Message from Political Prisoner Bill Dunne for Running Down the Walls 2025

Salutations and felicitations to all of my Running Down the Walls Comrades! Yet again we have travelled another circuit of the seasons and come to the time and place for another operation of what has become an institution outside of the barricade: the Running Down the Walls run/walk/roll in support of fewer walls and cages and greater freedom and community. The need for our side of the barricade to come together to do as much as possible is becoming ever more acute. The forces pillage and plunder are raising an increasingly dark social storm cloud that segregates the human family into inherently different and necessarily competitive groups surrounded by both physical and cultural walls over which only enmity and conquest fly. The image is hard to avoid. But that just makes it easier to resist! And so we will when we lace up our shoes, pull on our gloves, and RUN DOWN THE WALLS, conscious of our brethren, sistren, the men all moving in the same direction with a rhythm that will push back the storm, erode the barriers between people, and move the movement a little farther down the road to revolution. I’ll be with you if not in person, in presence, if not as fast more committed, as I run down walls inside them.
Bill Dunne
The Future Holds Promise

Bill Dunne #10916-086
FCI Butner Medium II
PO Box 1500
Butner, NC 27509

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Bill Dunne is an anarchist political prisoner who has been incarcerated for almost 45 years now; since 1979. Bill was sentenced to 90 years for aiding in an escape attempt in downtown Seattle and since that arrest he has lived in some of the most draconian prisons in the United States.

In 1982 he was sent from the Washington state system to the federal system and landed in the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Lewisburg, PA. The following year he tried to escape from that particular USP and was given an additional 15 years onto his sentence and 7 and a half were to be spent in the control units at USP Marion, IL. After he did his time at Marion and up until recently he has been in quite a few maximum security penitentiaries in the federal prison system, until 2014 when he was transferred to medium security facilities in California.

Bill was recently diagnosed with cancer. Due to his condition he was recently transferred from Victorville FCI in southern California to the federal prison systems medical facility in Butner, NC. He has been demanding for over a year to be transferred to get treatment, so him being moved there is a success. However, it is still unclear when the treatment will begin.

Anarchist and all revolutionaries have a responsibility to support our political prisoners, particularly when they are going through difficult times. Bill, however, is a unique and special example. In 2000, after serving 21 years in prison Bill the parole board gave Bill another 15 years. Then, in an exceptional act of cruelty, in 2014 he was given another 15 year hit. Even in December the Biden regime denied Bill’s appeal for clemency. The reason cited for this barbaric treatment was that Bill continues to maintain communication and is “continuing association and affiliation with anarchist organizations,” which was, “evidence [he] still harbor anti-authoritarian views.”

We are encouraging comrades to write to Bill and send him revolutionary greetings. We have to keep our political captives on our shoulders and let the world know that their struggles are ours and we rise and fall together.

Here’s his new address:

Bill Dunne # 10916-086
FMC Butner
PO Box 1600
Butner, NC
27509

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/29/anarchist-political-prisoner-bill-dunne-transferred-for-cancer-treatment/

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