June 11th

Revolutionary Greetings Family

First, I’d like to give a brief rundown on my situation. Recently, I was able to hire an attorney to file a Rule 32 Petition seeking a sentence reduction. Thank you for all the generous contributions for my legal defense. I’m hoping that I’ll be out there with you all this year.

Things have escalated to a degree that Alabama prisons have been designated as the most dangerous prison system in the U.S. due to the high number of prisoner deaths from suicide, overdosing on drugs and homicides. At Donaldson prison where I’m being held captive there has been at least thirty prisoner deaths or more here since I arrived in 2021. And these slimy, greedy muthafuckas are committing atrocities in these prisons against human beings and low-intensity warfare via the drug epidemic, psychotropic and illicit drugs. Just a month ago it was reported on the local news that the warden of Limestone prison and his wife were both arrested for smuggling Fentanyl into the prison. In the same segment it was reported that the organs of deceased prisoners were missing from their bodies. If no other reasons other than the atrocities mentioned above, prisons should be abolished. Police do not stop crime, nor do prisons deter crime or I’m sure there would be less humans held captive by the state.

Continue reading “Michael Kimble’s 2024 Statement”

FROM THE STEEL CAGES OF THE FASCIST TEXAS PRISON SYSTEM, a crime against humanity, I submit my solidarity statement to INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH LONG-TERM ANARCHIST PRISONERS, as an honorous and principled annual event to support many of us, whether we consider ourselves “anarchists, revolutionary socialists, communists,” or by any other anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-fascist name, the critical point is to come to full circle, no matter our “theoretical differences” over questions such as organizing a vanguard revolutionary party to lead our struggles, on “democratic centralism”, on class struggle, and the ultimate withering away of a needed revolutionary state, to ensure that once dismantled, the ruling class does not reorganize to engage in counter revolution to regain their power, lessons learned from the original Paris Commune, and many other recorded historical events in history, since the creation of the first International Working Men’s Association, and the splits that emerged in the “anarchist movement”.

Continue reading “XINACHTLI’s 2024 Statement”

DIA INTERNACIONAL DE SOLIDARIDAD CON LXS PRESXS ANARQUISTAS  DE LARGA CONDENA

Abolish EVERYTHING

By Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain

When I saw the parole board in August 2021, I had served 30 years in prison for what was provably an act of self defense, a noncrime. The lead fuckweasel on the parole board asked me about the circumstances of those events, and I shared with him my sincere remorse that the man who broke into my home had died, and had died as a result of the wounds I inflicted.

With a dismissive wave, that fuckweasel said, “We don’t really care about that. You’ve done enough time for that…,” and he began to bullet-point snippets from statements of mine that he said “concern” the parole board. Chief among those was my campaign slogan when I ran for governor in 2014.

In my gubernatorial campaign, I had said, “Turn your ballot into a bullet and blast it through the brainpan of the body politic.” So, in a very disingenuous reinvention of that slogan, the lead fuckweasel, with a straight face, said that the parole board understood that statement as a threat on the life of the governor, Mike DeWine. It was such a veiled threat, it seems, that no one interpreted the slogan that way except… well… the parole board.

Not to get too deep into the weeds on legal analysis here, but what I said in 2014 wasn’t a threat. The U.S. Supreme Court has long ago parsed out what constitutes threats from protected speech, what can be punished from what can’t, and while I fully understand that parole board fuckweasels never had a civics class because Ohio spends more money on prisons than on their sucky schools, you’ll never convince me that any one of those fascists thought that I wanted people to cram chunks of paper into pistols and try to fire them at Mike DeWine– as if the act of eliminating one fuckweasel would accomplish anything anyway. The absence of Mike DeWine would just be a job opening for Jon Husted, another fuckweasel of the highest order.

The point, of course, is that the parole board’s targeting of my political speech was illegal and they knew it… and they didn’t care.
Continue reading “Sean Swain’s 2024 Statement”

BUILDING BRIDGES – BURNING PRISONS

Early on a June morning, anarchists in Örebro, so-called Sweden, showed solidarity with anarchist prisoners! Freedom for all! There are no separate worlds, we are all interconnected, building bridges. With fire in our hearts, we burn every prison and live as if we are trying to be free.

Always Anarchy

(Submitted by email)

Vi närmar oss återigen 11 juni, dagen för att minnas och visa solidaritet i en värld av konflikter och kamper. Alla dessa är sammankopplade; det finns inga separata världar. Över gränser, språk, sammanhang och identiteter ekar både katastrofer och segrar runt om i världen. En miljö är inte opåverkad av en annan. Det personliga är inte skilt från det politiska. Det positiva projektet är inte skilt från det förstörande. Fängelset är inte skilt från den “fria världen”. Medel är inte åtskilda från ändamål. Att överbrygga dessa klyftor är ett gemensamt projekt; att överbrygga dessa klyftor är solidaritet.

Detta inte för att släta över eller förenkla olika skillnader mellan människor. Snarare hålls olika delar samman, likt organ i kroppen hålls samman av vävnad. Därför reflekterar vi över hur vi kan stärka denna väv? Hur förblir vi starka, men ändå smidiga och flexibla? Broar, förbindelser, måste också byggas med tiden, särskilt i en värld som rör sig för snabbt, från en kris till en annan. Den 11 juni vill vara en av dessa broar där vi bygger solidaritet över gränser, mellan rörelser och mellan generationer. Att minnas och stödja långtidsfångar, samt att fortsätta gemensamma kamper, är två sätt att stärka denna väv. En starkare väv kommer i sin tur att stärka oss mot ytterligare förtryck.
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The 2024 Call has now been updated to include this update.

ABC Belarus currently supports 28 anarchist prisoners in Belarus, 7 of them are long term prisoners:

• Aleksandr Zaytsev – Aliaksandr was detained on August 22, 2021 near the cottage of the chairman of the Supreme Court Sukalo. Aliaksandr was accused of attempted arson of the cottage (part 1 of article 14 and part 2 of article 289 of the Criminal Code Attempt of terrorist act in a group of persons). According to our information, he went to the case with the provocateur Akulich Dmitriy Alexandrovich, whom they met on a day when Alexander was detained on administrative article 23.34 (participation in an unauthorized protest, now is 24.23 of the Administrative Code) at the protests in November 2020. The status of Akulich in the criminal case is not unknown to us, but most likely he is being held as a witness with a fake name of Sergeenko. It is noteworthy that Akulich was given a real passport with a fake name to provoke Zaytsev.
• Akihiro Gaevsky-Khanada and Aleksandr Frantskevich* who were detained as a part of the so-called “international organized crime” case. The regime decided to use the dozens of anarchists’ actions over the past 10 years to create the image of a coordinated organized group engaged in resistance to the regime. Some participants in the case were tortured before being transferred to a detention center.
• Dmitry Rezanovich
• Dmitry Dubovski
• Igor Olinevich
• Sergey Romanov
• These four were detained while crossing the border of Belarus with Ukraine on the night of October 28-29, 2020. Dzmitry Rezanovich emphasized he was saved from torture just because of Siarhei Ramanau sliced his hands with a razor to stop the torment and viciousness.
• They were under a number of articles for setting fire to government officials’ vehicles, the building of the traffic police and the state committee of expertise in the Homeĺ region.

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