Eight defendants have been sentenced to 30, 50, 70, and 100 years.
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I want to begin by extending my love and appreciation to all those who have supported me, my codefendants, and loved ones through out this situation. The strength this support has given me is beyond what I can describe. The weight of the sentences that have been handed down is crushing but we should not be surprised. The government has shown it is willing to separate loved ones across borders, cage people in squalid detention centers, bring violence into loving neighborhoods, and gun people down in the streets. Their attempts to bury people in their prisons falls right in line…
“I guess everybody’s a domestic terrorist now.” I can’t say how many times I’ve heard these words in the last few months. After the murder Alex Pretti, top officials were quick to defend the ICE officers who extra-judicially executed him by labeling him a domestic terrorist. They said the same about Renee Good. Over the last year, I have been forced to keep my silence as the government spun a conspiracy theory labeling my friends and I as domestic terrorists, as members of a shadowy terrorist conspiracy that does not exist. I have watched them lie about the compassion, loving…
The government is using zines and a printing press to sentence me to 50 years, a life sentence in prison. My crimes have been made clear by the prosecution, they don’t want people like me to have access to these constitutionally protected and invaluable resources. This is an attempt at silencing decent, at creating fear amongst its citizens to insure no one speaks against this current administration. The fictitious narrative presented by the government doesn’t exist in reality. It is their design created to criminalize people for protesting, for not conforming. We are living through a moment in time that…
As I stared at the numbers that came in from federal sentencing, I can only say I’m heartbroken and distressed. Maximum years per charge assigned, to be served consecutively, to ensure the greatest amount of suffering is inflicted. And for what, besides to “send a message”? What justice, this? And to know this isn’t the end of the state’s case is all the more anxiety inducing. State level charges are waiting to be or have been filed, and trials are inbound for those convicted so far, and for several others, including myself. We face a sentencing range of 15 to…
This conviction is the continuation of a campaign of terror and violence that has been allowed to imprison people speaking out against the immigration policies of this administration. Experts warn that my conviction will have a “chilling effect” on previously constitutionally protected activities; this was made clear as the intent when Judge O’Connor said he wanted to make an example of us, with clear disregard for the facts of the case. This is a government telling its citizens that to raise a voice of dissent carries a life sentence, maybe even death. To my friends, to Renée Good, to Alex…
This bright and dusty city is divided by walls and chain link fences. Down below me, a small protest march approaches. They are walking up thru a series of narrow chain link covered paths, barely wide enough for 3 or 4 people to pass, connecting wider chain liked plazas that maybe a few hundred people could fit into. I am standing in the corridor between the 2nd and 3rd plaza wearing a backpack. I can see and hear the march of a hundred or two hundred approaching, chanting. I can feel the eyes of many guards watching. There are some…
From Prairieland to Delaney Hall, Health and Freedom to all of the families stolen by ICE. Hunger Striking is a brave and desperate action. Families being held indefinitely for months or years in horrible conditions must be free. The Nationwide Hunger Strike demands all urgency. I send my heart. Solidarity and support forever.
Versión en español a continuación Zine version available here. I don’t hate. I don’t hate anyone. I don’t hate cops. I don’t hate Trump. I don’t hate Nazis. My beliefs are composed thus: First, that we should help each other. And second, that we should protect one another. I never want to see anyone get hurt. I never want to see good people, standing up for what they believe in, gunned down in the street. What we all saw happen to Renee Good and Alex Pretti is my worst nightmare. It was the kind of thing I had feared for…
Woodcut by https://a3bcollective.org/ “The Stone” The stone shows a crack.where rough play and banging aboutcaused scratches and chips and polished smooth.A crack, thin and jagged, all the way thrufrom one side to the other, movesmany fissures and fractures, hidden from view “Transposed” A fast walk across concreteMy greedy strides consumelike eager travel, with places to goWinter air fills my nosedry savory smokinesssweet wood and stoneI hurl myself forwardBack to my first time in Tokyoflying across unknown streetswith all the wonder and excitementAnd pleasure of the world “Tapping” A child is tapping on my glassAngrily, InsistentlyInside my cage I roar and…
Aug 4th, 2025 This Tom Clancy book by Rovin is self-flagellating trash… Ironic that the evil, authoritarian, (Chinese!) gulag scenes are so close to my experience in Johnson County. All I could think was “thank God we aren’t sticking people in cramped, filthy cells with dirty water to drink, and the sounds of other prisoners screaming in the distance. I’m so glad this sort of thing never happens in America…” The capricious nature of the authorities, the stark, wretched cells, and the physical rot which then rots the spirit, these are my entire reality at this point. I don’t know…