Category: Prisoner Support

Its been a little while since we have written about Cara & Celeste, who were arrested and accused of a mink liberation in the USA. We don’t have updates about the case but would like to remind folks of their legal fundraiser, which is still stuck at 16k when they are needing to raise 75k USD.

Please, if you are reading this, send what you can afford to the fundraiser.

If that is 1 USD, that is better than nothing. If it is 100, that is equally as awesome!

Maybe it’d be cool to organise a fundraising event locally with other anarchist and animal rights folks? A fundraising diner, or a gig, or whatever other event that will help raise awareness and funds! If you are organising anything, we will be very happy to promote it so hit us up!

It is important to remember that c&c havr not been convicted for this crime, but that as a movement we are responsible for the wellbeing of all of us, and that includes ensuring that anyone who is facing the court system knows we have their backs!

If you cant afford donating, and you can’t organise a fundraiser, it would be awesome if you can share this post far and wide so others read it, collective self defence will take us far!

Donate here:
https://phillyabc.org/northumberland-2/

SOLIDARITY ALWAYS!

Last week we where glad to inform you about that Sindre, a animal right activist from so called Sweden, has been released from the closed psychiatric ward.

Since last week we had the opportunity to talk to Sindre, where he among other things spoke about his time incarcerated, what he thinks can help prisoners, and what he wants do to in the future.

• Congratulations on your release! When where you released?

”Thanks, on the 25th February I got the final notice that I’ve been transferred to the open psychiatric care.”

• How are you?

”I am good and very happy to have gotten rid off the closed psychiatric wards.”

• How has the time been since we last spoke? What have you done, what has happened?

”Its been better & better since I’ve gotten more and more time to stay at home with my family and my animal companions. I’ve read a lot of books and taken a lot of long walks with my best dog friend when I’ve been at home.”

• Last time we spoke you told us you have been getting to visit/sleep at home, outside of he closed psychiatric ward. Where you allowed to do so the whole time?

”I have been allowed to stay more and more at home until the recent months where I finally has been able to only visit the hospital for a few hours a week to pick up medication with the doctors approval.”

• What can you tell us more about your time in prison?

”My time incarcerated has been hard. But compared to other inmates I’ve had it easier since I where released after little more than one year while many others have been locked up for much longer before getting free.”

• What helped you specifically get through this/your prison time. And what do you think people can do to support others incarcerated?

”The biggest part was definitely the support from my family and comrades. Both the ones I know and all the kind people which I don’t know that sent me letters, drawings and postcards while incarcerated. Also the fact that I knew taking action against animal abusers is the right thing to do helped in getting me through this period. The best way of helping incarcerated people in my opinion is to let them know that they never are alone, to support them with contact because prisons & institutions are often very isolating and they try to tell you that you’re the one who done wrong while in reality the system is in the wrong.”

• Have you missed anything during your time in prison?
  ”I’ve had amazing support and can’t say I missed much at all except my freedom.”
• What do you want to do now?

”Now I want to continue fighting for animal liberation in every way I can since my commitment to it remains the same. I also want to enjoy spending lots of time with my animal friends, family & comrades.”

• Is there anything else you want to say?

”No i think it’s good.”

IN SOLIDARITY

At 80 years old, Leonard has finally arrived home following one of the last presidential orders Joe Biden would sign before leaving office. He was accused of the murder of two FBI agents in Pine Ridge, during an armed altercation that also saw a member of the American Indian Movement dead back in 1975. Since the beginning of his imprisonment he has maintained his innocence, and multiple groups have shown that the FBI had no evidence that Peltier was the shooter that made contact with those two FBI agents.

Joe Biden did not pardon Peltier. He signed an allowance to serve the rest of his life sentence in house arrest, so Peltier now is confined to his house and immediate community. Nevertheless, this means he has access to the people around him without the oppressive eyes of the prison system, and it also means he now can access medical care he so immediately needs. When being asked why he wouldn’t plead guilt and remorse in front of parole boards in an attempt to gain his freedom sooner, he says “Well, that’s just not what I’m fighting for, grandson,” ‘I’m sorry for what happened to those agents, but I’m not going to sit here and admit to something I didn’t do. And if I have to die in here for that, I’m going to.’”

Now, back in North Dakota, he says sometimes he still wakes up terrified that it was all a dream and he is still in a cell, but he feels positive about young natives still keeping up the fight. “It makes me feel so good, man, it does,” “I’m thinking, well, I didn’t give my life for nothing.”

Welcome back home, Leonard. We all keep fighting.

At the end of February, we received the wonderful news that Sindre has been released. We congratulate Sindre on the release! We hope that he and his loved ones, as well as his best friend, a pit bull mix named Kenzo, now can spend more time together.

Sindre is an animal rights activist from Sweden. In October 2023, Sindre was sentenced to forensic psychiatric compulsory care, for an indefinite period. (Sindre was also sentenced to pay SEK 10,000 in damages) The verdict refers to prosecution for actions in 2021, against the former fur farmer Niklas Pettersson (the fur farm is now closed, due to years of action). Sindre denies the alleged crime! Sindre was detained immediately after the trial, and then locked up, without an end date. Now he is finally free!

If Sindre had not been sentenced to forensic psychiatric care, his prison sentence would have been four months. Instead, he was locked up in forensic psychiatric care, for almost a year and a half.

IN SOLIDARITY

Rebels in Prison Support is a group supporting activists locked up in prison in the UK.

They mostly support Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, Just Stop Oil, Palestine Action and Animal Rebellion activists that have been handed sentences for their civil disobedience or direct actions.

Whilst we fundamentally disagree on making any difference between peaceful and violent action prisoners and would normally not prioritise publishing about folks facing the courts for accountable actions, the staggering 40+ current prisoners can do with support and love.

Below is the link to RIPS list of current prisoners, most of them have an email address you can write a letter to, which we assume will then be handled by a middle person so that their actual address is not made public. If you have an hour today, send some letters to political prisoners. Receiving love whilst inside can make your day infinitely better and absolutely nobody should have to face the full force of the empire on their own.

https://rebelsinprison.uk/rebels

SOLIDARITY ALWAYS.

Cara and Celeste were arrested and accused of raiding a mink farm in the USA. Luckily after some legal pressure, their bail was lowered and they were able to be on the streets again awaiting trial, but the legal fees associated will be serious. PhillyABC launched a fundraiser so we decided to put together a team of artists (thank you, you four are amazing!) to sell some t-shirts and prints to raise funds for them! 



After having sent all the tees and prints we can confirm that your donations have made a difference, we sent 2200 USD to the fundraiser thanks to all of your generosity.

Thank you again for getting behind the initiative and supporting the cause. It is thanks to you all that we can keep going with the project and we would love to organise similar fundraisers in the future if people think they are a good idea. 



For anyone who missed the tee/print fundraiser, we still have a few prints left on our website, but please, consider donating directly to the fundraiser that Philly ABC is running, the goal is 75K and we are still well far from it!

https://phillyabc.org/northumberland-2

Thank you again.

SOLIDARITY ALWAYS!

Longtime political prisoner Leonard Peltier was granted clemency on January 20. Leonard will be able to spent the rest of his life sentence from his home, starting on February 18.

Leonard Peltier was arrested for a shootout in June 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, in which two FBI agents were shot and killed. Although there is no evidence against him, and his two co-defendants were acquitted before his trial started, Peltier was convicted in 1977 by a racist court hand-picked by the FBI to get a guilty verdict. Other government misconduct during Peltier’s trial included coercion of witnesses, intentional use of false testimonies, hiding ballistics evidence, and manufacturing a murder weapon. Despite all of this, Peltier has been consistently denied requests for a new trial. Instead, Peltier has spent almost 50 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, Leonard is 80 years old, and he suffers from several health problems. On January 20, the outgoing Biden administration granted Leonard clemency, and he will be released from prison on February 18.

Over the years, many people and organizations have fought for Leonard’s release and freedom. We are now happy to hear of Leonard’s clemency and to know that he will finally be able to spend time with his family and friends, outside of prison walls.

”It’s finally over – I’m going home…”, Leonard said, in a statement released by the NDN Collective.

UNTIL ALL ARE FREE

Below is a translation of two of the prisoners from Caso Susaron, translated from spanish:

We hope that our first words represent a push of strength for those who are doubting whether the value of their beautiful actions and their consequences make sense or not.

Two years and almost two months after our captivity, we continue to reaffirm that the path of war and confrontation, with all its bitterness and misfortunes, continues to be the only dignified way of life that we understand as valid.

UPDATE:
In recent months there have been several developments in our case.
Comrade Ru was sentenced to 5 years in prison, with the prosecution and the court denying the possibility of a supervised release on the grounds that he is a danger to society, with no intention of reinsertion.

At the same hearing, happily, comrade Tortuga was released to the street. Sentenced to 5 years of tagged probation, joining comrade Ita.

After some appeals that evidently failed, comrade Ru was transferred to the ex-penitentiary.

This transfer was carried out by the gendarmerie in violation of a court order that the comrade could not be moved until a report on the feasibility of transfer to La Colina was issued.

The comrade was received with open arms by the nihilist prisoner Hector Herrera, in 3C Street. In the overcrowding and discomfort that is lived in those facilities.

Days later, without any warning and with an absolutely arbitrary criterion, they transferred comrade Panda without warning from La Colina, where he was already settled after months serving his sentence, to the ex-penitentiary.

The report delivered by the gendarmerie justified the transfer of the comrade on the grounds that he would be a negative leader, a danger to the internal regiment of La Colina and that this prison would not have sufficient security to prevent a possible escape.

The next day, Panda is received by Ru and Hector in 3C Street.

We call to participate in all instances of solidarity. Since this new process requires a greater expense in parcels and in managing the intrapenitentiary benefits, meaning a great economic blow for family, friends and relatives.

To close this message: we are still here. Loving our successes and our mistakes, without regrets or hesitation. Clear that no trick of gendarmerie to hit our spirit will generate that we do not smile looking at the facts that led us to this place lost in time.

Today more than ever animal and total liberation! Veganism is war! Fire to existence! 

Prisoners Vegan straight edge anarco nihilists, Caso Susaron (*Panda and Ru)

C.D.P. Santiago Sur (Ex penitentiary)
December 2024.

SPANISH (original):

Buscamos que el inicio de estas palabras representen un vendaval de fuerza para quienes están dudando sobre si el valor de sus hermosas acciones y sus consecuencias tienen sentido o no.

A dos años y casi dos meses de nuestro cautiverio, seguimos reafirmando que el camino de guerra y confrontación, con todos sus amargores y desventuras, sigue siendo la única forma de vida digna que comprendemos como valida.

actualizacion:
En los últimos meses son varias las situaciones en nuestro caso.
El compañero Ru fue condenado a 5 años de cumplimiento efectivo, con la fiscalía y el juzgado negando la posibilidad de una Liberata vigilada por considerarle un peligro para la sociedad, sin proyección de reinserción.

En la misma audiencia, alegremente, el compañero Tortuga se fue a la calle. Condenado a 5 años de libertad vigilada, uniéndoselas a la compañera Ita.

Despise de algulas instancias apelatorias que evidentemente fallero, el compañero Ru fue trasladado a la ex-penitenciaria.

Este traslado fue realizado por gendarmería incumpliendo un oficio del tribunal que ordenaba que el compañero no podia ser movido hasta que se emitiera un informe de factibilidad de traslado a La Colina.

Al comparer lo recibió el preso nihilista Hector Herrera con los brazos abiertos, en la calle 3C. En el hacinamiento e incomodidad que se vive en esas instalaciones.

Dias después, sin ningún aviso y con un criterio absolutamente arbitrario, trasladaron al compañero Panda de manera sorpresiva desde La Colina, donde ya estaba instalado hace meses cumpliendo su respectiva condena, hacia la ex-penitenciaria.

El informe entregado por gendarmería justifica el traslado del compañero en que este seria un líder negativo, un peligro para el regiment interno de La Colina y que esta cárcel no contaría con la seguridad suficiente para evitar una posible fuga.

Al otro día de su traslado, Panda es recibido por Ru y Hector en la calle 3C.

Hacemos un llamado a participar en todas las instancias de solidaridad. Ya que este nuevo proceso requiere un mayor gasto en encomienda y en gestionar los beneficios intrapenitenciarios, significando un gran golpe económico para familiares, amigos y afines.

Para cerrar este mensaje es que mandamos a decir que acá seguimos. Amando nuestros aciertos y nuestros errores, sin arrepentimientos ni titubeos. Claros de que ninguna artimaña de gendarmería para golpear nuestro espíritu generara que no sonriamos mirando los hechos que nos condujeron a este lugar perdido en el tiempo.

!Hoy mas que nunca liberación animal y total! !Veganismo es guerra! !Fuego a la existencia! 

Presos Vegan straight edge anarch-nihilistas, Caso Susaron (*Panda y Ru)

C.D.P. Santiago Sur (Ex penitenciaria)
Diciembre 2024.

WHAT: SUPPORT DEMO FOR DANIEL SAN DIEGO
WHERE: WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATES COURT, 181 MARYLEBONE ROAD, LONDON, NW1 5BR
WHEN: TUESDAY 31ST DECEMBER, 11:45

Daniel San Diego was arrested in Wales after being wanted by the FBI for 20 years. The authorities have been wanting to talk to him in relation to actions at Huntington Life Sciences over 20 years ago. He has a hearing in Westminster Magistrates Court, UK, tomorrow 31st of December at 11:45.

Please show up and show support. It is easy for people to feel they do not have anyone whilst being processed by the system, ensure that they don’t by showing up and sending love! If you can make it to Westminster Magistrates court, show up and ensure Daniel knows he is not alone! 

Solidarity always.