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Other Detention Center Updates
DHS plans on largely scrapping the warehouse detention center boondoggle, seeking to offload buildings purchased earlier this year in Romulus, Michigan; Social Circle, Georgia; Flowery Branch, Georgia; Hamburg, Pennsylvania; Tremont, Pennsylvania; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Roxbury, New Jersey. Over $700 million was spent on these 7 warehouses, but faced opposition in the streets and town halls meetings from neighbors who do not want concentration camps in their area. Check for updates on detention center and warehouse purchases at Project Saltbox’s tracker: https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/b0228ccb-6fcf-4ab6-9d9b-41dd53292ec6/page/p_uy4yssvm0d.
George Floyd Uprising Prisoners
As far as we know, these are the prisoner still incarcarated from the George Floyd Uprisings:
Christopher Tindal #04392-509
USP Canaan
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 300
Waymart, PA 18472
David Elmakayes #77782-066
USP Lee
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 305
Jonesville, VA 24263
Smart Communications/PADOC
Khalif Miller #QQ9287
SCI Forest
PO Box 33028
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
A revised edition of anarchist and anti-imperialist political prisoner Casey Goonan’s book, Lines in the Sand: Writings on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment & Campus Flood at U.C. Berkeley from an Anarchist Prisoner of War is available to read. Each chapter is also available as a zine to print and share.
Write to Casey:
Casey Goonan #24611-511
FCI Allenwood Medium
P.O. Box 2000
White Deer, PA 17887
Dwayne “Bim” Staats published an article at Solitary Watch, “Voices from Solitary: When Toxic Fumes Turned My Solitary Cell into a Death Trap.” Bim is currently incarcerated at the Delaware supermax facility James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. Bim has served 22 years of a life sentence, and has spent 17 years in solitary confinement in prisons across Pennsylvania and Delaware. In the following piece, Bim recounts a situation in which he and other men were trapped in an isolation unit with no ventilation, and with the air vents spewing noxious gas. While Bim’s attempts to find out the cause of the gas hit dead ends, the symptoms he describes the men experiencing notably mirror those of carbon monoxide poisoning, a medical emergency so potentially deadly that most states require carbon monoxide detectors in homes and buildings. The environmental and medical hazards commonly found in prisons and jails are well-documented, supported by the work of researchers, grassroots organizers, and other incarcerated writers. Bim is on Instagram @_bim_21 and YouTube. He can be emailed on GettingOut by adding him as a contact using his name “Dwayne Staats” and number “467005,” or reached by mail:
Dwayne Staats 467005
Delaware DOC – 1101
PO Box 96777
Las Vegas, NV 89193.
Recently during a warm evening jaunt we sabotaged an automated license plate reader, an indigo bike station, some construction machinery, and painted over or disabled around 20 camera.
We want to highlight some of the tools we used that we think are underappreciated in radical circles. A handheld garden sprayer filled with watered down paint was used to paint a lot of the out of reach cameras. It’s smaller, lighter, and easier to use than a fire extinguisher. The license plate reader, other cameras, and the bike station were sabotaged using wire cutters. Exposed wires were snipped and hand tools opened panels when wires were inside cabinets or conduits.
We had an awesome time and enjoyed a fabulous post-crime spree glow in the days that followed!
Submission
Posters were wheatpasted in different neighborhoods around Philly in solidarity with anarchist and political prisoners. Congratulations to Mujera Lung’aho on your release! We were going to put up posters about you too but you’re already free.
Prisoners to the street!
Free them all!
June 12
🪸7pm – 12am
O.R.C.A. (email orca.philly@protonmail.com for address)
Come celebrate two and a half years of aquatic anarchy as we send the ship off! O.R.C.A. is closing and we invite you to come say goodbye and carry away treasures from the space. (Make transport plans if you want to take anything big.)
Expect music, snacks, drinks, and good vibes. This is our last event.
💙👋🏴
O.R.C.A. is closing. This wasn’t an easy decision, but given a combination of factors–personal capacity, building frustration, and lack of logistical+financial support–running the space is no longer sustainable for us and we don’t want to continue this project. We are glad to have helped create an anarchist space for people to meet and learn from each other and encounter anti-authoritarian ideas. Many anarchist spaces often skew white and punk; it was important to us that O.R.C.A. did not fall into this pattern. Over the last 2.5 years, we’ve prioritized hosting de-colonial, black liberation, and internationally-oriented events. Shout out to anyone who has booked or facilitated an event! We couldn’t have done it without you.
O.R.C.A. opened during an upsurge in the Palestinian liberation movement, and was initially intended to meet a need for a public non-commercial space where people could find each other and engage with anarchism. We knew of an empty room in a building we were familiar with, and we decided to squat it for as long as we could. Our short time squatting revealed to us that the space was fulfilling a need and when squatting became untenable we decided to rent a room. While O.R.C.A. will not continue, the need for non-commercial, explicitly anti-authoritarian political spaces remains, and we encourage anyone with the desire and capacity to open other spaces.
It’s worth addressing some of the challenges that went along with this project and influenced our decision to close. From the beginning, a 2-3 person collective was not large enough to sustain a space like this. It was difficult to find dedicated people who had the capacity and availability to seriously contribute to O.R.C.A., an unsurprising reality in the face of the increasing misery of today. Relatedly, our own capacities, desires, and commitments have changed since 2023. We encourage anyone starting this kind of project to remember that people and circumstances change, and to prepare accordingly.
If we want spaces like O.R.C.A. to exist, we need community buy-in. That can look like attending or throwing events, donating supplies, helping with workdays, but it also needs to include financial support. We often ended up paying rent with the fruits of our own 👠marginalized labor🏴☠️. Despite never charging to use the space or attend events, behind the scenes, we’ve always been concerned about having the money to keep the lights on.
It certainly didn’t help that the building was becoming more and more inaccessible. We knew when we opened O.R.C.A. that the building was not nearly as accessible as we would have liked, and the new locks, cameras, and the threat of fees from building management have only added to our discouragement.
To the volunteers–open hours crew, friends who’ve jumped in when we’ve needed it, anyone who has thrown us some money–thank you so much!
We made things work! Despite the limitations of the space–not very physically accessible, cold in the winter and hot in the summer, and three busy people running things–almost all of our programs were very well attended. On many occasions we filled every couch, folding chair, bench, and extra floor space with friends, comrades, and strangers alike. We want to celebrate the last 2.5 years of aquatic anarchy! Help us send this ship off (and take home all of our treasures*) June 12th.
Love and anarchy,
O.R.C.A.
*Books, zines, couches, rugs, chairs, lamps, paint, a projector, a printer, a well-decorated mini fridge, and so many other items.
[This post only contains information relevant to Philadelphia and the surrounding area, to read the entire article follow the above link.]
Our practice of solidarity is not just one of obligation, but of recognition that an ever-expanding and never-ending solidarity is part of the path to all of our freedom. Because we know ourselves to be more connected, stronger, and ultimately more capable when it is always a part of what guides us. We know there is no fixed limit or end, and the need for solidarity will always be there. We know that we find richness in the ways that it deepens our movements and selves.
–– June 11 2026: Solidarity Without End
Repression breeds resistance, but only if we try…. The struggle continues. This month marks 6 years since the state murder of George Floyd and the nationwide uprising that still looms on the horizon of what’s possible. June 11 returns and solidarity is endless. Marius is free! And new long-term anarchist prisoners remain. We return with another round-up of updates and calls to action about political prisoners, repression of revolutionaries, and rebellions behind bars. Fire to the prisons!
As always, we welcome submissions and international contributions––hit up in_contempt @ autistici . org.
A zine and pamphlet of this column will be available in the coming days to print and share with friends, comrades, and loved ones behind bars.
June 11th International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners
Casey Goonan, a dedicated community educator, writer, distroist, and printer who has lived a life committed to struggles for liberation was arrested in June of 2024 for actions, including the arson of a UC Berkeley Police vehicle, in response to the University’s treatment of student protesters for Palestine. In September of 2025, Casey was sentenced to 19 years in prison. Casey had been in holdover at FCI Mendota, awaiting their permanent placement. Life at FCI Mendota was uncertain and challenging, as they were denied access to sufficient medical care to manage their diabetes, and had lived without personal property, stimulating programs or much time outside their cell. In February 2026, Casey was finally transferred to FCI Allenwood in Northern Pennsylvania. This placement might be temporary, but for the time being they have better medical care, phone access, time out of their cell and time in the library. They are working on a habeas petition with another legal team in order to appeal their conviction and sentencing.
Political Prisoners / POWs
Casey Goonan
An update from Casey Goonan––”Lockdowns and a Birthday”:
After dealing with a tough month or two of extended of unit-wide lockdowns, establishing a reliable program has been difficult, but Casey reports doing very well! Lockdowns still happen sporadically with little explanation so developing a daily rhythm has been a challenge. They have made a lot of friends on the unit though and for Casey’s birthday, all the guys in their car and few others quietly passed around a birthday card to sign. And to cap it off, somebody made a bangin’ spread of nachos for the occasion.
Mail and calls
Snail mail has been extremely slow and sporadic through the mailroom. They only are getting mail at least a month later than it’s postmark, which is extra frustrating because…
Casey recently received a 6 month revocation of their calling privileges and lost 27 days of good time credits as punishment for a 3-way call with their mom and brother that they didn’t even know was against the rules. So for the time being, email via Corrlinks or snail mail is the only way to talk to them.
To revisit some mail basics:
– Leave big margins on your letters. Casey only receives a black and white hardcopy scan of letters and as of yet the feds haven’t mastered using a scanner or just don’t care. Anything near the edges of the page gets cut off.
– Mail is surveilled and often pieces are outright blocked. Casey has heightened restrictions and scrutiny due to their classification and charges. Write accordingly. Know as well that some mail just doesn’t make it through.
At the moment we are asking for people to please stick to the books on this list due to Caseys space concerns. Thank you to everyone who has sent Casey books!
Birthday fundraiser
For Casey’s birthday we were able to raise $840 so far for Lil Nicky, their cellie and friend. Let’s double that!
To support Lil Nicky, funds can be sent by Venmo labeled as “Little Nicky” to @juliepetersonG
Lil Nicky has been a great friend, and lifesaver in the yard on numerous occasions. Slated to go home in 15 months to Philly, he will be reuniting with his 13 year old son. Also, Lil Nicky is deaf and needs immediate support to buy his own hearing aids and batteries (Yeah, the prison doesn’t supply those!).
With next to no income from a prison job, it is extremely hard to purchase supplies for your disabilities not to mention save for going home. Without support, re-entry is an extension of the isolation of incarceration, leaving just-released people in an extremely vulnerable position and often in harms way.
Lil Nicky has been there for Casey and Casey is looking to repay the favor.
Together they spend hours on lockdowns discussing sports and the state of the world. Lil Nicky is continually motivating Casey to stay focused on their goals as an abolitionist and their prisoner support work, now from the inside.
Again, to kick down, Venmo @juliepetersonG with the note “Lil Nicky.”
Last month, Casey shared a book of their writings pre-sentencing from Santa Rita Jail on Palestine solidarity, anarchism and anti-imperialism, reflections on tactics and strategies in the movement, and personal experiences from the campus flood for the liberation of Gaza––Lines in the Sand: Writings on the Gaza Solidarity Encampment & Campus Flood at U.C. Berkeley from an Anarchist Prisoner of War.
The book is available to read in full online and zines of each chapter are also available to print and share.
Write to Casey:
Casey Goonan #24611-511
FCI Allenwood Medium
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 2000
White Deer, PA 17887
George Floyd Uprising Prisoners
As far as we know, the current George Floyd Uprising prisoners are:
David Elmakayes #77782-066
USP Lee
U.S. Penitentiary
P.O. Box 305
Jonesville, VA 24263
Smart Communications/PADOC
Khalif Miller #QQ9287
SCI Forest
PO Box 33028
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
Birthdays
Khalif Miller
Birthday: June 10, 1995
Khalif Miller is a political prisoner incarcerated for his participation in the George Floyd uprising in Philadelphia. One of several who faced federal charges, Khalif was sentenced to five years in federal prison; he has since completed his federal sentence, but is now being held at SCI Forest Pennsylvania state prison for parole violations for an earlier unrelated case. In March 2026, Khalif was denied parole for another year. Check out his Instagram page and his online fundraiser.
Khalif can receive letters and photos at this mailing address:
Smart Communications / PA DOC
Khalif Miller / #QQ9287
PO Box 33028
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
As PADOC is a digital mail scanning state, please use single sided letters when sending to this Florida address. Books and zines must be sent to: Khalif Miller #QQ9287 / 268 Bricker Road / Bellefonte, PA 16823-1667. You can also message Khalif electronically using ConnectNetwork.com – search PADOC for Khalif Miller or his ID QQ9287.
Jarreau “Ruk” Ayers
Birthday: June 15, 1981
Ayers grew up in Wilmington, Delaware, and was serving a life sentence when he was indicted—along with sixteen others—for his alleged involvement in the uprising at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Delaware in February 2017. Once convicted, he was transferred to the Pennsylvania prison system to serve his time. Ayers was released to general population in March 2024 after spending nearly 19 years in solitary confinement. Ayers is a father, pro-se litigator, co-author of Vaughn 17 Speaks, and co-founder of Rebellious Hearts, which is a movement for liberation built upon revolutionary, matriarchal, abolitionist, and Black power principles. You can follow Ayers on Instagram at @remember_ur_krown
Smart Communications / PA DOC
Jarreau Ayers – NS9994
PO Box 33028
St. Petersburg, FL 33733
As PADOC is a digital mail scanning state, please use single sided letters when sending to this Florida address. Books and zines must be sent to: Jarreau Ayers – NS9994 / 268 Bricker Road / Bellefonte, PA 16823-1667. You can also message Khalif electronically using ConnectNetwork.com – search PADOC for Jarreau Ayers or his ID NS9994.
After dealing with a tough month or two of extended of unit-wide lockdowns, establishing a reliable program has been difficult, but Casey reports doing very well! Lockdowns still happen sporadically with little explanation so developing a daily rhythm has been a challenge. They have made a lot of friends on the unit though and for Casey’s birthday, all the guys in their car and few others quietly passed around a birthday card to sign. And to cap it off, somebody made a bangin’ spread of nachos for the occasion.
Mail and calls
Snail mail has been extremely slow and sporadic through the mailroom. They only are getting mail at least a month later than it’s postmark, which is extra frustrating because…
Casey recently received a 6 month revocation of their calling privileges and lost 27 days of good time credits as punishment for a 3-way call with their mom and brother that they didn’t even know was against the rules. So for the time being, email via Corrlinks or snail mail is the only way to talk to them.
To revisit some mail basics:
– Leave big margins on your letters. Casey only receives a black and white hardcopy scan of letters and as of yet the feds haven’t mastered using a scanner or just don’t care. Anything near the edges of the page gets cut off.
– Mail is surveilled and often pieces are outright blocked. Casey has heightened restrictions and scrutiny due to their classification and charges. Write accordingly. Know as well that some mail just doesn’t make it through.
At the moment we are asking for people to please stick to the books on this list due to Caseys space concerns. Thank you to everyone who has sent Casey books!
Birthday fundraiser
For Casey’s birthday we were able to raise $840 so far for Lil Nicky, their cellie and friend. Let’s double that!
To support Lil Nicky, funds can be sent by Venmo labeled as “Little Nicky” to @juliepetersonG
Lil Nicky has been a great friend, and lifesaver in the yard on numerous occasions. Slated to go home in 15 months to Philly, he will be reuniting with his 13 year old son. Also, Lil Nicky is deaf and needs immediate support to buy his own hearing aids and batteries (Yeah, the prison doesn’t supply those!).
With next to no income from a prison job, it is extremely hard to purchase supplies for your disabilities not to mention save for going home. Without support, re-entry is an extension of the isolation of incarceration, leaving just-released people in an extremely vulnerable position and often in harms way.
Lil Nicky has been there for Casey and Casey is looking to repay the favor.
Together they spend hours on lockdowns discussing sports and the state of the world. Lil Nicky is continually motivating Casey to stay focused on their goals as an abolitionist and their prisoner support work, now from the inside.
Again, to kick down, Venmo @juliepetersonG with the note “Lil Nicky.”
Join us for a work-in-progress screening of an untitled narrative feature.
A brief conversation will precede the film, reflecting on the themes and questions that inspired it, and on the process of making a self-funded work.
Afterward, experience a slow cinema work moving through the mundane, and the quiet but constant weight of what’s at stake.
Filmmaker introduction before the screening.
Post-film gathering at a second location.
Donations will support finishing funds for the film, with a portion going to O.R.C.A.
Film synopsis: Figures pass through a Los Angeles house, engaged in routine preparation for something imminent but never arriving. Time stretches and skips. The outside world encroaches, and the condition of blackness endures.
Last weekend, crews of anarchists put up hundreds of anti-tech posters across the city. This was an experiment in coordinating across geography between multiple affinity groups and part of our focus on anti-tech agitation. We aspire to keep developing this coordination capacity for more combative action.
New zine from here (https://daygloayhole.gumroad.com/l/Norobotics) that includes a comic and also communiques and write ups on the fight against Ghost Robotics. The comic was originally published in color on the author’s patreon and is available there for free without the communiques and write ups. Some quotes from the author’s websites are included below so potential readers have an idea of what the zine is about.
“A 9 page printable B&W zine combining my comic about anarchist attacks on Ghost Robotics in Philly, as well as a series of summations and reportbacks combined in the zine The Struggle Against Ghost Robotics. I am the creator or the comic, but I’m not the creator of the reportbacks or the zine that combines them.”
“I was excited to do more of these kinds of comics. I realized I rarely do straight up “pro anarchism” comics. But these kinds of actions are happening all over the country all the time and I don’t see them talked about much despite this aspect of struggle being really important to me. That said, it feels hard writing this as a bunch of comrades have been convicted in Texas.
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For more info on these Ghost Robotics actions, here’s the link to one of the zines I read. There were a few other actions and demos that happened around getting Ghost Robotics out of UPenn, including people running up on the dean’s house. So if you’re curious to get a sense of the larger campaign, there’s a lot more to find out. Apparently Ghost Robotics has to reveal their new address when they turn in their next quarterly report…which is a fact I learned on the internet.”
After a full day of taking part in immigrant rights actions, Philly Metro WSA, Greater Chicago WSA, and Labor committee (national) had an amazing night at our hybrid gathering, celebrating our movement’s history! Happy Mayday friends !!!
Join us on Saturday, May 2nd at 2pm for an afternoon with the author of “I Am Maroon.”
In this cinematic memoir, follow one man’s journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way.
Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the most militant units of the Black Liberation Army. Shoatz was convicted to life in prison following a coordinated attack on a park police station that left one guard dead. The prison walls, however, could not deter Shoatz’s battle for personal and collective freedom. He escaped state prisons twice, making him a living legend, and endowed him with the moniker “Maroon,” once used to honor runaway slaves from plantations. He survived 22 years in solitary confinement, prompting an international campaign for his freedom.
I Am Maroon charts a life of dizzying intrigue and a long struggle for liberation. With an unforgettable voice, Maroon reminds us that we too are capable of radical change, leaving us a blueprint for how we might dedicate our lives and minds to the ongoing fight for freedom.
The Wooden Shoe is ADA accessible excepting the restroom and meetings marked “downstairs”. All events are masked (provided). Parking is available metered on the street with the two closest paid parking garages at 1457 South St and 545 S 11th St. Public transit bus lines 45 & 47 stop within short walking distance. Please let us know if you have any other accessibility requirements and we will do our best to accommodate.
Come hear about the Zapatista’s international gatherings & what organizers and community members in Philadelphia can learn from 40+ years of anti-capitalist, indigenous struggle in Chiapas
In defense of the land, the people, and life itself
