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Writers, artists and educators organizing workshops to raise money for Palestinians: https://linkin.bio/workshops4gaza 🇵🇸 Image copyright: Middle East Eye / Haroon James
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From our IG account and freeXinachtlinow
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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José Felan, a political prisoner from the George Floyd uprising, is has finally been released after 5 years behind bars. He is going to need funds to help get back on his feet.

If you’re on IG follow his support page at and donate to his fundraiser!

www.givesendgo.com/freejosenow
Free José Felan! Free them all! poster w/José's face inside walls, birds flying atop.
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Xinachtli (Alvaro Hernández), a 73 year-old Chicano revolutionary organizer who has survived 23 years of solitary confinement under the Texas carceral system, is being killed by Texas prisons.

MORE pressure is needed to get him urgent medical care

1. JOIN the phone blast: bit.ly/xphoneblast
What's happening Xinachtli (Alvaro Hernandez) is a 73 year old Chicano revolutionary organizer who has survived 23 years of solitary confinement under the Texas carceral system. Today, his health has collapsed under the weight of state violence: rapid weight loss, multiple falls, severe mobility issues, and increasing difficulty breathing. He is being held in the McConnell Unit infirmary under so-called palliative care, yet denied real medical treatment, denied diagnosis, and denied access to his own medical records. During his time in the infirmary, prison staff threw away his belongings, "lost" his commissary card, and have intentionally given him incorrect forms to obstruct medical visitations and access to care. Xinachtli is hungry, isolated, and his health is rapidly declining. the state has made it clear that they intend to let him die.
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Don't stop calling!!!

Send funds to the Xinachtli freedom campaign for X's legal fees, parole packet, and website relaunch, info is here: freexinachtli.substack.com/p/this-new-w...

c@sh@pp: tierrayliberta
v3nmo: tierraylibertad_
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Fundraiser Xinachtli Freedom Campaign T-shirts $25 Posters $15 Donations welcome! For X's legal fees, parole packet, and website relaunch. cash app: $tierrayliberta Venmo: @tierraylibertad_
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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cont.
ments of the qiyaam, ruku’, sujud, and tashahhud [stages of prayer – standing, bending, prostrating, sitting], guided by a higher power. The soldiers seemed more afraid than angry. ‘SIT DOWN!’ they screamed. Guards in armour came running as if preparing to battle. [...] When we had finished, soldiers stormed the cage of the man who led the prayer and took him away. JTF-GTMO, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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JTF-GTMO, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
We all assumed the takbir, standing straight as we faced what we believed was Mecca, preparing to enter the state of prayer. ‘NO STANDING!’ We raised our hands just above our shoulders and made our offering to Allah. ‘Allahu Akbar!’ we called out together, as if we were one. ‘SHUT THE FUCK UP! We did this, all of us, not thinking, our bodies going through the move- JTF-GTMO, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Marwa, Amn al-Watani, Cairo, Egypt
Marwa decided to pray in the safest place she could find – her mind. She began with the first takbir – conjured through her thoughts – and signalled the commencement of each prayer during her enforced disappearance. She would recite the fatiha (the first chapter of the Qur’an), bow, prostate, recite tashahhud in her mind out of sight from the interrogators and guards. When she was finally sent to her cell in the evening after long periods of interrogation, it would be the only time she would feel safe to pray two rak’ats and would collapse in tears. Amn al-Watani, Cairo, Egypt
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Mohamedou, JTF-GTMO, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Being kept in the dark on the passing of time, he [Mohamedou] managed to glimpse the watch of a guard that informed him of both the date and time, and crucially, that it was a Friday. Having already figured out how to tell day from night due to the guard shifts, he developed a method of counting the days through the Qur’an, by reciting ten pages in a day, allowing him to know that every sixty days he would finish and thus keep a track of the months as they were passing. JTF-GTMP, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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"Right now, it is Muslim political prisoners that are placed through a largely exceptional form of control through the exercise of repressing every part of the belief system – except this is the one area that is almost impossible to control, as these Muslims continually find ways to be faithful."
The global War on Terror is simply the latest in a series of oppressions that the US has never come to terms with [...] Right now, it is Muslim political prisoners that are placed through a largely exceptional form of control through the exercise of repressing every part of the belief system – except this is the one area that is almost impossible to control, as these Muslims continually find ways to be faithful. As the system shifts to find new ways to be violent, Muslims pivot, secure in the knowledge of God’s ultimate mercy.
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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"Sahar Aziz...points out thatthe Palestinian terrorist trope, particularly in the 1970s, was a significant precursor to the idea of the criminalised identity of the ‘Muslim terrorist’ as an allusive force of ideological violence."
Sahar Aziz explains, ‘Western countries considered terrorism a form of psychopathology that violated universal norms. In turn, terrorists were characterized as evil, irrational, pathological, and fundamentally different from the United States and its state allies whose violence was morally justified.’ Aziz points out that the Palestinian terrorist trope, particularly in the 1970s, was a significant precursor to the idea of the criminalised identity of the ‘Muslim terrorist’ as an allusive force of ideological violence.
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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"Detention by the US authorities...became less about crime and punishment, and became more a form of filtering through the US’s geopolitical relations with other nations and a hierarchy of citizenship."
Close relations between the US and Egypt since Camp David in 1978 and the pumping of billions of dollars of military aid effectively placed Egypt in the position of an extension of the US carceral state – whereas Algeria felt no need to take any such position, resulting in its own nationals being sent to Guantánamo Bay. Detention by the US authorities thus became less about crime and punishment, and became more a form of filtering through the US’s geopolitical relations with other nations and a hierarchy of citizenship.
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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"An early precursor to the contemporary ‘good Muslim/bad Muslim’ dichotomy in the United States…The framework that was used to target civil rights activists and those identified as ‘Black nationalists’ was re-purposed in counterterrorism efforts in order to present Muslims as a special threat..."
with ministers such as Malcolm X in Harlem and Robert X Williams in Buffalo. They challenged the lawfulness of punishing them for their religious beliefs with such measures as solitary confinement and loss of good time. In many of these cases, the state used the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam (AMI) to undermine these claims, offering prisoners only English translations of the Quran and correspondence with Ahmadi religious leaders. An early precursor to the contemporary ‘good Muslim/bad Muslim’ dichotomy in the United States … The framework that was used to target civil rights activists and those identified as ‘Black nationalists’ was re-purposed in counterterrorism efforts in order to present Muslims as being a special threat. The well-established practice of solitary confinement was taken to a completely different level of repression, as Supermax facilities were re-engineered to include Communications Management Units (CMUs) that restrict, manage and monitor all of a prisoner’s external communications. The CMUs have been used on 213 individuals; all but two of whom are Muslim.
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Come for an education this Friday, online, w/Dr. Walaa Quisay and Dr. Asim Quereshi:

"The existence of CIA black sites, proxy prisons and Guantánamo Bay in some ways mask how they operate as an extension of incarceration practices in the US domestically."
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The existence of CIA black sites, proxy prisons and Guantánamo Bay in some ways mask how they operate as an extension of incarceration practices in the US domestically. Many of the standard operating procedures used against Muslim prisoners in international US custody found their genesis in a long history of ‘Supermax’ prisons that have warehoused disproportionally large numbers of Black men. From When Only God Can See: The Faith of Muslim Political Prisoners The racist policymaking of the US carceral system consistently pathologised the beliefs and behaviours of NOI [Nation of Islam] members as the FBI’s counter-intelligence programme (COINTELPRO) framed their activism as a public danger. [...] In 1957, the warden of Attica Prison wrote of four prisoners who had identified as Muslim, which he believed to be a gimmick: Muslim prisoners requested access to the Quran in Arabic, religious literature published in Black newspapers, and correspondence
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🚨Xinachtli needs media coverage! Don’t fail our revolutionaries again and again. We must learn from our mistakes. At this point, every hour counts for Xinachtli 🚨
From freexinachtlinow on IG. Follow and amplify. Please!
December 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Are we paying attention?

“The Palestinian Prisoners Club: Israel has arrested 21,000 in the West Bank & Jerusalem. This number doesn’t include the thousands and thousands of Gazans who have disappeared, been beaten and rapped beyond recognition at the hands of the zionist movement.”
From Good Shepherd Collective
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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And if you have connections to groups in Austin, please share this info with them about the upcoming protest to save Xinachtli's life!
What you can do no. 3 Join us in Austin! Saturday, Dec 13, 12 to 2pm End State Torture: Austin Protests to Liberate Xinachtli. Texas Governor's Mansion, 1010 Colorado St. Austin, TX 78701. after 23+ years in solitary, Xinachtli's health is in crisis and his life is at risk. Join us to demand his immediate transfer to a medical facility and an end to the extreme medical neglect, torture, and elder abuse. Texas: Stop Killing Our Revolutionary Elders! @freexinachtlinow carpool: tiny url.com/freexride
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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If you are part of an organization, please also sign on to this letter! tinyurl.com/xmedicalletter
What you can do no. 2: Sign our demand letter We are calling for international, national, and local organizations to support us in securing Xinachtli's immediate medical transfer and release. Add your organization's name to our demand letter to TDCJ and make it clear that their abuse of Xinachtli will not go unnoticed. Our collective signatures demonstrate that we are watching, we are organized, and we refuse to let Texas quietly kill another revolutionary elder.
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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*URGENT CALL TO ACTION** Xinachtli's health continues to decline and his life hangs in the balance. After the devastating loss of Jamil Al-Amin, we cannot afford to lose another revolutionary to the jaws of the state. Plz sign up for a phone shift TODAY! bit.ly/xphoneblast
December Month of Action for Xinachtli Texas is killing Xinachtli Read and join us in taking action to prevent another revolutionary elder from dying in prison What's happening Xinachtli (Alvaro Hernandez) is a 73 year old Chicano revolutionary organizer who has survived 23 years of solitary confinement under the Texas carceral system. Today, his health has collapsed under the weight of state violence: rapid weight loss, multiple falls, severe mobility issues, and increasing difficulty breathing. He is being held in the McConnell Unit infirmary under so-called palliative care, yet denied real medical treatment, denied diagnosis, and denied access to his own medical records. During his time in the infirmary, prison staff threw away his belongings, "lost" his commissary card, and have intentionally given him incorrect forms to obstruct medical visitations and access to care. Xinachtli is hungry, isolated, and his health is rapidly declining. the state has made it clear that they intend to let him die. What you can do no. 1: phone and email blast Call the McConnell to demand they give X access to commissary and his medical records immediately: McConnell Unit: (361)362-2300 Call TDCJ Health Services to demand X receive his medical records and get transferred to a hospital for treatment IMMEDIATELY. TDCJ health services: (936)437-4271 Call or email TDCJ State Classification Committee to demand they reclassify X so he can be transferred to a medical facility TDCJ SCC: (936) 437-6231 classify@tdcj.texas.gov Our Demands Our demands below represent the minimum necessary steps to prevent the continued deterioration of his health and premature death. We DEMAND: 1. Immediate re-instatement of his access to commissary so he can obtain food, hygiene supplies, and other critical items necessary for survival. 2. immediate transfer to the TDCJ hospital in Galveston for a comprehensive medical evaluation and treatment, with complete access to his medical records and full transparency regarding all procedure. 3. Transfer to an ADA-accessible geriatric and medical unit, with Xinachtli requesting placement at the Richard P. LeBlanc Unit in Beaumont, Texas. 4. Approval of Medical Recommended Intensive Supervision (MRIS) in recognition of the severity and progression of his medical condition, ensuring he can receive appropriate care outside of TDCJ's abusive environment.
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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You've already given $2,300 to "Blanket Friday" for Gaza.

Donate $66 for this poster that the Institute of Barbarian Books created for us, w/words from Sameer about what "home" means in Gaza, where the vast majority of buildings have been destroyed and where so many loved ones have been martyred.
poster by Institute of Barbarian Books, with animals (bears, mice, turtles, bees, birds, rabbits, and frogs) carrying and sleeping under blankets with the Palestinian flag. to benefit Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign. "What is a home? In Gaza it is certainly not defined by a standing structure, by four walls and a roof over ones head, but rather a concept of belonging, of love for ones family both the living and the martyred, a connection to the land, and a relationship forged by shared experiences and suffering through two years of genocide." from Sameer Project's chuffed campaign: https://chuffed.org/project/149178-sameer-project-x-mass-displacement-campaign
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Fuck Black Friday. Free Palestine.
Donate and we'll ship your gift package within 1-2 weeks! Thru Dec. 1. Fuck Black Friday!
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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order thru this site: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/bla...
a peek into what we'll send you:
Donate $20 = customized w4g buttons and stickers Donate $30 = w4g buttons, stickers, and zine Donate $66 = w4g buttons, stickers, zine, and Institute of Barbarian Books "Give Warmth to Gaza" poster Donate $500 = w4g buttons, stickers, 3 zones, Institute of Barbarian Books "Give Warmth to Gaza" poster and 3 additional Institute of Barbarian Books posters
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And $500 buys one 6-person weatherproof tent.
$500 buys one 6-person weatherproof tent.
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$66 buys one large blanket, mattress, or waterproof tarp.
$66 buys one large blanket, mattress, or waterproof tarp.
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$30 buys one small blanket.
$30 buys one small blanket.
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$20 buys a sweatsuit or pair of boots.
$20 buys a sweatsuit or pair of boots.
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