{"id":16091,"date":"2025-06-11T18:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T01:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/?p=16091"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T19:06:28","slug":"international-day-of-solidarity-with-long-term-anarchist-prisoners-june-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/international-day-of-solidarity-with-long-term-anarchist-prisoners-june-11-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners \u2013 June 11, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners hits a little differently. The government\u2019s increasingly blatant disregard for constitutional protections \u2014particularly those guaranteed under the 4th, 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 6<sup>th<\/sup>, and 14<sup>th<\/sup> Amendments \u2014 has laid bare a truth many have long known: we are only one administration away from full-blown <a href=\"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/fascistic-rise\/\">authoritarianism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014or (cue ominous music and tired dog whistles) whether they\u2019re the work of \u201coutside agitators,\u201d \u201cprofessional instigators,\u201d or \u201croaming bands of anarchists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This narrative isn\u2019t new. For generations, terms like \u201coutside agitators,\u201d \u201ccommunists,\u201d \u201csocialists,\u201d and \u201canarchists\u201d 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 \u2013 anything but human beings demanding dignity and justice and the protections they\u2019re supposed to be provided by our Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 keeping the public scared and the money flowing to billionaires. Ask someone in a position of institutional power what an anarchist believes, and you\u2019ll likely hear a cartoonish caricature, detached from any serious understanding of anarchist thought or practice.<\/p>\n<p>We push back against this ignorance by supporting anarchist prisoners \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC)<\/strong>\u00a0is proud to stand in solidarity with these individuals on June 11<sup>th<\/sup> and every day that follows. Please visit their support pages (linked below) to learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/maliks-birthday\/\">write to them now<\/a> &#8212; and contribute to their ongoing needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marius Mason<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/supportmariusmason.org\/about\/\">https:\/\/supportmariusmason.org\/about\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Malik Muhammad<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prisonersolidarity.com\/prisoner\/malik-muhammad\">https:\/\/prisonersolidarity.com\/prisoner\/malik-muhammad<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/support-for-malik-muhammad\/\">https:\/\/cldc.org\/support-for-malik-muhammad\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hridindu Roychowdhury<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrently, 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.\u00a0 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\u2014in 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:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hridindu Roychowdhury<\/em><br \/>\nColumbia County Jail<br \/>\n403 Jackson St<br \/>\nPortage, WI 53901<\/p>\n<p><strong>For Hridindu&#8211;Mailing instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Include a full return address<\/li>\n<li>Use only #10 envelopes<\/li>\n<li>Money orders (made out to the inmate) are accepted<\/li>\n<li>Packages are not accepted by mail or courier<\/li>\n<li>All mail is copied in black and white; inmates receive photocopies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This Sunday is also\u00a0<strong>Father\u2019s Day<\/strong>\u2014a 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\u2019s a day that magnifies separation and loss in a system designed to sever human connection.<\/p>\n<p>While today we spotlight three individuals, we must remember that the prison population continues to grow daily \u2014 swelled by those caught in ICE raids and those resisting the dystopian resurgence of white nationalist policy. Many of these individuals \u2014 trapped in the machinery of Stephen Miller\u2019s fever-dream immigration agenda \u2014 should be recognized and treated as political prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Now, more than ever, solidarity isn\u2019t symbolic\u2014it\u2019s essential.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the International Day of Solidarity with Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners hits a little differently. The government\u2019s increasingly blatant disregard for constitutional protections \u2014particularly those guaranteed under the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments \u2014 has laid bare a truth many have long known: we are only one administration away from full-blown authoritarianism. 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