Category: Prisoner Support

Osman Evcan born in 1959 in Samsun, is an anarchist prisoner who spent the last 41 years in prison. İn 1992, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison with the charges of being a member of a radical leftist group. He was also imprisoned for 9 years between 1980-1989. Since Osman adopted anarchist ideas in 2003, he also became vegan and supports animal liberation struggles.

Osman Evcan was imprisoned in many different prisons all over the country during his conviction. He built his life fighting against authoritarian violence and especially the violence and oppression which is a systemic part of the prison’s hierarchical structure, and he still continues his fight against prison’s oppressive mentality, without giving an inch, aspiring to the right standards for anarchist, vegan, libertarian individuals.

Osman’s first barnburner act was his hunger strike in 2011 for vegan food to be available in prison which lasted 42 days. During his hunger strike the anarchists, animal liberationists from all over the World and in Turkey supported Osman’s fight to access vegan food in prison. After 42 days of hunger strike the government gave in and made regulations for the vegan and vegetarian prisoners: “Vegan or vegetarian prisoners demands will be accepted as long as its limited by subsistence allowance.” After this victory of all anarchists, animal liberationists and political prisoners, Osman continued to be in the anarchist struggle during his time in prison. He has supported the LGBT, Animal Liberation, women’s rights, anti-imperialist struggles outside prison and he made hunger strikes to protest the animal massacre during each ‘feast of sacrifice’ every year for 3 days. He wrote articles to support nature, ethnic and different identities against the government’s and comprador bourgeoisie’s raids and he still continues his political fight as much as he can from prison.

He self-criticized by saying that both capitalist and socialist system forms for being are statist message and colonist formations.

To quote his own words: “Veganism is not only a capitalism contrast it also includes socialism contrast. Veganism is civilization contrast. Veganism has an all out attitude against technological destruction, violence, human species alienation to nature and to itself, ecological pillage, pollution, colonialism, global warming. Act of civilization has a common history with statist forms of organizations. The idea of a state grown up process starting from primitive-simple history ongoing modernization continuum for thousands of years and transforming to nation state is a result of civilization. We cant separate this ongoing, mutually reinforcing facts that produce each other, from each other. Veganism is a radical attitude against all…”

In Kocaeli no 1 high security prison, the pressure against him continued to increase. After his hunger strike for 33 days on June 2015 he took vegan food supplies one step further and he gained the right to get vegan food from outside the prisons. The prison administration usurped this gain due to arbitrarily reasons. Osman Evcan continued his hunger strike since 10 November 2015 and won the fight in late December 2015.

• Osman Evcan could be with us in the near future.
  He could’ve been released in September of 2022. The worst scenario is 2028.

To send letters :
Letter Adress
Marmara Kapalı Cezaevi
Infaz Kurumu (9 Nolu)
Oda No: A-6-41
PTT Kampüs Cezaevi Şubesi
Istanbul/Silivri

Contact e-mail: [email protected]

Freedom and solidarity for Osman Evcan

A movement with the goal of crushing a ruling oppressive system will have to learn that people in it will be exposed to repression from the government. This can sometimes mean that you, or your friends, are forced into prison. To take care of ourselves, our comrades, our movement, and to continue fighting to achieve our goals, it is therefore important that we practice prisoner support.

Prisoner support can look very different. Among other things, because we may have different needs when we are imprisoned. But also because we who help do it in different ways. Therefore, it is not possible to easily define exactly what prisoner support is, how it is done. However, there are some recognizable features of prisoner support.

As prisoner supporters, it is fundamental to show solidarity with your comrade in prison. You can do that by getting in touch and check what needs the prisoner have. For example, you can write letters to the inmate (guidelines for letter writing differ between different institutions, so check which rules apply in the prison you are writing to). Then think about what you want, and can handle. You can, for example, write a letter only on a single occasion, to show that the inmate is not forgotten, alone. You can also start a longer relationship, by writing letters. You can hear what the inmate wants.

In addition to letter writing, there are other ways to help prisoners. For example, for those who have the opportunity, and if it is allowed by the prison, you can contribute with money and things that the inmate needs, e.g. send books to the prisoner. If necessary, you can also help the inmate’s friends and family, outside the prison. Several families need both emotional and financial support. In cases where you are not able to donate financially, you can contact the nearest Anarchist Black Cross, check if you together can start a fundraiser for the family. You can also be there for the inmate when they are released, helping in different ways when the comrade leaves prison is often important.

With prisoner support, we can not only help inmates but also strengthen comrades outside prisons. All comrades in the movement should know that if they themselves are imprisoned, they will not be alone or forgotten, on the contrary. In this way, prisoner support contributes to strengthening the entire movement for the liberation of animals. No one is alone. No one is free until all are free!

IN SOLIDARITY – PRISONER SUPPORT

The Susaron case is the name given by the Chilean press to the arrest of 4 comrades accused of having set fire to trucks, the meat packing plant and the sales room of the Susaron butcher’s shop. This company is nationally known for producing important imports and exports of pork, beef and chicken.

On September 18, 2022, the comrades entered the main branch of Susaron and set fire to the trucks that were on the premises. As a result of the spread of the fire, the meat packing plant and the sales room were also burned. Due to an investigation, on November 3, 2022, their homes were raided and the 4 comrades were arrested in different places. The following day they were taken into custody and remanded in custody for the crime of arson, and two of them for possession of ammunition.

The case became a media event, appearing in all the national news programs. Due to the seriousness of the facts, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Ministry of the Interior and the company filed a lawsuit. All of them asked for sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment.

At present, all the comrades have been convicted.

The first was Itamar, sentenced in March 2024 to 5 years of intensive probation for the crime of arson. She will have to serve the remainder of her sentence in freedom, discounting the time she served in prison.

On August 5, 2024, Panda was sentenced to 4 and a half years for the crime of arson and possession of ammunition. He will have to serve the remainder of his sentence in prison. He is currently in the Colina I prison.

On October 7, 2024, Tortuga was sentenced to 5 years for the crime of arson and possession of ammunition, but he could serve his sentence under intensive probation. Therefore, he is serving the remainder of his sentence. On October 7, 2024, Ru was sentenced to 5 years for the crime of arson. Having to serve the sentence in prison. He is currently in the Santiago 1 prison, awaiting his transfer to the Colina I prison.

Antispeciesist nihilist prisoners From the susaron case to the street!

You can find press releases and updates on the case on the solidarity committee’s page @solidaridad.antiespecista.

Leonard Peltier has celebrated his 80th birthday in prison, having been locked up for half a century for a crime he isn’t guilty of. His conviction was riddled with dodgy acts to convince a racist, hand selected jury of his involvement in the murder of two FBI agents inside Pine Ridge Reservation.

Leonard is truly just paying for the crime of standing up for native rights in the so-called USA, and has been used as a political scapegoat for decades. Even in his old age, using a walker to move around and experiencing partial blindness, he is still being thrown in solitary lockdown without much explanation. His health is continuously deteriorating and he does not have a release date, with every single previous campaign to seek his freedom failing to make a dent against the cruel jaws of the carceral system.

Currently he is unable to access the phone and emails are an issue due to the current lockdown. He can still receive letters,although he might not be able to answer to them. Please write to him today. He has a great sense of humour and really enjoys jokes.

Please only write on white paper, with white, big and bold letters so he can read due to his vision. DO NOT add stickers, feathers or else any other non white paper items in the letter.

Leonard Peltier #89637-132
USP Coleman I
U.S. PENITENTIARY
P.O. BOX 1033
COLEMAN, FL 33521
U.S.A

SOLIDARITY IS OUR BIGGEST WEAPON

“We are living through hard times, and they are only getting harder. Our movements, friends, comrades, organizations, protests, neighbors and activities are falling more and more on the wrong side of law enforcement, regardless of legality or illegality. Some of us will be kidnapped by the state, to be punished for the crime of seeking justice or even basic survival… … We can neither meet this with despair, nor let the state take away our people so easily.”

Nattsvart Verkstad will hold an art show and education weekend, 20-22 September, at Cyklopen, in Högdalen, Stockholm Sweden. The event will featuring the art, literature, music, and words of imprisoned comrades. Nattsvart have worked together with an international array of anti-carceral groups to make this happen, like Free Marius Mason.

“There will be artwork from prisoners from many parts of the world, letter writing, book table, as well as panel talks and lectures on prison abolition, solidarity and how to get organised in the face of the increasingly rampant carcerality seeping into every aspect of our lives…”

Check out Nattsvart Verkstads website for more information: https://nattsvartverkstad.noblogs.org

[editor’s note: in November 2022, four anarcho-nihilist and animal liberationist individuals were thrown in jail accused of an arson attack at a meat packaging plant ‘Carnes Susaron’, Ten lorries, the administrative offices -including the safe and all their paperwork – and the actual meat factory and refrigeration systems that at the time had seven tones of flesh ready for distribution, were completely destroyed in the fire. Itamar, one of the four accused, had her trial and was sentenced to five years of intensive tag. Earlier in July, another comrade, Panda, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. Ru and Tortuga are still locked up awaiting trial. Below is a translation of their latest communique from prison.

Please, write them a letter. You can send an email to their support team on [email protected] and they will pass on your love. ]

ENG (translation):

“For those who fight with the enthusiasm that characterizes those who oppose the current.”

Today in this cold season, still locked in this small matchbox that seeks to hide the beautiful immensity of the world, we continue to get up every morning to face the symbolic and graphic morning cold shower of dawn in prison. Washing our body and teeth, with the conviction that that routine morning dagger in the skull, cold as grief, is not something that will last for eternity.

Every morning taking a deep breath and weighing the love for our convictions, which allows us to stay alive and firm in this place built and designed to break people.

Most of those who read this communiqué will know that we were detained, as a result of the events at the headquarters of the bastard company carnes susaron, in the commune of quilicura, Santiago, Chile. In September of the year 2022.

Events that culminated in its entire block burned. Including: all its fleet of trucks, 10 to be more precise, administrative offices; together with its documentation and safe. And the central meat packing plant from where the other branches of the capital’s meat processing plant were supplied; which housed 7 tons of corpses.

Giving to the earth and the wind, a rite of fire in honor of all those lives annihilated in the name of superiority and usual human thuggery.

In addition and not less important, generating a damage of several million dollars for these despicable ones; our frank enemies.

At this time we are approaching almost 2 years of imprisonment, exactly 22 months. In which authorities have identified us as their enemies (because we are).

Extending our process of investigation and preventive imprisonment as much as possible.
At the beginning there were 4 of us detained. And a few months ago one of us, Itamar, managed to get out of prison sentenced to 5 years of intensive probation. As already reported in previous communiqués.
Remaining 3 of us in the Santiago 1 prison.

What is new in this writing is that a few weeks ago, our comrade Panda, was sentenced to 4 and a half years of effective imprisonment because of the intervention of gendarmerie through a negative report that usually and with complete arbitrariness they use to avoid the benefits and probation from the prison Santiago 1. Executed in the following days, his transfer to the prison for convicts Colina 1.

He was received there in a fraternal manner by fellow anarchists already condemned.

Rucio and Tortuga are still waiting for a new date to clarify their fate. Being constantly hindered by tedious and bureaucratic paperwork of the prison system. That always seeks to extend the stay in these human slaughterhouses, for those who declare themselves enemies of the established order and all authority.

In view of the situation where the next destinies for each one of us have been slowly being defined, we ratify more than ever our unwavering commitment to our cause, which is animal and total liberation.

There is nof freezing water, anguishing or claustrophobic afternoon, prison violence, or emotional blow for being separated from our world that makes us regret our ideas and actions.

No day that we do not inflate our chests with pride at the consequences that our decision to stop being spectators has generated around the world.

Because every action that has been dedicated to us, every greeting loaded with praxis where animals have been liberated or places sabotaged has given us the necessary fuel to continue with the same strength and pride with which we have faced this tedious process from the beginning.

That said, we call for the slogans “fire to the slaughterhouses”, “death to speciesism” and “animal liberation” to be put into practice.

As prisoners proud of our cause and ideas, that is all we ask to face this difficult cycle.
Take action!

Because time is slipping through our fingers. Every minute we rest in the calm of our leaflets, millions of animals are tortured and killed. Thousands of hectares of natural habitat are consumed and destroyed. Millions of lives (human and non-human) are cut short by the devastating machinery of capital, speciesism and authority.

We send a special and warm embrace to all the comrades who have been present in the territory and abroad. Whether with letters, drawings, propaganda, organization and attendance at fundraising event which have been essential at the time of paying for this whole process. In terms of expenses for lawyers, expert’s reports, parcels and food.
We always welcome and are grateful for any sign of solidarity that allows us to carry out this process in the best way possible.

Enormous gratitude to all of you, who have made this complex stage of our life as warriors bearable, with all the multiform and refractory solidarity mentioned above.

Let direct actions be multiplied. Sabotage, propaganda and liberations. Let words be transformed into deeds. And let those deeds speak for all those who cannot.

There is no day that we do not miss freedom, but there is also no day that we do not smile remembering the warm embrace of fire.
Because we are prisoners but they will never be able to subdue our gaze and spirit.

Fire to existence.
May every prison for humans and non-humans explode, with their jailers inside.

Don Sergio Olivares, Mónica Caballero, Marcelo Villarroel, Juan Aliste, Lucas Hernández, Aldo Hernández, Javier, Syde, Gerardo and Jordano, free them all!!!

Francisco Solar out of isolation!

Always against all authority and symbols of subjugation, and with immeasurable love:

Anarcho-nihilist vegan straight edge prisoners.
Case susaron.
Panda, Tortuga and Rucio.

C.D.P. Santiago 1.
Cárcel de cumplimiento Colina 1.
Agosto, 2024.  “

Vegan Peredachki (VP) is an organization that supports prisoners in so-called Russia, who have problems maintaining their veganism while in prison (and in other types of custody of the Russian state). It involves prisoners, often convicted on trumped-up charges, who have undergone torture and are in prison for long periods of time, living in appalling conditions. Among the prisoners supported by the VP are anti-fascists, anarchists, political activists, people who have criticized the Russian government in various ways. VP provides various types of support to prisoners, such as vegan food, medicines, vitamins and clothing. VP also offers moral support to prisoners in various ways. Like writing letters, and supporting their families.

VP’s operations depend on private donations, also from abroad. More information about ways to donate, and how to support prisoners in other ways, writing letters, can be found on VP’s website,

“Vegan Peredachki emerged on February 24, 2022, with a primary focus on offering aid to protesters detained overnight. Recognizing the complete absence of vegan food and essential supplies for detainees, we expanded our mission beyond protests…” .

Marius Mason is an anarchist, environmental and animal rights activist currently serving nearly 22 years in federal prison for acts of property damage carried out in defense of the planet. After being threatened with a life sentence in 2009 for these acts of sabotage, he plead guilty to arson charges at a Michigan State University lab researching genetically modified organisms for Monsanto. 12 other acts of property damage were included in his plea deal. No one was physically harmed in these actions. At sentencing the judge applied a so-called “terrorism enhancement,” adding almost two years to an already extreme sentence requested by the prosecution. This is the harshest punishment of anyone convicted of environmental sabotage to date.

Marius is a multi talented artists and writes poetry as well as paintings. You can check his art here: 

https://supportmariusmason.org/art/

You should write a letter to Marius, tell him about your day, or about a walk in the woods, or whatever else. Those letters are small cracks in the prison walls that bash through repression and allow prisoners like Marius to feel the outside world.

Write a letter here: 



Marius Mason
04672-061

FMC Fort Worth
P.O. Box 15330
Fort Worth, TX 76119
USA

SOLIDARITY IS OUR BIGGEST WEAPON!