It’s 2026- time to get that Certain Days calendar

Now in its 25th year of publication, the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendaris required reading for radicals, leftists, and all who support political prisoners and advocate the end of mass incarceration. 

Order for yourself at https://burningbooks.com/products/preorder-certain-days-the-2026-freedom-for-political-prisoners-calendar

All proceeds support prisoners and grassroots organizations like Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP), Mutulu Shakur legal support, Sundiata Acoli release fund, Palestinian Youth Movement, Puget Sound Prisoner Support, Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois, Appalachians Against Pipelines, Community Resource Initiative- CA, P4W Memorial Collective Prisoners’ Justice Day healing circle, Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Fund, Cascadia Forest Defenders and NorCal Resist.

Each calendar has 11 thought-provoking essays and 12 pieces of beautiful art.  You’ll feel inspired every day of the year, with radical historical dates and lots of space for your own plans.  

Want to sponsor a copy (or more) to send to a prisoner? Click here!

Your group can buy 10 or more for the rate of $10 each (or 50 or more for the rate of $9 each) and then sell them for $15, keeping the difference for your organization. Many campaigns, infoshops and projects do this as a way of raising funds and spreading awareness about political prisoners.

When you add 10 or more calendars to your cart the relevant bulk price will automatically be applied.

Featuring:

Georges Abdallah, Farhan Ahmed, B, Tim Blunk, Caitlin Blunnie, Jesse “T.C.” Cannon, Olly Costello, Dio Cramer, Hannah Gelderman, David Gilbert, Jonas Goonface, Casey Goonan, Julie Goonan, Juan Hernandez, Krime, Jamila Levasseur, Marius Mason, Peppy & Krystal, Loretta Pierre, Emma Rust, Marina Sitrin, Jess X. Snow, and Emily Thiessen

About Certain Days: 

The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers across North America and political prisoner Xinachtli (s/n Alvaro Luna Hernandez) in Texas. We were happy to welcome founding members Herman Bell and Robert Seth Hayes (Rest in Power) home from prison in 2018, and founding member David Gilbert home from prison in 2021. We work from an anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, feminist, queer- and trans-liberationist position. Learn more and support them at certaindays.org.  

You can sponsor a prisoner copy at https://burningbooks.com/products/certain-days-the-2025-freedom-for-political-prisoners-calendar-prisoner-copy-1

Happy Birthday to Abdul Azeez

Warren Ballantine* #19-1878
Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility
19351 US Highway 49 North
Tutwiler, Mississippi 38963
*Address card to Abdul (Azeez).

 The “Virgin Island 3” are a group of activists accused of murdering eight people in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The murders took place during a turbulent period of rebellion on the Islands. During the 1970’s, as with much of the world, a movement to resist colonial rule began to grow in the U.S. occupied Virgin Islands. From 1971 to 1973, there was a small scale Mau Mau rebellion taking place on the islands. This activity was down-played by the media, for fear it would damage the tourist industry, which the island’s survival depends on. More information: vi3.org

More Political Prisoners birthdays are listed at https://nycabc.wordpress.com/pppow-birthday-calendar/

End of year ABCF Warchest report

The Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) initiated the Warchest program in November 1994 to send monthly donations to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War who have been receiving insufficient, little, or no financial support during their imprisonment. Its purpose is to collect funds from groups and individual supporters and send that money directly to commissary accounts of vetted Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War (PP/POW) monthly.

From inception to end of December 2025, we have raised almost $275,000 [view our latest Warchest Report accounting for funds raised].

To donate to the ABCF Warchest:
1- Check or money order: made out to Tim Fasnacht and sent to P.O. Box 8682, Lancaster, PA 17604.
2-CashApp$timabcf
3-PayPalabcfwarchest  (or send your donation to [email protected])
4-VenmoTimFasnachtABCF
5-Tax-deductible: We have a 501c3 fiscal sponsor for tax-deductible gifts of over $500. Please contact us for how to submit tax-deductible donations.

New Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners

via NYC ABC

We’ve finished the latest version of the NYC ABC “Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War” and it’s available for viewing (and download).

This update includes updated mini-bios, photos, and address changes for several prisoners. Sadly, this edition includes the removal of Imam Jamil Al-Amin. Rest easy, Imam Jamil.

Download the latest guide at https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/nycabc_polprisonerlisting_latestdec2025-1.pdf

Introducing the South Chicago ABC Zine Distro!

Via Chicago ABC

2025 UPDATED ZINE LIBRARY:

In an era of prison mail censorship, the criminalization of zines, and the repression of dissent as ‘terrorism’, we’re doubling down on our inside-outside distro operation. While we prioritize making these zines available to people behind bars and helping people inside self-publish their works, we’re posting this updated 2025 archive to support new zine distros and prisoner support crews and to prevent the suppression and disappearance of important revolutionary voices in this moment.

We have also updated the catalog to include The Anarchist Library through January 2025 and added a dozen zines from the South Chicago ABC collection. Also available are titles from the Anarchist Black Cross Federation, the True Leap Press catalog, and legacy publications such as 4strugglemag and Spirit of Freedom. A mirror of the archive is available as a Tor Hidden Service also accessible through Tor2Web. If there are any titles that should be added or removed from this catalog, please let us know. If you know or are an incarcerated artist or author and would like us to help distribute your works, please hit us up.

https://www.southchicagoabc.org
https://abcchicago.noblogs.org
chicagoabc at subvertising dot org