June 11 Eugene Reportback
Nothing is ever lost. Nothing is ever over. Though it often seems as if the sparks of resistance, revolt, and insurrection are sparse amidst the overwhelming wave of counter-revolutionary repression, we remember, we keep the hearth warm, the flame burning. We are custodians of a revolutionary past that will never be forgotten as long as its promise of freedom remains incomplete. Political prisoner support –– from Palestine to Ireland, from Amerika to Greece –– has always been a crucial (maybe even the crucial) aspect of caretaking the spark that is always almost a prairie fire –– between revolts, between insurrections –– even when they fade our prisoners remain & continue the struggle, continue to endure. Yet, this cannot be mere support, it must be inside-outside collaboration, a conspiracy of shared breath & hands held & fists raised.
In Eugene –– where June 11 began –– we held our 3rd celebration in as many years. Banners hung from the trees to welcome our friends in struggle from Olympia to Corvallis. We discussed the history of June 11, the history of prisoner organizing in the Zionist dungeons of occupied Palestine, shared statements from Marius Mason & Michael Kimble. Homies offered stick & poke tattoos for fundraising. Other homies sewed balaclavas for the same. Patches, stickers, posters, & zines were distributed. Our local anarchist street combat / self-defense group held their weekly training with us, offering de-arrest trainings. Other homies offered lock-picking workshops. Long-time prisoner supporters shared stories of shared inside-outside initiatives, & many letters were written.
Most crucially, Olympia homies behind the offline Undercurrents shared a statement that solidified the sentiment of love & rage that will carry us into the future for which we fight.
A zine emerged with this statement & other 2025 statements from our comrades inside as a modest contribution to the struggle. A PDF for printing can be found here: https://archive.org/details/june-11-2025-statements [also added to our Resources page]
In Sumud
Fire to the Prisons
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“Sooner or later, we will all be in trouble” –– June 11, 2025 International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners
“Revolutionary solidarity that doesn’t see the prisoner as an inactive individual with whom you should unquestioningly show solidarity, but rather as a comrade who continues being part of the struggle and who, therefore, is active in exchanging visions of the different initiatives that are carried out.” –– Francisco Solar
Sooner or later, we will all be in trouble. All across the globe the forces of Order are on the attack –– in democracies as in dictatorships, law and order is the framework through which power consolidates in the hands of police and armed forces. New states of exception spring alive to never end –– climate disaster, migrant “invasion,” trade wars and the food riots that follow, etc., all cause and justify the expansion and militarization of police power. Newer and newer anti-poverty and “quality of life” crime laws swallow up more and more people shunted from the contractions of the formal economy into the corrections and criminal justice industries. All over the territories dominated by the American state, repression has hit hard against the Palestinian liberation movement, and now federal agents invade so-called sanctuary cities; LA, MPLS, NYC, even here in Seattle and Olympia showing that the sanctuary is paper thin. Everywhere, in all territories, the noose of tyranny tightens around our necks. Those who have hidden behind certain privileges –– citizenship, skin color, education, even some rings of wealth are finding that it won’t protect them forever. Sooner or later, we will all be in trouble.
What is happening is not inevitable and as the June 11th International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners approaches we are reminded that another life is possible if we fight for it. Waiting neither for some ill-defined “conditions” or catastrophe that never comes, nor for the exploited or a social movement to be behind them, comrades all over the world have set to show what’s possible when we toss aside the realism of the political for courage –– and a little bit of insanity. Alfredo Cospito in Italy who took part in the shooting of a CEO of a nuclear power company has been imprisoned for the last 13 years and continues to fight against the state. Monica and Francisco in Chile who sought to expand the horizons of the 2019 uprising in Chile with explosive attacks against police and capitalist targets and, having been imprisoned for the last 5 years, continue to contribute to debates and the theoretical development of the anarchist movement. Here, too, Marius Mason, imprisoned since 2009 for attacks against the exploiters of the earth and animals as part of the Earth Liberation Front, continues to be a cornerstone of anarchy in these territories and fights against the prison system for the dignity of transgender prisoners. As conditions have worsened new fighters have risen to the challenge and some of them have been captured –– Casey Goonan, Peppy and Krystal, Gabriella Opresa, and many more names. This is a woefully insufficient description of these individuals, but they and so many others show us that not only does life not end in prison, but that it’s still possible to struggle for the beautiful idea with courage and dignity.
We’re also reminded that a movement that doesn’t think about prison, doesn’t support its captives, isn’t going anywhere. But prisoner support goes well beyond writing letters and raising funds for commissary. It’s preparing for when they come home –– housing, work if they want it, a movement for them to come home to. It’s taking our movement to the prisons with fireworks and drums –– and fire and stones too if the opportunity arises –– to remind them that they are not forgotten. It’s bringing their names, memory, and fighting spirit with us into the streets. It’s engaging in shared projects and debates with them as comrades, not charity cases. It’s taking seriously that we could free them and preparing accordingly. It’s continuing forward with all the courage and heart we can muster in the struggle for Anarchy –– the very struggle and ideals our comrades fought for and behind bars still continue to fight for.
FREEDOM FOR THE ANARCHIST FIGHTERS
