Oregon DOC Appears to Have Disappeared Portland Political Prisoner Malik Muhammad

The Oregon Department of Corrections appears to have effectively disappeared Malik Muhammad, a Black Palestinian anarchist and antifascist prisoner serving one of the longest sentences handed to a protester after the 2020 George Floyd uprising.

According to court documents, Muhammad threw a Molotov cocktail at police in Oregon in 2020. In 2022, they pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and received a concurrent 10-year federal and state sentence in Oregon State Prison.

On Monday, March 30, 2026, members of Muhammad’s support team noticed something alarming: their profile had vanished from the prison messaging system GettingOut. Around the same time, their name no longer appeared in Oregon’s inmate search database. This disappearance happened in the wake of a call-in campaign to once again get Muhammad out of solitary confinement.

Since then, family and supporters have been scrambling for answers, calling Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) and multiple Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) offices. They’ve gotten almost nothing in return.

WWFU has also made dozens of calls across the Oregon prison system in an attempt to locate them and have been unsuccessful in getting any of our questions answered.

Calls to Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), including the Special Management Housing (SMH) unit where Muhammad had previously been held in solitary confinement, suggested they may have been at court, but provided no confirmation.

One official in the Office of Population Management confirmed only that Muhammad had been moved to a “confidential location,” a designation repeatedly invoked while officials declined to provide any verifiable information about their whereabouts.

Staff at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) confirmed that Muhammad is no longer housed there. The Oregon Department of Corrections’ Public Information Officer did not provide answers, instead directing further inquiries elsewhere.

What followed was a bureaucratic loop: multiple phone numbers, referrals, and repeated contact attempts, none of which produced verifiable information about Muhammad’s location or condition.

Muhammad’s mother was given the same explanation. When she pressed for clarification, she was told that placement in a “confidential location” is determined on a case-by-case basis and could be due to medical, mental health, safety, operational, or court-related reasons, according to the Office of Population Management. No further details were provided.

These explanations, or lack-thereof, raised more questions than they answer.

People in state custody do not simply disappear from public records. Prison transfers generate paper trails. Locations are logged. Systems update. None of that appears to have happened here, or, at the very least, none of it is being disclosed.

As of publication, supporters say they have no idea where Muhammad is. They have not spoken to them since they were placed in solitary confinement prior to their disappearance. No federal agency, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has acknowledged taking custody.

Muhammad is, for all practical purposes, gone.

A Record of Isolation and Torture

Muhammad’s disappearance comes after years of extreme isolation.

Their support committee documented on Muhammad’s blog that  they had spent more than 250 days in solitary confinement in 2024 alone, cut off from any meaningful human contact and communication.

Solitary confinement on that scale is not just punitive, it is widely recognized as torture.

The United Nations’s “Mandela Rules” state that more than 15 days in isolation constitutes cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and can amount to torture. Decades of research have shown that prolonged isolation can cause severe psychological damage, including hallucinations, paranoia, cognitive decline, and suicidal ideation.

Muhammad has already endured conditions that meet that threshold many times over.

Now, supporters say, even the minimal visibility that remained has been stripped away.

“This is entirely different,” members of Muhammad’s support network say. “We are scared. We know nothing about Malik’s condition, location, or why ODOC has taken the extraordinary step of blocking all access and information.”

From Prosecution to Disappearance

Following Muhammad’s sentencing, prosecuted by Nathan Vasquez, their supporters exclaimed the severity of the charges and sentence already reflected a broader political crackdown on antifascist and anti-police protesters, believing that sentence was never just about the alleged conduct, but was about making an example.

An antifascist and anarchist protester. A moment of mass uprising. A state eager to reassert control.

Now, they argue, that same logic has escalated beyond prosecution and punishment into something even more extreme: disappearance.

Political Repression by Design

The use of secrecy inside prison systems is not new. “Confidential” placements and communication blackouts are often justified under the language of security.

But advocates say that when the state refuses to disclose even the most basic information, such as where a prisoner is being held, whether they are safe, whether they are alive, it crosses a line from control into outright repression.

Without transparency, there is no accountability. Without contact, there is no oversight.

And without public pressure, there is nothing to stop it from happening again.

Supporters are now calling for urgent action. They are urging people to contact the Oregon Department of Corrections, elected officials and to amplify prior reporting on Muhammad’s treatment.

Because what is happening is no longer ambiguous.

A prisoner has been removed from public record.
Their location is being withheld.
Contact has been cut off.
And the state is refusing to explain why.

Under international human rights standards, this pattern has a name: enforced disappearance. The detention of a person followed by a refusal to disclose their fate or whereabouts. It is a practice historically associated with authoritarian regimes and political repression.

The Oregon Department of Corrections may use bureaucratic language such as “confidential placement,” “operational reasons,” but the effect is the same: a human being has been made to vanish behind the walls of the state.

This is not a clerical error. It is not a routine transfer. It is an escalation.

And if it is allowed to stand, it sets a precedent: that the state can make political prisoners disappear, and face no consequences for it.

This is bigger than one case. When the state can make a prisoner vanish and refuse to account for it, it exposes a system built not on justice, but on control and impunity. Naming it matters. Resisting it matters more. Because what is happening here is not an anomaly, it is an escalation.

Who to call:

ODOC– (503)945-9090

OSP General Line– (503)378-2453

OSP SMH– (503)378-2597

Brynne Xin at the Office of Population Management–

(503)871-5496

EOCI– (541)276-0700

From We Will Free Us, by Alissa Azar

Read the original article here: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/oregon-doc-appears-to-have-disappeared-portland-protester-malik-muhammad/

BAP’s 9th Anniversary: Turn Imperialist Wars into Peoples’ Wars Against Imperialism

For the past nine years, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has sought to advance the radical Black, anti-war, pro-peace, and anti-imperialist movements through practice and uncompromising analysis grounded in our Principles of Unity and a People(s)-Centered Human Rights approach. The U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination’s imperialist brutality and lawlessness currently on display on both domestic and global fronts is intended to demobilize and destabilize us – in just the last few months, this lawlessness has enabled the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, and the bombing, invasion, and ongoing intervention in Venezuela; the heightened strangulation and attacks on Cuba; the war on Iran; continued occupation and destabilization of Haiti; and murders and occupations of U.S. cities by federal agents. However, this very brutality and lawlessness heightens the contradictions brought on by the Pan-European colonial/capitalist patriarchy and clarifies the stakes of our commitment to challenging and defeating the war against our people.

Importantly, BAP was founded on April 4, 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech that reconnected with the Black Radical Peace tradition by adding his voice of opposition to the murderous U.S. war machine unleashed on the people of Vietnam. In this, he argued that the U.S. was the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet, and that a radical revolution of values was needed to defeat “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism [i.e. capitalism], and militarism.” BAP’s work is part of Dr. King’s unfinished fight against these forces that have only intensified in the last 59 years and continue waging war on our people.

To understand the nature of such warfare is to see through the veil of imperialist global conflict and recognize it for what it fundamentally is: a continuation of class war. The United States’ recent global wars, particularly the full-throated illegalities of the post-9/11 era, represent a qualitative shift. This external aggression has a direct domestic byproduct: intense repression and the engineered splintering of the population, all while funneling working-class tax dollars into the military-industrial complex that supports imperialist violence globally.

However, within this grim reality lies a critical opening for forces like BAP and all others who struggle for a revolutionary transformation of society, such as the communal economy and governance within the Bolivarian Revolution or the development achievements through national sovereignty in Iran. The system’s brutality via imperialist domination, while intended to demobilize, must sharpen the resolve for us and all the African/Black, colonized, and oppressed working masses of the globe. What we have witnessed, particularly since the Al-Aqsa Flood and the subsequent U.S.-Israeli genocidal campaign on Gaza, is the removal of remaining liberal pretenses that thinly disguised the theft of land, labor, and life that capitalism requires to sustain itself. We must name the truth, that this process, this structure of U.S.-led imperialism, seeks only death to establish and maintain “full spectrum dominance”.

In this context, we focus on defeating this war against our people. This requires not merely exposing the contradictions of U.S.-led imperialism, but turning imperialist wars on our people into peoples’ war against imperialism. The radical, revolutionary, and progressive forces that understand this must find ways to strike strategic blows against the imperialist war machine that is intent on destroying our lives, livelihoods, environments, and the planet. For BAP and other forces in the radical African/Black movement, this can only be done effectively by engaging and supporting the masses of our people to prepare for and conduct a peoples’ war for liberation.

In our ninth year, BAP recommits to this protracted struggle through our consistent campaign frameworks that are increasingly focused on moving from simply exposing the contradictions of imperialism toward political clarity and consciousness expressed as organized, sustained activity that builds legitimate resistance to U.S. imperialism and militarism:

• No Compromise No Retreat: Defeat the War Africans/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad. Our core campaign framework, which includes emerging efforts such as the Climate, Environment, and Militarism working group.

• U.S. Out of Africa: Shut Down AFRICOM

• U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas: Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!, and

• “MOVE THE GAMES”: Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S and Israel

In the context of this protracted collective struggle, BAP continues to forge a path between analysis and action through these campaign frameworks that are the trenches in which we fight for a future beyond the logic of capital.  The decade ahead demands that we deepen this struggle, sharpen our ideological clarity, enhance our activity, and continue to build a movement capable of not only opposing the machinery of death but of building a new world in its place.

Not one drop of blood from the poor and working class to defend capitalist dictatorship!

No Compromise No Retreat!

souce: Black Alliance For Peace

https://www.redbubble.com/i/notebook/People-s-Free-Food-Program-by-kodiakj77/179137306.RXH2R

#BlackPanthers #PeoplesFreeFoodProgram #BlackPantherParty #CommunityCare #FeedthePeople #MutualAid #RevolutionaryHistory #CivilRightsMovement #SocialJustice #ActivistShirt #CommunityEmpowerment #PoliticalHistory #BlackLiberation #RadicalHistory #protests #protest #resistance #activism #shopping #merchandise #merch #sales #artwork #artforsale #art #myart #digitalart #redbubble #teepublic #artforsale #myart #digitalart #artistsontumblr

Jacksonville SDS holds teach-in on the Black Panthers

Jacksonville, FL – On Wednesday March 12, Jacksonville Students for a Democratic Society held a teach-in on the history of SDS and the Black Liberation Movement.

[...]

https://fightbacknews.org/articles/jacksonville-sds-holds-teach-in-on-the-black-panthers

https://www.redbubble.com/i/socks/Black-Panther-Party-Black-Power-Fist-by-kodiakj77/179166853.9HZ1B

#BlackPowerFist #CivilRights #RevolutionaryArt #PowerFist #ActivistArt #BlackEmpowerment #BlackPower #BlackPride #BlackHistory #AfricanAmericanPride #RevolutionaryStyle #ProtestArt #EqualityMovement #ActivistApparel #CulturalPride #PowertothePeople #BlackPanthers #BlackPantherParty #RevolutionaryHistory #CivilRightsMovement #SocialJustice #CommunityEmpowerment #PoliticalHistory #BlackLiberation #RadicalHistory #protest #resistance #activism #redbubble #teepublic

https://www.redbubble.com/i/backpack/People-s-Free-Food-Program-by-kodiakj77/179137306.K1KHE

#BlackPanthers #PeoplesFreeFoodProgram #BlackPantherParty #CommunityCare #FeedthePeople #MutualAid #RevolutionaryHistory #CivilRightsMovement #SocialJustice #ActivistShirt #CommunityEmpowerment #PoliticalHistory #BlackLiberation #RadicalHistory #protests #protest #resistance #activism #shopping #merchandise #merch #sales #artwork #artforsale #art #myart #digitalart #redbubble #teepublic #artforsale #myart #digitalart #artistsontumblr

Brother Khalid, Presente! — BAP

The Black Alliance for Peace mourns the transition of Brother Khalid Raheem on February 14, 2026, and sends our condolences to his family and his comrades. Brother Khalid was part of many organizations and formations throughout his revolutionary life, including the Black Panther Party, National Council for Urban Peace and Justice, the New Afrikan Independence Party, the National Black Radical Political Congress, the Jericho Movement, the Gang Peace Council of Western Pennsylvania, the National Black Liberation Movement Unity Initiative, and many others. He was a revolutionary organizer, a prolific writer, and a dear comrade.

Brother Khalid joined the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1970. Involved in various campaigns and programs of the BPP, Khalid was arrested and incarcerated for over ten years. As a political prisoner, he embraced the teachings and practices of Islam, and struggled from inside to fight for the rights and liberation of all prisoners. After his release, Brother Khalid organized extensively in community in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area and continued involvement with local and national initiatives and organizations

BAP had the honor of collaborating with Brother Khalid and participating alongside him and many other revolutionary comrades at the most recent National Black Radical Political Convention in October 2025 in Philadelphia. There, Brother Khalid articulated as clear as ever the need for an independent and revolutionary Black political process based in principled unity. He was an elder who never gave up in the struggle for the liberation of oppressed peoples, and he contributed to our people’s liberation and anti-colonial struggle until his last breath. We salute Brother Khalid and embrace his example of committed, principled struggle.

Today, we celebrate his life and honor his struggle. Brother Khalid Raheem, presente!

Image: Khalid Raheem, at the front of the line, marching with the Black Panthers. Photograph: Stephen Shames/Polaris

source: BAP

The Anti-Imperialist Imperative: Confronting Globalized Fascism

Comrades, friends, colleagues—

We are living through a decisive historical rupture.

This is not a moment of policy disagreement. It is not a moment of partisan confusion among anti-imperialists or even simply a crisis of democracy. We are in the midst of a deepening capitalist crisis so profound that capital has abandoned even the performance
of its commitment to liberal enlightenment values.

The institutions it created—
the United Nations system,
the so-called rules-based international order,
the human rights regime—
have been stripped of their moral veneer.

What remains is naked power.

The doctrine now is simple: Full spectrum dominance — by any means necessary.

And when empire adopts that posture, clarity becomes a revolutionary obligation. It is imperative—especially for those of us operating in the imperial core—that we understand something fundamental.

At moments like this,
positions that appear nuanced, balanced, moderate—
positions that seek compromise with reaction,
that dilute anti-imperialism in the name of complexity—
do not remain neutral.

They objectively amplify the forces of reaction. They legitimize the structures of domination. They align, whether consciously or not, with Western and U.S. imperialism. Intentions do not negate political effect. In periods of fascist consolidation, confusion is not accidental.
It is produced.

As one left formation in Iran and its diaspora has correctly stated:

At this stage of Western imperialist domination, the global contradiction between labor and capital is embodied in the contradiction between the masses of the world and imperialism. The main axis of struggle today is the defense of nations and peoples against imperialism’s political, economic, and military domination.

That does not erase secondary contradictions. But determining which contradiction is primary—
which contradiction must define the agenda of struggle— is a matter of political life and death. This requires dialectical clarity. It requires precision. It requires the ability to analyze the totality
and not be trapped in fragments. Because imperialism thrives on fragmentation.

Imperialism advances a fatal illusion. It tells the oppressed:

You can achieve social justice
within the framework of imperial domination.

You can secure democratic freedoms
while remaining subordinate to empire.

You can fight for human rights
without confronting the global system that negates them.

And perhaps most dangerously—

It tells us that struggle can remain purely national.

That what happens domestically is separable from the global architecture of domination. This is ideological mystification. The domestic and the global are fused.

Look at the United States.

What we are witnessing is not random authoritarianism. It is the maturation of a coherent architecture of repression. A national security state that fuses: Intelligence agencies.
Militarized policing, surveillance systems, and ideological discipline into a single integrated mechanism of control.

This system is not reactive. It is proactive. It does not wait for crisis. It anticipates it. It prepares for it. It disciplines populations in advance of rupture.

This is not about safety. It is about managing dissent. It is about stabilizing imperial order
in a moment when consent is no longer sufficient. Because a system built on exploitation, extraction, and endless expansion cannot govern through consent when its contradictions sharpen, it must govern through coercion.

Consider immigration enforcement in the United States.

ICE raids in cities, mass arrests, workplace sweeps, collaboration between federal agents and local police. This is not merely about deportation. It is about terror. It is about deterrence. It is about instilling fear so pervasive that communities retreat into silence.

Migrant communities become laboratories of repression. Spaces where techniques are tested. Where methods of fragmentation are refined. And once perfected— those techniques do not remain confined, they are generalized, expanded, normalized.

Now consider the training relationships between U.S. police forces and Israeli security forces.

This is not symbolic. Israeli policing is shaped by occupation. By counterinsurgency, by the management of a population defined as a permanent threat. It is not designed to serve a public. It is designed to dominate an enemy.

When U.S. police import these models, they import more than tactics. They import a political logic, a logic that declares:

Certain populations are not citizens.

They are risks.

They are problems.

They are enemies to be contained.

This is the fusion of foreign and domestic repression.

The techniques used to occupy abroad are now fully integrated into governance at home. Sanctions logic becomes economic discipline, counterinsurgency logic becomes urban policing and military doctrine becomes domestic policy.

The empire has come home. Not because it prefers to— But because it must.

And this is what we must understand. We are not facing isolated authoritarian tendencies. We are confronting the consolidation of globalized fascism. A system in which:

International gangsterism is normalized.
State terror is justified.
Genocide is rationalized.
Sanctions are weaponized starvation.

And all of it is framed as defense of democracy.

When barbarism becomes normalized at the global level, it will not remain external. It returns inward. It reshapes the domestic terrain. It produces a Hobbesian international order— where the most powerful impose medieval forms of domination to preserve their interests. And once that normalization is complete— The descent accelerates.

Beyond Iran we have Venezuela, we have Cuba, occupation in Haiti, continued colonization in Puerto Rico, and increasing domestic terror within the imperialist core of the U.S. 

So what is the task before us?

It is not reform within this globalized architecture of repression. It is not pleading with multilateral institutions that have already revealed their impotence or complicity. It is not technocratic adjustment. The task is confrontation – political confrontation, ideological confrontation and organizational confrontation.

Because only organized resistance can disrupt a system that has abandoned pretense. Anti-imperialism is not optional in this moment. It is not one tendency among many. It is the central organizing principle of the conjuncture. To misidentify the primary contradiction
is to disarm the masses. To equivocate in the face of imperial consolidation
is to assist its stabilization.

We must say clearly:

There can be no authentic struggle for human rights
that does not confront imperial domination. There can be no democratic renewal
that leaves the imperial war machine intact. There can be no social justice
inside a global order structured by extraction and control.

The choice before us is stark. Either we align our analysis with the realities of global power, or we retreat into comforting illusions.

History will not reward ambiguity. It will not excuse hesitation. The imperative is clear:

Confront imperialism.

Expose the unity of global and domestic repression.

Build movements that understand
that the fight for national liberation,
the fight against sanctions and militarization, the fight against racialized policing and migrant terror— Are not separate fights. They are one struggle. And only by confronting the totality
can we begin to dismantle it.

And for this programmatic imperative at this historical moment  – there must be:

No Compromise, No Retreat! 

All Power to the people! 

Thank you.

Ajamu Baraka is an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. He is the Director of the North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights and serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the U.S.-based United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).

source: Black Agenda Report

Statement on the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

https://frso.org/statements/statement-on-the-passing-of-rev-jesse-jackson-sr/