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

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Some Parts of the Whole: A Meeting of Resistance and Rebellion

From August 3 to 16, in the Semillero Comandanta Ramona, Morelia, Chiapas, the Zapatistas opened their world to a gathering unlike any before it —the Encuentro de Resistencia y Rebeldía:  “algunas partes del todo (some parts of the whole).” For two whole weeks, surrounded by colorful murals that breathe life into the semillero, and the breathtaking view of the cañada, the youth of Zapatista support base communities welcomed people from all corners of the world -representatives from 37 countries and from all over the Mexican territory.

Every day, the comedor bearing the name of El Común nourished us, not only with food prepared by compañeras and compañeros, but with the spirit of collectivity. The very infrastructure of the encounter—built with their own hands—was a testament to autonomy in practice.

Through theatre the Zapatista compañeros shared their stories, lessons, and even serious errors of their past organization, recounting both the good and the not-so-good of the last 31 years. What is clear is that these previous steps in education, in health and in justice have paved the way for the making of el Común (the communal). This concept, notably the practice of non-property and inclusion, is currently underway within the autonomous territories with one clear purpose: to dismantle the pyramids of power, and to extend a hand to sisters and brothers in organizing around basic needs.

From our scattered geographies, we came together with one simple yet profound task: to listen. To listen to each other, to look at one another, and to learn from the diverse struggles that resist the storm unleashed by capitalism.

And during the opening act, as if signalling an energetic focal point for our collective heart, a thunderous cry echoed across the mountains:
“We are all Palestinian children. We are all Palestine.”
Thousands of Zapatista milicianas and milicianos, led by the voice of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, made it clear: the struggles of the world are intertwined, and solidarity has no borders.

Over the days that followed, we heard from madres buscadoras (searching mothers), defenders of land and territory, and the CNI (National Indigenous Congress). Cooperatives, occupied towns and factories, labor unions, anti-capitalist collectives for health, free media, arts, and mutual aid presented their contexts and their collaborations. Groups spoke of prison abolition, migrant solidarity, climate justice, food sovereignty, gentrification and homelessness. It was a space to share our visions and our limitations, our strategies and our sadnesses, and to glimpse the many facets of organizing and building from below, from the neighborhood to the national and the international.

These accounts from around the globe resonate in their familiar struggles. Though our circumstances vary, our challenges are not foreign—isolation, conflict between the different ‘isms’,  insecurity from violence and the rise of authoritarianism and repression. What have we learned about colonization, dehumanization, dispossession, alienation, patriarchy, counterinsurgency, ethnic supremacy, and militarism? And from every geography, woven through it all, Palestine…Palestine. The moral issue of our time.

We learned from struggles of every color, from different trenches of resistance, each one a small light pushing against the darkness of oppression. Milling between presentations, passing evenings in the comedor, laughing and bouncing through a baile — every moment was an opportunity to learn, to connect, to build the bonds that extend our collective struggle.

As the days came to a close, even as the compañerxs Zapatistas answered questions about their journey and what they had learned, we knew our task was to return to our territories to reflect and continue to build our struggles from our own geographies. We know our journeys will be both different and the same. We carry with us many lessons, as well as the hope and strength born from walking together. What was the purpose/intention of it all?

Despite our distinct realities and modes of resistance, we could think/feel that our struggle is a shared one. We have differing ways of talking, of thinking, of organizing. But we    also,collectively have a tremendous capacity for analysis, communication, self-criticism, unlearning and re-learning. And just as our hosts demonstrated for us, our mission is to have the perceptivity, the humility and the determination and grace to persevere in forging a common ground. The Encuentro offered a practice space to soften our learned barriers and start those conversations, this time, with a different lens.

So to those who were present at the Encuentro de Resistencias y Rebeldías: Algunos Partes del Todo we might turn the question around. What were you hoping you would glean from your experience in Zapatista territory? How was it different than you imagined? Do you walk away with inspiration from alternatives that you might replicate in your territory? How do you envision cultivating the connections that you have made? What concrete actions will you take?

How is Chiapas, how is Zapatismo a school for us, for the day that comes after the storm?

From the very beginning, the compañeras and compañeros of the EZLN have been a compass in the path of Schools for Chiapas. Along this journey of many years the compañerxs have been joined by grassroots organizations, collectives, and NGOs in Chiapas, each from their own trench of struggle, reminding us that—despite the storm already upon us—it is possible to do things differently.

Chiapas, its land and territory, and the compañeras and compañeros who live it, is for us a living school. A school that teaches through daily acts of dignity, through resistance that is also creation, through memory that becomes a seed for the future.

For Schools for Chiapas, this living school inspires us to keep dreaming, but above all to keep building a world where many worlds fit. It reminds us that community, autonomy, and solidarity are not abstract ideals, but practices we must nurture wherever we are.

These lessons travel with us and invite others to join—to look to Chiapas, to listen, and to learn how, even in the storm, another way is possible.

With gratitude to the EZLN for creating these spaces of encounter, of hope, of recognition, and of learning to see ourselves in El Común.

source: Schools for Chiapas

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