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Political Prisoner Malik Muhammad on Palestine Action, Islam, and Anti-Imperialism: Vox Ummah Interview
Introduction
The publication of this interview on December 19th marks day 48 of the historic Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike—the largest prisoner hunger strike in the u.k since 1981, when prisoners from the Irish Republican Army undertook a prolonged and militant refusal of food in protest of the british government’s withdrawal of their special status as prisoners of war.
The eight Prisoners for Palestine hunger strikers—Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, Kamran Ahmed, Teuta “T” Hoxha, Lewie Chiaramello, and Umer Khalid—have taken up their predecessors’ same weapon of the body, declaring their refusal to eat until all five of their audacious demands have been met. Many of them have been held on “remand” (pre-trial detention) for over a year for alleged direct actions taken against Elbit Systems, the weapons manufacturer in britain which makes 80-85% of the zionist entity’s land weaponry and drones. These weapons are currently being used in the holocaust of Gaza, to lay waste to Palestinian lives.
The hunger strikers’ demands are as follows: end all communications censorship; release them on immediate bail while awaiting trial; a fair and transparent trial with all records related to Elbit released in full; the deproscription of Palestine Action; and lastly, the permanent closure of every Elbit facility on british soil.
The strike has been met with a wave of international support: Italian prisoner Stecco has chosen to expand the strike across Europe; federal defendant Jakhi in the so-called u.s. declared his solidarity with the hunger strikers and undertook a 10-day solidarity fast; recently liberated Lebanese political prisoner Georges Abdallah released a statement of admiration and solidarity, along with Abdel-Nasser and Ammar, Palestinian prisoners who were liberated by the resistance earlier this year in the Al-Ahrar Flood exchange.
Earlier this year, in August of 2025, T. Hoxha —who is currently on hunger strike again—was the first of the Palestine Action prisoners to initiate a solo hunger strike when the prison officials at HMP Peterborough revoked her job in the prison library, withheld her mail, and represented her as a danger to the other prisoners because of her political beliefs. Hoxha’s strike gained international attention when Casey Goonan—at that time the only federal defendant from the 2024 Student Intifada—announced they were joining the strike in solidarity with her, refusing to eat until her demands had been won. A week later, Malik Muhammad—the subject of this interview—also joined the strike in support of Hoxha’s demands.
This historic act of internationalist solidarity undertaken by political prisoners across multiple geographies directly paved the way for Palestine Action’s current larger hunger strike, serving as a model of militant anti-imperialist solidarity in the service of Palestine from those facing the brunt of the state’s repression.
It is necessary for us to maintain internationalist solidarity because ‘that’ isn’t happening ‘over there’ to ‘them’ but oppression is ‘HERE’ and happening to ‘US’ all. Our movements are stronger together. The people are stronger together. Don’t let them separate us. And remember as Palestinians starve in Gaza, so do the unjustly held 12,000 Palestinian prisoners, and the ones in US prisons and ‘detention’ (death) centers, prisons in the UK, Australia — they are all the same. The prisoners are living under forced displacement, oppression, occupation.
— Malik’s response to Hoxha’s August 2025 hunger strike
Malik introduces themself as an “anti-fascist, anarchist, a revolutionary, a writer of everything creative.” They are a Black and Palestinian direct actionist serving an absurd ten-year sentence in Oregon for their legitimate actions during the George Floyd Uprising of 2020. In retaliation for their organizing behind bars, they’ve spent the majority of the past two years in solitary confinement, in a battle against mail censorship — the same mail censorship that is being waged against our Palestine Action comrades in britain.
Reading their many writings and interviews is an exercise in frustration. Here is a serious militant and revolutionary who is burning to engage with the larger struggle, but has been trammelled at every turn. James Yaki Sayles defines political prisoners as “conscious and active servants of the people”, but how can our prisoners remain conscious and active elements when the people allow them to languish and die alone behind bars? Georges Abdallah, liberated after 41 years in a French prison, attributes his ability to remain a part of the wider movement to his comrades on the outside. By constantly supplying him with news of the resistance in the outside world they gave him the necessaries of political development; by publicizing his voice they made it into a weapon of theory in the service of resistance.
I was surrounded by men and women dedicated to the cause who allowed me to keep resisting, by making my resistance part of the struggle against the genocide in Gaza. They gave me a permanent voice on the outside, allowing me to speak about the struggles of various peoples and other political prisoners. So, I wasn’t just a prisoner. I was a fighter who was in prison.
For those of us who consider ourselves supporters, sisters, and defenders of political prisoners, our primary responsibility is to serve as intermediaries between them and the international war against imperialism. Hundreds and thousands of revolutionaries and potential comrades are crying out to be seriously engaged with in this struggle on every level. This interview aims to be a bridge into this war for our sibling Malik, who calls on those of us on the outside to transmit their call to action to our political prisoners in the u.s.—the only way that international hunger strikes are possible.
Interview with Malik Muhammad
How do you see the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike as part of a broader, international struggle against imperialism?
Imperialism is upheld through state-sanctioned violence, and part of that violence involves the systemic kidnapping of people they call prisoners. To recognize freedom as a collective struggle is to know that none of us are free until all of us are—including and especially those who have been stolen from us under the guise of “public safety.” They want to silence and lock away the fighters and their voices. What I see in the case of my Pal Action siblings is a settler colonial state trying to distract from the sins of its past — namely, Britain’s complicity in zionism and the Nakba. A state that at once “decries” a genocide it won’t even acknowledge is happening, all the while violently repressing those who object to it. The state’s only tool is a hammer, the only language it speaks is violence. But the perpetual struggle for freedom transcends generations.
When you were organizing in 2020, did you see yourself and the Black liberation movement as part of that war against imperialism? How have your politics developed since then, especially in the two years since the Toufan Al-Aqsa?
Afrikan liberation is the struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism. First Nation liberation and sovereignty and Palestinian liberation are one struggle, and cannot be separated from each other. They exist in an interconnected and interwoven web of oppression and resistance. What affects one directly affects the other. As my dear sibling Lisa says, “that” isn’t happening “over there.” No. We are told to believe so but that’s not the case.
I feel that resistance against this unique fascist state is important because of its central role in the exploitation of land, lives, and cultures at such rapid rates, all while destroying the planet. So while my direct actions [in 2020] were taken against this [u.s. settler] state, they didn’t happen in a vacuum–just like the actions of the Palestinian resistance. The oppressed are never the ones who initiate violence. How could we be, when the state is the one who constantly perpetuates violence against us?
My politics haven’t changed much. I’ve been an anarchist ever since I was a kid and discovered radical blogs on Tumblr. [In regard to Palestine], I would say that in spite of my anti-state beliefs, for a time I held onto hope for a two-state solution. It’s hard to tell a people to “fuck the state” when they don’t even have one to call their own to begin with, when they’re still fighting and struggling for their right to exist at all. It was the same with Afrikans here [in the so-called u.s.], which is why the Black Power movement often had statist ideals.
But [the events of] October 7th reinforced for me that “resistance is essence”, and under occupation, it is a right. It reminded me that perhaps the freest we can ever be is in the moments when we are resisting, when the people take fate and destiny into their own hands and take action. As Jonathan and George, Assata and Mutulu, Oso, Hanson, Peltier, Xinachtli, Tyler and Luigi, the IRA and my Pal Action siblings, all faithful resisters within the death kamps, the ones we don’t hear about, and the slave rebellions lost to history.
Like John Brown meeting the hangman’s noose, we do only what we feel called to do by our creator. The genocidal campaign the zionist entity has waged against the Palestinians after they were forced to hear the cries of the unheard on October 7, that barbaric, internationally-sponsored terror, that all reaffirmed to me that my hope will always be in the people, not the state. The mutual aid, the resistance in the face of genocide, people pulling bodies from rubble, the fighters and the martyrs–all that carnage mixed with all that resilience. Beautiful resistance and faith. That reminded me of my core belief that resistance is essence.
One of the demands of the prisoners in the UK hunger strike is to be able to “send and receive communications without restriction, surveillance, or interference.” Shine White, Xinachtli, and almost every political prisoner reports censored and withheld mail. Why is freedom of mail such an indispensable thing for a prisoner?
Letters and communications are a lifeline for us. The state wants to break us by locking us away. They want us disappeared and forgotten about. And even if we aren’t forgotten about, they want us to feel like we are anyway. I’ve had mail withheld for so long. I know guys who have gotten garbage bags full of mail after a whole year.
They try to break your spirit, make you feel like there’s nothing to fight for, and that you should just give up. That’s why it’s imperative to always correspond, even more so when the mail is withheld. They can hide a few parcels from their higher-ups and deny there ever was any, but if you flood their inboxes it helps pressure the [prison officials.] And when the prisoner does eventually get that huge stack of mail, it’s a beautiful reminder that they’re loved, and their strength can be renewed.
The oppressor’s only tactic is to intensify their repression, to wait us out. So our memory must be longer than the state’s. That’s why we should never forget [the prisoners.]
How should the outside movement be working to bring political prisoners into the anti-imperialist struggle?
Any way you can. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all solution. Like anarchy, it’s fluid, and there’s room for a diversity of tactics. Never be afraid to dream or think bigger than the established box. Do what has been working and leave behind what hasn’t, and try things you never have. Our imagination must also be bigger than the state’s. They only know one use for a hammer, while an anarchist recognizes the versatility of that tool.
Writing to and communicating with a political prisoner is the bare minimum. Building and platforming their voice, strategizing in ways that would directly aid those inside, making sure they know that they’re part of a movement that transcends the bars and gates and walls, that they’re only on a different front but still fighting the same fight. More than that though, making sure they know that they’ll be free by any means. See, Assata was [freed]. So they should know that they’ll be freed by any means. And that they’ll be supported in any actions they take.
What makes a hunger strike effective or ineffective? How much of its power comes from public pressure vs the will of the strikers themselves?
Hunger strikes are most effective when you know your ‘why.’ The will must be there, but it’s all in the ‘why.’ The power is always within the people. Under repression, to refuse to eat, to starve yourself purposefully, is powerful in itself. The power is with you the second you refuse. The state threatens violence to coerce and control. So we say, “You can beat me, deprive me, but my intent is to still not eat. I’m the one with the power. And you just pretend.”
Public pressure is imperative too: You [on the outside] have power too. It’s imperative to keep the striker alive with that public pressure. Because when you go down that path, you know why. And you’re prepared to die for it. You know your red lines, the demands that you will accept instead—but you are still prepared to die for it. The public’s job is to not let you go that way.
That’s where pressure is imperative. You support in all the ways you can, apply pressure in all the ways you can, and you also accept that the power is with that person, too. That they must be trusted to make the best decisions for themselves, even if that means it meets an disagreeable end. They eat only at their own will. You hope to expedite that, spread their message, even if they go.
A hunger strike is never ineffective. As revolutionaries, we never die. We just spread, and multiply. Like our ideas, they’re always here. Because [as Fred Hampton said], you can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution. You can kill a revolutionary son, but you’ll only martyr another one. You can steal a revolutionary daughter, but you’ll only add water for the revolution to drink from. So–we have the power, you have the power. The state has none.
Are there any verses from the Quran you reflect on most in regards to the struggle you are waging?
“Beat back the oppressors wherever you find them.”
Are there any Islamic figures you think about most during this period of struggle?
The prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) and his refusal of riches to renounce Allah. He said, “You can give me the moon in my left hand, and all the stars in my right hand. And still I would never renounce the teachings of Allah.” It’s that resistance, that steadfast dedication that inspires me.
How does the struggle for Palestine in the global north become re-ignited in a meaningful way? How does the global north escalate?
International solidarity. Radical direct action, autonomous groups acting together, sabotaging systems to directly hinder the genocidal IOF. The global north needs to hear us now, or be us later. Militancy and direct action is imperative. Resistance is essence, and under occupation, it’s a right.
The world is occupied, and whether you live in a prison, or an open-air minimum like the so-called u.s. or u.k, or a harsher maximum open-air prison like gaza, the state occupies land, lives and people. Do we play at revolution, or do we make it? October 7th should be a rallying cry for radical direct action everywhere. Palestinians have managed to resist one of the world’s most powerful and best-equipped militaries. As George Jackson said, “Their reliance on their technology will be their downfall.” The system is fragile, and can be brought down. A stone thrown can crumble a nation. The system must be raged against because none are free until we all are free.
Is there anything you’d like to say directly to the hunger strikers or any of the prisoners associated with Palestine Action?
Resistance is essence, siblings. You’re never forgotten. Know your “why” and the “how” will come. We are not separated by these man-made monstrous constructs. We are connected in spite of them—and in some ways, because of them. The state creates its own monster, so be Frankenstein’s monster and destroy him. Refine yourself inside—plot, plan, rally, foment, organize and resist. Prison is only another front of the struggle. Until we all are free, none are. So remember: resistance is essence; under occupation it’s a right. I love you siblings. Love, rage, and solidarity.
Conclusion
During the hunger strike led by T. Hoxha in the summer of 2025, people called for international protests at british embassies, press and media, and direct pressure on the prisons and the government through continuous phone calls and emails.
Prisoners for Palestine is calling on us to take these actions once again. But the hunger strikers’ demands have a right to be enforced through greater measures. Again and again, the u.s. left has shouted down calls to direct action & basic property damage in the name of “a diversity of tactics”. The effect of this, ironically, is a impotent political movement almost entirely reduced to legal parades and useless finger-wagging at politicians. A hunger strike is a last-ditch tactic taken up by prisoners who have no weapons left but their own bodies. It throws the movement at large into sharp relief: while our imprisoned comrades scrape away at the concrete with broken spoons, we put our jackhammers and our pipes into some backyard shed and close the door.
Aren’t our comrades’ lives worth the same as Bobby Sands’, or Assata Shakur’s, or Abdel-Nassar and Ammar’s? When will it seriously be time for a diversity of tactics? Who will bring out the tools? Two years after the Toufan Al Aqsa, Palestine Action remains one of the few examples of genuinely effective solidarity. And now its prisoners, who took up the crowbar and the hammer, are left to starve by their imperialist government, their bodies degrading alone in concrete cells.
The strikers’ demand for bail can be answered by the british public. Self-liberated Sean “Shibby” Middlebrough, of the Filton 24, answered it on his own behalf. But the call to shut Elbit down must be answered by the general public, and it must be answered in defense of not only the lives of these hunger strikers, but the lives of every Palestinian left to be killed in winter floods — in lines to buy rotten food — in bombed out hospitals — in the tunnels of Rafah, the most honorable men of our time — in “israeli” torture chambers — and, for Malik Muhammad and his comrades, in the heart of the empire, the british-amerikan prison cell.
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This interview was conducted in collaboration with Malik Muhammad’s representative team. Vox Ummah has not edited any of the content. We hope you take the time to read this interview, and after digesting its content, renew your struggle for the Palestinian cause and stand in solidarity with those facing state repression because of their principled stand against Imperialism.
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International Hunger Strike Grows, Joined By Palestinian Captive of the George Floyd Rebellion
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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.
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Malik Muhammad: Update from the Hole
Today is 3/29/25. Saturday. I was first brought to the hole, getting ready for Juma, on Friday the 28th of February. I was given no cause nor warning. When they took me, they stole my envelopes and address book, my copy of the zine that was made of some blog posts, and my request to be on Snake River’s [SRCI] list for our Eid meal after Ramadan.
You are supposed to be allowed to take your address books and envelopes to the hole with you, that’s standard. That’s why people who expect to do hole time, like activists, we carry these things. I always walked around with at least 6 envelopes and my address books. Cuz I know the drill. It’s isolation within isolation. They want to whisk you away and trap you on a desert island till your dying day. Or your brain decays, whichever comes LAST.
Everywhere I went, they tried to tell me NOT to have them. Why, despite there being no rule against it? Cuz they want you isolated. So of course, I keep them on me anyway.
They stole them, then got mad when they were processing me into intake for not saying I DIDN’T have them. I did. They kept pressing me to say I didn’t, even though they took them. Of course, my refusal to comply sent them railing. I later filed a grievance which was “Returned for corrections,” accompanied with my envelopes and address books. I took it as, “Here, leave it alone.” I acquiesced because I was sure that was only a mild fight, and more was in store. I choose my battles.
I was in the hole without answers until 3/7/25, when I got notice I was “under investigation.” For what, it did not say. They requested a hold for 90 days. On the 9th, I got a disciplinary review that told me my “crime” was “allegedly” organizing a general strike at SRCI. Their whole supposed “evidence” apparently rested on a “CI” (confidential informant, aka “snitch”) and a paper one of my friends had written articulating changes he’d like to see at SRCI. Vague and inconsequential. I was writing proposals for special interest groups and programs for inmates at SRCI as it has NONE. It is desolate and remote, racist and confrontational, from ALL sides, even the “counselors.” The “mental health” staff are probably the second worst humans in the institution.
But I’ll get to that in a second. The next day, 3/10/25, I had my hearing for my “investigative” hold. Because ANY request for longer than 30 days HAS to have substantial reason. The pig during the hearing said, “I don’t see grounds for a 90 day hold, especially since you got your disciplinary review already.” (His words, remember.) So he dropped the investigation.
I did not have a hearing for the disciplinary review until the 19th, the day my lawyer came to visit, hoping I’d be out of the hole by then. Evidence of their intent to hinder my legal representation. Nothing new. I just feel bad she came all the way out to this Klan land, just to see me behind glass again, after the last year of it. Further hindrance was them “accidentally” taking me to the wrong room. I was waiting, cuffed to a wall for about five minutes, before they came back and said, “Oh, wrong room, sorry.” Then made show of fumbling with the keys, acting like they didn’t work.
When they brought me to Lauren [my lawyer], they refused to open the pass slot, as is a right for attorney client privilege. Their response was simple: “We were told not to for you.” Then they left. Mind you, the pass slot was open in the previous room I was in.
But moving on, or back, at the hearing, after reading my statement, which will be released, the pig said, “I want you to know, despite you getting your disciplinary review on the 9th, I did not receive it until the 12th, and I had to review the ‘evidence,’ which is why it took me so long.” Then he found me guilty of “unauthorized organization” and “disturbance.”
How? If A. the paper is NOT mine (as he clearly pointed out that the handwriting was different), B. the paper mentioned NOTHING of a “strike” on “April 16th” as alleged, C. my papers were full of proposals and programs, labeled as such AND to boot were presented to the counselor and the head of the special interest groups liaison. Yuraguen and whatever the white lady’s name was, they had full knowledge of what I was doing — NOT planning a strike.
I said as much, and he said, “Well, the CI says you were.” So I asked to hear WHAT the CI said, as is my right. He would not tell me. He gave me 30 days, and 30 days loss of privileges [LOP].
LOP is nothing more than the hole on “mainline,” same thing, except you get to walk to get your food. But no phone, no tablet, same cell, same racist pigs, and isolation, still. Same hell.
I immediately filed a request for review with the Inspector General, on the grounds that the facts and merits of my case were unsubstantiated. On the 25th, nearing my release from the hole on the 29th, I got notice I was in P-5 status. Saying I’m being remanded for IMU 180 day “Intensive Management Unit.” Segregation. The SHU [Segregated Housing Unit] under another 3 letters. Like “RAGE” and “DOGE,” “Yarvin” and “Musk,” the Klan, the state, and pigs go hand in hand, an extension of the state’s bromance with white supremacy, patriarchy, and oppression.
The order was put in 3/2/25. Two days after I got in the hole. Two days before I even got a disciplinary review, twenty three days before I got found guilty of anything. And twenty five days after the order was given. I later found out that it was JUST the day before (Tuesday the 29th) that the SNIEC Committee (Special Needs Inmate Evaluation Committee) decided that I was going to IMU. You’re supposed to receive notice, so you can write the SNIEC or request a review. I got notice that I was BEING considered the day AFTER it was already decided. It’s their dirty game. As a soldier, I lick my wounds and struggle on. Pick my battles.
I filed my request for review. I wrote the Inspector General for my review, and I filed grievances. None will go anywhere cuz this place is a bunch of “good ol’ boys,” backwater stick hicks, and the “Inspector General” sides with the oppressor every time. So, “fine,” I’ll get MINE on the back end in litigation. In raising awareness and documentation.
But yesterday and today are what invoked me to act. I can NOT, and I WILL not take disrespect of my religion. I am Mujahideen, which means fighting FOR the weak and oppressed with EVERYTHING you have. “Beat back the oppressors whenever you find them!”
Yesterday 3/28/25, I received a kyte from Chapelain “Suh,” who has been a bastard since I got here. “Suh” is an Asian man, a Christian, not a Muslim. YET he is in charge of the Muslims, with zero knowledge of Islam and blatant contempt for it.
Every facility has chaplains for every religion. They have texts (religious doctrine), special package authorizations, etc. They are free to practice their faith as they see fit. Not us. Muslims get an ineffectual, effete debutant who loathes our very existence. While Christians have a plethora of books to choose from, Jews, Satanists, Buddhists, spiritualists, Muslims are given one. It’s NOT a Quran. It’s not a substitute for a Quran. No. It is a mere subjective translation of selected passages by one Muslim scholar. Not to discredit his fine work, but it is NO Quran. There is but one Quran. It has not once been replicated, as you cannot regenerate such a perfect text.
So we don’t get real Qurans. Me, I have one from all the way back in county, when I had it sent to me. So it has made it, as well as my Tajweed. I requested while I was in the hole to get my real Quran. His response, “Forward to security.” I asked “security” DSU stait [?] who ignored me. I filed a grievance. I tipped when the chaplain yesterday told me I would NOT get the Eid meal because I did not turn in the form for requests. This despite the fact that it was taken from me the day I came to the hole AND I told him in a kyte! So I was furious.
Today, they came to my cell and told me to get up cuz I’m getting out. I was in disbelief and told them to check cuz they’re wrong. They still said I had to go, they refused to take my Ramadan snack with. They gave NO explanation. So I said fuck it, I grieve it. They got me as far as processing before saying, “Oh no, you’re staying. The Lieutenant [McClean] said so, my bad.”
They brought me back, and I asked, will my fucking food still be there? He said yea. When I got back, this racist, horrible, bar mustache, balding Klansman said he was throwing it all away. I, of course, protested and told him that’s my Ramadan food. To which he replied, “Ramadan’s over, sorry.” I informed him it’s NOT, and even if it were, I have a right to my food.
He said, “You’re not supposed to have it after Ramadan.” I said that’s NOT an OAR doc rule, I know, and I’ve been a Muslim all my life, so I know it’s a religious law. (Cuz they always think that we can’t eat ANYTHING but the sacks they give us when I’m fasting. The specific request meal is Eid when NOT fasting, we can eat whatever. And I know when Ramadan is over.) His retort was, “I don’t give a fuck what you’ve been all your life, I promise you.” Of course, that was the straw.
I, in so many words, asked him to “clarify” himself and tell me what the actual fuck HE promised ME cuz I KNOW that I can whoop his ass and cut through those two other pigs to do it, all while still cuffed. The pig slammed me against the wall and said, “Listen, don’t do it, please. He’s not worth it.”
Ordinarily, I don’t give a FUCK about what a pig says. But I didn’t hear him, then I heard my lover, Devin, my friend Hay Bales, Chris, JP, Mo, Lauren, Madds and Madi, Kate, Kat, Amir, Rio, and so I did not do what I wanted. I thought about it, on the verge of tears. How DARE I call myself a “Mujahideen,” if I won’t defend my religion? I wrote furiously. Then I calmed down.
I remembered an important fact. Ramadan is NOT over. I will not let these racist fucking hicks ruin my blessings. Nor my relationships. However, I still feel the need to act.
[Regarding the Eid meal sign up] They refused everyone else, they refuse blacks the fastest. They pretend they don’t hear us and speed walk through the unit at 6am, holding their keys quietly because that’s the only time you can sign up. If you’re not up, you don’t get it. If you’re black, they say, “they didn’t hear you,” or, as they did with me today, they curse and try to goad you into “giving them a vocation.”
If they could kill us, they would for sport. They’d spit on us for pleasure. They ARE the Nazis at the work camps. They are the ones herding people to the “showers,” they’re the ones keeping your mail and you hostage. Stripping you out. Taking what little you have. They’re the ones who will beat you bloody, then go home and laugh, talking to their wives about work or their friends about the game. Drinking a beer, then going back to sadistic torture. They are some of the worst human beings on Earth.
So back to that, I created a proposal for a peer companion/mentorship counselor program, which involved schooling for aspiring counselors, therapists, etc. to get clinician hours, and on the job training, working for BHS [mental health services] here. Also earning degrees to take to the streets and help guys in here. Cuz no matter what, you only know what it’s like if you lived it.
Others can empathize, those who care, like people who do prisoner solidarity relationships. But BHS can’t even do that. They barely sympathize. They hold hate in their heart and contempt, too. Be wary of ANY who step in the oppressor’s shoes or stands next to them, claiming to “HELP” you. BHS does little EVERYWHERE, and much less than nothing here at Snake River. No. See, they are on the oppressor’s side. Right next to them in bed. Literally and metaphorically. We NEED better mental healthcare. The “counselors” might as well abhor you, you know they don’t care. They do… What do they do? Especially at a facility with NO programs? What could they possibly be doing all day? Standing in the hallway, talking up the wall. Literally, that’s where you can find them, talking up the wall. With taxpayer dollars.
But of course, taxpayers pay for the violence inflicted on us day and night, that doesn’t disturb them. Counselors, BHS, medical. These “professionals” are the scum of the Earth, the bottom of the barrel. See, the pigs can ONLY hold this job. They’re racist and not smart. But individuals with degrees, master’s degrees, clinicians, doctors, people with essential skills, they thrust themselves into debt for… how far can you fall to work here? You couldn’t even be a school counselor or therapist? You couldn’t be a REAL nurse? You couldn’t be a real doctor or prescriber? So THIS is where you landed. I don’t believe in “useless” degrees, I believe in useless people. These people are useless. These nurses lack the care essential for a hospital, there’s no semblance of bedside manner or any care. Same with the doctors. BHS and counselors, too. Not useless degrees or professions. Useless, feckless people.
So please call, write, yell at the Inspector General Rowley and Lieutenant Joseph McClean, the hearings officers, the Special Needs Inmate Evaluation Committee, Counselor Yuraguen, the special interest groups coordinator, chaplain “Suh,” all the chaplains for their feckless hatred for us Muslims. DSU staff, “Rainwater” or “Handlebar Hick,” put a spotlight on these fucks. Make them uncomfortable. Until they put me on the Eid meal list. Until they get me my one, true Quran. Until they bring my Tajweed with it. Until the SHU is under scrutiny here, too, as the racist fucking hell it is.
“I am always motivated by the actions of my enemies. When I make them uncomfortable, I know I’m doing something right.” — said an awesome person. I gotta make them uncomfortable again.
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/28/maliks-update-from-the-hole/
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18728
#abolitionist #AnarchistPrisoners #malikMuhammad #northAmerica #prisonStruggle
Phone Zap! Get Malik Out of Solitary!
Political prisoner Malik Muhammad is facing repression and has been thrown in solitary confinement again! Show him support by calling the prison and demanding his release!
Malik was thrown in solitary without reason or clear rationale. He is once again being deprived of his communications, books, contact with other prisoners, and basic human needs.
Malik has been unapologetic about his principles. As punishment, Oregon Department of Corrections transferred him across state to keep him far away from regular in-person visitors and his legal representation, and has now placed him in solitary. This horrendous pattern shows that ODOC is far more concerned with shutting down political prisoners with opinions than ensuring safety, justice or reform.
But if ODOC thought this would stifle his determination, diminish his support, or deter his attorney from making trips out to Eastern Oregon, they were very much mistaken.
As much resilience as Malik continues to show, he needs our support. Being thrown in the hole is a strategy of psychological torture, cutting him off from support, essential resources and activity to fill his time.
Call Snake River Correctional with the following demands:
Master Control: 541-881-5018
Superintendent: 541-881-5002
Inspector: 541-881-5081
Chaplains: 541-881-4624, 541-881-4625, 541-881-4626, 541-881-4686
General Line: 541-881-5000
Please write to Malik and let him know you stand with him!
Malik Muhammad #23935744
Snake River Correctional Institution
777 Stanton Blvd
Ontario, OR 97914-8335
*Note*: Please include page numbers and return addresses on each page because the prison typically does not give inmates the envelopes.
#FreeThemAll #FireToThePrisons
source: Mailk Speaks
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17430
#blackLiberation #malikMuhammad #northAmerica #PoliticalPrisoners
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/05/blm-george-floyd-prison-solitary-malik-muhammad/
#Oregon Prison Limits Solitary to 90 Days. This #BLMprotester has been in the hole for 250
by #AkelaLacy
5 dec 2024
Update from Anarchist Prisoner Malik Muhammad
I just want to thank everyone who called in to the prison. I do now have all of my property, I’m back out of that cell, which is amazing. Me and my lawyer have litigation planned for their tazing and beating me, as well as for the first time they maced and beat me and left me in a bare cell with nothing. So, things are looking up.
In much, much lighter news, I’m currently trying to apply for a grant from Anarchist Horizons and from Jen Angel Anarchist Media Group to self-publish my first book of poetry! Inshallah I will get it, that is my hope, be it God’s will.
And ya, I just wanted to give a quick update. As far as ways that people can help me, contribute, anything that you’ve already been doing has been amazing, writing letters. I’m obviously currently going to need help spreading about the book though, once I’m getting ready to get published. Thanks!
US Politcal Prisoner Malik Muhammad is On Hunger Strike
Political prisoner Malik Muhammad was recently assaulted by prison guards. They dogpiled, beat and tased him before throwing him into a bare cell. He has no access to his belongings and fears that prison staff will cut off his communications. He has frequently been persecuted and singled out by OSP staff and has been held in segregation for over half a year.
CALL OREGON STATE PENITENTIARY!
NUMBERS:
Superintendent Corey Fhuere
(503) 378-2453 ext 4
Inspector General Gary Ninman
(503) 602-0089
Counselor Kendra Vaughn
(503) 378-2115
Chaplain Perlsteen
(503) 378-2333
OSP Health Department
(503) 378-2125
SAMPLE SCRIPT:
“Hello, I’m calling to demand that OSP staff end their persecution of Malik Muhammad #23935744, who is bravely on hunger strike to protest C.O. brutality against him. OSP staff are violating his rights and have a legal responsibility to provide him with adequate living conditions. OSP staff must immediately return his rightful property to him and ensure his communication and visitation rights. End this injustice against Malik now!”
source: Malik Speaks
#malikMuhammad #northAmerica #oregon #politicalPrisoner #repression #us
What does Black August commemorate? Well, it is a month where prisoners, specifically Black, honor George Jackson and the sacrifices he made in the California prison system. For those who don’t know, Jackson was given a 1-year-to-life term for a petty crime, as is what happened during that time with indeterminate sentences. He could have kept his head low and gotten out, but what Jackson saw as a young man in the system, was a system of oppression so bad his morals and character would not allow him to go along to get along.
Blacks at that time faced violence from guards and white supremacist groups and gangs all around. During that time, guards put glass and shit in Blacks’ food. They chained Blacks to tables and let us get stabbed by white supremacist groups. Jackson sought to change that. Jackson helped to organize the Blacks into a unit to fight back. Jackson and the other vanguard groups, BGF [Black Guerilla Family], BLA [Black Liberation Army], and the Black Panther Party, as well as the Kumi, formed the frontline to protect our people. He taught and led our people at the expense of his freedom and, ultimately, his life. He was framed for the murder of a coward guard who killed several Blacks during a riot. In fighting that case, he educated himself, taught his people, stifled several attempts on his life, wrote books, and ultimately gave his life for the people, as he left us so much, he did without question.
Jackson was so feared, as we all are, they had to portray him as a Black superman, saying he killed five guards in 30 seconds barehanded before being killed, as a way to justify it — that’s one hell of a man, so I’ll believe it! As his name echoes throughout history, those guards are not even a footnote in the life of Jackson — peanuts to an elephant.
So every August, prisoners all over honor him by doing 100 of something, standing together and working out militantly as a show of solidarity and preparedness for having to go to war if necessary. Black August and George Jackson is one of my idols, meaning more to me than one month can just display. Just like Juneteenth, and Black History Month, and Native American Heritage Month, and Mexican American Heritage Month, and AAPI Heritage Month — all of those days and , months sting and strike me as irritating that we have to have culture, history, pride and solidarity regulated to set time. It also gets to me about Black August. Of course, like all of us, I bust down, I do my 100 burpees, I also add in 100 pushups, crunches, dips and pullups, as well as whatever else I want — I also shout up Black August and Jackson for those who don’t know. But to me, Jackson and his brother and their memory and legacy are more than a month of solidarity, because Jackson put solidarity in his everyday, 365 days a week, no break, no exceptions, at all costs and by any means.
So for me, Black August is another reminder to stay the course, no matter how frustrated I get, or how bad I get done, no matter how oppressed I feel, the oppression I face, or the pain I experience, I have a duty to stay the course as Jackson did. Jackson and his sacrifices mean everything. As I sit in the hole going on a year, I stay strong because of what Jackson went through. “In my objection,” as he said, “you’ll never count me among the broken men”. If I am lucky and privileged enough, I live among the men like Jackson who paved the way for us. Those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for the people, his [indistinct] for the people, we have a duty to honor and spread his legacy and fight for the people and a brighter future, or give our lives trying. To me, every day is Jackson’s Death Day, Jonathan’s too. Every month is Black August, and Black History, and Native American Heritage Month, and Mexican Heritage Month. Every day is a time to show solidarity and be more militant with purpose and focus, acting boldly and autonomously to accomplish our goals.
I do love Black August commemorating the man I hold in such regard. I hope to one day see Black August everywhere, especially outside the prisons. Power to the people, all the people!
Ending quote by George Jackson: “If my enemies and your enemies prove stronger to us, at least I want them to know they made a righteous African man extremely angry.”
And lastly, to all those out there prepared to vote for Kopmala, remember: she built her career locking up Blacks for petty crimes like truancy and weed, all the while laughing about its arbitrary nature. So this Black August, remember: among those she would have kept confined to death with us would also have been George Jackson and Jonathan. It is not in the spirit of revolution, remembrance or equity to vote for that cop. She would have been the architect of his demise. Don’t think “lesser of two evils”, ’cause that’s how we got here. The lesser of two evils for Jackson would have been to do his time and get out and take it on the chin, but no! He took the road less traveled by to see what he could do.
So dream bigger than a two-party system. Be bold, be brash, and be autonomous.
Audio file link: https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/files/2024/08/malik-speaking-2024-08-21.mp3
From: Malik Speaks
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/08/23/malik-muhammad-every-month-is-black-august/
#BlackAugust #georgeJackson #malikMuhammad #northAmerica #PoliticalPrisoners
As Pride Month winds to a close, I wanna give a shout out to my beautiful queers out there, Happy Pride Month! Like I say, for all the government breadcrumbs they give us (us being any marginalized group), it’s a great cause for celebration being open and free, but we’ll never be truly open and free until we all are. “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” — MLK Jr. All things are interconnected and interwoven. “There are no separate worlds”.
We celebrate today and this month and always, for it’s a beautiful thing to be loud and proud, but the state is here waging a war on the community, and not us alone. Women are under attack for control over their bodies, kids are still in cages and separated from families. Pigs are still acting with impunity in taking our lives! Not just in the cities, but at our border. We will remember Claudia Gonzalez’s murder at the border in 2018, as well as Tortuguita in Atlanta. Gone but not forgotten.
The penitentiary is still packed and still filled with blacks! The U.S. is the richest nation with the highest homeless population. Our fascist government is cosponsoring genocide with OUR taxes! I could go on, but you get the point, none of our issues exist in a vacuum, “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” — MLK Jr. again.
So as we remember those lost at the Pulse Nightclub, as we also remember Floyd and Taylor, Garner and Trayvon, as we call for the abolition of prisons, law, pigs, and all systems of oppression and genocide and exploitation of the world’s people, as we call for a return of this stolen land to her original keepers, let’s just remember that their fight is our fight, our fight is their fight! If one of us falls, we all fall. If the state can oppress “them”, then it can and will oppress you!
So celebrate and rejoice, but know our fight ain’t over, freedom is a constant struggle, and those who want freedom can’t rest till it comes. Until all cages are empty, until all pigs are jobless, until people can love and be loved how they want, Uhuru Sasa! Until Freedom! One more prayer for Gazans, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, Inshallah.
Struggle on, beautiful people!
Love, Rage and Solidarity ~ Malik
P.S. Any queer titles you wanna send me? Or authors? I’m open to anything, but would like:
[ed.: This is a belated post from a letter from June 2024]
#malikMuhammad #northAmerica #PoliticalPrisoners #prideMonth #queer
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