Request for Aid Upon Release from Prison – by Dan Baker

June 9, 2023

Dear Friends,

In less than a month I’ll be released – to homelessness. I’m writing to thank you for all your help, and to beg for your continued aid. My defense committee has been unable to find me housing due to the strain of survival and the trauma of Tortuguita’s assassination.

My requests, for release to halfway house and/or transfer to my partner’s address outside Florida, have been denied. I’m held in isolation with no access to email or regular phone calls. I’ll be in danger on the street in Tallahassee and I could be attacked or sent back to prison just for sleeping outside.

Please help me find a place to live before I’m released on 7/5/23. I need a room, efficiency, or trailer, with sober people, who don’t have large dogs, or a criminal record, to comply with the probation officer’s requirements. The homeless shelter in Tallahassee is always full, and the college town economy sees mass unemployment and homelessness every summer and winter break.

Please help me stay out of prison. Please help me find housing and work in Tallahassee. I’m cut off from my defense committee and can only reach my lawyer, Lizzie Valejo, in rare scheduled legal calls, which are often cancelled arbitrarily. Here’s how you can help:

-share this message

-fundraise/send money

-send housing options and job offers

-secure housing for me (we have a little over $3000 raised for my release)

-connect with movement groups in Tallahassee and raise awareness of my situation

-contact my defense committee and help them search for work and housing

-contact anyone you know in Tallahassee who can provide housing or work and advocate for me, ideally ideologically sympathetic friends, and send me an address

-contact my lawyer, Lizzie Valejo, at 850-942-8818, to contact me, ask how to send money, or offer housing and work

Thanks for all you’ve done so far, and thank you for helping me so I can help others!

Until all are free,

Dan

Contact Dan’s support crew on Instagram at @freedanbaker