Online Webinar
Sunday July 26th, 2026
2:00PM ET / 11:00AM PT

Online Registration: https://withfriends.co/event/28287878/General_Admission 
Watch live and thereafter: https://www.youtube.com/@CommonNotions 

One day our comrades will come home. Leonard Peltier came home last year; Marius Mason came home this year. Many of our Green Scare, Animal Rights, Anarchist, Black and Puerto Rican Liberation, Indigenous and Anti-Imperialist Warriors, and Conscientious Objectors have come home. And one day the Prairieland and other anti-fascist prisoners will return to our communities, too.

Join the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Support Committee and friends for an online webinar, Sunday, July 26, at 2pm ET, as we celebrate Marius Mason’s return home and let those inside know we are here for them. MC’d by Matt Meyer with Ashanti Alston, Diana Block, Josh Harper, Ray Luc Levasseur, and Julie Herrada (Marius Mason Support Committee). 

People Do Come Home: An Event for the Prairieland Defendants and All Political Prisoners brings together an intergenerational group of former political prisoners and support committee members who will share their experiences of coming home and building prisoner support movements as we seek solace in a time of fascism. 

“For, if they take you in the morning,” James Baldwin wrote to Angela Davis, “they will be coming for us that night.” Our movement must respond as “they” may come for “us”: repress us, arrest us, imprison us. But we will fight back and be here for each other when we come home!

While this is a free event, we humbly ask that you donate to the Marius Mason Support Fund at https://supportmariusmason.org/support/ 

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The full event will be transcribed and shared with political prisoners and made available to support committees.  

Technical and organizational support for People Do Come Home provided by Common Notions Press, artwork by Josh MacPhee of Justseeds, publicity by Agency, and with the support of the Prairieland Defendants / DFW Support Committee. 

For more information on the event or to co-sponsor please email Kevin Van Meter at [email protected]. 

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Here is the latest compilation of every-other-week updates:
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/23-jun-2026.pdf

NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support
crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of
war we support.

If you consistently mail the latest updates to a specific prisoner,
please let us know so we can insure there’s no overlap. The goal is to
have copies sent to all of the prisoners we list.

We’ve also been told that some prisoners are not receiving the copies
sent in, yet we aren’t getting rejection notices. If you are in steady
contact with a prisoner, please ask them whether or not they are
receiving the updates and let us know.

Free ’em all,
NYC ABC
—
https://linktr.ee/nycabc

This was taken from the NYC ABC Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War at https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nycabc_polprislisting_may-2026_legal.pdf

Grailing Brown #39384­066
USP Canaan
Post Office Box 300
Waymart, Pennsylvania 18472

Birthday: May 27

Kojo Bomani Sababu is a New Afrikan Prisoner of War serving a 55 year sentence. Kojo was captured on December 19th, 1975 during a bank expropriation. He was subsequently charged with conspiracy for an alleged plan to use rockets, hand grenades and a helicopter in an attempt to free Puerto Rican Prisoner of War Oscar Lopez Rivera from the federal prison where he was serving a 55-year sentence for a 1981 conviction of seditious conspiracy  

Illustration by Gianluca Costantini    

This was taken from the NYC ABC Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War at https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nycabc_polprislisting_may-2026_legal.pdf

Ronald Reed #219531
Minnesota Correctional Facility ­ Lino Lakes
Post Office Box 247
Phoenix, Maryland 21131

Birthday: August 31 

Ronald Reed, a former member of the Black United Front, was convicted of the 1970 shooting of a St. Paul police officer. Twenty-five years after the killing, Reed was arrested and convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first degree-murder. He is serving Life in prison. Reed is a former 60s civil rights activist. In 1969, Reed was also among the students at St. Paul Central High School who demanded black history courses and organized actions against racist teachers. He was also instrumental in helping to integrate college campuses in Minnesota. During this period, Reed began to look toward revolutionary theory and began to engage in political street theater with other young black revolutionaries in the city of St. Paul. More information: http://bit.do/RonaldReed

Illustration by Gianluca Costantini    

This was taken from the NYC ABC Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War at https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nycabc_polprislisting_may-2026_legal.pdf

Smart Communications/PA DOC
Fred Burton AF3896
SCI Chester
Post Office Box 33028
St Petersburg, Florida 33733

Birthday: December 15

Frederick Burton is an innocent man who has diligently attempted to prove his innocence to the courts for 47 years. Prior to his inprisonment, Fred worked for a phone company, was a well respected member of his community and his wife was preparing to have twins. In 1970, Fred was accused and then convicted of participating in the planning of the murder of Philadelphia police officers. While the alleged plan was to blow up a police station, instead a police officer was shot and killed by alleged members of a radical group called “the Revolutionaries.”   

 Illustration by Gianluca Costantini  

This was taken from the NYC ABC Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War at https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nycabc_polprislisting_may-2026_legal.pdf

Smart Communications/PA DOC
Joseph Bowen #AM4272
SCI Fayette
Post Office Box 33028
St Petersburg, Florida 33733

Birthday: January 15

Joseph “Joe-Joe” Bowen is one of the many all-but-forgotten frontline soldiers in the liberation struggle. A native of Philadelphia, Joe-Joe was a young member of the “30th and Norris” street gang before his incarceration politicized him.

Released in 1971, his outside activism was cut short a week following his release when Joe-Joe was confronted by an officer of the notoriously brutal Philadelphia police department. The police officer was killed in the confrontation, and Bowen fled. After his capture and incarceration, Bowen became a Black Liberation Army combatant, defiant to authorities at every turn. In 1973, Joe-Joe and Philadelphia Five prisoner Fred “Muhammad” Burton assassinated Holmesberg prison’s warden and deputy warden as well as wounded the guard commander in retaliation for intense repression against Muslim prisoners in the facility.

 In 1981, Bowen led a six-day standoff with authorities when he and six other captives took 39 hostages at Graterford Prison as a freedom attempt and protest of the prison conditions. Much of his time in prison has been spent in and out of control units, solitary confinement, and other means of isolating Joe-Joe from the general prison population. He is legendary to many prisoners as a revolutionary. “I used to teach the brothers how to turn their rage into energy and understand their situations,”

Bowen told the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1981. “I don’t threaten anybody. I don’t talk to pigs. I don’t drink anything I can’t see through and I don’t eat anything off a tray. When the time comes, I’ll be ready.”  

 Illustration by Gianluca Costantini  

This was taken from the NYC ABC Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War at https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nycabc_polprislisting_may-2026_legal.pdf

Mumia Abu-Jamal
Smart Communications/PA DOC
Mumia Abu­Jamal #AM8335
SCI Mahanoy
Post Office Box 33028
St Petersburg, Florida 33733

Birthday: April 24

Mumia is an award winning journalist and was one of the founders of the Black Panther Party chapter in Philadelphia. He has struggled for justice and human rights for people of color since he was at least 14 years old ~ the age when he joined the Party. In December of 1982, Mumia, who moonlighted by driving a taxi, happened upon police who were beating his brother.

During the melee, a police officer was shot and killed. Despite the fact that many people saw someone else shoot and then run away from the scene, Mumia was convicted and sentenced to death by what can only be called a kangaroo court. During the summer of 1995, a death warrant was signed, which sparked one of the most effective organizing efforts in defense of a political prisoner ever. Since that time, Mumia has had his death sentence overturned, but still has a life sentence with no opportunity for parole.

More information: freemumia.com

Illustration by Gianluca Costantini

Join family and friends of the Virgin Islands 3 on Sunday, June 27th for music, food and a wellness raffle to raise funds and support for their freedom!

Where: Vital Shoppe, 1030 Union Street, Brooklyn

Doors open: 5pm
Presentation from Mas Rising: 7pm
Raffle closing: 8:30pm
Music by One Nation Sound and Rev Love throughout

No door cover to come enjoy the vibes in community. Vital Shoppe will be serving their menu, and we’ll be collecting donations for VI3 merch + the wellness raffle (yoga classes, acupuncture and massage).

Accessibility: This will be an indoor/outdoor event, and there’s a step with a small ramp to get into the restaurant. There is some seating but bringing a folding/camping chair is encouraged if you’re more comfortable sitting.

Malik has been transferred to Broad River Correctional (BRCI) – a maximum security facility in Columbia, South Carolina.

After so much uncertainty and no answers from Oregon DOC, we have learned that Malik has ended up at an institution nearby the Kirkland transfer facility.

This type of interstate transfer is rare and has been used as retaliation against political prisoners working to organize with fellow prisoners and challenge the awful conditions across the US prison system. See recent reporting for how this process has been weaponized.

We are so relieved to know that Malik is alive and their whereabouts are known (even though ODOC has intentionally moved them away from their friends, lawyer, and loved ones).

But as Malik seeks to stabilize and rebuild after their possessions were taken, we are asking folks for support. Please consider contributing to their commissary and living expenses: https://chuffed.org/project/185716-support-malik-muhammad

All funds will go directly to Malik and will be strictly accounted for; we deeply appreciate your support and solidarity as Maliks transitions to this next chapter.

Love, rage, and solidarity. Always

To write Malik:

Malik Muhammed #400523 (Marion 183)
4460 Broad River Road
Columbia, SC, 29210

Here is the latest compilation of every-other-week updates:
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/9-jun-2026.pdf

NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support
crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and prisoners of
war we support.