WAYNE RELEASED FROM PRISON!

Wayne Hsiung has been released from jail after 40 days locked up, most of that time on remand awaiting sentencing.

Wayne had been sentenced to three months in prison and probation thereafter after being convicted of one count of felony conspiracy and two counts of misdemeanor trespass for his involvement in animal rescues at Sunrise Farms and Reichardt Duck Farm.

Due to overcrowding in the jail, Wayne was released earlier and will have to serve two years of probation, which include being unable to see “14 co-conspirators”, many of them his close friends.

Post prison conditions can sometimes be as harrowing as the prison sentence itself, so ensure you send love and solidarity to Wayne and welcome him back to the outside world!

SOLIDARITY IS OUR BIGGEST WEAPON.

ERIC KINGS RELEASE FUND IS CLOSE TO REACHING ITS GOAL

Vegan anarchist prisoner Eric King, incarcerated since 2014, will soon be released from prison, hopefully before/in February 2024. The fundraiser for Eric’s release has almost reached its goal. If you can help, all donations will go to Eric and help him get back on his feet outside the prison walls.

Donate at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king

Although Eric is soon to be released, you can still write letters to him. All correspondence is deeply appreciated, prison can be a lonely place, specially over holidays (due to shitty circumstances in prison Eric may not be able to answer letters as quickly as he would like to). You can write to Eric at:

Eric King 27090045
USP Florence ADMAX
PO BOX 8500
Florence, CO 81226
USA

For more information about Eric and his case, see: https://supportericking.org

UNTIL ALL ARE FREE

ADDRESS UPDATE FOR MARIUS MASON – PRISONER SUPPORT 

Marius Mason is an anarchist animal rights activist who has been in prison since 2009.

Marius plead guilty to being involved in an arson at a research lab, and to twelve acts of property damage. Marius release date is January 10 2027. 

Recently Marius has been moved to a new prison. If you want to write letters to Marius, you can reach him at the following address:

Marius Mason #04672-061

FMC Fort Worth

P.O. Box 15330

Fort Worth, TX 76119

At the end of October Marius wrote a text to his family and friends:

“Dear friends and family,

I am now at FMC Ft. Worth, as of September 18, and am waiting to find out what possible timelines it will take or even if I will be allowed to continue my transition surgically. I continue to take my HRT therapy and am meeting other trans inmates here – all transwomen who are oftentimes waiting for THEIR transfer to a female facility! I am hoping that this policy will continue to help many trans people, but am concerned that this policy may be in danger of reversal if the far right has their way! Please continue to fight for trans and queer people in prison, as so often we are invisible to the wider public and easier to shove under the rug and hide. I know that it is the support that we have from our community on the outside that helps our cause and gives us care and strength.


Thank you very much for your support in letters and cards this past year – I have a list of everywhere I got mail from, but it is packed up in my property and in a box on its way to Texas right now! I have even gotten a few letters at my new address here – but also, sadly, a few documents saying that the intended letter was returned to sender because of the new rules here at FMC Ft. Worth. So, to lessen the aggravation for anyone kind enough to write to me – here are a few of the different rules…


1) all letters have to be written on only one side of the page and are limited to 5 pages.


2) no letters that are on colored paper or on cardstock. 


3) any photos must be sent through a company and not directly from the sender. No more than 25 photos will be accepted.


4) all acceptable letters will be photo-copied in black and white and that copy given to the inmate.

I am sorry to say that all the beautiful original artwork that I have received over the years will not be allowed into this facility. That is a great sadness to me, as I have been given such amazing original art from so many great people from all over the world. Thank you, everyone, for keeping me in their thoughts and including me in their outreach and educational work. I am so encouraged by the campaigns that continue to run bravely in the face of the worst destructive efforts – long live the Wild Free Earth!

I want to make more of an effort to reach out to you all – especially as it will be harder to write as many emails or send as many letters as I have before (which never seemed enough then). I will be facing a higher monthly fine payment now, as Congress has asked the prison administrators to enforce higher payments….but I will use the website more to compensate.

Thank you all, again – for taking this journey with me, for seeing me through so many years and over so many hurdles….I am constantly humbled and warmed by the power of solidarity. Together, we are strong!” 

For more information about Marius, the case, prisoner support, check out: https://supportmariusmason.org/

IN SOLIDARITY! 

LADISLAV KUC WILL SOON BE FREE – DONATE TO HIS RELEASE FUND

Ladislav Kuc was arrested in 2012, and sentenced to prison in 2014, for allegedly making explosives and bombing a McDonalds restaurant (where no one was hurt).

After being incarcerated for 12 years, Ladislav’s release date is in a couple of months. If all goes as planned, Ladislav will be released from prison in January 2024.

If you want to support Ladislav, you can donate to his release fund:

“… Ladislav has not been able to work or raise many funds since his incarceration and his family incurred significant expenses paying for his legal representation on the successful appeal. All donations will be sent to Ladislav to help him with basic expenses adjusting to life outside of prison and welcome him back with his family and community. Thank you for your generosity!”

UNTIL ALL ARE FREE!

DONATE – Release fund:

https://fundrazr.com/027Cec

WRITE A LETTER – Address:

Ladislav Kuc

Uvtos


Gucmanova 19/670


Priečinoik 7


92041 Leopoldov


Slovakia

WAYNE HSIUNG IN JAIL AWAITING SENTENCING; WRITE A LETTER TODAY!

After an eight weeks court case for the open rescue of chickens and ducks, Wayne was found guilty of one count of felony conspiracy to commit trespass and two misdemeanour trespass charges, for entering the chicken supplier Sunrise Farms. On the charges related to the duck farm, the jury did not come to an unanimous decision.

The court case was a massive overreach by the justice system, banning Wayne and his two codefendants from talking to the press and even from mentioning why they had taken action to rescue animals in the farms. No mention of animal welfare was allowed.

It is also important to mention that, after multiple failed cases against him, prosecution decided to drop the burglary and theft charges in favour of conspiracy to trespass, as it was a more likely guilty outcome. This shows that their “crime” was a lot less important than their thirst for “punishment”.

Wayne is scheduled to receive his sentencing on the 30th of November, and will be spending the month in jail. You can write to him at:

Wayne Hsiung (Inmate #264701) 
Main Adult Detention Facility
2777 Ventura Avenue 
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
USA

Needless to say that you should not mention any illegal activities in your letters, for the good of Wayne but also for your own safety! Write on white paper only and use white envelopes too, colour paper is apparently VERY BAD for the prison system, imagine if someone had a little fun! 

The whole list of writing rules (and if needed, the updated address) can be found on

www.dxe.io/writetowayne

SHOW SOLIDARITY AND WRITE A LETTER TODAY!

PAUL ALLMAN RELEASED FROM PRISON, WELCOME BACK!

Paul, sentenced to twenty weeks in prison, was released a week ago from HMP Altcourse, so you can now stop writing letters to him! We have updated our website to reflect that.

Join us on welcoming him back to the outside world. He has been the target of the pro-hunt lobby for quite a while, so messages of love and solidarity are always welcome.

Solidarity always

BURN ALL PRISONS!!!!

STATEMENT FROM VICTOR ARRESTED SEVEN MONTHS AGO IN THE ATLANTA FOREST.

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Victor is the only person still locked up from everybody who got arrested in the Atlanta forest. He is in an immigration facility, facing how incredibly racist the USA can be. Please write a letter to him and send love and solidarity, you can find the address at the end of his statement.]

After being officially criminally indicted by the state of Georgia and reaching seven months of incarceration, I wish to speak again.

Today, on Indigenous People’s Day, I want to raise my voice to remind everybody that this marks 531 years of Indigenous resistance here on Turtle Island. As Indigenous people, we must go beyond mere representation and celebrations. Police, prisons, reservations, detention centers, and borders operate through a shared logic of immobilization, containing our oppressed communities in their racial system.

I am right now in a place that shouldn’t be holding any people, a place that should not exist. A place that has caused many cases of human rights abuses and violations, a place where many people have lost their lives. A place where people don’t have proper shelter and healthcare. The people here are refugees. The prison industrial complex exists for profit; the goal of CoreCivic is to maximize profits, not to follow a moral compass by treating people with dignity. When you put corporations in charge of human beings, you will see flagrant violations of human rights, even to the point that people are dying. Everyone outside should raise their voice and demand that this stops.

In times of rising xenophobia and racism, we see images of thousands of migrants and refugees trying to cross the southern colonial border and we hear the rhetoric of border crisis. In reality, there is no border crisis but a displacement crisis. The war on migrant and refugee people does not exist separate from anti-Indigenous and anti-Black violence. Border imperialism is structurally bound up in genocide. Crees and Anishinaabe from Canada and Yaquis from Mexico crossed into the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th century and engaged in political struggles for recognition to challenge the state’s subjugation of them as “foreign Indians” and “illegal immigrants.”

Many southern immigrants/refugees are also Indigenous people and Black relatives. Borders and xenophobic immigration laws are rooted in Indigenous dispossession and anti-Black violence. In these 531 years of Indigenous resistance, I stand in solidarity with the relatives and Indigenous nations and communities remembering their old teachings, stories, songs, and remembering that we are all still warriors. Solidarity with migrant and refugee relatives at the southern colonial border, across the world, and behind bars in these detention centers/concentration camps. Solidarity with the land defenders fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline Black Snake and protecting life. Solidarity with Gaza — we are all owed dignity, personhood, respect.

As an Indigenous migrant man, I have been called many things by the state. Now more than ever, I continue resisting this ridiculous narrative and these new RICO charges. I’m a sundancer, a land defender, a frontliner, living in occupied Indigenous land and territories with obligations and responsibilities due to my presence here—I’m a warrior not by anyone else’s definition other than my own and my people’s. These are the identities I hold dear. Because some of these identities have been used as a weapon to oppress me, I use them as a weapon of my own liberation. I protect, nurture, and love in these deep ways.

I have been shot by rubber bullets many times; maced, tear-gassed, and pepper sprayed more times than I can remember; I have been bitten and attacked by dogs, I have had guns pointed at my face by white supremacists, sprayed by water canons under freezing temperatures, tased a few times and injured many more. And I have always been proud to uphold my responsibilities and take a stand to defend people and land, even though standing up to the repressive power of the state has had a cost—the latest, this indictment, these seven months of incarceration and the so-real-now threat of deportation and removal from this land, this precious land. The land of my relatives, the land where my family lives, the land where my father is buried.

This is who I am. In this continuous detention, I’m fed up with the degradation and the conditions, but I want you all to know that I keep resisting and standing up against the daily conditions, against the dehumanization, and against this fucked up system that separates us. I live a life that I don’t regret.

Homies and comrades, to all of you who I love: Resist with a depth beyond recognition. Now and forever, keep loving deep, nurturing freedom, valuing life, protecting the sacred, raising hell. We are unstoppable, we are an extension of Earth, we are spirit, we are power, and there can be no borders, restrictions, or jails for that. Until our paths cross and you see me again next to the moon puppy.

Solidarity with the people standing up against the police state and with the resistance to anti-Black racialized state violence. Freedom to stay, freedom to move and the right to return. From Stewart Detention Center, Unit 6B—close the camps, free us all!

Write to Victor at:

Victor Puertas
095610252
6B 215B
P.O. Box 248
Lumpkin, GA 31815
USA

SOLIDARITY!

URGENT APPEAL FOR SUPPORT FOR ANIMAL LIBERATION COMRADES FACING COURT.

A group of folks are facing court in the UK at the end of the month on charges related to the animal liberation struggle.

Based on advice given by their solicitors, they do not wish to publicly explain their charges or potential outcomes, but they are facing a multi-week trial which means the expenses on travel and the loss of work will set them back enormously.

Whilst we wish we could share more about the case, it will be on them to talkabout it whenever they are adviced to do so and whenever they want to explain what’s been going on, but for now we are asking for donations to help them navigate the likely month and a half to two month process in courts.

There is a GoFundMe set up to raise funds, and whilst there was a very conservative first round of fundraising which was easily raised, they will be needing a lot more funds than that just to cover life and travel for the multiple weeks of trial, so please donate even if it has gone beyond the asking!

Show solidarity and ensure they know they are not alone. No one faces the state without solidarity, we are all fighting together!

https://gofund.me/d9691222

Send them some coins, drop a comment sending solidarity or share the Gofundme around.

LOVE AND RAGE!

SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION – DONATE TO THE DEFENSE FUND

Palestinians are attacking Israel and defending themselves. They are breaking free from their open air prison and taking back land. The Israeli occupation forces are responding by dropping bombs on Gaza, destroying Palestinian homes, infrastructure and killing hundreds of civilians.

There are several ways to help if you want to support the Palestinian struggle. One way is to support Palestine Action, the direct action network to bring down the Israeli arms trade. Palestine Action takes direct action against arms factories, which sell weapons and war materials to Israel in the UK. As the Israeli military weakens, the Palestinians can fight harder.

Palestine Action has several trials this winter. Activists are in need of support, to cover court costs, possible fines and damages. Support Palestine Action by donating to their defense fund. The fundraiser has almost reached its goal.

FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

Palestine Action Defence Fund: https://www.palestineaction.org/defence-fund/

SUPPORT ERIC KING – UPDATE ON ERICS RELEASE DATE AND HIS FUNDRAISER

Due to years of medical neglect in prison, Eric is currently suffering from health problems. We hope Eric gets better soon, that he is released and can get the medical help he needs. Eric release from federal prison is set for February 2024.

If you want to support Eric, you can help him start his life outside prison walls by donating to his release fund, which is close to reaching its goal.

A while ago Eric wrote a text about ABC Running Down the Walls. The text is an important reminder of the value of prisoner support. In Eric’s own words:

“I give the biggest solidarity and warmest hugs to all those who in any way do what they can to help those inside. No matter the custody level or length of the bid, prison exposes you to the worst society has to offer, and the people who care expose us to the best. Thank you all for caring. I hope the weather is nice!”

Solidarity forever!

ERIC KINGS 2023 RUNNING DOWN THE WALL STATEMENT

ERIC KINGS RELEASE FUND

https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king