Letter from Anarchist Prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel
From IGD
Letter from Mexican anarchist political prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel from inside the Reclusorio Oriente prison in Mexico City.
From IGD
Letter from Mexican anarchist political prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel from inside the Reclusorio Oriente prison in Mexico City.
Dear friends, comrades, enemies and those to come.
By now I’m sure many of you have heard about the call for autonomous action to disrupt the defense summit in Seattle on the 12th. I want to urge you all from around the region to come out, and come out hard.
From It's Going Down
101 Years Since the Assassination of Ricardo Flores Magón
Letter from Indigenous Mazatec anarchist Miguel Peralta to his community of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón to mark 101 years since the assassination of Ricardo Flores Magón and the ongoing struggle against political imprisonment and persecution in the community.
Via Avtonom
My friend shared his thoughts with me: he had arrived at this discomforting realisation that after my arrest, everything was finished – as if our world was sharply divided into “before” and “after”. [...] It seemed that that life had mutated into nostalgic reflections on those times when just to be yourself in Russia had not yet become so dangerous.
Via Dark Nights
From ABC Brighton: Thomas Meyer-Falk has written about his first few days of freedom after serving 26 years in prison, much of the latter part under an old nazi-era preventative detention law.
From It's Going Down
Statement from Indigenous Mazatec anarchist Miguel Peralta following the recent legal ruling in his case.
From It's Going Down
Update from Mexican anarchist prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel.
From Till all are free, International Week of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners
From some corner of the Chilean prisons
Having finished my daily hours in the courtyard, from my cell I throw myself into writing a few lines in order to find a brief moment of freedom that will interrupt my prison reality.
From Support Eric King
My mom made me an anarchist. She would cringe reading that, but to me it’s the highest compliment. She truly lets people be who they are and radiates mutual aid and love.
From Mongoose Distro by Dan Baker, March 21, 2023
Dear Mongoose and Comrades,
Today I started my hunger strike. Yesterday I was attacked by a white Christian Nationalist trump supporter, who was put in my SHU cell in spite of my protests. Despite my injuries I am full of determination, bloodied but unbroken. But, this is a small amount of suffering compared to friends like Gultan Kisanak, a Kurdish woman and political prisoner. I drew her portrait and wrote some of her quotes. Every day of my hunger strike I will draw a Kurdish woman who is a political prisoner and send her inspiring words to different friends. I ask that you all post them all online for me to raise awareness.
From It's Going Down
Letter from anarchist prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel, showing solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and Miguel Peralta, and announcing his next hearing for April 14, 2023.
From Il Post, Via A las barricadas by Acratosaurus rex. English machine translation
With melancholy, sadness and a bit of stoicism, I leave you with a translation of the last article I have read in the Italian press referring to Alfredo Cospito's hunger strike
From Inferno Urbano Via Act for Freedom Now!
Full original title: Updates Letter by Anarchist Comrade Prisoner Ivan Alocco (France)
I am continuing the hunger strike I started on October 27, in solidarity with Alfredo Cospito’s struggle to get out of 41 bis. I am doing well. I feel tired and sometimes dizzy, but my determination remains intact. This is the first time since June, since I’ve been locked up here, that I feel like I’m doing something worthwhile, instead of simply surviving and watching time go by.
From Athens Indymedia, Via Act for Freedom Now!
Full original title: Solidarity with the 11 political prisoners and hunger strikers from Turkey | Symbolic hunger strike inside the prison
On 16 November, the appeal trial of 11 political prisoners from Turkey Ali Ercan Gökoğlu, Burak Agarmış, Hasan Kaya, Sinan Çam, Şadi Naci Özpolat, Halil Demir, Anıl Sayar, Harika Kızılkaya, Hazal Seçer, Sinan Oktay Özen and İsmail Zat, who have been imprisonment in Greek prisons since 19 March 2020, will begin.
From Anarquía, English translation by Anarchist News
Some days ago, I received the news that the indomitable Alfredo Cospito started a hunger strike so that they would stop applying the regime of legal torture called 41 bis to him. [...] With these words, I want to make a call to everyone who sympathizes with Alfredo to disseminate the news of his situation, to stand in solidarity, and above all to act against those who add more links to Cospito’s chain.