Foxy and Danny have been moved to HMP Channings Wood, Denbury, Newton Abbot, TG12 6DW. Please update your address books and keep sending them mail!
Urgent call for support for Bristol ABC
Thanks so much for your incredible support so far. Because of you we have been able to distribute over £55k toward supporting the KTB prisoners!
But we still need your help. There are currently 20 people in prison for the Bridewell uprising. Many of them are serving long sentences, and Ryan Roberts will be in prison until at least 2029.
The cost of providing £50 a month canteen money to 20 people is £1000 a month. On top of that we regularly buy things like clothes and books, and pay travel costs for friends and family to visit. We are down to about £2k in reserves. So we really need your continued help and support.
Our costs have been considerably increased by the need to fund visits to two prisoners who are being held in Kent. Its vital that these to people, who are serving two of the longest sentences, get support. We have been arranging visits for them every month.
We have also been giving money to help people get back on their feet when they are released from prison. With your help we can increase this support.
Please help us to reach our stretch target of £70k. Thank you so much for all your incredible solidarity so far.
Bristol Anarchist Black Cross
Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ktb-prisoner-support-fund
Write to Foxy!
Another friend and comrade was recently sent to prison for 2.5 years for standing up to the cops at the KTB protest in March 2021. Please send him some messages of support and solidarity and let him know he’s not alone 🙂
International Action Alert: Support Jorge
INTERNATIONAL ACTION ALERT
Solidarity with Mexican Political Prisoner Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel Muñoz
Friday, May 19, 2023
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Jorge is being criminalized as part of an ongoing attack against the “okupache” squat in Mexico City. Despite the overwhelming evidence that proves his innocence, the arbitrary arrests and police brutality he has been subjected to, and a legal case that have been plagued with irregularities since day one of this set up, Jorge remains injustly locked up in the Reclusorio Oriente prison. His hearings have been constantly postponed, which is a common practice with political prisoners in Mexico since it allows the State to draw out the legal process so as to keep them in prison as long as possible. Jorge’s next hearing is this Friday, May 19th, and we need your support to demand justice for our compañero.
Act! Call! Email! Post!
⚪ Contact or organize actions at your nearest Mexican embassy or consulate and demand for justice for Jorge Emilio Esquivel Muñoz at his hearing this Friday, May 19, 2023.
⚪ Share with your friends, family, communities and collectives about Jorge and the many other political prisoners in Mexico.
⚪ Send a letter and/or drawings to Jorge in prison.
⚪ Make graphic art, paintings, stencils, etc. to bring visibility to Jorge’s case.
Sample text:
My name is _ and I am concerned for the political prisoner Jorge Emilio Esquivel Muñoz, currently being held at the Reclusorio Oriente prison in Mexico City. It is clear that this case is a set up and that he is being criminalized by for his political work as part of the “okupache” squat at the UNAM university because his case is filled with irregularities, he suffered arbitrary detentions and police brutality at the time of his arrests for the same case in 2016 and 2022, and the evidence proves his innocence. I demand that justice be served in Jorge’s hearing this Friday, May 19, 2023 and that he be released immediately.
Support Danny!
Support Danny!!!! Danny was recently sentenced to 4.5 years for fighting back against police attacks on the Kill the Bill demo in Bristol in March 2021. He has been punished for daring to defend himself and others.
We are proud of Danny and all who stood together that night. Letters can be a real lifeline for prisoners so let’s let him know he is not alone and show our solidarity.
You can send him a card or use emailaprisoner.com
Write to: Daniel Ellis A5725EY, HMP Bristol, 19 Cambridge Road, Bristol BS7 8PS
Please also keep donating! https://www.gofundme.com/f/ktb-prisoner-support-fund. The monthly support costs for people in prison, their families to get to see them and other solidarity costs are pretty eye watering. All donations and fundraising efforts appreciated more than you can know!!!!
Never alone – never forgotten.
May Kill The Bill Prisoner List
Please find the addresses for Kill the Bill Prisoners this May 2023. Please share the graphic far and wide. You can find more info on writing to prisoners here: https://bristolabc.org/prisoners/
Please keep donating for their support costs: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ktb-prisoner-support-fund
Support Debbie!
Debbie is an IPP prisoner at HMP Eastwood Park seeking support. Her original tariff was 3 years – she has now served over 14 years. She has been to hell and back before and during her sentence.
She is a survivor of rape, gang rape and forced prostitution. She has been criminalised because of her drug use as a response to these traumatic events. Like thousands of other IPP prisoners, she is trapped in the system with no support. She recently lost her mum who was her main support and now she has no-one. Bristol ABC are asking for folks to support Debbie!
Please send Debbie a letter, card or email via email a prisoner to:
Debbie Fitzpatrick A5506AC, HMP Eastwood Park, Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucester, GL12 8DB
She writes about the IPP sentence:
“I used to be a happy go lucky person but now I’m so depressed because I’m never going to be free of this sentence. It’s broke me, took my personality, moulded me into a long suffering depression and PTSD. I don’t get support, I just lost my mum, no one cares about us. We are just left to rot and forgot about.
It is so sad that us IPP have done everything – changed our ways, become a better person to where there is nothing else we can change but never get the chance to breathe, be free, go on holiday, get our own place, nothing is allowed. I committed my crime in 2008 and it’s now 2023. We are lost souls just existing not living”.
April Kill the Bill Prisoner List
Please find the addresses for Kill the Bill Prisoners this April 2023. Please share the graphic far and wide. You can find more info on writing to prisoners here: https://bristolabc.org/prisoners/
Please keep donating for their support costs: https://www.gofundme.com/f/ktb-prisoner-support-fund
Call for international solidarity with Jorge
Call for solidarity with Jorge Esquivel, punk prisoner in Mexico
Please donate here and share the fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/call-for-international-solidarity-with-jorge
Jorge “Yorch” Esquivel is a beloved compañero of the punk community, and a long-time participant of the Okupa Che Guevara. He was arrested on December 8, 2022 by plainclothes police as he was leaving the campus of the Ciudad Universitaria (of the UNAM university) in Mexico City as part of a campaign of criminalization against the Okupa.
BACKGROUND
On February 24, 2016, an operative was carried out in which plainclothes policemen arbitrarily detained him, “planting” drugs on him in order to fabricate crimes against him. The whole case was plagued with irregularities. He was transferred to Oaxaca and then to a maximum security prison in Hermosillo. The authorities used this strategy under the supposition that the distance would hinder his legal defense, but even so, thanks to the solidarity and legal work, he was reclassified from the crime of drug dealing to simple possession of narcotics, so he was released on bail in March 2016.
Jorge decided not to continue with the legal process due to the fabricated charges case against him and the climate of repression towards the Okupa. In the meantime, the frame-up continued to be put together. Constant threats and journalistic reports did not cease; the press even took him for dead and accused him of participating in organized crime.
On December 9, 2022 he was arrested in exactly the same place – a few steps outside Ciudad Universitaria, where the Okupa is located and again by plainclothes police – with the grounds for this illegal detention being that the Attorney General’s Office appealed the decision to reclassify the crime.
The compañero’s health is fragile due to an extended hospitalization a couple years back and more recent bouts with different illnesses.
CURRENT SITUATION
Jorge is currently incarcerated in the Reclusorio Oriente prison in Mexico City, where he was recently transferred from the observation and classification area to the general prison population area. For nearly three months he was unable to receive visits other than from his lawyers, but he had his first authorized visit on March 5.
The legal process is in the evidence stage. The Attorney General’s evidence includes the testimony of the police officers who detained Jorge; one of them is deceased and the other has not been located. Due to this, the hearing scheduled for February 17, 2023 did not take place and a date was set for April 14.
On behalf of the legal team that has been working in solidarity to defend Jorge, two expert reports will be presented by an external expert (called a perito in Mexico), one in dactyloscopy to prove that the packages of narcotics were never touched by Jorge, and another one in criminalistics. These expert reports will be presented once the hearing is held on April
Thanks to the solidarity of individuals, collectives and networks, it has been possible to cover Jorge’s expenses inside the prison, which have been very high due to the blatant corruption that reigns in Mexican prisons run by mafia groups that charge prisoners for everything from use of the bathroom to water, electricity, even the cell they are held in. We have raised 34,700 pesos so far towards the 70,000 needed, so in addition to Jorge’s costs in prison and other legal fees related to the case, we call upon the solidarity of our friends and compañerxs around the world to help us in supporting our compañero Yorch.