Political Prisoner Casey Goonan Transferred

Update 2/15/26

Finally! As you may have seen elsewhere, Casey is finally out of the holdover unit at FCI Mendota and is in the transfer pipeline to their designated facility.

At 4 am on Tuesday, 2/11, Casey was woken up, told to pack it up, and then put on the bus before the sun rose. They were transported from Mendota to the SF Federal Bldg and then to the county jail in downtown SF. Casey reported that coming over the hills that morning into the Bay as the sun rose, they felt blessed. Casey, sitting in a van still cuffed up, was able to see the horizon, able to see the sun’s light grow and spread over the city and the Bay.
While at the SF jail, Casey was able to walk around the unit freely, talk to others, and enjoy phone access with their friends and loved ones in a way not possible for months in that shithole holdover unit. Casey and a member of our committee were able to have a loving, hour long conversation that didn’t feel like a rushed whisper through a keyhole. ❤️

Casey didn’t spend long in SF before they were put on a plane. On Friday, Casey showed up on the BOP inmate locator at FCI Allenwood – Medium, one facility of three in a prison complex located in northern Pennsylvania.

A few notes about Casey’s current placement:

• This may be an intermediate placement. We have not confirmed with Casey that this is their permanent designated facility and this may well be a temporary location. All prison systems are opaque and move people around at will according to their own fickle bureaucratic criteria. When we confirm this is to be Casey’s designated facility, we will let you know.
• It’s always good to write! Address for the facility is below. But know that in addition to this possibly being a short-lived placement, sometimes Casey’s mail has been held by the mailroom for weeks or months. We have also found that multiple pieces of mail have been blocked or “lost” as well. So independent of Casey being at Allenwood permanently or temporarily, know that comms through the mail are goofy as well as slow and fully surveilled.
• Conditions have changed already. According to Casey, this current spot is more capable of meeting their needs as a diabetic. They are let out of their cell from 8 am to 5 pm, have phone access, and at the time of the last call with fam, Casey was on their way to check out the library (!! of course. If you know Casey…🙂)
• At some point, Casey’s counselor told them that they had been given a “Low” security classification. This has not been formally confirmed. So again, we will let you know when we know more. And yes, a Low can be sent to a Medium level facility – Welcome to the byzantine nature of prison regulations and practices.
• All property is surrendered on transfer out of a holdover unit so Casey has to start over in terms of personal property and nutritional supplements from commissary to deal with their diabetes. To send funds to keep Casey’s commissary account topped up, you can Venmo Casey’s fam – @JuliePetersonG

More on the toll of “holdover life”

Casey spent over 4 months in holdover at Mendota. Holdover – the limbo unit for people being received, moved, etc. – is worse than solitary in many respects. You have no property, no programs, limited access to anything but your tiny cell, and no definite date for getting out. Casey had only minimal access to medical care for their diabetes: insulin only dispensed once per day, insufficient blood sugar checks, mediocre diet, and maximum stress and uncertainty. The poor care had started to permanently damage Casey’s eyesight. If they were to continue much longer in holdover, Casey was anticipating needing a new prescription in order to read or see adequately.

Also, every other person that passed through holdover at Mendota only spent a few weeks there. A month in and Casey became in effect the “OG” of the unit, the prisoner housed there the longest, orienting others to the layout and program of the place. Yet again, to those who been locked up or who have years doing prisoner support, the question at some point becomes “Is this bullshit targeted or is it just random, just industrialized abandonment and they don’t give a shit about anybody?”

Well, Casey is a political prisoner. And while everybody inside gets a number and everybody gets put in the uniform, there is nonetheless a wild card or two in the deck for politicals. Consequences can be heavier. And that’s another thing for people on the outside to remember and take to heart regarding risks, expectations, and communications with our loved ones inside.

Legal update

Casey has been working on a habeas petition with another legal team in order to appeal their conviction and sentencing. The deadline for this filing will be 12 months from their sentencing (Sept. 23, 2026)  so we will report more on this in the coming months as it develops.

Free Palestine,
Fire to the Prisons

In solidarity,
CSC

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Current mailing address for Casey:

Casey Goonan #24611-511
FCI Allenwood Medium
FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION
P.O. BOX 2000
WHITE DEER, PA   17887

Update 2/15/26

Holdover Life at Mendota 12/5/25 by Casey Goonan

The following ideas an opinions reflect the general consensus of the majority prisoners held in the FCI Mendota B2 Building. This is a continuation of my small zine, titled “Holdover Life at Mendota.”

Life in the FCI Mendota “holdover unit” is difficult and often challenging. Even though we are only allowed out of our cell 5 1/2 hours per week — no more than one hour on weekends, no more than 15 minutes (for a phone call) on weekend days — every day brings a new obstacle, a new drama, a new and supremely unnecessary interaction with a petty correctional officer. I honestly can complain for days on end.

There are very few items to choose from on the commissary, with a $50 spending limit. We only order commissary once every two weeks. We run out of food items before the second week most of the time.

Although the kitchen serves us three meals a day and many days do a great job providing quality food, the portions are small and the trays almost always arrive cold. The last part is always due to the CO’s not passing out the food in a timely manner.

We barely have any items or options available to program with and keep busy. I average reading ten hours a day — terrible selection of books. I feel brain rot.

It’s difficult to workout in the small cells, and our so-called “recreation time” is usually 6am or 7am. so, if you decide to workout any time later, you will not be able to shower until the next day. Oh i should probably mention that you only have that single hour in the morning to shower between Mondays and Fridays; we are not permitted shower on the weekends.

Meanwhile, most of the C.O.’s sit around in their office half of the day and barely have to do anything. This is a convenient (although i imagine boring) unit for them to work. Most of them hate it here, and many times daily they project that disdain onto us inmates.

My least favorite aspect of this experience is how we do not get *any* outdoor time. None. Zilch.

Did i mention we receive terrible medical care and treatment for inmates with chronic or emergent health needs? With one phone call a day we are deeply isolated from the outside world. To add to the stressors, the mailroom absolutely sucks!

In the b2 Unit we are essentially treated as if we are in the SHU (“solitary confinement,” aka “the hole” or more properly the “security housing unit”). Yet none of us are facing disciplinary infractions; many of us haven’t even been designated. Some of us have been stuck here for over three months!

Here at FCI Mendota, the administration are *de facto* punishing us inmates in the holdover unit. The policies and living conditions are cruel and unusual. Its freezing cold. We suffer extremely unnecessary immobilization and deprivation of bodily autonomy. As a result, we also suffer long periods of time where we’re held incommunicado from our loved ones on the outside.

Shit, I’ve heard the SHU inmates have certain perks that we are withheld in the holdover unit. For example, the SHU inmates may not be given television nor a phone call home. However they do get a daily hour of *outdoor* time. We in the holdover unit only leave our cells for an hour each weekday morning, with *zero* outdoor time. Those days, our alleged “rec time” only allows for one 15 minutes phone call, because the phone system blocks you from making a follow-up call for a half hour duration. The remainder of the time we use to shower and gather ourselves for the next 23 hours of captivity.

When in cell, most of us have inadequate views of the television, and even when your cell has a better TV shot, we are not provided headphones nor allowed to purchase radios to hear what’s on the silent, muted televisions. Instead, we struggle to read tiny subtitles that move so quick it’s comical. From the cell i’m currently held in, my cellmate and i do not have a view of a TV at all.

In some ways we have it worse than SHU inmates, who at least breathe fresh air daily and have showers *inside* of the *cells.* Some even say they have a better commissary list in the SHU, although i can’t vouch 100% for that claim.

To be a “holdover” inmate, means you are inthe process of becoming designated (or in fact are already designated) by the BOP to be sent to a different, more long-term facility. Most of us, if not all at some point or another, were either just sentenced or brought here on a violation and awaiting release or transfer. Some inmates in this unit are “pretrial” and those inmates receive two hours of “rec time” every day. Even on weekends. I’m not exactly sure why we do not receive the same treatment as the “pretrial” inmates of the unit.

When you arrive as a new holdover inmate, the first thing the compound officers tell us is how we should expect 2 hours of recreation time outside of our cells. Federal law (look it up, i’m not lying) also mandates that inmates without any disciplinary infractions or write-ups must be given *at least* ten hours out of their cells a week. The reality is we spend 163 hours a week locked in cells. The excuse we are most often told, upon filing informal requests and grieving to staff is: “most of you will only be here for two to three weeks, then on a bus… you just gotta deal with it.” I’ve been told that same response from C.O.’s from councilors, and even from certain medical staff. The crude fact is that some of us have been here for three months! I am included in that category of “long-term holdover.”

We are being punished simply because we exist as “undesignated” or newly designated BOP inmates. No other reason.

At the current moment, there is no convincing reason why we are held in cells this long, besides the fact that it is easier this way for the staff. During the time of this writing, there are only 14 inmates in this entire 64 cell building. We are split up into four “rec” groups: Group A, Group B, and two pretrial groups. None of this has to be this way. There are only *four* small groups of people; the largest of which has only six members. It’s absurd. Most of the day there are no inmates on the rec floor at all.

More via https://www.instagram.com/freecaseynow/

Source: https://www.abcf.net/blog/holdover-life-at-mendota-12-5-25-by-casey-goonan/

Oct 7 Call to Action Committee Statement on Principled Prisoner Support

On October 7th we called for a week of solidarity with US-held political prisoners Casey Goonan and Elias Rodriguez who are in state captivity due to their support for the Palestinian Revolution. The call was published on various sites and social media pages, but it was anonymous, autonomous, and was not put out by Workshops4Gaza or any other public formations. We chose the date of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation because, like the fall of Batista’s Havana, or the fleeing of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, the uprising represented a new historical juncture that changed the global trajectory of anti-colonial and socialist struggle internationally. In fact, there are very few moments with such significance in history, therefore, the insurgent memory of the action must be defended and unequivocally supported. Our frame of reference, in regards to revolution in settler colonial Amerikkka, must be rooted in solidarity and complicity with the most advanced, and most principled, sectors of the internationalist struggle.

We did not expect to face opposition and sabotage from within the movement about expanding solidarity efforts for political prisoners. The desire to depoliticize political prisoners while minimizing the political context of their detention is not a path for revolutionary struggle, but an attempt to slow walk the movement into its death throes. Furthermore, attributing this call to action to people and organizations who weren’t involved – like the public and private whisper campaign condemning Workshops4Gaza – is malicious and duplicitous; particularly with the associated fedjacketing and doxxing crusade launched by people who should clearly know better.

These problems are part and parcel of a larger schism that will be resolved through internal movement struggle and external revolutionary conflict with the colonial state. The power brokers in the movement have long pushed an imperialist social democratic agenda couched in revolutionary language, but in actuality, their posture is mere defeatism and an ineffectual form of politics that cannot rise to the historical moment. This is why the support for Palestine has been either non-existent, tepid, or contradictory from this milieu. It also explains why, even after the George Floyd uprising and the rise of the Palestinian Revolution, the movement has remained among the whitest arenas in US politics.

The Palestinian Resistance and their regional comrades confrontation with the US and zionist war machines are the tip of the revolutionary spear and our actions, our deeds and our words should distinctly strengthen their posture and resolve. The student uprising was an attempt at establishing a support front in the imperial core that never quite coalesced into the political force that was requisite to address the genocidal nature of the US/zionist project. But even with the inadequacy of the movement there were notable moments and individuals. Casey and Elias are two of those people. The state has criminalized them, condemning Casey to a remarkably draconian sentence, and threatening Elias with execution. This counter-revolutionary repression is part of a larger strategic push by the state and must not be viewed in isolation. The capitalist class is in acute crisis and the US world-system is in an astonishing, barbaric death spiral. Severe imperialist miscalculations from the NATO war against Russia and the trade war have profoundly upended the system and the Palestinian Revolution accelerated the rapid decline.

It is in this context that the state’s repression has become a significant tool for the self-preservation of the colonial and imperialist project. The proscription of antifascism, the manic drive to deport migrants, the increase in policing, and the draconian sentencing passed down to our comrades all must be recognized in light of the crisis, and like the Palestinian Revolution, the Black Liberation Army, and other revolutionary formations, we have an obligation to support our comrades behind enemy lines, to politicize their cases appropriately, and to expand the field of struggle. Our prisoners are the compass of our movement, and we heed their calls for escalation in the fight to free them all. The nature of the empire’s surveillance regime necessitates that these calls often be made autonomously, without direct or explicit coordination with our prisoners.

Revolutionary organizations must begin to sincerely assess the situation, organize around and through these contradictions, unrepentantly support anti-colonial movements and we must, principally, struggle against imperialist social democracy. If these prisoner support organizations cannot work through these problems then they may need to be discarded. The ongoing conflict between reformist and revolutionary struggle will continue to persist in all political arenas, and in prisoner support specifically, the reformist wing must be defeated.

The Oct 7th Call to Action Committee

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=22564

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Free Casey and Elias Images for Week of Solidarity

In response to the week of action for political prisoners, Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan, we were sent images that comrades can use for their activities. Casey and Elias are two US-held prisoners who are in captivity due to their support for the Palestianian Revolution.

Download and please share around:

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Campaña en solidaridad con Elías y Casey

Hice este tríptico difundiendo el llamado de solidaridad con los presos politicos Elias Rodriguez y Casey Goonan. Lo realicé en Inkscape, las fuentes que usé fueron Molot y Trueno.

Estoy muy conmovido por las acciones de ambos camaradas. En un mundo de hipocresía y acciones a medias, ellos se atrevieron, sabiendo el precio que podían pagar. Lo que me deja no solo admiración, sino principalmente la urgencia de también hacer más.

Aquí las imágenes en Español:

Estoy trabajando en más diseños a partir de las imágenes que ya trabajé aquí.

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Support Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan: Call to Action – Oct 25th – Nov 1st

In commemoration of October 7th, the revolutionary Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, we are calling for a week of action for  pro-Palestinian political prisoners Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan.

The Palestinian Revolution, with dignity and pride, changed the course of history two years ago, and on this anniversary we must also stand up for those who took action. Former political prisoner Georges Abdallah said, “it is the duty of every revolutionary to respond with the means at their disposal” in his salute to Elias, noting that it is a duty for revolutionaries in the west to rise in response to genocide and in solidarity with the Resistance. Elias is accused of being such a figure and Casey has been convicted of fulfilling this duty.

Elias is accused of assassinating two zionist pigs in DC in solidarity with anti-colonial Resistance forces in West Asia fighting for a free Palestine. He is currently pre-trial and potentially facing the death penalty.

Casey Goonan is a political prisoner who has been convicted of torching a UC Berkeley pig vehicle in support of the pro-Palestine student movement and in support of the Palestinian Revolution. They were accused of a series of arsons in what was termed Operation Campus Flood. They were recently sentenced to almost 20 years in prison.

From October 25 through November 1st take action in support of our comrades. Direct actions, letter writing, wheat pasting, banner drops, or whatever you may have in your toolkit. Stand up for our comrades in the imperialist dungeons.

Email us any photos or reports of your actions and we will publish them in a later round up.

Email: [email protected]

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In Defense of One of Our Own

It’s almost quaint to declare permanent conflict with this society, with a world that sows domination in every corner. As long as it exists, conflict is guaranteed. And this world cannot exist without it’s strongest weapon: prison. The specter of punishment, the instrument of captivity, the ceaseless reformation of slavery. Until that realm is destroyed, freedom is meaningless. In our chosen struggles as anarchists, one of our tasks is to give real depth and content to our antagonisms. Negation should not stop at our refusals but extend into the shattering of every veiled threat that keeps us bound to this life, in word and in deed. That is what our Casey has been made guilty of. Daring to refuse power made flesh. More than the choice of a single judge, the state was forced to make an example of a comrade of immeasurable conviction, clarity and steadfastness in their chosen conflicts, regardless of what awaited them. Such an incongruent sentence compared to charges levied shows us yet again the lengths the state reaches to crush active opposition to war and genocide. This was a message. Though dismayed by the judge’s severity, we know that prison is not the end of struggle but the emergence of new terrain, one which Casey was already an active participant. And we may soon find ourselves participants as well.

Repression doesn’t end with the hammering of the gavel as every aspect of imprisoned life is shaped by it. So then how will our solidarity take shape? If it’s to mean anything at all, anything more than tried and true slogans bellowed from outside the walls on New Years Eve, it needs to expand the destruction of prison society in gesture and action, not just contribute to the survival of our comrades inside. The legion of liberal abolitionists who only five years ago demanded to defund the police have all but reversed their positions and begun advocating for their carceral defenders. This is where the break should be emphasized, against such poor and paltry visions and making destruction our ground floor. Therefore delegitimization of prisons and their necessity in the public imagination has to coincide with their material disruption. Strikes and revolts inside met with blockades and stoppages on the outside, actually. Our activity should correspond with our dispelling of prison’s invincibility and of the myth of it’s usefulness. The two must go hand in hand so there cannot be even a feigned misunderstanding about what we mean when we say “fire to the prisons.”

The machinery of justice will continue to drag us along, feeding on our corpses in the name of preserving democracy. Bombs will continue dropping, the nation-state will continue to tear the undesirable from within it’s ever-changing borders, and the lie of civilization will be cleansed and recast without blemish. Having already colonized all aspects of our daily activity, capital will continue to coerce every ounce of life from us while presenting just two outcomes, prison or the grave. That is if we accept it, leaving each other alone in the hands of the state. Even if we can’t stop it on our own, we can throw as many wrenches into the gears as possible. The end of prison society through the direct subversion of daily life, one imbued with logics and structures that insure it’s replication. Everything comes to a halt, never again returning to normalcy. Rupture, revolt, and the total evacuation of modern slavery. Only then can any of us truly talk of freedom.

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https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21605

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Timeline of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment Wave & Campus Flood at U.C. Berkeley from My Perspective (April to June 2024) by Casey Goonan

Repression works in two ways—with all the violence of the world (massacres, concentration camps, prisons, and police) and with fear and forgetting through which we repress ourselves. Each time the solidarity movement came upon the choice of resistance and chose passivity instead of struggle, each time the solidarity movement came upon the choice of resistance and chose safety, legitimacy, and stability instead of struggle, each time the solidarity movement condemned the resistance to protect themselves—fear took the place of guns and forgetting took the place of cages. So repression prevailed, recuperating struggle in the name of imperial domination.

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Beyond the bare minimum of supporting those facing repression, the call to action continues, “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. 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.”

Free Casey Now

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21569

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Statement by Casey Goonan Support Committee and Attorney

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21550

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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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