This year, the International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners hits a little differently. The government’s increasingly blatant disregard for constitutional protections —particularly those guaranteed under the 4th, 5^th, 6^th, and 14^th Amendments — has laid bare a truth many have long known: we are only one administration away from full-blown authoritarianism.

Over the past week, CNN and other mainstream outlets have been preoccupied with debating whether the recent protests in Los Angeles, sparked by brutal militarized ICE raids, represent a legitimate grassroots movement—or (cue ominous music and tired dog whistles) whether they’re the work of “outside agitators,” “professional instigators,” or “roaming bands of anarchists.”

This narrative isn’t new. For generations, terms like “outside agitators,” “communists,” “socialists,” and “anarchists” have been trotted out to delegitimize resistance. When people rise up, risking injury and arrest to push back against illegitimate and illegal power, the media and state scramble to rationalize it. The response? Label them radicals, destabilizers, threats – anything but human beings demanding dignity and justice and the protections they’re supposed to be provided by our Constitution.

We live in an era where nuance and curiosity have been replaced with inflammatory labels and fear-driven messaging and misinformation designed to maintain the status quo — keeping the public scared and the money flowing to billionaires. Ask someone in a position of institutional power what an anarchist believes, and you’ll likely hear a cartoonish caricature, detached from any serious understanding of anarchist thought or practice.

We push back against this ignorance by supporting anarchist prisoners — not only by providing no cost movement aligned legal representation, but also amplifying their voices from within prison walls, and offering emotional and material support during and after their incarceration.

Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) is proud to stand in solidarity with these individuals on June 11^th and every day that follows. Please visit their support pages (linked below) to learn more, write to them now — and contribute to their ongoing needs.

Marius Mason
https://supportmariusmason.org/about/

Malik Muhammad
https://prisonersolidarity.com/prisoner/malik-muhammad
https://cldc.org/support-for-malik-muhammad/

Hridindu Roychowdhury
Currently, Hridindu does not have a dedicated support page. He is currently housed in a county jail in Wisconsin after being transferred there from the federal prison he was assigned after he took a non-cooperation plea deal and was sentenced.  Hridindu is currently being held in federal civil contempt of court for refusing to cooperate/snitch at a federal grand jury proceeding. After the judge recently found him in contempt for refusing to answer questions within the grand jury room, he sits in this county jail without earning any good time—in essence his federal time is frozen until contempt is purged. Stay tuned for more. In the meantime, please write to Hridindu at the following address:

Hridindu Roychowdhury
Columbia County Jail
403 Jackson St
Portage, WI 53901

For Hridindu–Mailing instructions:

• Include a full return address
• Use only #10 envelopes
• Money orders (made out to the inmate) are accepted
• Packages are not accepted by mail or courier
• All mail is copied in black and white; inmates receive photocopies

This Sunday is also Father’s Day—a lonesome reminder for many incarcerated individuals and their families. For those who are parents, and for the children missing their fathers, caregivers, or parental figures behind bars, it’s a day that magnifies separation and loss in a system designed to sever human connection.

While today we spotlight three individuals, we must remember that the prison population continues to grow daily — swelled by those caught in ICE raids and those resisting the dystopian resurgence of white nationalist policy. Many of these individuals — trapped in the machinery of Stephen Miller’s fever-dream immigration agenda — should be recognized and treated as political prisoners.

Now, more than ever, solidarity isn’t symbolic—it’s essential.