International Hunger Strike Grows, Joined By Palestinian Captive of the George Floyd Rebellion

Take action in support of the hunger strikers here.

Three western political prisoners are now on hunger strike.

As of 6 September 2025, T, one of the Filton 24, is on Day 27 of her hunger strike in protest of HMP Peterborough’s unfair treatment of her as a “terrorist.” Across the ocean in California, captive from the student intifada Casey Goonan is on Day 11 of a strike in solidarity with T, and yesterday, when he learned about the now-international strike, Palestinian captive from the 2020 George Floyd Rebellion Malik Farrad Muhammad declared he was beginning another strike from the state of Oregon:

“Gaza is a prison. It is a living hell. They are starved. And [we as prisoners in the US] are disappeared and invisibilized. But we will not and should not be silent as our siblings suffer. If the international community won’t act, we should. Prisoners everywhere should not eat as long as Gazans starve. While the international community allows for forced apartheid in the West Bank, as they remain unphased by hundreds of thousands of deaths, unshaken by millions of people displaced, then let them witness prisoners all over the world starve with them.”

T’s supporters said she felt “humbled and deeply grateful” for the international support, including protests for her this week in Belgium, New York City, and Kuala Lumpur outside British embassies and consulates — “solidarity in action, not words,” as Casey said. Casey and Malik are joining Hoxha until her last remaining demand, written confirmation of the reinstatement of her job in the prison library, is met. The building pressure on HMP Peterborough and Sodexo, its private operator, has forced them to meet all T’s other demands.

But on Day 26, despite previous verbal confirmation of the reinstatement of her job, T received a letter from Sodexo, refusing her right to work, claiming the library job is “not appropriate” for her due to Palestine Action being illegitimately proscribed as a “terrorist group” by the Home Secretary. Sodexo is retrospectively applying proscription to punish T for a crime she has not yet been convicted of, and a group she has not been proven to be part of, which, at the time of her arrest, was yet not a proscribed group. T’s supporters note that she has previously worked in the library with no issues, but these new measures have been put in place by the prison’s “Joint Terrorism Extremism Unit” called “JEXU,” described by its founders as a unit creating “prisons within prisons.” Sam Gyimah, the former Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and Probation, who launched the unit, spoke proudly of his collaboration with the zionist entity as a strategic priority, and “Israel’s track record,” especially in “disruptive technologies,” as inspiration.

T’s supporters’ latest medical update indicated “T is very fatigued and, yesterday, reported blurry vision. Speaking is even more difficult than before. Her head is spinning, and her ketone levels had hit a record high. The prison has clearly felt the pressure — only now have they offered her a lift pass to move around and a temporary transfer to a downstairs cell to avoid the stairs. They are doing everything but what they should: transfer her to a hospital now.” The prison neglected to give T proper medical check-ups or electrolytes until Day 18 of her strike, dangerously late, and have yet to hospitalize her despite the growing demands.

As a diabetic, Casey has had to stop taking their insulin every day during the strike, which could be especially risky, but Casey’s support team shared they are “staying positive, and as of yet there haven’t been any serious complications with their health. They want to thank everyone for giving their attention to T Hoxha’s situation and taking action.” The ask is now for supporters to call local UK embassies and pressure them to contact the UK Ministry of Justice, in addition to keeping up calls to HMP Peterborough, and spreading the story as far as possible across the world.

Who is Malik Muhammad? The Long Shadow of the George Floyd Rebellion

Malik, the latest political prisoner joining the strike, is a Black Palestinian Muslim anarchist who participated in armed action against the racist Amerikan police during the 2020 uprising. He pled guilty to 14 felonies and received a 10-year prison sentence in 2022, the harshest federal sentence of any 2020 protestor. He is also a veteran of the US Army and “designated 100 percent disabled as a combat veteran because of extreme PTSD,” according to his lawyer. He mentions this openly on his blog: “I was a tanker in the army — and no, I’m not proud that I was part of the murder machine, so don’t thank me for my service.”

Inside Oregon’s Snake River Correctional Institution, Malik is no stranger to targeted political repression, isolation from other inmates, or hunger strikes. He spent all of 2024 and already eight-and-counting months of 2025 in segregation in a solitary cell without fresh air, recreation or socialization. He was “punished” for reasons like refusing water during his Ramadan fast. Guards violently tased him, shot him with firing darts, and kicked and punched him for speaking out against their racism. In November of 2024, Malik went on hunger strike and successfully won demands to have his property returned to him and to be released into general population. Malik wrote:

“I hoped to highlight the brutality of ODOC’s predatory, horrendous hole problems and practices. I have reached out and I have wrote, I filed grievances, sent letters to the Inspector General…They say the hole is where they put the worst of the worst “criminals”, but what they don’t say is that’s where they put the worst of the worst CO’s too. The ones who can’t work elsewhere because of their lack of respect, professionalism, decorum, and constant antagonizing of inmates.”

Despite this torture, Malik has never stopped politicizing his fellow captives, sharing his writing with the outside world (including on his blog and a forthcoming book of poems), and organizing for improved conditions, while never abandoning the ultimate goal of total revolution. He has also written extensively about Palestinian liberation and its ties to the Black prisoners’ movement in Amerika.

Some excerpts of Malik’s writing from April 2024:

“Mujahadeen, “muslim soldier”, that’s what I am, that’s the cloth I’m cut from…Blockade the ports, don’t ship Israel shit we need to shut shit down like we did for Floyd, because like Floyd, these are our brother and our sisters, our sons and our daughters…”

“I envy your opportunity to do those things, there wouldn’t be a soul on earth that could stop me going. I’d spend my last, I’d risk it all, I have an immense love for my homeland, but a more intense love for freedom from oppression and a great disdain for the oppressors. Do anything and everything that can be done to aid the cause, because it’s worthy, and don’t let anyone stop you.”

Last month, in the tradition of the martyrs George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson, Malik “participated in Black August gatherings where Black prisoners would complete their daily exercise challenge together and share meals,” telling the outside that he and his siblings inside “always say it shouldn’t be Black August for just one month, it should be Black August every day of the year.”

In my last piece on this strike, I discussed the abandonment of political prisoners in Amerika compared to Palestine, particularly the prisoners of this latest phase of the Palestine “solidarity” movement in the West, like Casey Goonan, Elias Rodriguez, Tarek Bazrouk, Jakhi McCray, and Mohamed Sabry Soliman. The political prisoners of the George Floyd Rebellion were similarly abandoned, and the historic militancy of that rebellion neutralized and erased through counterinsurgency, co-opted by NGOs and politicians, not unlike the process of internal counterinsurgency that has been taking place within the Palestine “solidarity” movement. “A militant nationwide uprising did in fact occur. The progressive wing of the counter-insurgency seeks the denial and disarticulation of this event,” to quote Idris Robinson in How It Might Should Be Done, one of the best retrospectives of 2020. Most people in our movements have never heard of Malik and he is still one of the best known of the 2020 prisoners, who can all be found and supported at uprisingsupport.org. Glory to our prisoners and glory to the Resistance.

Take action in support of the hunger strikers here. Follow instagram.com/prisoners4palestine and x.com/Workshops4Gaza for updates.

Stay updated with Casey’s case and their upcoming sentencing at freecaseynow.noblogs.org/.

Write to Malik and send him a book from his wish list:

Malik Muhammad
#23935744
Snake River Correctional Institution
777 Stanton Blvd.
Ontario, OR 97914-8335

Source: Calla Walsh Substack

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Call to Action! Political Prisoners for Palestine on Hunger Strike From Britain to the U.S.

T. Hoxha is a Palestine activist who has been imprisoned for 9 months without trial in connection with the so-called Filton 24 case. This case is part of the targeting of Palestine Action — including its recent proscription in Britain — the activist group accused of participating in an action against the site of leading Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in Filton in April 2024. Palestine Action has been playing a leading role globally in directly confronting the producers of arms fueling the ongoing Zionist-imperialist genocide against the Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza.

She has been on hunger strike at Peterborough Prison since August 11. Her demands are that she be able to return to her job at the library and receive all the mail she has not yet received.

Casey Goonan, political prisoner of the student intifada in the United States, is charged with firebombing a cop car at UC Berkeley in response to the police’s brutal and violent treatment of students, who were protesting to demand an end to university complicity in the ongoing genocide. Upon hearing of T. Hoxha’s hunger strike, Casey Goonan and their cellmate have decided to join her in solidarity declaring:

Today I learned about T Hoxha, a Pal Action prisoner in the UK who is on day 16 of their hunger strike at HMP Peterborough. As of 4pm eastern time, August 26, 2025, 2 out of 3 of her demands have been met, but she is still on strike to demand that the prison release the mail they have been withholding from her.

As captives imprisoned for our participation in the Palestinian liberation movement in the west, we have a responsibility to each other across borders to pursue our lives in prison with the same steadfastness as the Palestinian Prisoners movement held captive in ‘Israeli’ prisons.

The states we have been captured by are the enablers of the Zionist entity’s accelerated genocide of Palestinians, as well as the ongoing genocides of black and indigenous people who’s lands they continue to occupy.

As the Western left continues to move from crisis to crisis, avoiding their responsibilities to Palestine, we are all that we have. By we I am referring to people facing repression for their support for Palestine, the people who are truly sacrificing. Such as T Hoxha, who has suffered through 16 days of starvation just to get her mail.

The Palestine solidarity movement in the west cannot abandon people like her who have risked their lives and continue to do so in resistance to the intolerable condition of genocide.

As of today one of my cellmates and I are on hunger strike at Santa Rita jail until her demands are met.

Solidarity with T Hoxha and all prisoners of the Palestine Solidarity movement!

Raze the walls!
Liberate all prisoners of the settler empire!
Casey Goonan

Hoxha’s and Goonan’s hunger strikes must not go unheard. We must make clear as a movement that our prisoners will not be left behind! They are incarcerated for their participation on the front lines of the Palestinian solidarity and liberation movements, because they heard the Palestinian people’s call to escalate, and responded by attacking the structures that enable the Zionist Entity within the imperial core.

Free T. Hoxha, Casey Goonan, The Filton 24, Anan Yaeesh, Elias Rodriguez, Jakhi McCray, Tarek Bazrouk, Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker of the Holy Land 5;

Free the Black prisoners resisting the U.S Empire from its interior, free Mumia Abu Jamal, Imam Jamil al-Amin, Joseph Bowen, Fred Burton, Veronza Bowers, Kojo Bomani Sababu, Kamau Sadiki, and all of the prisoners of the Black Liberation Movement;

Free the 16 Lebanese and dozens of Syrian prisoners in Zionist jails, abducted and held hostage to impose Zionist-Imperialist control over Lebanon and Syria;

Free the over 10,800 Palestinian Prisoners who are routinely subjected to physical and sexual assault, psychological torture and abuse, sleep deprivation, starvation and denial of access to food and medical care, who continue to lead, inspire and guide Palestinian, Arab and international Resistance.

FREE THEM ALL!

CALLS TO ACTION TO SUPPORT T. HOXHA

• Email the Prison Governor: ralph.lubkowski@sodexogov.co.uk
• Call HMP Peterborough at +44173217500

Toolkit for T. Hoxha and Casey Goonan

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yxIYqU-ql7mJ-veozApe-aS2fqZtPcnWgycgNeM1U3o/edit?tab=t.0

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Pro-Palestine Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike from the US to the UK

Political prisoner T. Hoxha is dying.

She is on her 18th day of hunger strike in HMP Peterborough in protest of the prison’s politically-targeted abuses. One of the Filton 24 detained indefinitely under the UK’s “Terrorism Act” while awaiting trial next spring, Hoxha is alleged to have participated in the heroic dismantling of an Elbit Systems weapons factory, causing €1 million in damages.

Over two weeks into her strike, Hoxha’s loved ones report that her physical and mental health is deteriorating fast, her hair is falling out, her jaw is in pain, and her brain fog is worsening, while the prison neglects her medical care. Supporters on the outside are organizing a call-in campaign to demand the prison administration give her electrolyte sachets and meet her demands: the reinstatement of her job in the prison library and the delivery of her mail that the prison administration is withholding from her. On 27 August, she developed a fever, experienced a persistent headache, vomited after taking vitamins, and noticed skin discoloration, and a nurse practitioner announced Hoxha is in the “danger zone.” As of 28 August, supporters are calling for her to urgently be admitted to a hospital.

Now more lives are on the line. When Casey Goonan, the only political prisoner in the US from the 2024 student intifada, heard about Hoxha’s hunger strike on 26 August, they and their cellmate at Santa Rita jail immediately declared a hunger strike in solidarity with Hoxha until her demands are met, internationalizing the strike. Refusing to intake food is especially risky for Casey as a diabetic, but they have organized successful collective hunger strikes in the past.

Similarly to the Pal Action UK prisoners, Casey has been repeatedly targeted for the political nature of their alleged crime, and deliberately isolated from other inmates, a classic tactic used by the state against political prisoners to prevent prisoner organizing. Just this summer, they were retaliated against for filing a grievance against a threatening deputy, and had their phone calls, visitations, and commissary revoked for over a month. Several times, the state has pushed back Casey’s sentencing hearing, supposed to be in April but now set for 23 September 2025. They are facing up to 20 years in federal prison with “terrorism enhancement” for allegedly burning police vehicles at the University of California, Berkeley. Also similar to the weaponization of counter-terrorism lawfare in the UK cases, this “terrorism enhancement” addition to Casey’s charges gives the federal government far more room for abuse and draconian overreach in their sentencing and treatment of Casey.

To announce the strike’s expansion, Casey published the following statement:

Today I learned about T Hoxha, a Pal Action prisoner in the UK who is on Day 16 of her hunger strike at HMP Peterborough. As of 4pm EST on August 26, 2025, 2 out of 3 of her demands have been met, and she is still on strike to demand that the prison release the mail they have been withholding from her.

As captives imprisoned for our participation in the Palestinian liberation movement in the west, we have a responsibly to each other across borders to pursue our lives in prison with the same steadfastness as the Palestinian prisoner movement held captive in Israeli prisons.

The states that we have been captured by are the enablers of the Zionist entity’s accelerated genocide and the extermination of Palestinians in Gaza, as well as the ongoing genocides of Black and Indigenous people whose lands they continue to occupy.

As the western left continues to move from crisis to crisis and avoid their responsibilities to Palestine, we are all that we have. By we I am referring to people facing repression for their support of Palestine, who are sacrificing, truly sacrificing. People such as T Hoxha, who has suffered through 16 days of starvation just to get her mail.

The Palestine solidarity movement in the west cannot abandon people like her who have risked their lives and continue to do so in resistance to this intolerable condition of genocide.

Solidarity is actions, not words. As of today, my cellmate and I are on hunger strike at Santa Rita jail until her demands are met. Solidarity with T. Hoxha and all prisoners of the Palestine solidarity movement!

RAZE THE WALLS! LIBERATE ALL PRISONERS OF SETTLER EMPIRE!

As Hoxha and Casey’s bodies shrink and weaken and start eating themselves alive, it begs the question, why do we not hear their names chanted in the streets at pro-Palestine protests, their faces raised on signs and murals, their demands echoed in conferences and pamphlets? Where are the cash-rich NGOs that could be using their huge platforms to speak out for Casey and the Filton 24, if not donating to their legal funds, at least acknowledging their existence? What about Elias Rodriguez, Jakhi McCray, Tarek Bazrouk, the countless other political prisoners in the so-called United States? There are too many to name. How dare anyone here express defeatism from their warm homes or complain about how none of us will sacrifice, while doing nothing to escalate, and ignoring the people who have made sacrifices and are now stuck in cold cells? How many people will get to the end of this article but fail to make a call for the hunger strikers?

Hoxha, the Filton 24, Casey, Elias, Jakhi, and longterm political prisoners like Mumia and Imam Jamil al-Amin do not get the kind of support they deserve from the movement, especially not from NGOs who identify themselves as the movement’s leadership, because they are not “perfect victims.” They are not accused of being peaceful, they are accused of resisting, and for that, they are unapologetic.

As one of Casey’s comrades wrote in the piece On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine Movement, “Despite vague assertions of the interconnectedness of repression and struggles between the American policing and prison apparatuses to that of Israel, there has been little material manifestation from that understanding within the US pro-Palestine movement. Meanwhile, coordinated struggle between prisoners and outside militants has been a key point of success for Palestinian liberation.” They point to the petit bourgeois class character and NGOization of the “movement” in the US, and its reformist attitude toward US imperialism and settler colonialism, as likely explanations for its isolation of militants and failure to escalate in general. As D. Musa Springer put it in Mondoweiss, this tendency is opportunistic and suicidal — “to not see ourselves reflected in the faces of our political prisoners and organize accordingly…We have allowed our political prisoners to become ghosts, within a movement claiming to want radical exorcism of oppressive systems.”

“Our prisoners are our compass” is not an empty slogan in Palestine, it is the material reality of struggle. When Lebanese revolutionary communist Georges Abdallah was released in July after decades in French prison, he explained this axiom in the clearest terms: “The one who resists is the one who has the final say and determines what should and should not be done. The ultimate decision-maker is the one who sacrifices himself to the resistance. All spectators have no right to discuss any topic.” Prisoners of the Palestinian revolution are not forgotten, or only paid lip service, they are bled for. We cannot forget, after all, that the Al-Aqsa Flood was itself a prison break and it birthed the Toufan al-Ahrar, the Flood of the Free. But until the honoring of political prisoners is actually put into practice here in the west, it will be just that, just a slogan, and an increasingly hollow one at that.

There is not much more to say here that is not already referenced above about this tendency to abandon militants facing repression, but the stakes feel imminently higher when it is not just life in prison on the line, but physical life itself. I remember when I was in jail last year for taking direct action with Pal Action US, for a relatively very short bid (40 days), and at the time, Casey was the only other political prisoner from this iteration of the Palestine movement, as well as the Pal Action UK prisoners. I felt like we were all breathing together, our spirits soaring across metal bars, concrete, mountains, and seas, never alone. We wrote happy birthday messages from our jail tablets to be passed on to prisoners in the UK. We asked our supporters to stop writing letters to us and instead to write to people inside for much longer, like Casey. It is like Casey said — “we are all that we have. By we I am referring to people facing repression for their support of Palestine, who are sacrificing, truly sacrificing.” Since I was released I fear sometimes that I have slipped back into my comforts or my numbness, that I have lost touch with the raw clarity and urgency (not despair) that I felt while inside, that we should all feel, all the time, everywhere. But Casey’s words jolt me right back into that clarity. They remind us that Casey and Hoxha are actually freer than us all, because they are resisting.

To save Hoxha and Casey’s lives, call and email HMP Petersborough to demand they meet all of Hoxha’s demands. For the latest updates, instructions, and set of demands, go to instagram.com/prisoners4palestine and x.com/Workshops4Gaza.

By Calla Mairead Walsh

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21139

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US Political Prisoner Casey Goonan on Hunger Strike in Solidarity With Pal Action Prisoner T. Hoxha

Today I learned about T Hoxha, a Pal Action prisoner in the UK who is on day 16 of their hunger strike at HMP Peterborough. As of 4pm eastern time, August 26, 2025, 2 out of 3 of her demands have been met, but she is still on strike to demand that the prison release the mail they have been withholding from her.

As captives imprisoned for our participation in the Palestinian liberation movement in the west, we have a responsibility to each other across borders to pursue our lives in prison with the same steadfastness as the Palestinian Prisoners movement held captive in ‘Israeli’ prisons.

The states we have been captured by are the enablers of the Zionist entity’s accelerated genocide of Palestinians, as well as the ongoing genocides of black and indigenous people who’s lands they continue to occupy.

As the Western left continues to move from crisis to crisis, avoiding their responsibilities to Palestine, we are all that we have. By we I am referring to people facing repression for their support for Palestine, the people who are truly sacrificing. Such as T Hoxha, who has suffered through 16 days of starvation just to get her mail.

The Palestine solidarity movement in the west cannot abandon people like her who have risked
their lives and continue to do so in resistance to the intolerable condition of genocide.

As of today one of my cellmates and I are on hunger strike at Santa Rita jail until her demands are met.

Solidarity with T Hoxha and all prisoners of the Palestine Solidarity movement!

Raze the walls!
Liberate all prisoners of the settler empire!
Casey Goonan

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21116

#CaseyGoonan #hungerStrike #palestine #palestineAction #politicalPrisoner #Solidarity #tHoxha

Casey Goonan Support Committee Update

Casey’s sentencing hearing has once again been postponed until July 22nd at 1pm at the Oakland Federal Court house. We will be mobilizing court support again for this hearing so stay tuned for confirmation and guidelines a few weeks before that date.

Support letters
There is now even more time to people who know Casey personally to send the lawyers letters of character to file with the judge. If you want the guidelines and details, hit us up at cscommittee@proton.me.

More evidence entered into discovery
As a reminder: the US Attorney has entered substantial new material into the discovery that can be used against the Casey at sentencing. This new evidence includes large amount of recordings of phone call audio and copies of correspondence between Casey and supporters obtained via the jail’s monitoring of communications. This is concerning, but let it serve as a reminder that all comms into jails and prisons are actively monitored and that it is incumbent upon everyone to maintain responsible communication habits.

Letters 
Letters are always appreciated but note that correspondence is also challenging due to 2-4 week delays in receiving mail.

To write:
Casey Goonan #UMF227 Santa Rita Jail 5325 Broder Blvd. Dublin, CA 94568

Visits Visits are very appreciated by Casey! They can be in person at the jail or by video. For all the details for scheduling in person or video visits:   https://www.alamedasheriff.gov/community/santa-rita-jail-visiting

Support the Casey Goonan Legal Defense Fund
Casey is still in need of ongoing support to cover legal costs, restitution and fines. Though they’ve had some great support, we have a ways to go. In addition to the cost of legal defense, sentencing will definitely mandate substantial restitution and fines. Thank you so much to all those who have already contributed and organized support! Link below.

Some ways to support: – Throw fundraising events and raffles
– Spread the word, share posts, and directly contact large donors.
– Print up a QR code for the Chuffed account, share the details of the case and the legal defense fund while tabling at events
– Send funds directly to the Chuffed account at https://chuffed.org/project/SupportCasey

You can reach out to us at cscommittee@proton.me or the freecaseynow Instagram for any questions about collaboration, promotion, or guidance on fundraising.

Love and struggle,
CSC

source: Anarchist Black Cross

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=19564

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Update on Casey Goonan’s Case

Update from the Casey Support Committee as of 4/8/25

Sentencing hearing postponed and more evidence entered into discovery

Casey’s sentencing has been rescheduled to June 10th, 1 pm, at the Oakland federal courthouse. We will be mobilizing court support again for this hearing so stay tuned for confirmation and guidelines a few weeks before that date. We hope it won’t be rescheduled yet again but know that is a possibility. Also of note is that since the plea deal the US Attorney has entered substantial new material into evidence consisting of a large amount of phone call audio and copies of correspondence between Casey and supporters obtained via the jail’s monitoring of communications. This is concerning, but let it serve as a reminder that all comms into jails and prisons are actively monitored and that it is incumbent upon everyone to maintain responsible communication habits.

Rescheduling the sentencing hearing also means there is more time to people who know Casey personally to send the lawyers letters of character to file with the judge. If you want the guidelines and details, hit us up at cscommittee@proton.me.

Health and well being

As you probably know Casey has had a very difficult year health wise, but has been doing better physically in the last month even though they have repeatedly gotten sick from their food. As a result they have been spending a lot of time in bed, and haven’t been up for doing much letter writing lately. Letters are always appreciated but correspondence is also challenging due to 2-4 week delays in receiving mail. The emotional toll of the sentencing date being moved and continuing to be in the limbo of Santa Rita is taking a toll on their sleep and mental health. But they are doing their best to stay on top of their program and keep their energy and spirits up.

Visits

Visits are very appreciated by Casey! They can be in person at the jail or by video.
For all the details for scheduling in person or video visits:
https://www.alamedasheriff.gov/…/santa-rita-jail-visiting

To write:
Casey Goonan #UMF227
Santa Rita Jail
5325 Broder Blvd.
Dublin, CA 94568

Support the Casey Goonan Legal Defense Fund

Casey is still in need of ongoing support to cover legal costs, restitution and fines. Though they’ve had some great support, we have a ways to go. In addition to the cost of legal defense, sentencing will definitely mandate substantial restitution and fines. Thank you so much to all those who have already contributed and organized support!

Some ways to support:
– Throw fundraising events and raffles
– Spread the word, share posts, and directly contact large donors.
– Print up a QR code for the Chuffed account, share the details of the case and the legal defense fund while tabling at events
– Send funds directly to the Chuffed account at https://chuffed.org/project/SupportCasey

You can reach out to us at cscommittee@proton.me or the freecaseynow Instagram for any questions about collaboration, promotion, or guidance on fundraising.

Love and struggle,

CSC

Update on Casey Goonan’s case

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18229

#california #CaseyGoonan #northAmerica #oakland #PoliticalPrisoners #UMF227

Irish Comrades Gather for Political Prisoner Casey Goonan and Gaza

Comrades in Ireland have been holding marches for Palestine on Saturdays since the genocide began, everywhere from Dublin to small villages. In Connemara, western Ireland, we gathered on the Saturday of Bríd or St Brigit’s day.

Bríd is a protector of things that begin in darkness: like spring, and like justice. We read two letters out loud: A letter sent to us from an Irish aid worker currently in Gaza, where families are trying to uncover daughters and sons from beneath rubble.

And a letter from Casey Goonan, describing dehumanizing conditions in the Santa Rita jail in the US. Bríd reminds us what it means to bear witness from the darkness, and, like Palestinian prisoners, our obligation to dig tunnels through stone, to freedom. By the water of Pollacappul lake, under Binn Bhán and Mweelrea mountains, we say: Saoirse don Phalaistín!

Free Casey, and all the prisoners!

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=16901

#alAqsaFlood #california #CaseyGoonan #europe #gaza #ireland #northAmerica #palestine #politicalPrisoner #Solidarity

#FreeCaseyNow: On Casey Goonan and the Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine Movement

Casey Goonan is the only US political prisoner from the 2024 pro-Palestine student encampments. They are an abolitionist and anarchist who has dedicated themselves to multiple forms of prisoner support work and directly engaging with incarcerated comrades. The impact they’ve made inside is prevalent, as indicated by statements from their comrades Stevie Wilson and Hybachi Lemar. They’ve always pushed to ensure an understanding of Black struggle and revolt as central to their abolitionist work, and through understanding the totality of anti-Blackness the importance of an anti-police and anti-prison perspective was brought into any and all of their efforts towards liberation.

In June of 2024, they were arrested by a task force comprised of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in connection with an alleged direct action which took place in solidarity with the UC Berkeley encampments which had been brutalized by police and zionists earlier in the year* . If convicted, they could face up to 20 years in prison with a minimum sentence of 5. The investigation and court proceedings are currently ongoing but a non cooperative plea deal is pending in which Casey will plea guilty to one charge to allow additional charges to be dropped. This plea deal does not include information or testimony against anyone else.

While Casey has received a great amount of support from decentralized community in New York, Chicago, California, and elsewhere, the pro-Palestine movement needs to be publicly and actively supporting them. Right now, their primary accomplices are those who personally know them, those who prioritize prisoner support, and fellow anarchists. Despite vague assertions of the interconnectedness of repression and struggles between the American policing and prison apparatuses to that of Israel, there has been little material manifestation from that understanding within the US pro-Palestine movement. Meanwhile, coordinated struggle between prisoners and outside militants has been a key point of success for Palestinian liberation.

We must recognize the necessity of attacking the infrastructure of occupation domestically. Amidst calls for escalation, it is of vital importance to defend those experiencing repression from the legal system. To not do so is to allow one of the state’s most well-funded and structured counterinsurgency tactics to take complete hold of movements. If people are abandoned to incarceration, the fear of repression will throw everyone towards inactivity. This need for defense is especially true for those facing charges beyond the more palatable ways of dissent, like marches and encampments.

State repression must be met with expanding our community resources to reach those inside. Bravery must be met with support.

It’s not surprising that, despite the large presence of the Palestinian diaspora in the American pro-Palestine movement, tactics focus primarily on vocalizing dissent through marches and making demands of the state, which are a far cry from the struggle within Palestine itself. This is partially attributed to the class character of the diaspora — a petty bourgeois group would have no investment in attacking infrastructure they partially benefit from even if that same infrastructure perpetuates the genocide of indigenous groups including Black people and Palestinians both domestically and globally. Equally, the motivations and interests of the community organizations and student groups that are largely in control of the movement not only harbor that class character but also rely on funding from the infrastructure they refuse to attack. Despite the student movement being referred to as an intifada, it’s activity is incomparable to what has occurred during the numerous intifadas leading up to the Al-Aqsa Flood.

Considering pro-Palestinian community groups and political organizations like USPCN, CJP/SJP, Dissenters, NAARPR, JVP and PSL are supplied with enough funds to bus people in for marches, plan conferences, and campaign for local policy, certainly donating money towards legal fees for those facing repression would be no issue.

Even with all the attention and credibility being given to the pro-Palestinian student movement and despite the numerous pro-Palestine student groups on university campuses, there have been no publicly circulated student-led support efforts for Casey. Outside of participants of the Columbia University encampment, there has been no mention of them from any other university space, most likely attributed to groups aligning themselves with certain tactics, a hesitancy towards anarchists, and the fear of repression.

Beyond the bare minimum of ensuring people are supported in obtaining adequate legal counsel, any revolutionary horizons with teeth require long term prisoner support. This practice is key to the current struggle that led to the Al-Aqsa Flood as exhibited by the rich history of organizing within prisons and the ongoing liberation of those being held hostage by Israel. In Khalida Jarrar’s words, “[t]he ongoing conquest to liberate prisoners is in tandem with the Palestinians’ constant and multifaceted struggle against colonialism. Hence, the slogan “emptying the prisons” is derived from and a core component in the Palestinian struggle through various stages in its history.”.

Those of us living under a plantation economy already have our own reasons to ensure incarceration is a central site of struggle. But if one does insist upon taking guidance from elsewhere and if one intends to “bring the Intifada home” or “escalate for Gaza”, Palestinians have provided plenty of methods for how carcerality can be attacked.

Casey understood this prior to their incarceration and there’s no doubt this knowledge influenced their own political horizons. If the pro-Palestine movement wants to also tote itself as an intifada they should take note of the militant organizing and support infrastructure within and between prison walls that occurs in Palestine. Abandonment of prisoners is where revolutionary ideals die.

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Ways to Support Casey
– Organize a fundraiser for legal fees, commissary, or a nutritional package

– Host a letter writing night

– Form a defense committee

– Make + put up some propaganda

– Write to Casey

Readings Recs
A Practical Guide to Prisoner Support

Practical Abolition From The Inside Out

More Effective Prisoner Support

The Soledad Brothers Defense Committee: A Brief Consideration

San Quentin Six Defense Committee

A Spirit, Unbroken (Discusses the Martin Sostre Defense Committee)

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Update from the Casey Goonan Support Committee- 12/9/24

Thanks again to all of you in Casey’s extended support network! On every phone call we have with Casey they send their love to all! We have a few updates for you.

Big legal news
On Tuesday, Dec. 3, Casey’s lawyers and the prosecuting US Attorney filed a joint status report stating that they had reached a plea deal agreement. Casey will plead guilty on the one charge of “damaging property used in or affecting interstate commerce by fire” (18 U.S.C. § 844(f)) and the other two charges will be dropped.

Some important points concerning this agreement and plea deals in general:

• This is preliminary. Discussions are still in progress between defense and prosecution regarding the details. Correspondingly, after the joint filing, last week’s court date to hear status reports was rescheduled to Jan. 14 when we imagine we will be provided more information.
• This is a “non-cooperation” plea deal. No information or testimony is being offered against anyone else.
• Once the plea deal is finalized, it will still need to be accepted by the judge.
• No information is available yet on possible sentencing. By statute the minimum sentence is 5 years and the maximum is 20.

We of course will forward shareable details from the legal defense team as they become available.

Health is a struggle inside
Casey maintaining their blood sugars and well-being inside continues to be a struggle and that has recently entailed stretches in the jail infirmary unit. Jail food and conditions are horrible across the board for everyone, but to be a diabetic trying to maintain one’s body and mind inside is especially hard. The special diabetic supplemental food packages from vendors are now flowing regularly and helping a lot! Thanks to all who contributed to the fund.

To donate to the food support fund and keep the packages flowing: Venmo @juliepetersonG

Writing Casey letters matters so much!
The mailroom at Santa Rita Jail seems to work in spurts though, no mail for a week then a big ol’ batch comes through to Casey. So in addition to the ups and downs of jail life, the mail service being wildly uneven contributes to the time lag of you getting a response from C. But Casey values every piece! News from the outside is still very important to them – imagine being locked up with only the mainstream tv news being your lifeline. WTF.

Remember if you send zines and newsletters, no staples!

Casey Goonan #UMF227
Santa Rita Jail
5325 Broder Blvd.
Dublin, CA 94568

Keep those support events poppin! 
Fundraisers, letter writing events and shout outs across the country keep rolling! Much love to all those making them happen. Hit up our insta or email box if you want collaboration or promotion. (Or even guidance on how to organize a support event if you haven’t done it before.)

We got a lot of funds to raise to cover the costs of legal defense
A concerted fundraising push is in the works and we will be contacting people directly with asks on spreading the pitch and soliciting donors. To contribute right now, hit us on Chuffed. https://chuffed.org/project/SupportCasey 

Love and Struggle,
CSC

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