To everyone who took the time to call and demand my release from the hole these past two years, thank you. I want you to know that it worked. I know that it can be daunting, we can feel so powerless in the face of this repressive beast that is the state — but it’s only an illusion. What they want you to think. I’m out now and transferred and received mail, and that’s all thanks to you.
AND, at this time our siblings in the UK need that same energy times ten. Pal Action protesters have been held without bail as you know, and are facing intense repression under bogus terrorism charges. They need you all to put in the same energy calling and demanding for the release of their mail. The opposition hopes to keep our movements separate and fractured when nothing could be further from the truth.
The struggle is the same. Interconnected and woven together. No ocean undoes that. Don’t let the fascist state think just because there’s an ocean between us that they’ll be forgotten. The struggle against the fascist state isn’t just red white and blue but falls under other stars too. The so-called Israeli IOF and the UK fly stars of quote unquote freedom while committing genocide and state-sanctioned violence.
The struggle for freedom for Palestine, for prisoners, for Blacks, for the world, is one and the same, no matter the police state. Our Pal Action siblings need you now. They are on Day 40 of their strike, bail denied, and they’re prepared to go the way of our IRA siblings before. Let’s not let that happen or have them force fed. Keep the pressure and keep calling for them. And know it makes a difference. Their tactic is to wait us out, but our memory must be longer than the state’s.
Forgetting is usually a pastime activity for Amerikans, but not us. Don’t let them be forgotten. The fascist state media won’t cover them here, like they won’t cover the Gaza genocide. They’ll have us believe it’s a quote unquote ceasefire when hundreds have been killed still because they’re quote unquote “unpeople” like us. But there are siblings that need you to apply pressure, and call, and write them, and more.
Reach out to the political prisoners you know here, state-side, create networks, and let them know what’s going on, and help to build a solidarity strike. WE CAN ONLY COORDINATE ACROSS PRISONS WITH YOUR HELP. Contact any media you know about it, have political prisoners promote it in their prison newsletters, like the San Quentin newsletter.
Eastern Oregon Correctional Institute has a newspaper that I just submitted the story for. We have to stand in solidarity with our siblings everywhere. Do not be fooled: that isn’t happening there — oppression is here. Clear and present. Make no mistake about it. The student protestors in Hong Kong once held a sign that read: “Hear us now, or be us later.” Right now, Pal Action is screaming for us to hear them.
If they can be held without bail under repression and state-sanctioned violence due to trumped-up terrorism charges now, that could be and will be here later. The day isn’t far off when anyone organizing against Trump, or for Palestine, Sudan, or showing solidarity with prisoners are carted off and held without bail under torture and trumped-up terrorism charges under the label of “Antifa.” IF YOU DON’T ACT NOW, YOU’LL BE US LATER.
I’m out of the hole, but none of us are out of the woods. No one is free until we all are free. From the river to the sea, Palestine WILL be free, inshallah, sea to shining sea. One day, we all will be.
Love, rage, and solidarity,
Sibling Malik