Mongoose Distro

7 August 2022

Administrative staff and ranking guards at the Connally Unit are allowing guards to use a dark unsanitary shower as a respite area for medium custody prisoners housing in 8 Building’s J-Pod, commonly known as “the island”.

On July 6 2022, during 1st shift, a Hispanic-looking male guard approached me and my cellmate. We were told the respite area is a trip to a dark, foul-smelling, cockroach-infested, pubic hair-laden shower.

We were told we’d be locked inside the small enclosure for 15 minutes, then placed inside of our cell, one at a time.

A request to, instead, sit in front of the day room fan was denied.The officer explained that sitting in front of the day room fan isn’t respite. That I do agree on.

Yet when I replied that the shower wasn’t either, he refused to comment, and refused to tell me his name. He had no name tag.

Since my arrival at Connally Unit, I haven’t seen any efforts by the 8 Building supervisors to have the showers cleaned. Nor have I seen any efforts by privileged special needs inmates (PSNI), who are allowed to do whatever they wish, to clean them.

Contrary to what I was told on July 6, sitting in the day room was the prison’s way of providing respite, but mainly to the PSNI. Most prisoners asking for respite never get it, and I’ve seen a pattern of guards letting out the same three or four cells, then denying the other prisoners on the section.

The one time I was allowed respite, it was only for 15 minutes in the dayroom, and during a time when the sun had gone down.

Likewise, they strategically run our two hours of day room time at 6:30 am, so that by the time the outside temperature rises, we are stuck in our hot cell the rest of the day.

All meals, medication, special mail pick ups, library requests, laundry etc, is delivered to us in the cell. Unlike the other medium custody I.D. units throughout TDCJ that give medium custody prisoners the liberty to walk and get these things themselves.

Essentially, the Connally Unit is seen throughout TDCJ as a disciplinary unit. Which has nothing to do with prisoners being violent or misbehaving.

Its penchant for overpunishing, disciplinary quotas, assaultive staff cover ups and things like the denial of respite, facilitates the status quo.

On July 24th, 2015, Deputy Director Robert Erison authorized a TDCJ statewide memo to all TDCJ wardens and regional directors, ordering all wardens to make air-conditioned respite areas available. This included posting notices explaining where these areas are located, and allowing staff and prisoners to use them as needed.

The TDCJ statewide policy called “Respite Training and Education”, in part says:

“-Inmates are allowed to access respite 24/7;

-Inmates do not need to be sick, injured or feeling bad to access respite, rather they may do so to cool down whenever they wish;

-To access respite, inmates can make the request to any correctional officer;

-If there are problems, ask to talk to a ranking correctional officer.”

I highly recommend that no prisoner reading this attempt to ask to talk to a ranking officer. First off, most have a rule that if they are called to resolve any issue, the prisoner gets a disciplinary case. Normally for threatening to assault staff, refusing to obey an order, or causing a disturbance.

Second, the responding ranking officer is usually the entity that gave the guard authorization to enforce the denial, and the one to encourage the bogus disciplinary.

Such a mutual reinforcement by ranking guards is an unfavorable dilemma to argue policy against. Especially when the ranking guard is falsely radioed that “an inmate is causing a disturbance” and he must press his bravado to tone down an otherwise hostile prisoner, even when it’s obvious the prisoner is calm and in need of help.

TDCJ’s tendency to avoid holding itself accountable, for obvious civil rights violations of prisoners, is one reason why conditions in Texas prisons are among the worst in the nation.

But in situations of this magnitude, responsibility should literally fall on the lap of Governor Greg Abott.

Instead of officials like the wardens, directors, etc identifying the problem and coming up with practical solutions to prevent future occurrences, they simply cover up the existence of the problem; retaliate against guards and prisoners who come forward; falsify state records to distance themselves from being held liable and dole out weak punishments to low-level guards, who were only following orders that these same officials were aware of and tolerant towards.

It’s what you call an exhibit of damage control and a last-ditch effort to preserve the customs and culture TDCJ has effectively built its pretext for integrity around. With the help of inmate pig proxy propagandists – TDCJ’s second self.

These are the inmates that assist the administration during the annual pre-warned surprise audits. They paint, clean, and are interviewed by the auditors who are supposed to pick random prisoners from various parts of the prison. These inmates are prepped by their “boss man” before the interview starts.

So, in situations concerning the accessibility of respite, bad feeding practices and the like, what’s really going on on the island, conveniently stays on the island.

And it’s understandable that these inmates are behaving like this to avoid retribution for complaining.

Prisoners that complain of assaultive staff, threats of violence, chest pains, heat exhaustion or any medical-related illness are subject to very invasive urine drug testing by handpicked predatory guards.

I was drug-tested three times, then finally put on strip cell status (empty cell with 24-hour guard observation) when the weird drug testing couldn’t stem my filing complaints. This region actually has an irrational policy allowing such foul play.

And guards never wear name tags, so as to prevent being identified in grievance complaints, with the tacit approval of numerous silent partners that supervise them and don’t wear name tags either.

Depending on what supervisors are in charge of 8 Building determines what type of respite policy will be enforced. But regardless of what policy it is, the average prisoner will only get around one shot a week, and during the night, when they are asleep or not needing to cool down.

Only the most dedicated bootlickers are allowed more than 15 minutes of respite (merely sitting in the un-airconditioned dayroom) during sun up. And they take this modern-day pat on the head in stride.

And in the event these inmates refuse to go in their cell because of the heat, guards will turn all in-cell power off in an effort to instigate race and gang riots. While leaving dayroom power on, when the dayroom is where the issue is at. While we lose access to use our fan for hours on end.

Meanwhile, other prisoners aren’t aware that the respite training and education memo exists; where the respite areas are located; that the memo is supposed to be posted in the day rooms and that they can receive respite in the A/C upon request.

The infirmary has a sitting area, listed as a respite area, just as 1 Building, 3 Building and 4 Builiding. Even 8 Building’s multi-purpose room is a valid respite area, as is the inmate barbershop. But the barbershop is used as a supervisor hangout, so no hair cuts. And the multipurpose room is used to make trays for meals. So the dining room we’re supposed to walk to is closed, just to keep us from having reason to leave our cell and the building.

And since this unit’s administration is illegally confining us to our cells for economic reasons, we can’t attend religious services or educational classes, where air conditioning exists. But like I already mentioned, this is the only I.D. unit in the state of Texas that has this lockdown status that no documented TDCJ policy supports.

According to their own policy, medium custody prisoners are afforded four hours of recreation per day. Two hours in the day room, two hours of outside recreation, plus educational and church services.

Contrary to this, the two hours of outside recreation is flat out hi-jacked without a scintilla of an excuse. And without any prisoner resistance. In reality, we are being punished as if we were in close custody (GS) two-man solitary. But even they have outside recreation.

Call for action

Readers, please contact the warden’s office today! Demand the rationale as to why prisoners in 8 Building, in general, and J-Pod 1 Section in particular, are being denied access to respite areas containing air conditioning.

Request that to remedy the denial (that I know will be ignored) medium custody prisoners be given dayroom time after 12:00pm. This allows them to have two hours away from the hot cells.

In the even you are told that issues like meal periods prevent this very modest proposal; gently remind them that inmates pass out lunch and dinner by themselves, and often pass the trays under the door by smashing the food with bare hands, then forcing it under, causing food to stick to the door.

If they assure you this is a lie, tell them they can see for themselves by reviewing the J-Pod Section 1 day room cameras during lunch and dinner on 8/5/22 and 8/7/22. They’ll see these inmates handle trash and never wash their hands before smashing food down. During this times, guards are up front enjoying the air conditioning.

The only reason inmates do this is to get everybody fed in a timely manner, otherwise guards will do it two hours after it’s ready to serve. Life on the island continues.

Dare to struggle, dare to win!
All power to the people

Jason Renard Walker #1532092
Connally Unit
899 FM 632
Kenedy, TX 78119

August 23, 2022

The Virginia DOC and PSCC (Pocahontas State Correctional Center) has once again decided to, with all deliberate intent, infect as many prisoners as possible with Covid. Miraculously, as the rest of the country and the world seem to have adapted and moved forward, PSCC and the VADOC have gone backwards two years. It seems that most of White Nationalist occupied Virginia is having an outbreak.

Please note the memo sent by, Chief of Housing and Programs, J. Kinser. Over two years ago in April/May 2020 he attempted to cover up the first cases of Covid at PSCC, brought in by local staff and spread through the staff-smuggled contraband. He openly targeted prisoners who reported cases or “yellow zones” on the compound. Evidence exists, but the VADOC has done nothing about this dangerously dishonest person. To that point, note the memo’s date: Wednesday, August 22, 2022. Today is Tuesday, August 23, 2022 and camera footage will show these memos were handed out in the AM, approximately 9-10am. These are the sort of backwoods scams Virginians try to pull. The VADOC is notorious for such blatant dishonesty.

We’ve been locked down 24/7 for 3 days now, since Sunday, August 21, 2022 AM. No one has received a PCR test. They instead just lock us away and let the virus spread. The guards have even begun to make jokes are “installing ovens”. The implications are as poor as their taste in humor and given that many of the VADOC-PSCC staff are openly White Nationalist, it takes on a more grievous tone. In fact, at least 3 staff members have recently been reported for openly targeting a young Jewish prisoner and most of the VADOC-PSCC staff are well documented in their racism.

I continue to reach out for help, but it seems most Americans have resigned themselves to being subjugated by an ever more clear tyranny. In Virginia, it is worse than most other places, yet the resistance in nowhere to be found.

To make matters worse, the VADOC is taking extraordinary measures to delay and even stop outright as much communication from within its prison walls as possible. Too many are discovering the truth of the VADOC, which includes debased activities such as human trafficking. It is, after all, a documented fact that the VADOC can trace its funding to slavery and Jim Crow-era plantation politics. Not much has changed.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the 2^nd Civil War started 10+ years ago and I do not doubt that the fascist and White Nationalist elements that have infested every corner of the country, and every government office, have some connection to The Old Dominion of Virginia. This is ground zero. Virginia is the place to fight these forces of evil. Virginia is the haven for these enemies of truth and freedom. Virginia is now and has always been a seat for fascism to issue dictums from.

David Annarelli 1853637

Pocahontas State Correctional Center

PO Box 518

Pocahontas, VA 24635

Write to Steven at:

Steven McCain 2096064

Wainwright Unit

2665 Prison Road 1

Lovelady, TX 75851

IB 64 is a brochure-style (8.5×14″) mini-zine created entirely by Pennsylvania state prisoners. Attached for download/print are their first few issues. Enjoy!

Introduction

The purpose of this report is to inform prisoners living in Polunsky Unit’s death row and ad-seg cell blocks on ways to protect themselves and their property against Polunsky’s deadly cell extraction teams and silent partners, that use their job titles to assist in the cover ups.

I’ve also listed the known actors and usual suspects that, I learned, make up a small piece of the administration’s murder squad hierarchy.

This is being done in an effort to fully update those living in these environments on who these clowns are and what to expect (if you aren’t already on point) when they surprisingly pop up at your cell door, for reasons unrelated to any need for a use of force, yet with clear intentions of a race-motivated beat down.

Meet the mob

Staff at the Polunsky Unit maximum security unit in Livingston Texas, center the acts of abusive and violently unprovoked cell extractions as tools of social control against prone and isolated prisoners of color, and unpopular social groups like gay and transgender prisoners. Simply, those not adhering to the happy slave status quo.

When I say “staff”, I’m simply referring to all TDCJ employees that are in cahoots; like nurses, grievances investigators, commissary workers and whatnot.

It is a well-known fact that a closet gangbanger by the rank and name of Captain Carter is the orchestrator and head of Polunsky Unit’s “murder squad”. Warden Dickerson serves as her underwriter, with Lieutenant Sligher and Sergeant Schwarz serving as the enforcers, coupled with a camera operator named Officer Wootley as the recorder of the beatings.

Their silent partners include a white female named Officer Barker, a white male named Officer Aragon and a white female named Officer Redding, aka Big Bird. All three of these individuals normally work 11 Building and other areas of the unit, where a prisoner is always isolated and toted around in arm and leg restraints.

Officer Barker is responsible for ordering the beating of Marquis Kingsbury #2303732 on July 22, 2021, by falsely telling Captain Carter he urinated on her through the food slot on his cell door.(1)

Carter notified Schwarz. The team suited up and tried to kill Kingsbury on camera with no regards to future consequences, since Dickerson and Carter involved themselves in the investigation. Both Aragon and Redding made failed efforts to get my “ass kicked” days before Kingsbury’s beating.

If any readers are aware of any other staff that are part of the hierarchy, please send me your detailed reports, affidavits, and evidence to add to the ongoing investigation, ℅:

Central Texas ABC

PO Box 7907

Austin, TX 78713

Simple ways to protect yourself

Incarcerated readers that have managed to keep up with my writings for years are aware that I stayed in Ad-Seg for nearly a decade. I was housed in both 12-Bldg and E.CB at Clements Unit in Amarillo(2). Many of my articles on Clements are posted to my website: www.jasonsprisonjournal.com

So I’m well aware of having my property taken and destroyed; bogus write-ups; being gassed and stripped naked for days; being denied meals, rec and showers under the “verbally refused” banner; while filing Step 1 and Step 2 grievances that are intentionally denied or misconstrued so that my concerns weren’t addressed.

Though it’s been years since my release from Ad-Seg, I still concern myself with helping those that remain under such restraints, even at the cost of expending my own time, money, and resources.

The following list and instructions are things you can practice to: increase your chances of avoiding vindictive cell extractions; minimize the amount of damage inflicted if a cell extraction does occur; reduce loss of property and ward off future attacks and retaliation for complaining. Not to mention creating bonds with your neighbors.

1. Unite with your neighbors and create a culture of resistance.

A culture of resistance is an act of creating a community for you and those around you, based on: respecting each other’s person, space and property; conducting yourself in a principled manner as men. Avoid feeding into the childish games guards tend to play. Since, in effect, it is the loss of a verbal battle and their cowardice to fight on equal terms that prompt assaultive cell extractions and property theft. Avoid dry taunting and instigating, based on the fallacy that they won’t jeopardize their job to carelessly retaliate; be more open to seeking help from each other without the expectation of charging or paying a fee; recognize who your real enemies are.

When guards enter your cell block, they should feel the vibe that weak divide and conquer tactics, Stockholm Syndrome and the like have no effect and are subject to immediate exposure and rejection by the residents: vis-a-vis, a culture of resistance.

This step will take time, effort, and agitated struggle. As most prisoners in isolation have a passion and need to emotionally attach themselves to those of uniformed authority, while happily rejecting the trust and care of those around them that offer it, based solely on the fact that guards treat those people this same way.

Cell extraction teams have a tendency to prey where the the least signs of united resistance are present, and thrive where inmates clap, bang, and applaud them to do as they please. The amount of injury they inflict is determined by the approval they receive as they build their momentum to enter the cell.

2. Always keep a jar of baby powder handy.

Following an illegal cell extraction, you will usually be tossed back into the empty gassed-up cell naked. So when a cell extraction is imminent, toss piles of baby powder under the toilet, inside the lockers and under the bunk. Patting it on your face and body will absorb sweat and the oily chemical agent. It soothes instantly. Also share it as needed. Never rub your body with water.

3. As the cell door opens: ball up in front of it, using your arms and elbows to protect your head and face. Bring your knees up to your chest to protect your stomach and ribs. This not only minimizes the damage you would normally receive. It slows down their bulldozing momentum and technique tremendously. It also hampers the last three guards (of the five-man minimum) from getting free licks without it clearly being on camera, as they will be unable to use their momentum to crash into you.

4. Scream out loud that you are not resisting. They will immediately tell you to stop resisting, while keeping you pinned on your back and your hands pinned to your side so you can’t block any punches, eye pokes, throat grips or testicle crushes. It’s best if you roll on your stomach as soon as they enter, but that takes practice. And keep your eyes closed. Some wear gas-saturated gloves, or ones with barbs on the finger tips, to assist with eye gouging.

5. Any witnessing prisoners should always keep in mind that the portable camera picks up sound. Demand witness statements by saying “my name is so-and-so, I live in so-and-so cell and witnessed so-and-so, I need a witness statement.” Of course you won’t get one! But what this does is provide audio evidence that the supervising guard(s) failed to follow policy, by providing witness statements to those reporting an excessive use of force. Your denial should be followed up by grieving it using a Step 1, then a Step 2.

6. Before “the team” arrive, anything you can’t afford to lose should be sent to a neighbor to prevent guard theft and destruction. As you’ll be without whatever they don’t toss for quite some time. Witnesses should keep journals of the events.

7. Keep your mouth closed and slowly breathe out of your nose once you’re thrown back in the cell. Don’t attempt to wipe gas off the wall. Toss baby powder on any visible stains and blotches.

It’s a shame that a report like this has to be made. But in environments where we are left to fend for ourselves, it’s always safety first.

Dare to struggle, dare to win! All power to the people!

Jason Renard Walker #1532092

Connally Unit

899 FM 632

Kenedy, TX 78119

(1) sfbayview.com/2021/08/black-texas-prisoner-gassed-brutalized-in-solitary-confinement-cell/ 

(2) I give descriptions of the horrors unfortunate prisoners faced and more in my paperback book “Reports From Within the Belly of the Beast: Torture and Injustice inside Texas Department of Criminal Justice”, available on amazon.com

Thank you for your continued support. It means a great deal to the incarcerated writers who contribute to the project to know that people on the outside take time out of their day to take in their works. We have been doing this for a few years now, learning and growing on a daily basis. From the start, we have maintained a clear mission and a set of “dos and don’ts” that keep us accountable to it.

Our mission is to transcribe, publish and distribute writings from prisoners, including, but not limited to, anarchist prisoners. Our vetting guidelines pertain to the content of submissions that are in consideration to be published. For example, we do not publish works that advocate things that we find to be actively harmful, such as statism, authoritarianism, racism, sexism, etc.

That being said, we also do not exclude potential contributors based on alleged past wrongdoings. This is not a callous dismissal of people who may have been harmed by our contributors on the outside, but solidarity with those who are experiencing the hell that is prison. We do not wish to act as judge, jury, executioner to any of our contributors, and simply hope that, even in the smallest of ways, our project can help combat the State carceral system’s desire to silence its captives.

Thanks,

Mongoose Distro

July 28, 2022

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http://www.freesofiajohnson.com

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https://www.freesofiajohnson.com/

From freesofiajohnson.com:

Sofia ‘Candle’ Johnson is a non-binary trans woman and 25-year-old Egoist Anarchist currently in the custody of the Oregon Department of Corrections, confined at Coffee Creek, a women’s Correctional Facility. Her pronouns are she/they. Raised in the white suburbs of Broward County, Florida, Sofia is an anarchist who was born to much privilege, though she has been closeted until her early 20s and afforded little political discourse with anarchists prior to her chats with Manning. Sofia has been undergoing hormone replacement therapy since March 23rd of 2018, and expects to undergo vaginoplasty sometime-in-custody with appropriate support. Sofia is half-Venezuelan, and speaks some Spanish.

Sofia has taken large-responsibility for orchestrating a riot in Portland that placed her in the public eye. Due to an FBI informant in her inner circle, Sofia was arrested at the scene of the riot by being led into a honeypot while injured. She had smashed open multiple windows of a shopping district, the windows of a church, and destroyed an ATM. Sofia has accepted a plea-agreement for these charges, and is now convicted of ‘Riot’ and ‘Criminal Mischief in the 1st Degree’, owing some $11,000 in restitution.

Sofia’s sentence is largely driven, time-wise, by her conviction in relation to her robbery of a 7/11 in Beaverton, Oregon; she robbed the cashier at gunpoint for around-$860 and a handful of Backwoods cigars. Though she succeeded in fleeing from the police, she was later indicted while in custody pertaining to charges that arose from her squatting of a vacant veterinary clinic. She accepted a plea-agreement of the mandatory-minimum, 90-months, per §ORS 137.700.

All of her convictions run concurrently, meaning Sofia’s hard-release date is set as 12/22/2028. She has no remorse for her acts and holds the State in contempt. Sofia is an intellectual, and though her acts arose of necessity they were not born of impulse. She believes it is always time to act, even alone, that no act is more or less significant than another.

Sofia’s favorite book is Max Stirner’s Der Einzige und sein Eigentum — she owns both the Wolfi translation and the older Cambridge Classic edition. She is similarly intoxicated with Friedrich Nietzsche’s work, and loves aphorisms. Her favorite aphorism is the French Le roi est mort, Vive le roi. Most of her time incarcerated is spent reading, writing, playing basketball, watching anime. She loves flowers and writing poetry. Her favorite commissary foods
are Chili-flavored Maruchan Ramen and FritoLay’s Cheetos.

Sofia’s favorite anarchist, other than herself, is the illegalist Luigi Galleani. Her favorite anime is the spin-off of JoJo’s bizarre adventure titled ‘Thus Spake Kishibe Rohan’. She loves Nihilism, Existentialism, Absurdism. She is on the spectrum, though she has declined formal diagnoses. Her favorite artist is Broward County’s Kodak Black, and she collects trimmings from every FritoLay product she eats in homage to his ‘Don’t Leave Me’.

Sofia is divorced, and identifies as pansexual. She is still searching for love. She believes in the ideal of communism, heavily distanced from any Marxist theories of a state or dictatorship. She is relatively opposed to civilization, and sees the evils of capitalist technology though finds it hard to damn a thing-in-itself of technology as a broader concept. Sofia grew up as a black hat hacker, starting in her early teens and distancing herself from the craft as an
adult-entering-college. Sofia is currently a student at the University of Oregon, after her scholarship essay on fucking the FBI was accepted.

Sodia plans to show her commitment to the Anarchist movement during her incarceration by continuing to create propaganda, furthering her intellectual studies, creating essays with her near-limitless time, staying devoted for her 90-month captivity, and, perhaps most importantly, continuing to set the standard of how-to-be-imprisoned: showing no remorse and giving no names or compromising into. After revealing the legal name of the informant in her affinity group, a well-seated activist who has had bail posted numerous times, Sofia is emboldened to dispel any idea of snitching being useful, in any
way, by example.

She likes her coffee as black as the flag. She writes fondly of bombers and robbers, assassins and arsonists. She won’t hesitate to quote Nietzsche or Stirner, maybe even to flirt. She’s immoral, a friend of murderers and drug dealers. Welcome the brave new insurrectionary enby of your dreams, someone whose pain has had to be the recipe, whom you can count on like-basketball to stick around.

-Candle

Write to Sofia at:

Sofia Johnson 23976151

Coffee Creek Correctional Facility

24499 SW Grahams Ferry Road

Wilsonville, OR 97070

Hello friends,

I am writing today to raise awareness for friends all over the world who have been facing captivity due to human rights activism. At it’s core all anarchist activism is a struggle for human rights. Freedom of expression, bodily autonomy, freedom from captivity, freedom to live a life as one see fit, with access to healthcare, housing, transportation education and community- all of these are anarchist struggles. Often our work intersects with other movements who have similar goals for specific groups of marginalized people, and even compassion for animals and environmental activism. People who profit from the exploitation of people, plant and animals find the existence of motivated anarchists and intersectional class struggle to be a threat to their social structure of hierarchy and domination. We are often striving to exist within the nation state systems, at peace, solving our own problems in autonomous zones, if only so we can claim the moral high ground of non-aggression and let the overbearing authorities cast the first stone. But many of us sincerely wish to have happy, healthy lives of peaceful coexistence, living close to nature and each other, living honestly in the face of institutionalized lies, dogmatic stone age mysticisms and hypocrisies, living in a way that is separate from the profit driven economy which is doomed to endless cycles of class division, exploitation, collapse and violent ‘forever wars’.

Those who do act out in aggressive ways are often only struggling for survival again lionized police forces who outlaw their very existence- for example patriarchy religious structures like zealous adherents to Abrahamic mythologies; the Kurds struggling against genocide in many different nations; Black communities world wide, but especially in Amerikkka, where police and federal government are putting white supremacist ideologies into practice; the Jewish Diaspora worldwide; Palestinian communities; Indigenous communities who managed to survive colonialism; and the Irish, victims of the United Kingdom’s first colony.

Right now we are seeing anarchists under attack on a global scale, and it’s important that we know the names of those who are facing imprisonment so they are not forgotten. By raising awareness we protect their bodies with accountability. Police who work as prison guards are made aware that they are being watched by the entire world, just like Derek Chauvin. Please look into the conditions faced by Belarus political prisoners and European political prisoners. We should also look into the state of Chinese and Russian political prisoners, and Ukrainian anarchists. Here are the names of friends I am aware of. Please look up these people and reach out to them and their friends and family. They can also receive money for their prison commissary account. If you send me any money, please send me less money so you can also send some to these friends. Instead of sending me twenty dollars I would rather get one dollar and know that nineteen other friends are getting one dollar also. The Belarus friends are in particular need of help in relation to their stance on the Ukraine and Russian war. They can be helped by contacting this fundraiser:

https://www.firefund.net/abcbelarus

Names of international anarchist friends who need help more than I do:

Mahmut Demir

Gabriel Bombo Da Silva

Claudio Lavazza

Monica Caballero

Francisco Solar

Giannis Michailidis

Juan Aliste Vega

Ihar Alinevich

Mikalai Dziadok

Mikita Jemialjanau

Jauhen Rubashka

Artsiom D. Salavej

Artsiom S. Salavej

Toby Shone

Eric King

Jessica Reznicek

Leonard Peletier

Mumia Abu Jamal

Dr. Mutulu Shakur

Please add names to this list and forward this message or write your own statement to friends and family and activists on a global scale. We will show the forces that attempt to dominate our ungovernable spirit of love and freedom that our solidarity is greater than their violence and oppression!

Thank you for keeping me in your thoughts and for all of your actual aid. My own family loves white Jesus and trump more than they love me, so the only help I get is from the activist community. I receive letters, money and books on a regular basis and this cuts through the depression and keeps me going. I can imagine how much more difficult in other places where conditions are much harsher, like Eric King’s situation. I would very much like to receive pictures of as many political prisoners as you can send me, either printed on paper or through a photo app like pelipost or freeprints. In prison one of the only tools available to me is my imagination, which I use in meditation to send all my love, strength and courage to other political prisoners, and I imagine them being happy, healthy and free, receiving resources like money, books and healthy food and nutrients. Please join me in this meditation. Another aspect of this meditation is to imagine all of the negative aspects of the political prisoner’s existence coming off of them like a black cloud of smoke, which we then inhale and in doing so we share their burden by taking on the negative karma that is making their life difficult. I like to call it “smoking our own thoughts”! Then we imagine clean air and beams of light energy going from us back to the political prisoners. Please remember that this exercise is just our imagination, and it is worthless without physical action and actual support in reality. Its purpose is to motivate us to action and to help us through times when we cannot act, so that we remember to help when can act.

Thanks again for all of your love and support!

May all beings everywhere be happy and free!

Dan, aka Alishare