn alongside my comrades from the experiences that different generations have shared, based on solidarity and humility. Nothing is over, because the task continues, always contributing in concrete ways. Those who live fighting walk, forging paths wherever they may be, and as autonomous and undocumented individuals, that is our horizon.” — Tomas González Quezada

3. Herminia Concha first joined the Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR) in the 1950’s, then the 2nd of April Movement—which emerged as a result of the so-called “Battle of Santiago”—and later the Rebel Front. In 1961, she led the land occupation at the former Santa Adriana farm, contributing to the creation of what is now the Santa Adriana settlement. In 1965, she helped found the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), where—together with Víctor Toro—she helped form the Movimiento de Pobladores Revolucionarios (MPR), the grassroots base of the newly founded MIR. She also participated in land occupations and spearheaded the organization Sin Casa in La Pincoya.

As a result of the military coup, she first faced imprisonment and then exile in Sweden. She was an active participant in solidarity with the Sandinista revolution and took up arms to help fight the Contras. When nationwide protests broke out in 1983, she returned to Chile and became involved in fighting against the dictatorship. The 2000’s found her fighting for the freedom of political prisoners held by the Concertación government and the national self-determination of the Mapuche people.

4. Luisa Toledo was the mother of the Vergara-Toledo brothers, members of the MIR who were murdered by the Carabineros de Chile during the military dictatorship. Luisa was also active in the Villa Francia neighborhood resistance to the military coup. Every March 29 in Chile, revolutionaries take action for El Día del joven combatiente, commemorating the 1985 assassination of Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo.

Certain Days: The 2027 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar — Our Duty to Win

Now in its 26th year of publication, the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is required reading for radicals, leftists, and all who support political prisoners and advocate the end of mass incarceration. 

Order next year’s calendar at:
https://burningbooks.com/products/certain-days-the-2027-freedom-for-political-prisoners-calendar-pre-order

All proceeds support prisoners and grassroots organizations like Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP), Mutulu Shakur legal support, Sundiata Acoli release fund, Palestinian Youth Movement, Puget Sound Prisoner Support, Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois, Appalachians Against Pipelines, Community Resource Initiative-CA, P4W Memorial Collective Prisoners’ Justice Day healing circle, Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Fund, Cascadia Forest Defenders and NorCal Resist.

Each calendar has 11 thought-provoking essays and 12 pieces of beautiful art. You’ll feel inspired every day of the year, with radical historical dates and lots of space for your own plans.

This year’s calendar features:

Anna Bee • Bänoo Zan • Coordinadora Anarquista Tejiendo Libertad • Dani Kriatura • David Gilbert • Tiger Eye Gemini • Epigmenio Gomez & Annabelle Heckler • JP Werline • Kimberly Cox-Marshall • Kwaneta Harris • Leo Rose Rodriguez • Luisa Tapetillo • Mica • MJ Hammond • Prison Banned Books Week • Nicole Rose • Oso Blanco • Rhys • Rick Ayers • Ruby • Ruby Reyes • Solidarity Apothecary • Winsor Kinkade • Xinachtli

The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers across North America and current and former political prisoners, including currently imprisoned Xinachtli (s/n Alvaro Luna Hernandez) in Texas. We were happy to welcome founding members Herman Bell and Robert Seth Hayes (Rest in Power) home from prison in 2018, and David Gilbert in 2021, each of whom spent over forty years behind bars. All of the current members of the outside collective are grounded in day-to-day organizing work other than the calendar, on issues ranging from legal aid to community media, radical education to prisoner solidarity. We work from an anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti- capitalist, feminist, queer- and trans-liberationist position. All proceeds from the calendar go to abolitionist organizations working for a better world.

Virtual Calendar Launch: A Generation of Political Prisoner Support and Archiving Resistance — Monday, November 2, 2026 via the San Francisco Public Library

Join calendar founders and former political prisoners Herman Bell and David Gilbert, former political prisoner and Freedom Archives co-founder Claude Marks, former political prisoner and calendar contributor Laura Whitehorn, and calendar contributor, lifelong organizer, and prisoner supporter dequi kioni-sadiki, in a conversation moderated by Certain Days collective member Josh Davidson.

Free The Prairieland Prisoners! Free Them All!

Ricochets

An investigation by The Intercept looks into how the Prairieland Jury was precluded from hearing evidence surrounding the alleged shooting which undermines the state’s narrative and the attempted murder charge against Champagne Song.

From the article:

During closing arguments … Phillip Hayes, Song’s attorney, raised what he said was a major flaw in the government’s depiction of what happened: Song never aimed his weapon at the police officer. Relying on evidence introduced by the prosecution — a photograph of the bullet, witness testimony, and CCTV footage of the incident — Hayes said his client never intended to shoot Alvarado Police Department Lt. Thomas Gross.

Rather, Hayes said, Song fired his weapon at the ground and the bullet ricocheted off a hard surface before striking the officer just below the neck. That would explain the plumes of dust that were visible in the video. According to Hayes, the only photo of the bullet, which appears severely bent and with several missing fragments, backs up the theory.

Free Mari!

Maricela Rueda’s sister posted a renewed call to raise funds to help with legal fees for her upcoming state trial. Donations so far have gone to caring for Mari’s daughter, who has been without her mother’s daily love at a formative time in her life. Now we must raise more for Mari’s state trial!

Mari has also regularly been contributing to Prison Radio, where you can listen to her commentaries and poems.

Every Letter a Little Jailbreak

Write to the non-cooperating Prairieland prisoners:

Autumn Hill

Johnson County Jail, TX
Cameron Arnold, 202502023
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Champagne Song

Johnson County Jail, TX
Benjamin Hanil Song, 202502108
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Des Revol

Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada
#95099-511
FCI Victorville Medium II
Federal Correctional Institution
PO Box 3850
Adelanto, CA 92301

Liz Soto

Johnson County Jail, TX
Elizabeth Soto, 202502014
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Ines Soto

Johnson County Jail, TX
Ines Soto, 202502008
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Joy Gibson

Johnson County Detention Center, TX
Joy Gibson, 202502016
PO Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Mari Rueda

Johnson County Jail, TX
Maricela Rueda, 202502018
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Rebecca Morgan

Johnson County Jail, TX
Rebecca Morgan, 202502109
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Savanna Batten

Johnson County Jail, TX
Savanna Batten, 202502020
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Zachary Evetts

Johnson County Jail, TX
Zachary Evetts, 202502013
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

As always, letter writing zines are available to print and share:

Support the Prairieland Prisoners: Sentencing Statements:

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Support the Prairieland Prisoners!:

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No Collaboration

With collaborator and snitch Meagan Morris receiving media attention and sparking wider conversations about our radical struggles’ relationship to baselines of solidarity, we encourage readers to return to some of the militant reflections published in “No Collaboration”: Responses to Fire Ant Movement Defense:

“Nothing for Snitches: For a Revolutionary Anti-Repression“

“Learning From the Lines Drawn in the Sand: A Response to
Fire Ant Movement Defense”

“No Way Home” Eric King

“In Defense of Dignity,” Peppy & Krystal

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Minnesota 15

Defend the Minnesota 15! October 3rd Day of Solidarity!

The Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee is calling for a day of solidarity with the Minnesota 15:

Abolish ICE! Return the abducted and deported! Drop the charges!

15 activists have been federally indicted for their role in the Twin Cities’ historic movement against ICE. The Trump regime wants to make an example of them to stop us all from fighting back.

On Saturday, October 3rd, the Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee is calling for an international day of solidarity actions to show the regime we will not back down. Plan an action at your local ICE office or federal building!

The raids on the Minnesota 15, part of the state’s escalation of terror and repression against movements for liberation, are intended both to individualize blame for militant mass resistance to ICE in the streets of Minneapolis as a “conspiracy,” while attempting to intimidate wider networks of struggle into silence and submission. It won’t work. The Minneapolis 15 will be free and the struggle will continue.

Recently, revelations of the state’s repressive tactics have come to light, such as DHS facial recognition software, mass surveillance, and undercover infiltration. Meanwhile, solidarity continues to blossom, while more Minnesota 15 defendants speak up. Read more below.

“Operation Puppet Master”

Defense for the Minnesota 15 have shared some of the discovery that has been released, detailing the state’s massive surveillance, infiltration, and intimidation apparatus against those engaged in the struggle against ICE. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called it “Operation Puppet Master.” Recent articles have since been released detailing some of the state’s tactics—from facial recognition AI software to undercovers and Signal chat infiltration.

Unicorn Riot has made public many of the discovery files: https://vault.unicornriot.ninja/MN-15-discovery/

From Unicorn Riot on the use of facial recognition software:

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has deployed an aggressive facial recognition apparatus for monitoring and tracking domestic political dissidents, raising questions about why an agency created after 9/11 to fight the global war on terrorism is now maintaining centralized dossiers on ordinary American protesters.

Four days after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge, HSI began Operation Puppet Master, their undercover spying campaign that netted conspiracy charges against 15 people who allegedly took part in protesting against ICE.

An HSI undercover agent, embedded inside the Signal group chat Whipple Watch, downloaded a selfie posted by Isaac Sant.

The photo shows Sant’s face bruised from rubber bullets. The agent uploaded the selfie to Clearview AI’s facial recognition database that turned it into a dossier.

“I was dismayed, but I wasn’t surprised,” Sant said. “HSI are a bunch of bozos and Keystone Cops that don’t know what the hell they’re doing.”

Kevin Riach, Sant’s attorney, revealed the breadth of the sprawling surveillance campaign, which targeted not the agents who shot and killed Alex Pretti, but protesters, union members, and activists who organized at churches, schools, and libraries.

Clearview AI boasts that its software can scrape over 30 billion images shared openly across various dead links and social media platforms, oftentimes without the consent of those photographed.

Riach said the government produced only a fraction of the Clearview AI facial recognition search results it generated on protesters and activists during Operation Metro Surge, arguing that all results should be disclosed.

“HSI employed Clearview AI as an investigative tool in this case,” Riach wrote. “The government has produced only two Clearview AI search results related to Project Whipple Shield and Operation Puppet Master.”

“It’s indicative of the type of sweeping dragnet surveillance that they’re putting the entire community under,” said Sant.

The facial recognition search results on Sant’s bruised selfie turned up images from past protests:

Sant at 1000 Durbans International Climate Justice Day rally in Los Angeles, 15 years ago December 3, 2011

Sant holding a sign quoting labor organizer August Spies last words at a demonstration supporting Chelsea Manning 13 years ago at Fort Meade.

Sant with filmmaker Boots Riley at Johns Hopkins University after releasing the dark comedy film Sorry to Bother You.

A photo of his arrest at the Disrupt J20 inauguration protests on Jan. 20, 2017 published in Buzzfeed.

A photo of Sant with Defending Rights & Dissent policy director Chip Gibbons, Manning and activists from Defend J20 Resistance and Free Press on April 10, 2018.

Unicorn Riot interviewed Gus a week after he was arrested and charged, which you can watch here: [Vimeo link | YouTube link]

A recent article in The Guardian also goes into depth on the files disclosing “Operation Puppet Master,” which involved sending undercover agents to community meetings, infiltrating Signal chats, and obtaining financial records of left-leaning non-profit organizations and unions:

Undercover agent 9843, who went by the name “peanutbutterjelly” in the Signal chats of organizers, worked for HSI, the investigative arm of ICE, records show. In December 2025, the agent was deployed to “participate” in virtual and in-person meetings, records show. The agent’s objective was to “gather intelligence regarding any organized networks of conspirators – operating online and in person – who may be providing material support to violent opportunists and individuals engaged in impeding federal law enforcement”, DHS summarized in a February report.

The undercover agent attended a virtual “ICE watch” training on 3 December during which community members discussed how to monitor ICE officers’ activities. Organizers at the meeting “urged participants to observe nonviolently and obey law enforcement commands”, DHS said. The agent attended another “legal observer” training in person four days later, reporting there were no signs of “threats to public safety”.

The undercover agent was not just a passive observer in activist groups. In December, the agent got involved with advocates organizing protests at hotels where ICE agents were believed to be staying, with the agent offering to “assist with verifying the locations”, records show. In one Signal chat, the agent wrote: “also v interested in the financial organizing piece (I like numbers and data) & marrying that together with propaganda so would love to work on both sides of these groups!!” It was unclear what the agent was referencing. In other messages, the agent also offered to help with fundraising, hanging posters and designing flyers.

A DHS report labeled “Images from UCA [undercover agent] 9843’s phone” described photos and screenshots taken by the agent. The agent screenshotted a message about finding housing for members with Veterans for Peace, an advocacy group. The agent also kept records of messages about a march planned by a rightwing influencer and discussions of a counter demonstration. The agent further screenshotted a selfie one protester sent in a Signal group and recorded chats about signing up for an “ICE Out of MN” event.

Solidarity with the Minnesota 15!

Shane Burley in a recent article shared some of the motivations and challenges facing the Minnesota 15 Defense Committee, as solidarity against state repression continues to blossom both locally and internationally.

From “The Movement to Defend the Minneapolis 15”:

“A lot of what the defense committee is trying to do is bring attention to the fact that this happened and show support for these people,” said Emily, a Minneapolis organizer who is a part of the defense committee and asked that only her first name be used for fear of government reprisal.

When activists are arrested, they are at a huge disadvantage in terms of resources and finances. A defense committee is critical to pooling community connections and skills that can support them as they head towards trial.

Because legal costs and the expenses of other consequences from facing such extraordinary charges can become insurmountable, creating a fundraiser was the first order of business. The fund had reached over $390,000 as of Aug. 27. Immediate support is often the next priority: helping the defendants pay their rent, get groceries and figure out day-to-day needs, particularly since in this case the defendants were ordered to have no communication with each other by the court.

“I think that’s another reason they’re doing this is to scare people that this could happen to you if you do anything to protect your neighbors,” Emily said. “You could be facing legal charges and have to go through that process, which could take months, if not [longer].”

This is why Mac says “the process is the punishment,” since the time and money it takes to even win a case, or see it through until it is dismissed, can be enormous. Since the evidence includes things most of the city was doing, the slogan “Minnesota, the land of 100,000 unindicted codefendants” has spread.

While financial and legal support are absolutely critical, so, too, is ensuring that the defendants stay a part of the public conversation and are supported by larger institutional players. Some members of the defense committee work with the media, while others connect with community groups. And as members of unions, the co-defendants have a built-in base of support.

“Today, the Trump administration is trying to criminalize those who speak up for their neighbors — trashing civil liberties, transparency and accountability — and then pepper spraying those who dare to call them out,” said Randi Weingarten, the national president of American Federation of Teachers, of which Thoreson’s union is an affiliate.

Union membership is mentioned in the indictment, as is the historic Jan. 23 general strike, which suggests that labor activism is part of why the Minneapolis 15 were singled out. Unions have played an especially large role in the movement against ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis, above and beyond that single-day strike. Unions like Unite HERE helped to transport vulnerable immigrant workers to and from work, and others, like CWA Local 7250 and SEIU Local 26, built mutual aid networks to support those who couldn’t work for fear of ICE arrest. The Minneapolis Federation of Educators had one of the most central roles, working with parents to prevent ICE arrests at schools by establishing hundreds of weekly watch shifts each week.

Most movements that have faced extreme legal repression, from the Black Panthers to the New Left, have had to maintain long-term support for political prisoners. These efforts are necessary to help to ensure that no one is left behind, though they can require significant time and financial resources. But they also help the larger project survive, which in this case means maintaining the systems of mutual aid and direct action that activists are invested in.

“It would be tragic to see all the work we’ve done get hamstrung by this politically repressive move,” said Mac, echoing what other defendants have said: The best form of support is to continue to defend our communities.

“[We need to] keep on going and doing what we have been doing — organizing, developing decentralized local groups that can have each other’s backs, so that when something happens again, we have this protection — and to continue to get unions involved,” said Emily, in a point echoed by the defendants.

The committee is eyeing upcoming court dates over pretrial discovery motions that will determine how widely the state can cast its evidentiary net. Discovery can be punitive in the same way that the length and cost of a court case can. The process can be used to pull private conversations and information about dissidents into the public record. This can include conversations and internet activity that range from embarrassing to incriminating, often forcing activists to go through a painfully humiliating process of exposure that leads them open to further repression. Putting limits on that is a priority for the committee.

Meanwhile, over 100 people gathered in solidarity inside and outside the federal courthouse for an August 27 hearing on a motion by the defense to get the government to release more of its evidence in the case against the Minnesota 15 (in addition to the latest documents detailing the massive surveillance apparatus against anyone standing up against ICE).

From Fight Back News,

After the hearing, some of the defendants spoke at a press conference, including Isaac Sant, who stated, “They were spying on us from day one. In fact, five days before Operation Metro Surge was declared, they began spying on our organizations. They had a directive to get out there and find ‘Antifa.’” Sant continued, “If it wasn’t us on trial, it was going to be one of you.” He concluded, “This is a politically-motivated prosecution, and I believe we’re going to win, and this is going to be thrown out.”

Another defendant of the Minnesota 15 spoke out, joining other defendants in going public with their struggle:

“One piece of evidence they’re using against me is that I donated to a GoFundMe for a colleague of mine whose brother was deported very suddenly. This was a GoFundMe everyone in my school had donated to,” Thoreson explained. “How many people in Minneapolis donated to a GoFundMe over Metro Surge? If that is the kind of evidence they’re looking for, everybody needs to be watching this, because they could be next.”

For Thoreson, her actions were not about creating chaos or bringing harm to anyone, but showing up for her community. As a part of her union, the Minneapolis Federation of Educators (MFE), she helped get a deportation defense committee off the ground. The group began in November 2024, right after Donald Trump was reelected president, and faced a lot of pushback. “People didn’t want to believe that the government would ever send ICE anywhere near children,” Thoreson said.

Their mission was to push MPS to develop a policy that addressed what to do if ICE ever showed up on school property, and the policy–which included remote learning availability for children who couldn’t come to school out of fear–was eventually released with Thoreson’s help. On top of this, the union held Know Your Rights training sessions for staff and families, and deferral of parent authority (DOPA) clinics, which would allow a family to delegate their child’s welfare to their educator.

Treasure also shared her reflections upon walking out of the courthouse (with a fist in the air) after all 15 plead not guilty:

Thoreson said none of them hesitated about making their plea. “These charges assume a violent intent, which there never was. I’m proud of how I showed up for my school, for my union, for my neighborhood, for Minneapolis, and I think it’s pretty laughable for the government to think that they’re going to slow things down by taking 15 of us.”

The MN15 Wants Your Art

From the Defense Committee:

Do you like to make stuff? Do you hate fascism? If you answered yes to both, consider making some artwork about or inspired by the @minnesota.15

We gotta post regularly to keep eyes on the case, so we’d love it if you’d help us! DM us your art and tell us how you’d like to be credited. 🖤

Court Support & Rally

From the Defense Committee:

On January 23, Minnesota workers and community members brought Minneapolis to a halt with a general strike, forcing Trump’s ICE operation to retreat. Now the Department of Homeland Security is trying to punish that resistance by charging 15 activists on baseless grounds.

The strike showed what people can accomplish when unions, and communities organize together. We need that same solidarity to defend the Minnesota 15 and push back against political repression. If these charges go unanswered, the government will feel emboldened to target others for exercising their right to protest.

Join us at the West Palm Beach courthouse on Saturday, October 3 to demand that the charges be dropped and help build a mass defense movement.

Please show up, if you’re able, to support Kyle!

Michigan 8

The Michigan 8 are charged with multiple counts of conspiracy to transmit a threat in interstate or foreign commerce. Two are also charged with witness intimidation and one with destruction of property to prevent seizure. They face decades in prison. The charges stem from allegations of graffiti and property damage at the offices and homes of weapons developers, political organizations, and University of Michigan officials that materially contribute to the genocide in Palestine. The charges are part of a long history of repression of the movement for Palestine in the US. The case also comes as part of a more recent wave of federal repression from Prairieland to Minnesota and beyond which seek to crush movements for justice and liberation.

This month saw FBI visits, grand jury subpoenas, and repression in the court. Read the statements of those affected below.

State Moves for Protective Order to Seal Discovery

From the Michigan 8 Support Committee:

On Wednesday [September 10], Judge Judith E. Levy heard arguments on the Department of Justice’s motion for a protective order in the case of the Michigan 8, noting it to be overly broad. The government’s proposed protective order would seal discovery, preventing defendants from viewing it without their lawyers or discussing it with anyone other than their legal teams.

The order would make it prohibitively difficult for the legal teams to prepare a defense given the nearly 11 terabytes of discovery.

In addition, three defendants won motions for less restrictive bond conditions.

“The government’s protective order is ridiculous. They hope to use this maneuver to silence discussion of the evidence because their case rests on a distorted narrative that is detached from reality. It is our job to help everyone see what this case is really about: an attempt to criminalize the movement for Palestine and to protect the investments of US institutions in the genocide, including the investments of this University.”

— Yarden Azoulay Katz, a faculty member at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“At the end of the day, we are here because the University of Michigan has cultivated material ties to genocide and occupation and refuses to divest. The University invests millions of dollars in weapons and other repressive tools of the occupation. This is why UM continues to use every tool at its disposal, from institutional discipline to successive rounds of county, state, and now federal criminal charges to attempt to silence those who call for divestment.”

— Natalie Chen, a graduate student at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan Grad Student Union Served Grand Jury Subpoena

From the UM Grad Student Union:

On August 11, 2026, the federal government served a federal grand jury subpoena to the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) Local 3550. The federal government initially attempted to serve the subpoena via Federal Express (FedEx) on August 11 but, because the federal court rules require hand-delivery to the Union, the document was not officially served. GEO retained attorneys who filed a “motion to quash” the subpoena on August 20.

The subpoena demands a huge swath of documents dating back to January 2023, including a list of members, a list of current and former officers, membership and executive board meeting notes, all staff personnel records, and financial records. Like many subpoenas, this scope is incredibly broad. The motion to quash challenged the breadth and time period of the subpoena and the failure to properly serve. (After the motion to quash was filed, the government did ultimately hand-serve the subpoena).

The subpoena was issued by prosecutor Maggie Smith and FBI special agent Kara Phipps, who are connected with the “Michigan 8” case that is seeking to criminalize protest activity and escalate the use of federal criminal charges against protesters speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. In addition, the subpoena was signed the day we defeated politically motivated and baseless charges against our Union President, Hiab Teshome.

A grand jury is a tool the State can use to punish and dissuade dissent. Grand juries, which operate in secret, often function as fishing expeditions for law enforcement. They are an exception from the typical checks and balances on the justice system, with investigations shrouded in secrecy and prosecutors presenting information to juries without the presence of a judge. Grand jury subpoenas are often used to force individuals or organizations into revealing information for these investigations.

This is the latest attempt within a broader effort to intimidate and repress GEO, and now is the time to organize, strengthen our community, and fight back. Our employer, the University of Michigan, has collaborated with the federal government to carry out the most extreme form of workplace repression because our principles are unwavering. The goal of this attack is to divide us, disorganize us, and make us feel weak and powerless; we are being targeted precisely because the University and government know the power we hold when we stand together.

From county level charges to state charges and now federal charges, the University of Michigan appears to be working hand in hand with the Trump administration to escalate the repression of our Union and wage a larger attack against the labor movement. Across the country, organizations, including other labor unions, have faced similar acts of intimidation and repression. Communities like our own are being targeted for standing against fascism and state violence. We stand in solidarity with all those who are being targeted as we do our part to stand up to both the federal government and the University of Michigan, because an attack on one is an attack on all.

A union is simply a group of workers who decide to act collectively — and there is power in a union. We are committed to protecting one another, fighting for our rights, and responding to this attack as we approach every fight: collectively and grounded in solidarity. We fight for safe and dignified working conditions for all grad students, which means fighting to protect our international coworkers and fighting for divestment from war and genocide, even when when the University and Trump Administration seek to silence us. The workers and community members make this University run, and they should never forget where the real power lies.

Repression Update: Recent FBI Visits

From the Michigan 8 Support Committee:

Over the last three weeks, the FBI has visited at least five people at their homes and workplaces in southeast Michigan.

These visits are all related to pro-Palestine activism around the University Michigan and the case against the Michigan 8.

In most of these cases, people invoked their 5th amendment rights and did not say anything. In at least one case, a person was questioned about the Ruthven occupation of fall 2023.

FBI door knocks are a common tactic to fish for information to use as evidence in criminal cases or to attempt to charge other people.

These FBI visits are being used as a way to intimidate our community. They are trying to isolate individuals and pressure them to give information.

We have seen techniques like house visits and door knocks used over the past three years of organizing as a way to infiltrate the movement and organizations.

The best way to protect our movement and be in solidarity with one another is to not talk to the cops. Even if the questions seem innocuous, any information can be used for incrimination and repression.

Some tips for if you are visited by the FBI

Don’t open the door. You have the right to not speak to law enforcement and protection against unlawful search and seizure.

Invoke your 5th amendment right to remain silent.

Tape up a Wall of Resistance page or Know Your Rights fliers on your door: bit.ly/WallofResistance

Write down what they ask you about, the time of their visit, the name and agency of the officer.

Share this information with michigan8defense@proton.me so that others can be better prepared if they get a visit.

Stop Cop City / Defend the Atlanta Forest

Drop the Charges!

In August 2026, Sam Tunick was detained by the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol on his way back from a vacation, targeted for his participation in the Stop Cop City movement. Officers confiscated his phone, refusing him access to his lawyer and demanding the password to Sam’s phone. Officers didn’t read him his Miranda rights, either. Now, Trump’s Department of Justice has filed bogus charges against Sam, alleging that the password he offered “destroyed” the data on his phone. Now Sam is facing retaliation at work.

From Sam’s supporters:

Hours before Sam Tunick was supposed to teach his first class at Georgia State University, the administration notified him that they’d rescinded his employment offer. This decision also revoked Sam’s tuition waiver, jeopardizing his education. Inspired by multiple cases of graduate students and faculty fighting university-level political repression, friends and supporters marched with Sam to the Dean of Students office yesterday and delivered a letter demanding his reinstatement.

It is not the university’s job to interpret or adjudicate the laws of tyrants.

To GSU, we say: Reinstate Sam!
To the courts, we say: Drop the charges!

Free All Antifa Prisoners!

Free Gino!

French courts confirmed anti-fascist Gino’s extradition to Germany as part of the Budapest case on September 30.

From AG Antifasciste Nantes:

Every year thousands of fascists gather in Budapest. Crowds of people nostalgic for Hitler openly parade in Nazi uniforms to celebrate the “Day of Honor,” when Nazi troops and the Hungarian allies tried to flee the city when they were besieged by the Red Army in 1945.

In 2023, like every year, anti-fascist counter-protests were organized in Hungary. That year, clashes broke out between neo-Nazis and anti-fascist militants. Recounting the facts matters little to us. We are not judges and we don’t want our words to affect the defense of our comrades.

An investigation was then opened, launching a crackdown on anti-fascists. 3 people were arrested the same day including 2 who were immediately locked up in Hungarian jails. European arrest warrants were also issued by the Hungarian regime. By collaborating with the Hungarian and Italian governments (Italy also participated in hunting down targeted anti-fascists), the German authorities took advantage of this affair to initiate the “Antifa OST” trials, since defendants in the case were also targeted in the Budapest investigations.

Gabriele was arrested in Italy and Maja was extradited to Hungary by Germany in June 2024. Since, there haven’t been any further extraditions to Hungary but a trial has taken place in Germany, since the presumed (neo-Nazi) victims are German. This is why Germany is demanding the extradition of the activists facing charges.

In response, the French courts have accepted handing over Gino (they had refused to extradite him to Hungary in 2025).

Although the potential prison sentences and prison conditions are less severe (though still inhumane) in Germany than in Hungary, nothing indicates with certainty that Germany won’t eventually hand over those facing charges to Hungary. As revolutionary anti-fascists, we will never welcome charges—anywhere—against our comrades. They are accused of aggravated assault, participation in a criminal organization, and attempted murder.

Currently, 6 activists have been on trial in Dusseldorf since January 2026 in a trial that will last no more than a year. With abnormally severe security measures, defense lawyers have described it as a show trial seeking to criminalize anti-fascism as much as undermine revolutionary movements.

The extensive collaboration between European states and the sheer scale of the trial is telling. In one of the most reactionary countries in Europe, neo-Nazi marches are protected politically while those who struggle against the ideological descendants of Nazism are systematically repressed in order to extinguish the slightest revolutionary spark. European states that claim to be more democratic are all aligned with these policies. It’s easy to guess which ideology they would choose if they were forced to.

Faced with this, anti-fascism finds itself confined to social democracy in order to remain electoralist, “respectable,” and compliant with the rules fixed by oppressive states, thereby fabricating a separation between “good” and “bad” anti-fascists as can be seen in the Lyon Affair and the death of Q. Deranque.

This uproar against anti-fascism gives way to different kinds of revisionism, effacing memory in order to facilitate the acceptance of even the most reactionary demonstrations.

Against this abhorrent politics, we affirm an unflinching solidarity with all anti-fascist comrades repressed, hunted down, locked up from Budapest to Lyon, Paris to Dusseldorf and everywhere else in the world. Despite what the oppressive powers are doing to make you believe you are isolated, you aren’t alone.

For Gino and all others: international solidarity.

Free Maja! Free Gabrielle! Free Anna!

On the same day, in Budapest, the appeals court sentenced antifascists Maja T. to seven years in prison, Gabriele M. to six years, and upheld Anna M.’s two-year sentence in connection with the same case. Maja T., who was illegally extradited from Germany to Hungary in June 2024, has been detained in Hungary ever since. Protests continue in support of Gino, Zaid, Maja T., and the other anti-fascists facing charges in connection with the events in Budapest. In particular, a solidarity rally brought together hundreds of people at the Bourse du Travail in Paris, followed by a demonstration through the streets of the French capital, while similar events were organized in Milan and Berlin.

Free Lina!

Antifascist militant Lina E. was released on bail after around 2 and a half months in pre-trial detention, which was ordered by the Dresden Higher Regional Court for her refusal to testify in court proceedings linked to the “Antifa OST” case. On Wednesday the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe suspended the detention order pending its decision on the constitutional appeal filed by her lawyer after the rejection of a prior appeal by the Federal Court of Justice. Her pre-trial detention order, intended to force her to testify, was set at 6 months with a fine of 750 euros. The Constitutional Court has yet to examine the constitutional issues raised by the case; her release remains provisional, for a maximum duration of 6 months.

Sentenced to 5 years and 3 months in prison in 2023, Lina invoked the risk of self-incrimination and facing further prosecution. In Dresden, another anti-fascist had already been detained for 6 months in March 2026 for refusing to testify in the Antifa OST trial. The “Antifa OST” trial is targeting seven militants accused of belonging to a “criminal organization” responsible for several actions against neo-Nazis between 2018 and 2020.

Palestine Action

Filton 25 Trial 3

Free the Filton 25 is gearing up for the 3rd trial of Palestine Actionists in the UK who are accused of sabotaging Israeli weapons manufacturers.

Meet the defendants of Trial 3, starting their trial at Woolwich Crown Court September 21st 2026. Each accused of the honour of taking direct action to save lives.

Qesser Zuhrah

Served 458 days in prison without being convicted of anything.

Qesser was raided at dawn 19th November 2024 when she was just 19 years old. She is an undergrad UCL social science student who loves history, politics and is unwavering in her commitment to global liberation. Qesser enjoys reading and writing poetry, political analysis and historical books such as One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad, Perfect Victims by Mohammed El-Kurd, I Saw Ramallah and Greater than The Sum of Our Parts by Nada Elia. She also has a great sense of humor!

Whilst in prison Qesser went on hunger strike for 48 days which ended in victory for the hunger strikers.

“There is nothing, absolutely nothing more urgent upon us than the pursuit of justice. The pursuit of life. The pursuit of liberation.”

Heba Muraisi

Served 458 days in prison without being convicted of anything.

Heba was taken into custody on November 19th 2024, and initially held, and interrogated under ‘anti-terror’ legislation, before being remanded in custody for a non-terrorism related offence.

Heba is a young Yemeni woman from London. Resistance and solidarity are in her blood; her grandfather was a freedom fighter in Yemen. Heba also has family in Gaza who she hasn’t heard from since December 2023 when they were making the journey to Rafah. Before being ripped away from her community and unjustly imprisoned, Heba cared for her disabled mother, and she continued to support her from prison.

Whilst in prison Heba went on hunger strike for 73 days, the longest in UK history, which ended in victory for the hunger strikers.

“Those cages they love to throw us in, they’re only as small as we let them be.”

Zahra Farooque

Served 458 days in prison without being convicted of anything.

Zahra graduated with a degree in History from UCL in 2021. She later took part in the UCL student encampment and was enrolled on a law conversion course prior to her arrest.

She spent 15 months on remand, initially at HMP Bronzefield and later at HMP Eastwood Park. An avid reader, Zahra remains deeply committed to campaigning for social justice.

Kamran Ahmed

Served 458 days in prison without being convicted of anything.

A beloved son, brother and carer, Kamran, a quiet young man from East London, was held on remand at HMP Pentonville as a political prisoner for his support of Palestine. Before his unjust arrest and imprisonment, Kamran was the sole carer for his elderly and frail parents who struggled daily without his support. Their lives were turned upside down, and they missed their son dearly. Kamran was not only a devoted son but also a pillar of his local community. As the neighbourhood mechanic, he helped friends, family, and even strangers with their vehicles, only accepting very little payment for his time. His generosity, humility, and willingness to help others made him loved and respected by all who knew him.

Whilst in prison Kamran went on hunger strike for 65 days which ended in victory for the hunger strikers.

“Perhaps for the government committing genocide is one big chess game, but it is only their game until we refuse to play.”

Moiz Ibrahim

Served 222 days in prison without being convicted of anything.

Moiz is a young Sudanese man from London, proud to be a political prisoner for Palestine. Prior to his unjust imprisonment, Moiz was a hard-working university student studying towards his degree in International Relations. He is loved deeply by his many communities in London due to his care for, and commitment towards, global justice and liberation.

“Legality is not always a gauge for morality.”

Liam Mullany

Served 222 days in prison without being convicted of anything.

Liam Is a musician and economist. Faced with successive failing governments, they left their long time role advising on state welfare and housing policy to focus on community building.

Before they were imprisoned they were supporting communities to collectively organise the systems that sustain them—food, power, housing—and channel the same politics into their post-punk band Third Arrow.

Liam says the hardest part of prison was receiving messages from friends who relied on them for emotional support, only to discover those messages had been delayed for weeks.

“I was driven by the thought of one day sitting down and explaining to them what Palestine used to be, and I couldn’t bear to sit with that.”

Mobilise for Trial 3 25th September at Woolwich Crown Court

Mobilisations are outside court every Friday. See you there!

Political Prisoners / POWs

New York City Anarchist Black Cross

NYC ABC shared the latest version of the NYC ABC “Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War” and it’s available for viewing (and download).

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This update includes updated mini-bios, illustrations, and address changes for several prisoners. Unfortunately, this edition adds four of the non-cooperating Prairieland defendants–Rowan Gibson, Autumn Hill, Mari Rueda, and Champagne Song.

Malik Muhammad

Malik’s support crew has a new website after the state attack against Noblogs: https://malikspeaks.org/

Ronald Reed

Ronald Reed, a former member of the Black United Front serving life in prison, was once again denied parole. Ronald is 76 years old, and this marks the fourth time Minnesota’s Supervised Release Board has denied him parole.

Write Ron and show him some support:

Ronald Reed #219531
Minnesota Correctional Facility – Lino Lakes
PO Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Vaughn 17

Vaughn 17 rebel Dwayne “BIM 365” Staats released a new song “Liberation the New High.”

Write to Bim:

Dwayne Staats #467005
James T. Vaughn CC – 1101
PO Box 96777
Las Vegas, NV 89193

Dwayne is also reachable via electronic messages at GettingOut.com – search Delaware DOC, James T. Vaughn, and enter his name or number 467005

Pendleton 2

Naeem Trotter was diagnosed with stomach cancer. The need to free the Pendleton 2 is more urgent than ever and we will continue to fight for their release and for proper medical treatment along the way. Follow @freenaeemtrotter on IG.

From Naeem:

One week ago, I was diagnosed with stomach cancer, and I need the people’s support and prayers to take on this battle.

It’s by design that the state warehouses us in their concentration camps for decades, exploiting our labor until we succumb to their inhumane treatment. This death care system is designed to kill off the unhealthy, the undesirables, and the sickly that are no longer productibe laborers in their capitalist work force.

The very same death care system out in society that is killing off millions of poor black, brown, and yes, white people, also exists inside these concentration camps. If you are sick and can’t afford the high cost of medical treatment; if your treatment will cost the state more capital than your life as a human is worth, then your chance of surviving is slim.

We need a new health care system where all people regardless of race, gender, or class are afforded the same quality treatment. No one should die because they can’t afford to pay a bill.

Stay strong but human,

Christopher Naeem Trotter

Send words of support to:

IDOC Wabash Valley Correctional Facility, IN
Christopher Trotter #862556
P.O. Box 460
Phoenix, MD 21131

Monsour Owolabi

The National Jericho Movement added Monsour Owolabi to their list of prisoners they support.

Monsour is a New Afrikan political prisoner captured in Texas. He was born in Alief, a working-class neighborhood southwest of Houston, in 1991. His exposure to racism and systemic oppression became the catalyst for developing a radical political framework in his youth. At the young age of 20, Monsour was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole for an incident involving the death of a drug dealer. He was tried by an all-white jury in Harris County, a majority non-white county, where the prosecutor used false testimony from a key state witness to paint him as guilty. The DNA lab that furnished the evidence in his trial was later shut down to proven mishandling of evidence. Monsour’s case is but one example of countless New Afrikan people historically and presently who have been victims of Amerika’s racist courts and legal system. Like many New Afrikan revolutionaries, Monsour became politicized through his experience of incarceration. Through years of rigorous study, he eventually came to understand the true, political reason for his captivity, and its connection to the captive status of the New Afrikan nation as a whole. In response, the state has repeatedly singled Monsour out for retaliation. He has endured beatings, censorship, and harassment, and has spent over ten years in solitary confinement — a human rights violation widely regarded as a form of torture. This has left him with long-term psychological trauma. Despite constant targeting by the state, Monsour has remained steadfast in his political convictions. From 2017 to 2023, he led a series of hunger strikes to protest the torture of solitary confinement. He is an active organizer with Prison Lives Matter, a united front of prison activists in the country, and a member of the New Afrikan Liberation Collective. Monsour has developed numerous educational curricula to help combat drug use and addiction, gang participation, juvenile delinquency, and recidivism. He is a teacher and mentor to countless people both inside and outside prison. Monsour remains steadfast in his Muslim faith and is dedicated to advancing the revolutionary struggle from inside the prison walls. He is a poet, writer, educator, mentor, leader, revolutionary, and beloved community member.

Some of Monsour’s recent writings:

Empire of Censorship, Scalawag Magazine

Texas Runs on Prison Slave Labor, Scalawag Magazine

Response to Peace Park, Free Monsour website

Write to Monsour:

Jim Ferguson Unit, Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Monsour Owolabi #01856112
PO Box 660400
Dallas, TX 775226-0400

Cameron Smith

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the 25 year sentence of Cameron Smith, a Canadian imprisoned for shooting at electrical equipment in protest of DAPL and Keystone pipelines. The Judges overturned the terrorism sentencing enhancement, rejecting the government’s claim that Cameron was part of “Extinction Rebellion” and had “a terrorist motive … to intimidate or coerce a civilian population”: Cameron is currently at FCI Englewood and faces re-sentencing at an upcoming date.

Write to Cameron:

Cameron Monte Smith 67846-510
FCI Englewood
9595 West Quincy Avenue
Littleton, CO 80123

Turtle Island Liberation Front

First guilty plea: arrested in Louisiana last December as part of the federal NSPM-7 prosecution against alleged members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, Micah James Legnon plead guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism and is facing a maximum 7 years at a December 11th sentencing hearing. Four others still face federal charges.

Fae (Ashe Kerrigan), one of the accused TILF members currently incarcerated at MDC LA, is welcoming support and is requesting books, zines, and letters. Write Ashe at this address:

Zachary Page 30760-512
MDC Los Angeles
P.O. Box 531500
Los Angeles, CA 90053

Abdul Olugbala Shakur

After forty years in California prisons, Abdul Olugbala Shakur was again denied parole in part because of his refusal to snitch (a requirement at the time to get out of solitary confinement) as well as his political affiliations with the Black Liberation Army. Haki Kewli Shakur published an extensive breakdown of the parole board unjustly using Abdul’s political identity and decades-old histories to hold him in prison indefinitely: “When the Past Becomes the Sentence: The B.L.A. Allegations, Parole Denials, and The New Afrikan Revolutionary Prisoner”

Write to Abdul:

James Harvey C48884
Kern Valley State Prison
P.O. Box 5102
Delano, CA 93216

Los Angeles Anti-ICE Uprising

Ismael Vega, recently sentenced to 37 months, has been transferred to FCI Victorville Medium II. You can send him mail at this address:

Ismael Vega 20742-512
FCI Victorville Medium II
PO BOX 3850
Adelanto, CA 92301

Wrackkie Quiogue, sentenced to 30 months last May, has been transferred to FCI Victorville Medium I. Write him at this address:

Wrackkie Quiogue 89229-511
FCI Victorville Medium I
P.O. BOX 3725
Adelanto, CA 92301

Adam Palermo has plead guilty and is awaiting sentencing at MDC Los Angeles:

Adam Palermo 04156-512
MDC Los Angeles
PO Box 531500
Los Angeles, CA 90053

Elpideo Reyna has also plead guilty and is also awaiting sentencing at MDC Los Angeles:

Elpideo Reyna 97973-511
MDC Los Angeles
P.O. BOX 531500
Los Angeles, CA 90053

George Floyd Uprising Prisoners

As far as we are aware, these are the current addresses of the George Floyd Uprising prisoners. For more information on ways to support them as well as former prisoners from the nationwide uprisings, visit https://uprisingsupport.org/

Christopher Tindal #04392-509
USP Florence – High
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 7000
Florence, CO 81226

David Elmakayes #77782-066
USP Big Sandy
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 2068
Inez, KY 41224

Smart Communications/PADOC
Khalif Miller #QQ9287
SCI Forest
PO Box 33028
St. Petersburg, FL 33733

Malik Muhammed #400523
Marion 183
Broad River Correctional Institution
4460 Broad River Road
Columbia, SC 29210

Matthew Rupert #55013-424
USP Big Sandy
US Penitentiary
P.O. Box 2068
Inez, KY 41224

Montez Lee #22429-041
FCI Petersburg Medium
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. BOX 1000
Petersburg, VA 23804

As always, a monthly-updated letter-writing zine is available to print and share for the 2020 prisoners:

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Repression in the So-Called US

Lochiel Border Wall Blockade

Three Land Defenders Arrested Amidst Growing Resistance Against the Border Wall

From the Sonoran Desert Press Office: https://livingandfighting.net/Three-Land-Defenders-Arrested

Three land defenders dressed in bird and jaguar costumes were arrested by Cochise County sheriffs ten miles east of Lochiel/La Noria while protesting border wall construction in the San Rafael Valley of southern Arizona. The arrests came after protesters shut down construction along a fifteen-mile stretch spanning both Cochise and Santa Cruz counties.

Witnesses present on the scene say a construction worker physically assaulted two land defenders standing in front of heavy machinery. A vehicle belonging to supporters and bystanders was illegally blocked in by work trucks before sheriffs arrived and arrested three land defenders.

In a video posted to the Instagram account Rally for the Valley, one of the arrested land defenders stated, “There are four of us that have come and halted construction. We have stopped a concrete pouring machine. We have stopped a giant crane from hauling up these giant panels. We have stopped both of those and multiple other construction doing various sorts of work. Like I said, there’s only four of us. It doesn’t take much to stop tons of work being done here.”

Over the last 49 days, land defenders have occupied an ancient cottonwood tree standing in the direct path of the planned border wall. The tree-sit was established on July 29 and has been continuously occupied since then. These cottonwood trees have been referred to as grandmothers by protestors.

Sheriffs appeared surprised to arrive at a scene of whimsical animals disrupting the construction. It should be no surprise because the land currently being razed by the Trump administration is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the most significant wildlife corridor remaining along the Arizona-Mexico border. Jaguars and Yellow-billed Cuckoos, the two costumes present at today’s construction site, are endangered animals present in the valley. Yellow-billed Cuckoos make their breeding nests June through late September in the oaks that populate the valley and are considered a highly at-risk species. The border wall threatens their critical breeding grounds.

One land defender using the name Fouquieria said, “Resistance to Trump’s double border wall is growing in the borderlands. We are fighting for life, self-determination, and freedom of movement for all living beings. If you share these convictions, you’re invited to join the fight at Camp O:Shad in Lochiel, AZ.”

Repression Roundup

Amazon Labor Union organizer Chris Smalls and two Mexican human rights defenders from Derechos Humanos Integrales en Acción were detained by border patrol for more than 12 hours returning to the US after attending the 2026 Binational Peace Summit.

Oklahoma DOC had prisoners working call centers for right-wing super PACs to support Republican candidates. State contracts with HWB Leads and Make Liberty Win who were paying $10 an hour to the DOC who then only paid workers $2 an hour while pocketing the profit.

404 Media reports on new documents revealing the Trump Administration is using High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) programs to force cities to share Automated License Plate Reader camera data with federal surveillance centers managed by the White House.

Telmate / GTL was ordered to compensate anyone who used GettingOut.com services in August 2020 as part of the Cooper v. Telmate LLC class action lawsuit because the prison communications giant failed to notify users of a data breach.

Teen Takeovers

Over the past year the Teen Takeover movement has spread across the country. Througout the hundreds of instances, working class youth, the majority of whom being Black and Brown have occupied parking lots, business lobbies, shopping centers, and malls. In the gentrified urban spaces, where most Teen Takeovers take place, the presence of Black and Brown youth is demonized as narcisitic and violent by commentators, representatives, authorities, and the white middle class alike.

Arrests / Repression

The state has taken multiple measures to repress the Teen Takeover, from curfews, arrests, charges against both the youth and their guardians:

Los Angeles CA: The LAPD Street Racing Task Force deployed drones and over 150 cops for a mass roundup at a Harbor Gateway street takeover, arresting over 66 people and issuing 570 citations. A week later, the task force raided a gathering of motorcyclists on the 6th street bridge, issuing 70 citations and impounding 70 bikes.
Aurora CO: Police charged six teens who took part in a gathering of nearly a thousand people some of whom allegedly vandalized and looted stores near the Del Mark Park Hoffman Heights shopping center
Philadelphia, PA: Two nights of takeovers near City Hall as police attempt to disperse hundreds, making several arrests; a police sergeant left with a bloodied face after scrapping with teenagers
Chicago, IL: Multiple takeovers throughout Labor Day as conservative alderman Raymond Lopez calls for increased police repression; Mexican Independence Day revelers caravan city streets with police closing off downtown streets and occasionally harassing people for waving Mexican flags on their car
Greenville County SC: Police arrest 80 people and tow 38 cars for “aiding and abeting a street takeover” as police condemn the “organized chaos” vowing to crack down harder on future takeovers now emboldened with the recently passed “Roadway Protection and Safety Act”; the City of Charlotte passed new 10pm curfews for unaccompanied teens
Lynn, MA: Four teens were arrested after a large group took over a McDonalds after a nearby football game
St Louis, MO: Police arrest a 19 year old and are searching for others in connection with a street takeover near Bevo Mill

“We Run This”: Teen Takeovers as a Method of Class Struggle

Radar Journal published a detailed class analysis of these takeovers as militant struggle:

Teen Takeovers are an authentic form of resistance. They grow out of a legitimate need of racialized youth to compose themselves as a material force in their communities. They create an immediate context for working class people to re-appropriate the actual terrain of daily life. At times, they allow the poor to terrorize the rich. By denouncing them for their lack of “consciousness,” many critics mistake the nature of historical development.

In 1866, millions of Black freedmen and women wandered through the wreckage of the former Confederate states. Having won their freedom via a long general strike, in which millions of slaves refused to maintain production during the war, and by taking up arms against the planters with or without the support of Union soldiers, the Freedmen sought to reorganize US society in the wreckage of complete economic collapse. This post-war struggle for land and power, known as Reconstruction, faced persistent antagonism from the racial state and it’s white power bloc in every part of the territory and the western frontiers.

Segregationist whites passed a number of counter-revolutionary laws in 1866 and 1867 now known as the “Black Codes.” These laws preserved racial stratification post-slavery by governing Black labor and free movement. Specifically, the 1866 Vagrancy Act penalized loitering, homelessness, and wandering. As millions of freedmen took to the roads following their victory in the Civil War, their meetings, parties, assemblies, and public presence horrified the remnants of Confederate power to whom they still had the displeasure of sharing the country with.

The sight of jobless Black youth assembled in large numbers reminds white America of the potential for rebellion. And there is good reason for this. As the long history of resistance to police brutality and racism from the 60s to the present shows us, Black youth do indeed continue to pose a serious challenge to the system and are represented in large quantities among every serious episode of rebellion. If police or white vigilantes resort to violence against the Teen Takeovers, and indeed if they fail to respond to them at all, they could very well evolve into episodes of looting, burning, and street fighting with police. This is a dilemma caused by the real effects of gentrification and racism. It cannot be resolved or stopped with repression or surveillance alone.

ICE Watch

Grand Rapids, MI – Mario David Coronado Juarez was killed in a car crash while fleeing from an ICE attempt to take him into custody. A community vigil is held and investigations demanded.

Louisiana – On September 29th, Peruvian immigrant Julian Curo-Churata died in ICE custody, the 58th death since Trump took over. DHS claims he had seen medical professionals, while MarkWayne Mullin claims “we’re not providing Holiday Inns”.

Disappearing people: without announcement, ICE begins to remove names of people with final removal orders issued on the Detainee Locator although they are still in ICE custody. This creates an additional burden and barrier to due process, as lawyers may have difficult time reachinig clients or make appeals, and provides further pain and difficulties for families of those taken by ICE.

Sheri Mecklenburg, a now-retired federal prosecutor in Chicago, wrote a public resignation letter accusing the head U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros of forcing her to pursue unjust felony charges against the “Broadview Six” and later scapegoating her after the case against the protesters collapsed in controversy.

“Black site” courts in NYC: DHS and the Executive Office for Immigration Review are blocking court observers, reporters and attorneys from entering several new immigration courtrooms “not open to the public”.

La Resistencia NWDC reports that the GEO-run Northwest Detention Center has implemented new restrictions on communications charging $15-$20 for outgoing mail and limiting people in segregation to only 2 calls and 2 messages a week. Marvin Arido-Sorro, held inside NWDC, say these retaliatory censorships are a response to the strikes and growing inside-outside solidarity: “We want the public to know what is happening behind closed doors. We want them to know the truth.”

The former Arizona state prison Marana that was closed after sexual abuse scandals in 2023 was later sold to private prison giant MTC and is now set to be reopened as an ICE detention center.

A Michigan nurse was charged with a federal misdemeanor for “instigating or assisting escape”. In late May, CBP officers took an undocumented Mexican man to the hospital because of injuries he received while attempting to flee capture; Chloe Freeman who had formerly worked the Trinity Health Ann Arbor hospital allegedly showed the man to the emergency room entrance where he fled again and remains free to this day. Chloe Freeman was released on $10k bond pending trial; please support her legal defense fundraiser.

Renee Good’s family has filed two lawsuits against the Trump Administration and Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent responsible for her murder in Minneapolis last year. Her partner Becca Good spoke publicly for the first time at a press conference: “The pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family. What happened to us should never happen to any family … Accountability and change is the only way to make sure that no other family has to go through what we have.”

Federal prosecutors retrieved hundreds of photos over a 30 day period of Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz sourced through Automated License Plate Readers from at least five Chicago suburbs as well as Chicago Police POD camera systems hoping to justify federal charges and the attempted murder of Marimar by ICE agents last year.

DHS does not deny targeting sex workers, Onlyfans models and influencers with facial recognition, stopping people at the border with questions of violation of “public morality” .

Ongoing Cases

Jakhi Isaiah

Jakhi is a 23-year-old New Afrikan communist and anti-imperialist. After a month-long manhunt by federal agents, Jakhi turned himself in and is set to serve between 5 and 20 years in prison for setting 11 NYPD vehicles on fire in 2025.

A tireless and unwavering organizer, Jakhi stands shoulder to shoulder with all of us in word and in action. His example calls us to do the same, carrying forward that spirit of solidarity by stepping into the streets, into our communities, and into the struggles that bind us together, knowing that every act of resistance strengthens the fight for liberation.

Free Jakhi! Free Them All! Free the Land!

This is not Jakhi’s first experience with state repression – since October of 2023, Jakhi was arrested over 11 times as he protested for a Free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, as well as for ICE-free communities.

Jakhi’s Words

Repression is the state trying to call our bluff. It is intense because it shows itself when our potential to disrupt genocide and capital becomes too grand to ignore…this is as much of a make or break moment for them as it is for us. Our greatest strength is each other – we are comrades, and with that comes a promise to love, defend, and fight for one another.”

An update from Jakhi’s Support Committee:

As you all know, trial for Jakhi’s kolumbia university vandalism case was set to happen this week. For the third time, trial has been pushed—this time because of a discovery violation.

kolumbia and the state failed to provide Jakhi’s lawyers with crucial reports until a week before trial was supposed to start. These reports include ID swipe logs, records of the cost used to clean up the vandalized statue, and more.

Because of this violation, Jakhi’s lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss the case. We’ll be heading to court on November 9th, where the judge will be deciding whether to dismiss the case or set a new trial date!

Sentencing for Jakhi’s federal case—where he faces between five and 20 years in prison for burning 11 NYPD vehicles—is set for October 30, 12pm, at Brooklyn Federal Court (225 Cadman Plaza East).

Please save this date in your calendars and show up for Jakhi’s hearing! Community presence at sentencing can have a huge impact on how much time a judge sentences a defendant to.

At Jakhi’s arraignment, over 160 people showed up—ths most the court had ever seen! Even the judge remarked about how large our court support was, and this contributed to Jakhi getting house arrest. Let’s double it this time! Show the prosecutors and the court that we stand with Jakhi!

A message from Jakhi:

Hi everyone, sending warmness and solidarity from Jersey to wherever y’all happen to be now! I hope to see so many of your faces at my sentencing next month; I couldn’t have gotten through this stage of my case in the way that I did without of all your help and kindness. From every corner of my heart, thank you…

I turn 23 on September 21st, my second birthday on house arrest and my third consecutive birthday spent under some form of State custody. I turned 21 in jail after being arrested at a protest for Derell Mickles, a black man who had been shot multiple times for skipping the mta fare, and who is now released from Rikers after his case was resolved. I turned 22 last year, exactly two months after I turned myself in to the feds and was granted home confinemeny by a judge. Now I’m 23 and preparing to spend my next few birthdays in federal prison alongside my brothers and fellow prisoners that I’m eager to meet.

In keeping up with a birthday tradition of showing solidarity with a cause, I want to ask that you all pull up to MDC Solidarity’s noise demo and rally this Saturday at MDC Brooklyn, which honors the life of Jamel Floyd.

Jamel was murdered by MDC guards after they pepper sprayed him so much that he had a heart attack, and the Bureau of Prisons has continued to justify the killing.

I think that not enough political prisoner groups and leftists support the broader prisoner class, and it’s an error that leads to our sustained disconnect from everyday people. Prison is so repressive and fixed upon the black community that it has a notable effect on our general life expectancy. And there’s still so much to say on how it infects our lives, let alone how it impacts native communities and other sects of poor and oppressed people in the u.s. Many of the men in my family have done time, and it’s a tradition that I’m unfortunately going to repeat. Our prisoners need our support, their families need our support, and we need to show in our actions that we stand with them.

Of course, a noise demo isn’t the start and end of solidarity. But it’s one way to show up. I hope that y’all can make it.

Forward ever
Backward never,

Jakhi

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Muhammad Ali & Cole Florkewicz

Muhammad Ali, a 23 year old University of Pittsburgh student is facing felony charges after a confrontation with police during a pro-Palestine protest.

A 51 second tug-of-war over a barricade at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the University of Pittsburgh in the Spring of 2024 not only led to Muhammad Ali’s expulsion from the University, but could land Muhammad up to 34 years in prison simply for standing in defense of Palestinian life and liberation.

The University of Pittsburgh and their police, in collaboration with state prosecutors, targeted Muhammad and his co-defendant Cole with state felonies and misdemeanors, and instead of dismissing or dropping their charges like they did for 18 of their other co-defendants from the encampment, Muhammad and Cole are set to stand trial on Monday, September 22.

Mohamad Hamad

Mohamad is a 24 year old Lebanese-American activist and former Penn State student, who has spent the last year in federal prison awaiting trial for bogus charges of damaging (Zionist) property and conspiracy to use unregistered “explosive devices” on July 4th. If convicted he could face decades in prison.

What we see in Mohamad’s case is a script playing on repeat for decades: A young Arab Muslim man, targeted and vilified by the state and its media apparatus, left to languish behind bars and a movement too afraid of the state’s repression to engage in the necessary support.

Take Action to Free Mohamad: https://pswg.link/free-mo-hamad

Salah Sarsour

An immigration court has ruled that the Trump Administration can deport Salah Sarsour. Although not a final removal order, his lawyers vow to appeal this unjust decision.

Palestinian Prisoners

Deportation to Palestine

After 2 years in the ICE Northwest Detention Center, Portland based Palestinian immigrant Tareq Zakarneh resisted an attempted deportation on September 9th after transfer to Eloy facility in Arizona. ICE then put Tareq in a WRAP restraint device and beat him so badly they broke a tooth. Tareq’s lawyer has filed two emergency motions: a habeas appeal and an emergency temporary restraining order, yet DHS continues trying to put him on a plane to the West Bank via Tel Aviv, where genocidal settler violence is escalating.

This Month in the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement

Freedom for Palestinian Prisoners has been publishing a weekly series, “The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement in the News.” We share recent accounts.

Martyrdom of Ihab Mohammad Abdul Qader Diab

36-year-old Palestinian journalist Ihab Mohammad Abdul Qader Diab from Gaza was martyred in Zionist dungeons. He had been detained and held without charges or trial since December 12, 2023. His martyrdom was a result of the inhumane conditions and medical neglect following severe torture by Israeli forces.

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs believes Diab’s death occurred on September 18, 2024, highlighting the broader pattern of the occupation concealing the fate of Palestinian detainees abducted since the genocide in Gaza began. Gaza’s Prisoners’ Ministry demands the return of Diab’s body, accountability, and the disclosure of the fate of all detainees from Gaza.

Dr. Mazen Rantisi Tortured in Ofer Prison

Dr. Mazen Rantisi, a 71-year-old Palestinian physician has described the torture he has endured in Ofer Prison since his abduction on June 21. Dr. Rantisi reports that Israeli prison authorities have repeatedly denied him access to a physician or adequate medical care, refusing to provide him with his prescribed medications. He also reported that prison units raid his cell several times a week, and beat detainees while yelling obscenities. These allegations were entirely rejected by the Israel Prison Service and deemed to be a “worldwide smear campaign.”

Confiscation of Palestinian Prisoners Belongings

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir ordered the widespread confiscation of clothing belonging to Palestinian prisoners in Ktzi’ot Prison, leaving most detainees with only one shirt, one pair of trousers, and one piece of underwar.

The Prisoners’ Media Office also reported that copies of the Quran were confiscated from prisoners’ cells, leaving only one Quran for each section. Each section contains approximately 15 cells, severely restricting prisoners’ ability to read the Quran, with access limited to once every several days.

Release of Jibril Zubeidi

Jibril Zubeidi has been liberated and reunited with his brother, Zakarai Zubeid, after years of separation. Zakaria was a former prisoner known as a symbol of the Second Intifada and for his role in the 2021 Gilboa Prison Break. Jibril was abducted by Israeli forces in 2023 during a raid in Jenin and was held under administrative detention without formal charges.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Sustains Rib Fractures

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has remained imprisoned in Israeli dungeons since late December 2024, enduring persistent physical and psychological torture, starvation, and the denial of adequate medical care by Israeli forces. Until recently, he was transferred to solitary confinement, where he has been left visibly emaciated and unrecognizable.

This week, Dr. Abu Safiya sustained four fractured ribs and irregular heartbeat due to the systematic torture and regular beating inside Israel’s Rakefet prison, a notoriously inhumane detention facility.

Prisoner Hana Tahana Recounts Detention in Damon Prison

Hana Mohammad Mohi Al-Din Tahaina, a 48-year-old Palestinian woman from Jenin, was detained during an early morning raid on June 8, 2026, and placed under administrative detention, denying her the opportunity to say goodbye to her six children. Hana is the wife of former prisoner Sharif Tahaina, who spent 10 years in Zionist dungeons. Following her abduction, Hana was held handcuffed and blindfolded in a cramped room without access to a toilet.

Before being transferred to Damon Prison, she was held in Sharon prison, where she endured inhumane treatment, humiliation, and verbal abuse. She currently remains detained in Damon and suffers from chronic conditions, including irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatism, and migraines. Despite her ongoing health conditions, Israeli prison authorities have denied her access to her necessary medications and feminine hygiene products.

24 Detainees Released to Gaza

24 Palestinian detainees have been released to Gaza. The released detainees arrived through the Kerem Shalom crossing at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Office has reported that 636 detainees have returned to Gaza since the ceasefire agreement.

Ahmed Abd Al-Karim Returns to Gaza, Mourning Six Children

Ahmed Abd Al-Karim was liberated to Gaza from the occupation’s prisons, only to discover that six of his children, aged between two months and 17 yearts old, had been martyred in an airstrike on his family’s building. Of the 120 people inside, only five survived, including his wife and daughter.

Abd Al-Karim had been abducted and transferred to Ofer Prison following October 7, where he endured harsh conditions and torture. He now returns to Gaza carrying the anguish of his experience in Zionist dungeons while grieving the loss of six of his children.

Israeli Forces Abduct 4 in Raid, Including Released Prisoner

Israeli forces have persisted in their campaign of violent raids and abductions throughout the West Bank, detaining four Palestinians. Former prisoner Abdel Jabbar Yassin was abducted from his home in the village of Asira al-Qibliya in Nablus. Israeli forces raided the town of Sinjil in Ramallah and abducted Mahmoud Munther Tawafsha.

The occupation had previously abducted Tawafsha’s brother and father to pressure him into surrendering. Israeli forces also abducted Ezz Reda Dar Khalil. In the town of Ya’bad, south of Jenin, the occupation abducted Hamoudi al-Jawad.

Release of Jabel Al-Amouri

Jabel Al-Amouri, from Jenin refugee camp, has been liberated after 3 years in occupation prisons. Following his release, Al-Amouri was left noticeably emaciated due to the inhumane conditions he endured in Zionist dungeons.

Israeli Forces Detain and Interrogate Over 60 in Qalandiya

The Israeli occupation detained and interrogated more than 60 Palestinian residents of Qalandiya refugee camp following a military assault on the camp, during which residents were intimidated and severely assaulted. Occupation forces ransacked residents’ homes and property, transforming them into field interrogation centers.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported that the occupation has escalated its attacks and imposed policies targeting Palestinian refugee camps, resulting in the destruction of infrastructure, forced displacement, and the abduction of women, children, and the elderly, in an attempt to efface refugee camps and desconstruct their social fabric.

Ben-Gvir Extends Visits Ban of Palestinian Prisoners

Itamar Ben-Gvir renewed his criminal policy of denying Palestinian prisoners visitation rights, aiming to entirely isolate prisoners from their families and restrict humanitarian institutions from accessing detainees and ensuring their well-being.

This simultaneously gives prisons full enclosure to practice and enforce systematic torture and commit unfathomable human rights violations against Palestinian detainees in concealment and with full immunity. The renewal of this policy is an extension of the intensified violence against Palestinian prisoners since the start of the genocide in Gaza. Raed Abu Al-Hummos, Head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs has urged the ICRC to respond to Ben-Gvir’s policy and condemn the practices within the occupation prisons.

Martyrom of Khaled Houshieh

Khaled Houshieh from Al-Yamoun was scheduled for release on August 23 after having spent a month in Zionist dungeons. Instead of his expected return home to his wife and two children, his family received his martyred body on the day of his scheduled release.

Release of Yazan Ziyad Souqiah, Rami Fayadel, Faras Al-Azar, Salam Rizqallah Kassab, Muhammad Hasan Abahra, and Ekrema Al-Khamash

Yazan Ziyad Souqiah from Jenin was liberated after languishing in Zionist dungeons for two years. Rami Fayadel from Ramallah was liberated from Zionist prisons after two years and eight months in Israeli administrative detention. Faras Al-Azar from Qiblan, south of Nablus, was liberated from Iraeli dungeons. 21-year-old Salam Rizqallah Kassab from Qaryut, a Birzeit University Student, was liberated after spending 14 months in Damon prison. Muhammad Hasan Abahra, from Al-Yamoun, was liberated after spending two years in administrative detention in Negev prison. His younger brother, Rayan, remains in occupation custody, while his brother Ibrahim was martyred in the Jenin refugee camp years ago. Palestinian prisoner Ekrema Al-Khamash was liberated after three years in Israeli dungeons.

Israel Abducts Palestinians Amidst Settler Violence

Israeli occupation forces abducted 13 Palestinians. Six Palestinians were abducted in a raid in the Kafr Saba and Al-Naqqar neighborhoods in Qalqilya, five were abducted from Tulkarem, and two, including a child, were abducted in Bethlehem amidst attacks by settlers. Settlers set fire to a Palestinian’s residential room and vehicle, spray-painted racist slogans, damaged irrigation pipes used for crops, cut down trees, burned animal feed, and uprooted olive and grape trees from Palestinian owned land, amongst other acts of settler violence.

Occupation Forces Branding Foreheads

Ahmad Al-Hathnawi, from Qabatiya, described occupation forces branding him with the number 44 on his forehead after raiding his community south of Jenin. “It was just interrogation and terrorism, intimidation of families and the freed detainees,” he said. Al-Hathnawi states that this was the first time Israeli forces marked him with numbers on his forehead.

This dehumanizing practice of marking Palestinian prisoners with numbers is not uncommon to the Zionist occupation. In April, Israeli soldiers had written numbers on the hands of a Palestinian woman, reducing her to a number and stripping her of her identity and dignity.

Israeli Forces Abduct Dr. Dima Amin

Israeli forces conducted a raid in Ramallah, abducting 54-year-old gynecologist Dr. Dima Amin from her home in Al-Tireh. The Palestinian Network of Civil Organizations condemned the arrest, stating: “The health sector of the network views the arrest as part of a series of assaults on humanitarian and community work in the occupied Palestinian territorties and the targeting of medical staff.”

Outbreak in Damon Prison

More than 10 women imprisoned in Damon are suffering from scabies amidst denial of medical treatment and harsh conditions in the prison, including overcrowding, high humidity, shortages of cleaning supplies, inadequate ventilation, and a severe shortage of clothing.

15 Year Old Leaves Israeli Prison Unconscious in ICU

15-year-old Mohammad Musa Suleiman Hameid’s leg was amputated with the leg handed over to his family while Hameid remains in critical condition. Mohammad has been held in pre-trial detention since February 25, 2026, during which his health has severely deteriorated due to scabies and multiple infections and the deliberate denial of treatment by the Israeli authorities. Hameid, who required an open-heart surgery on top of the subsequent leg amputation at Shaare Zadek Medical Center as a result of medical neglect at Ofer prison, was only able to see his family members after intervention by a human rights organization. He currently remains unconscious in the ICU.

Continued Abduction of Alaa Sarahneh

Imprisoned journalist Alaa Sarahneh was transferred to administrative detention for four months. Sarahneh was abducted by Israeli forces on August 10 from his home in Al-Fawwar refugee camp during a violent raid that abducted over 10 Palestinian residents in the West Bank.

Israel Builds Death Penalty Complex for Palestinian Prisoners

Israeli authorities have begun preparing a dedicated wing for Palestinian prisoners sentenced to death, following the Knesset’s approval of a law authorizing the death penalty of Palestinian prisoners. Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir boasted that “[i]n this place, the terrorists will be executed,” and that the complex will include “viewing chambers where crime victims will be able to come and watch.”

Israeli Forces Abduct Palestinian Women Over Social Media Posts

The Zionist ocupation forces abducted a 37-year-old woman from Hebron under the pretext of “incitement” on social media platforms. The posts comprised of honoring and mourning the martyrs of Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. Israeli forces have taken her for further interrogation.

Detainee Welcomes Twins Through Smuggled Sperm

Sanabel Al-Rai, married to Palestinian prisoner Basel Al-Asmar, gave birth to twins after a successful IVF procedure using sperm smuggled out of his prison. Al-Asmar has been detained since February 20, 2002 and is serving a life sentence.

Liberated Prisoner Visits Wife’s Grave Upon Release

Liberated prisoner Abdul Jabbar Jarrar from Jenin visited his wife Wafaa Jarrar’s grave immediately upon his arrival in the city, after she was martyred during his two-and-a-half-year detention in Zionist dungeons. In this most recent stint, Jabbar was kept in administrative detention for over 30 months. Throughout his life, Jabbar experienced over 30 detentions, spending around 16 years in detention. His wife, Waffa Jarrar, was imprisoned by Israeli forces in 2024 and suffered multiple injuries and amputations, dying as a result of her injuries in 2024.

Testimony from Majida Qar’awi

54-year-old Majida Qar’awi from Tulkarem, imprisoned since June 25, 2026, described inhumane conditions in Damon. She shared that prisoners are exposed to extreme heat, scarce food, cells full of insects, and a lack of medical treatment.

Israeli Forces Abduct Palestinian Child

Israeli forces abducted 16-year-old Palestinian over an alleged stabbing attack in the village of Al-Auja north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank

One Prison to Another

21-year-old Anas Munther Akkari, from Jerusalem, has turned himself in to serve a prison sentence of 10 months after four years under house arrest. The Zionist occupation has long used house arrest as a punitive and restrictive measure against Palestinians, confining and isolating individuals for extended perios while court orders are enforced. These measures also deliberately disrupt Palestinian youth’s access to education and social development, contributing to prolonged isolation and psychological strain.

International Repression

Chile

18 Members of the Mapuche Resistance Sentenced

The Chilean Courts sentenced 18 members of the Resistencia Mapuche Lavkenche (RML) for their participation in the armed attack and arson against the Grollmus mill in Contulmo in the Biobío region in August 2022. The defendants were found guilty of, among other charges, arson, armed robbery, attempted murder, and illegal possession of ammunition. Combined, their sentences total more than 1,000 years in prison: five of them, presented as leaders of the RML, were sentenced to more than 80 years each.

The mill was entirely destroyed by the arson. Among the 18 defendants include 15 adults and 3 who were minors at the time; one of the 19 on trial was acquitted. The Chilean government has celebrated the verdict, which came among more unrest in the south of the country.

France

New Wave of Arrests of Antifascist Militants in Lyon

On September 23, 8 new raids were conducted in Lyon as part of the investigation into the death of Quentin Deranque. 5 people were indicted, 3 of whom were detained pre-trial, while 3 others were released after 24 to 48 hours in detention. These arrests bring the number of antifascists currently detained as part of this case to 12.

None of the people recently incarcerated are suspected of having directly assaulted Quentin Deranque, but are considered complicit. Moreover, no member of the fascist group involved in the clashes has been indicted, even though several far-right participants have been identified and used weapons.

Trial of Pro-Palestine Activist Nicolas Shahshahani Postponed to October 29, 2027

The trial of Nicholas Shahshahani, vice president of CAPJPO-Europalestine, charged with “apologia for terrorism,” has been postponed to October 29, 2027 by the Paris Judicial Court. The defense had demanded this deferral, arguing that the two hours initially scheduled were insufficient to present their arguments and hear witnesses. The hearing will ultimately be four hours. Shahshahani is charged for remarks given during a rally on October 7, 2025, devoted to the theme “It Didn’t All Begin on October 7, 2023.”

At the same time, a support rally was organized in front of the Paris Judicial Court at Porte de Clichy, drawing together many participants who came to denounce the charges against Nicolas Shahshahani. Several activists, community leaders, union organizers, and local representatives spoke to express their solidarity and denounce the repression of mobilizations in support of Palestine.

On March 17, 2026, Nicolas was arrested at his home by 8 masked police officers and held in detention for more than 30 hours. A support rally was held in front of the court during his initial court hearing, demonstrating the extent of his support.

Anti-Imperialist League Activist Alex on Trial for Speaking in Support of Palestine

Committed to supporting the Palestinian struggle and active in the Anti-Imperialist League, the Lyon-based activist Alex has been the object of several court cases. Arrested upon his return from Morocco and raided by the anti-terrorist police in March 2025, he was sentenced in early 2026 to a suspended 10 month prison term and 2,000 euros in restitution, as well as a 5 year ban on running for public office and bearing arms along with being registered in the FIJAIT (National Automated Judicial Database on Terrorist Offenders). Alex was raided for a second time and held in detention for 48 hours in March 2026, this time for a speech in Beirut in support of Palestine.

Released under court supervision, he is banned from protests and from leaving France. His case illustrates the intensification of repression targeting activists and supporters of the Palestinian struggle in France, where public speaking can now lead to prison sentences. His trial in Lyon is scheduled for September 14, while his appeal hearings in Paris will take place on October 26. To support him, many organizations have published a support statement and called for demonstrations.

Northern Ireland

Two Republicans Convicted after Memorial

Two men were found guilty in Belfast for their participation in a non-authorized Republican memorial in Derry in April 2023. Patrick Gallagher was found guilty for having organized an event in support of the IRA, while Stephen Murney was sentenced for having spoken during this event and making appeals to join the IRA.

Two other defendants, Thomas Mellon and Jason Ceulemans were acquitted from all charges. The four men denied having organized or lead the demonstration. The march, which was lead to the municipal cemetery, was marked by the appearance of a paramilitary bloc an by a Molotov cocktail attack on a police vehicle.

The next day, four home-made explosive devices were also discovered near the location of the memorial. Gallagher and Murney were released on parole while waiting for the announcement of their sentence, scheduled in around 2 months.

Phillippines

Makabayan Visayas Leader Arrested

Activist leader John Tabada Ruiz, VP of Makabayan Visayas coordinator of progressive group Bayan Muna listed as Cebu Province’s No. 1 most wanted person, was arrested on an outstanding warrant in connection with an attempted murder case in Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu City on Monday afternoon, August 31, 2026. Ruiz denied involvement in any armed encounter and maintained that the case against him was fabricated and intended to silence activists. Ruiz made bail with financial assistence from friends and comrades.

Switzerland

Jeremy on Trial September 17 after a Sabotage Action against Holcim

Accused of participating in a sabotage action undertaken in January 2022 in a gravel quarry in Sézegnin against Holcim, Jeremy will be tried on September 17 in Geneva. Arrested in March 2023, he has spent three months in jail. In 2024, the Federal Court ruled that the DNA analysis that led to his identification was illegal. Despite the weakness of the case, the Prosecutor’s Office is continuing with the charges and accusing him of offenses with harsh penalties.

His support committee denounces the judicial witch-hunt intended to undermine the ecological movement and is calling for a demonstration on September 17 at 7:30 PM in front of the Geneva federal courthouse. The committee aims to denounce the repression targeting ecological struggles and is advocating for a response to climate change that targets those responsible for pollution rather than their opponents.

Iran

Bayan Salehian, a 43-year-old Kurdish anarcha-feminist doctor was arrested by the Islamic Republic of Iran. From Anarchist Front:

Bayan Salehian, a 43-year-old Kurdish anarchist doctor from Saqqez, was violently abducted on Sunday, September 27, 2026, when intelligence forces raided her home in Urmia. She was taken to an undisclosed location.

Bayan Salehian had previously been arrested during the revolutionary “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” (Woman, Life, Freedom) movement. She was later sentenced by the Revolutionary Court in Saqqez to eight months in prison, a sentence that was subsequently commuted to a fine of 200 million tomans.

During the security forces’ raid on her home, her phone and laptop were also seized.

Post-Release Support

Marius Mason needs sheet music!

Political Prisoner Marius Mason is in a halfway house and can use some help getting sheet music. Send Marius some sheet music, songs, guitar chords! He has a guitar now, but had to leave his sheet music behind.

You can send it to :

Marie / Marius Mason, #04672-061
8333 Townsend
Detroit, MI, 48213

(his name must be written as above)

Fundraisers

Prisoner Solidarity Quilt

From Triangle Anarchist Black Cross:

The Prisoner Solidarity Quilt was created with the help of 20 artists and makers. And now it could be yours! Raffle tickets are $10/entry. All $$ will be shared between incarcerated comrades Michael Kimble, Malik Muhammad & Monsour Owolabi.

venmo: @square-taper……cashapp: $Cealamander
$10/ticket (no limit); include email or phone #

Winner will be drawn on Nov. 21st @ Kick Down The Walls: Free Them All in Durham, NC. You do not need to be present to win.

Media

Prison Papers: Organizing Inside/Outside Solidarity

The Walls Turned Sideways space in Chicago is exhibiting “Prison Papers: Organizing Inside/Outside Solidarity” showcasing newsletters made by incarcerated people with old and new works such as The Angolite, Forlorn Hope, The Bulldozer, Stateville Speaks, Anarchist Black Dragon, the Atlantian Revival, Within These Walls, Pontiac Pen, Menard Times, Roundhouse News, Prison News Service, Prison Legal News, the Pro Se Voice, the Hour Glass, La Roca, J-A-B-S, and more. Walls Turned Sideways also produced an amazing Riso-printed magazine with interviews of inside editors reflecting on the history and current state of inside journalism amidst rising censorship.

Prison Lives Matter

The September Prison Lives Matter newsletter is available to download or by writing one of these addresses below:

PLM Texas
P.O. Box 53645
Houston, TX 77052

PLM Northwest
P.O. Box 53
Carlsborg, WA 98324

PLM Virginia
BP Publishing
P.O. Box 25508
Richmond, VA 23260

PLM North Carolina
c/o WE BE THE VISION
P.O. Box 74
Asheboro, NC 27204

PLM Newsletter – Sept 2026 – 2026.09.10 Download

Events

October 22 National Day of Protest

Dozens of actions across the country for the yearly October 22nd National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and a Criminalization of a Generation. This year’s call:

Going into the 31st annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation, it’s more crucial than ever to stand together against the juggernaut of brutal fascist repression and terror unleashed across the country. In urban, suburban and rural communities, police have become even more emboldened in their brutality and murder of primarily Black and Latino people, killing toddlers and executing teenagers on the street without hesitation. ICE agents have relentlessly escalated their terrorizing of

immigrants and those they assume are immigrants, forcibly detaining and dumping some, including young children, into concentration camps, and outright murdering those they target as well as those defending their neighbors.

People of conscience responded with sustained resistance, and the Trump administration responded by ramping up the criminalization of dissent to even prosecuting and convicting protestors of terrorism. We cannot allow this to be the new normal! Fascism is here, and despite deep disgust and hatred from people of this deteriorating state of affairs, our current level of resistance is not enough. All of us who want an end to state terror must act!

Protests are planned in San Diego CA, Fullerton CA, Riverside CA, Chicago IL, DeKalb IL, Austin TX, Houston TX, Fort Worth TX, Columbus OH, Portland OR, Gary IN, Canton NY, and elsewhere.

Kick Down the Walls: Free Them All

Join Triangle Anarchist Black Cross November 20-22 for a weekend of exhibition fights & liberatory community building in Durham, NC! A fundraiser event for political prisoners and prison rebels, this autonomous fight card on Nov. 21 features exhibition striking & grappling matches, and match-making is happening NOW!

Wanna compete? Email: fight.in.durham2026@proton.me to apply for a striking or grappling match.

Don’t wanna fight but still wanna help out? We need funds and fight night volunteers! Help offset event costs by donating at https://spot.fund/KickDownWalls2026event

(Donations help cover costs of competitor travel, venue rental, ring construction materials, etc).

Find out more about volunteer opportunities by emailing: fight.in.durham2026@proton.me — we have lots of ways to plug in, so we hope to hear from you soon!

Applications to compete are due September 28! Email fight.in.durham2026@proton.me to apply.

Spread the word! Wrangle your crew! Kick Down the Walls! Free Them All!

This Month in History

September 1, 1976 — over a hundred prisoners at Hull Prison, England rioted to protest against brutality from staff. The disturbances continued until September 3, by which point two-thirds of the prison had been completely wrecked.

September 2, 1921 — federal troops arrived at Blair Mountain, in West Virginia to support mine bosses who were fighting a violent conflict against striking miners. Armed union miners attempted to march to free miners who had been imprisoned, while the bosses used sheriff deputies, armed vigilantes, and the US Army air service dropped bombs to prevent the miners from crossing the mountain. In the aftermath of the Battle of Blair Mountain, 985 miners were indicted for crimes including murder, conspiracy to murder, and treason.

September 3, 2020 — anti-fascist Michael Reinoehl was gunned down in a hail of bullets by federal agents in Lacey, Washington after Donald Trump publicly threatened him for killing a fascist in self- and community-defense during the George Floyd Uprising in Portland, Oregon.

September 5, 1917 — mass arrests of radical American worker took place as US marshals raided the national offices of the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World union, as well as some 20 branch offices of the IWW in different states.

September 6, 1971 — over 100 prisoners escaped from the Punta Carretas prison in Montevideo, Uruguay, most of them members of the Tupamaros guerrilla.

While digging the tunnel, the rebels found a previous, spacious tunnel that had been dug by the Argentinian anarchist Gino Gatti for a previous mass escape of political prisoners forty years prior. Some of those who escaped were members of the Federación Anarquista Uruguaya. One escapee, Eleuterio Fernandez Huidobro, later recalled:

“We had all assumed that this tunnel, when it was discovered, had to be carefully sealed off. Now, however, we have come to see that in 1931, the repression was limited to bricking up the two entrances with concrete and filling in the rest with sand… We had made a historic find. We were in a museum. And we could not tell the world about it. When we cleared the sand from that warm tunnel, we could see in its vaults and on its walls, clear, the still-fresh traces of their tools. They seemed to speak. Transmitting to those of us who could have been their grandchildren, a fraternal message: us too, brothers, us too… one could tell, on those walls polished by the work of time, solidarity and patience, the anarchist picks, one by one… the eternal struggle for freedom, the same struggle, the stubborn and courageous language of the oppressed of yesterday and today crossed by destiny’s mandate there, under the concrete, at the exit of a prison. … They, the comrades of ’31, came from the toilet next to the blacksmith’s shop. We, those of ’71, came from the cells. That’s why their oblique path crossed ours”.

The prisoners then used the old tunnel to store earth and tools for the new. On the night of the escape, the Tupamaros left a small sign at the junction of the tunnels:

“Here two generations, two ideologies and the same destiny cross: freedom”.

September 9, 1971 — the Attica prison uprising began in upstate New York when over 1,000 imprisoned people took control of the facility. Less than three weeks after the killing of revolutionary Black prisoner activist George Jackson, Attica prisoners united across racial lines and, using pipes, baseball bats and chains, rose up and took over the prison, taking 42 staff hostage. They then formulated and agreed upon a set of demands including better sanitary conditions, the dismissal of the prison superintendent, and amnesty for acts committed in the uprising. New York governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered a violent attack to retake the prison. On September 13, state troopers and prison guards stormed the prison, indiscriminately fired machine guns, and murdered 39 people. 10 of those they killed were prison staff whom officials then claimed were killed by prisoners.

September 10, 1933 — an attempted rally by some 100 members of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was broken up by 2,000 anti-fascist locals in Stockton, England.

September 11, 1973 — fascist general Augusto Pinochet launched a coup against the elected left-wing government in Chile of Salvador Allende. On day one, the new government began rounding up thousands of people – mostly working class activists and left-wingers – in the national stadium, killing many. The brutal military dictatorship, which was backed by western powers like the US and UK, implemented the harsh right-wing economic ideology of the neoliberal Chicago Boys. Any workers who attempted to resist were murdered, tortured, imprisoned or “disappeared”. A popular method of execution by the regime was to throw civilians to their deaths from helicopters into the ocean or over the Andes mountains. Over the next 17 years, more than 3,000 people were murdered by the regime, with more than 37,000 others illegally imprisoned or tortured.

September 14, 1960 — a US-backed coup took place in Congo against the first democratically elected prime minister in the country, socialist independence leader Patrice Lumumba. The CIA initially planned to assassinate him, but instead he was arrested, beaten, tortured and then shot. Soldiers from the former ruling Belgian authorities then dug up his body, dismembered it and dissolved it in sulphuric acid, grinding what was left to powder and scattering it.

September 16, 1982 — right-wing Christian militias, supported by the Israeli army, began carrying out acts of murder, torture, rape, and abuse in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. Israel had invaded Lebanon in June, fighting against Lebanese troops and forces of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in exile. The US brokered an agreement for PLO troops to evacuate from West Beirut, in exchange for Israel promising not to enter the city, and promising to protect Palestinian refugees in its camps. However, on September 15, Israel broke its deal and invaded Beirut, surrounding the camps and refusing to let anyone leave. On September 16, Israeli troops then enabled right wing Lebanese Christian militias to enter the refugee camps. In total, between 2000 and 3500 people were killed. Israel initially denied that a massacre took place, and instead declared that the refugee camps contained “many terrorists”.

September 17, 1849 — legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from slavery in Maryland. In the years following her escape, she worked tirelessly to save money to return and free more enslaved people: rescuing around 70 people in 13 missions through the underground railroad. Tubman later helped John Brown recruit fighters for an insurrection at Harpers Ferry. During the civil war, Tubman became the first woman to lead an armed attack during the conflict, playing a leading role in the Combahee River raid in which over 750 enslaved people were rescued.

September 19, 1892 — the trial took place of Jewish Russian anarchist Alexender Berkman, after his attempt to assassinate the notoriously anti-union manager Henry Clay Frick in July. Convicted on all six counts, he was sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison and one year in the workhouse

September 25, 1973 — anarchist revolutionary Salvador Puig Antich was arrested by police in Barcelona following a shootout, convicted by court martial soon after, sentenced to death, and executed by garrote.

September 26, 1990 — Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) land defenders near Oka, Québec, ended their 78 day resistance to development on their ancestral lands, after successfully blocking the expansion of a golf course and a housing redevelopment.

Birthdays

Autumn Hill

Birthday: September 20, 1995

Autumn Hill, also known by her drag handle Lady Hell, was sentenced to 50 years on June 23, 2026 as part of the federal crackdown on a noise demo outside of the Prairieland immigrant detention center. Autumn is a neuroqueer self-advocate with a special interest in all things taboo, an enchanted materialist, and an explorer of the further regions of experience. She likes stories in the genres of reimagined ancient myth, new weird, gothic horror, splatterpunk, and messy queer romance, and is an avid student of world history, religious, economic, and political. She plays grand strategy and action roleplaying video games like Crusader Kings 3 and Elden Ring in the Free World, and roleplays on the tabletop as often as she can get co-players in jail.

Write to Autumn:

Johnson County Jail, TX
Cameron Arnold, 202502023
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Please address your actual letter to Autumn, but use her given name (Cameron Arnold) on the envelope.

Cameron Smith

Birthday: September 30, 1974

Cameron Smith was sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting at electrical equipment amidst the movement against DAPL and Keystone pipelines. Cameron recently beat back the terrorism enhancement through an appeal and is currently awaiting resentencing.

Write to Cameron:

Cameron Monte Smith 67846-510
FCI Englewood
9595 West Quincy Avenue
Littleton, CO 80123

Kevin Rashid Johnson

Birthday: October 3, 1971

In 1990, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson was a drug dealer, an ambitious member of amerika’s Black lumpen proletariat, or underclass. Like so many, as a young adult he was arrested and received a lengthy prison sentence. He has been incarcerated ever since – for the past eighteen years in conditions of solitary confinement. In 1993, Rashid was transferred to Greenville prison. While in segregation, Rashid taught himself law, and began litigating against the prisons. In the mid-2000s, Rashid took up an illicit correspendence with another revolutionary held at the same supermax prison as him, but in general population. Messages were smuggled back and forth between segregation and general pop for several months. This correspondence, in which Rashid and “Outlaw” discuss revolutionary theory and practice, the challenges of dealing with other less committed prisoners, reactionaries, and snitches, and the question of how to best organize behind bars, has been collected together and is available now in the book Defying the Tomb, published by Kersplebedeb in 2010. A few months after Outlaw and Rashid exchanged the last letters included in this book, Comrade Shaka Sankofa Zulu and Rashid came together to found the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC). Rashid is also the author of Panther Vision: Essential Party Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Minister of Defense New Afrikan Black Panther Party. Rashid has since published journalism, art, and poetry on his website: https://rashidmod.com/

Write to Rashid:

Kevin Johnson #1007485
Keen Mountain Correctional Center
P.O. Box 860
Oakwood, VA 24631

Monsour Owolabi

Birthday: October 3, 1991

Monsour Owolabi is a New Afrikan poet and organizer who has been held captive in Texas prisons for nearly 20 years on a life sentence.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monsour_freedom
Fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/monsour-freedom-campaign
Website: https://freemonsour.org/

You can write to Monsour at:

Monsour Owolabi #01856112
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
PO Box 660400
Dallas, TX 775226-0400

Jennifer Rose

Birthday: October 6, 1969

Jennifer Rose aka Babygirl is an anti-authoritarian trans woman and insurrectionist amazon held captive for over 25 years for armed robberies and a 1995 attack on a district attorney and associate prison warden. She took part in the 1991 Folsom Prison hunger strike, after which she was beaten and tortured, convicted for armed resistance, and sentenced to multiple 25-to-life sentences under the Three Strikes Law. She has spent over ten years in solitary confinement at Folsom and the Pelican Bay Secure Housing Unit. Despite all of this, Jennifer continues to struggle for freedom, remaining a committed anti-authoritarian, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-capitalist.

Write to Jennifer:

Jennifer Rose WH2537
P.O. Box 1501
Chowchilla, CA 93610-1501

Aliaksandr Reznik

Birthday: October 12, 1997

Mailing address:

Alexander S. Reznik
Prison No. 4. 212011
99A vulica Krupskaj Mahilioŭ
Belarus

Belarusian prisons will usually only accept letters in Belarusian or Russian, but Solidarity Postcards Atelier will mail your message as a postcard through this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhICrt2BBn5Su3OcC3HLbE2UjygiDf824_MKnwgbaKP1qV7A/viewform

Zulu Whitmore

Birthday: October 14, 1992

Zulu, who was a member of the Angola chapter of the Black Panther Party, has been in prison in Angola, Louisiana for 50 years. Zulu is to us a wonderful person, deeply humane, with a listening ear and a smile whenever needed.

As long as I fight, I am moved by HOPE, and when I fight with HOPE ! I can fight until the gates to my physical freedom fly open and I walk out of prison into the arms of my family, friends&supporters. Until then I ask you to fight with me.
The Last Panther In Angola
Zulu”

Zulu’s support website: https://freezulu.org/
Support Mastodon: https://mas.to/@freezulu

Write to Zulu:

Kenny Zulu Whitmore
86468 – Cypress#2
LA State Prison
Angola, LA 70712

Or go to Jpay.com and open an account, send Zulu an e-mail!

Maricela Rueda

Birthday: October 17, 1992

Maricela, known as Mari by her loved ones, was sentenced to 70 years on June 23, 2026 as part of the federal crackdown on a noise demo outside of the Prairieland immigrant detention center. Mari is forever the youngest sibling. Mari’s favorite color is blue. She shared a home with her dog Oso, two cats Sir Tomothy Pierce Cuddleson III and Trash Cat, and two bunnies Daisy and Daffodil (kidnapped and unsure where they ended up after FBI home invasion). A vegan since 2019 who loves sharing yummy food with others. Not really a “gardener” but practiced in planting wishes and trying to cultivate growth. Mari misses karaoke duets with her now 13 year old kiddo, potlucks with friends, going to reading and writing groups, driving with the windows down and music loud, and laughing with her partner. Read Mari’s poems or listen to her recite them on Prison Radio.

Write to Mari:

Johnson County Jail, TX
Maricela Rueda, 202502018
P.O. Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Joy “Rowan” Gibson

Birthday: October 22, 1995

Rowan was sentenced to 15 years on July 1, 2026 as part of the federal crackdown on a noise demo outside of the Prairieland immigrant detention center. Rowan (they/them) lived with their partner and codefendant, Benjamin “Champagne” Song. They had four cats, who have since been housed with family and friends. Rowan serves their community with love and care. They were always there if someone needed help and fed the unhoused population of Oak Cliff. They are a vegan who cared for stray animals around them and did their best to make sure everyone had a home. Read Rowan’s poems or listen to them recite them on Prison Radio.

Write to Rowan:

Johnson County Detention Center, TX
Joy Gibson, 202502016
PO Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131

Michael Kimble

Birthday: October 22

Michael Kimble is a black gay anarchist author and organizer imprisoned in Alabama nearly 40 years for defending himself and his friend from a racist and homophobic attack.

Since his captivity, Michael has been heavily involved in efforts to free himself and others, assisting in legal defense for fellow inmates, organizing reading groups and Black history events, speaking up for other LGBTQ+ folks behind bars, and helping to organize alongside the Free Alabama Movement. Michael has published many writings including Anarchy Live! zine, Fire Ant anarchist prisoner zine, and most recently at Scalawag Magazine.

Check out Michael’s fundraiser Instagram @freemichaelkimble and his website (it’s a nublogs site that was shut down by the feds so it can no longer can be updated)

Write to Michael:

ALDOC Inmate Mail Processing
Michael Kimble #138017
PO Box 138017
San Antonio, TX 78217

Contents

Until All Are Free

Josh Williams Will Be Free

Nikos Maziotis Is Free

Anastasia Kukhta Is Free!

Rebellions

Uprising at Camp East Montana Immigrant Detention Center

Uprising in Kobanê Prison

Uprising at Pisa Italy

Support the Hunger Strikers!

Free Ian!

Free the Sumud 4!

Support the Gdeim Izik Hunger Strikers!

Revolutionary Prisoners in Turkey Continue Open-Ended Hunger Strikes

Irish Republican Prisoner on Hunger Strike in Maghaberry

Free Wilber Perez

A Call for Emergency Mobilizations Everywhere to Free Wilber Perez from ICE Torture

Running Down the Walls

Messages from Current and Former Political Prisoners for RDTW 2026

Malik Muhammad

Champagne Song

Bill Dunne

Peppy

Oso Blanco

Interview with Anarchist Comrade Mónica Caballero

Certain Days: The 2027 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar — Our Duty to Win

Free The Prairieland Prisoners! Free Them All!

Ricochets

Free Mari!

Every Letter a Little Jailbreak

Autumn Hill

Champagne Song

Des Revol

Liz Soto

Ines Soto

Joy Gibson

Mari Rueda

Rebecca Morgan

Savanna Batten

Zachary Evetts

No Collaboration

Minnesota 15

Defend the Minnesota 15! October 3rd Day of Solidarity!

“Operation Puppet Master”

Solidarity with the Minnesota 15!

The MN15 Wants Your Art

Court Support & Rally

Michigan 8

State Moves for Protective Order to Seal Discovery

University of Michigan Grad Student Union Served Grand Jury Subpoena

Repression Update: Recent FBI Visits

Stop Cop City / Defend the Atlanta Forest

Drop the Charges!

Free All Antifa Prisoners!

Free Gino!

Free Maja! Free Gabrielle! Free Anna!

Free Lina!

Palestine Action

Filton 25 Trial 3

Qesser Zuhrah

Heba Muraisi

Zahra Farooque

Kamran Ahmed

Moiz Ibrahim

Liam Mullany

Mobilise for Trial 3 25th September at Woolwich Crown Court

Political Prisoners / POWs

New York City Anarchist Black Cross

Malik Muhammad

Ronald Reed

Vaughn 17

Pendleton 2

Monsour Owolabi

Cameron Smith

Turtle Island Liberation Front

Abdul Olugbala Shakur

Los Angeles Anti-ICE Uprising

George Floyd Uprising Prisoners

Repression in the So-Called US

Lochiel Border Wall Blockade