Malik Muhammad has been incarcerated since the Floyd Uprising but is now receiving support from the ABCF.

Malik is a Black/Palestinian pansexual Muslim, anarchist, antifascist and anti-racist abolitionist. They were charged with possession of unregistered destructive devices, engaging in civil disorder and obstructing law enforcement and using explosives to commit a felony. They have a young child. Malik has a long history of protesting and associated actions for Black liberation. 

On April 5th, 2021 Malik was arrested in Indiana, and then extradited to Oregon. They were given a $2.1 million bail. Through great struggle, the required 10% of it was met by the Portland Freedom Fund, but revoked the next day. Within 24 hours of their release, Malik was rearrested by federal officers. They were then imprisoned in Multnomah County where they were held in solitary confinement for around 90 days.

On July 29th Malik was moved, pretrial, to the state’s only federal prison, FCI Sheridan. At Sheridan, They participated in a hunger strike that successfully increased prisoners free-time from 30 minutes every other day to four hours per day everyday, and one day per week outside for recreation. In 2022, they were sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Malik has been writing about their thoughts and experiences when incarcerated at: https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org

In his own words:

My name is Malik Farrad Muhammad. I’m a black/Palestinian pansexual Muslim (yes, hella confusing). I’m an anarchist antifascist, anti-racist abolitionist (yes, both cops and prisons) for my love of freedom! My first protest was in high school: a walkout staged after Treyvon Martin’s murder. From there, I never really got active again until “Bernie or Bust” and then, of course, the George Floyd uprising. I traveled the country and organized and fought and was ultimately kidnapped, ransomed and now held prisoner here at OSP.

I have a beautiful son, a beautiful wife and life partner, Jesse, who moved out here to Portland after my kidnapping by the feds, and a loving family back home in the Midwest. I’m also a veteran, I was a tanker in the army — and no, I’m not proud that I was part of the murder machine, so don’t thank me for my service. I love music more than anything almost, am a guitarist and aspiring pianist, all genres. Not much else to say except that I’m a lover of freedom, equity and equality, and will fight to my last breath for it. Unlike those who may regret a thing they did to get convicted or those who tempered their actions for fear of the consequences, I regret nothing, if only not doing more before I was caught. I will live for the people and I’ll die for the people because I love the people, we who want freedom cannot rest till it comes.”

Write Malik at:
Malik Muhammed #23935744
Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution
2500 Westgate
Pendleton, OR 97801

You can find instructions for sending mail to Oregon prisons at  https://www.oregon.gov/doc/contact-inmate/Pages/letters.aspx 

Malik can also receive communications electronically, and prefers that method for consistent correspondence. You can find instructions for setting up electronic messages via the GettingOut website at https://www.icscorrections.com/docs/Gettingout_instructions.pdf
*Note that you must first send your email address to Malik in writing so that he can add you to his list of approved contacts.

via NYCABC

For many of the prisoners NYC ABC supports, we have tri-fold pamphlets. Some are our own design, others taken from the Anarchist Black Cross Federation. Feel free to download and distribute as you see fit– there’s even space on the back to add your local group’s contact information.

NOTE: When two-sided/duplex printing, select “print on short edge.” This way you avoid one side being printed upside down.

Alex Stokes
Bill Dunne
Casey Goonan
Joe-Joe Bowen
Kamau Sadiki
Marius Mason
Muhammad Burton
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Peppy and Krystal
Ronald Reed
Virgin Island 5 (Abdul Azeez, Hanif Shabazz Bey, Malik Smith)
Xinachtli

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3/3/26 — As Xinachtli continues fighting for his humane treatment following revelations in his medical records detailing multiple life-threatening conditions, the situation has become even more urgent.

Since February 25, Xinachtli has had no access to communication after being transferred from the Carol S. Young Medical Facility to the UTMB hospital in Galveston. He is being held in chains, unable to hold or use his tablet, cutting him off from all communication and all his property. He cannot speak to his lawyer. When one campaign member was briefly able to call, they heard him in a severely distressed and concerning state.

The Carole Young unit is refusing to accept him back, and we currently have no information about where he will be transferred next — all while he continues to be denied the medical treatment he urgently needs for his many serious health conditions.

This ongoing torture and repression must be met with a strong public response. We urge supporters to call throughout the rest of the week to demand answers.

March is here and calendar season is officially over. Last year at this time we’d already sold out. Don’t go the rest of the year disorganized! Grab what’s left of these 2026 Certain Days calendars, or grab some for prisoners, for only $5 each.

And please consider submitting your incredible art and articles to our 2027 calendar. Until next year… Solidarity!

Buy a copy for yourself for $5

Buy a copy for someone in prison for $5 (sent directly to them)

This Friday, March 6, 2026, 13 people, including Priscilla, who are facing charges in DeKalb County, are scheduled to appear for motions hearings.

Nine of them are arguing for the dismissal of their unindicted charges.

After years of little to no activity, these defendants are finally getting a day in court. Notably, no pending felonies have been indicted in these cases, preventing people from fighting the allegations in open court. In the meantime, defendants have endured years of uncertainty, stigma, and financial strain brought on by the state of Georgia charging outrageous felonies and publicizing arrests on major media, like Fox News, weaponizing the media with the promise that simple Google searches on a defendant’s name are more damaging than any formal background check.

A bundled-up protester stands with their back to the camera holding a hand-painted sign reading “DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST,” decorated with small green pine trees; other winter-clad demonstrators are blurred in the background.
“These are old cases, and, in some instances, people have been left unindicted for close to three years. The punishment has been the process: uncertainty, stigma, financial strain, and years of life organized around a looming prosecution.” — Xavier T. de Janon, People’s Law Collective

Priscilla’s lawyer, Xavier, will be arguing on her motions for dismissal at the March 6 hearing.

Join us on Zoom:
Time: March 6, 2026, 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Zoom Meeting: https://dekalbcountyga.zoom.us/j/87914354433
Meeting ID: 879 1435 4433
Passcode: 476240

Meanwhile, the Georgia Attorney General’s Office continues its attempted prosecution of 61 individuals in its unprecedented racketeering conspiracy indictment. That case is now headed to the Georgia Court of Appeals after the Fulton County Superior Court dismissed the racketeering count.

If you are in the Atlanta area, you are welcome to join the crew for inperson court support!

Political Prisoner Brian ‘Peppy’ DiPeppa was released to halfway house today!

Unwavering Faith In Collective Power

Some years ago, Krystal and I departed downtown Pittsburgh with a farewell kiss. We know love when free is liberating and when held in defiance of oppression is revolutionary. 

We left with an unwavering faith in the collective power accompanying us through the hardship of an all-too-common journey, in the clutches of the carceral state.

Now I return to the point of departure, having fared well with your hands at my back every step of the way. I return to my comrades’ arms for a moment to pause and breathe; we are still not free until all are free.

I took a ride along the contours left by the wounds of a system fixated on war. What these 971 days behind the walls have gifted is attunement to the shadowed sorrow that state, capital, and alienation are so committed to. 

I exited the closed prison today for the open prison of “community confinement”, a half-way house. From within and against these prisons, it is clear that abolition is only rational if we seek war’s end. Beyond idealism is the practical matter of placing hurt people with other hurt people in battle royale ghettos. AI will not resolve social inequities.

My eyes saw ingenuity and cleverness, hallmarks of determined people to find a way. Your letters and shared stories, from Minneapolis to Gaza, upheld this heart in which our new world is carried. 

May we find many ways together!

In Solidarity, Pep

by KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia prosecutors defending the 2002 murder conviction of a onetime Black Panther leader known as H. Rap Brown say new DNA evidence still points strongly to his guilt in the shooting of two sheriff’s deputies. However, they also accuse the case’s original lead prosecutor, now a Fulton County judge who has handled several high-profile political cases, of “grave and clear” misconduct.

The striking Wednesday filing by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office acknowledges serious wrongdoing by the former prosecutor and an FBI agent involved in the original investigation. But it argues that modern DNA testing, combined with ballistic evidence and trial testimony, leaves little doubt that Brown — by then known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin — was responsible for the attack that killed one deputy and wounded another outside of Al-Amin’s Atlanta home.

The former prosecutor, Robert McBurney, is a superior court judge and has been involved in some of the most politically charged cases in the country. Prosecutors described his conduct in Al-Amin’s trial as “the most egregious” issue in the case.

Despite standing by the conviction, Willis’ office said it does “not object to a hearing to evaluate the case in its entirety,” potentially keeping alive a public reexamination of a prosecution that has long divided civil rights advocates and law enforcement.

Al-Amin died in prison in November, but his family wants a hearing to clear his name, their attorney Mawuli Davis said, adding, “His legacy is still at the center of this.”

The lead prosecutor

McBurney oversaw the special grand jury Willis used in her investigation that eventually resulted in the indictment of Trump and others over allegations that they illegally tried to overturn the president’s narrow 2020 election loss in Georgia. Notably, though, McBurney barred Willis from seeking charges against then-state Sen. Burt Jones because she had hosted a fundraiser for his Democratic opponent in the lieutenant governor’s race, which McBurney ruled created an “actual and untenable” conflict of interest.

McBurney also declared Georgia’s restrictive abortion law unconstitutional — a finding the state Supreme Court has vacated in a case that is ongoing.

‘A trifecta of issues’

“This case had a trifecta of issues which undermined the process and the public’s confidence in justice,” the filing says.

During closing arguments at trial, McBurney displayed a chart titled “Questions for the defendant” and asked questions meant to focus the jury’s attention on the fact that Al-Amin didn’t testify. Al-Amin also had court permission to remain seated during the trial for religious reasons, including not standing when the jury entered. McBurney implored the jury, “Don’t stand for him.”

Federal courts have ruled that McBurney violated Al-Amin’s constitutional rights, but that it’s unlikely his actions substantially affected the verdict.

This week’s filing says McBurney “crossed the line from aggressive advocacy into misconduct that undermined the core principles of justice,” accusing him of misrepresenting evidence and withholding critical information from the defense, among other things.

“These were not minor oversights; they reflected a troubling pattern of behavior that prioritized winning over truth, and conviction over justice,” the filing says.

McBurney did not immediately respond to an email Thursday seeking comment.

FBI Special Agent James Campbell approached Al-Amin while he was on the ground in handcuffs, kicked and spit on him, and said, “This is what we do to cop killers,” the filing says. A reprimand of Campbell “did not clear SA Campbell’s stain on the investigation,” it says.

Lawyers for Al-Amin have also maintained that Campbell planted the guns used to shoot the deputies at the site where Al-Amin was arrested.

The Associated Press was unable to find contact information for Campbell to seek comment.

Campbell had been transferred to Atlanta after shooting an unarmed Muslim man in the back of the head, the filing says. That man’s supporters accused Campbell of planting a gun found at the scene.

The judge did not allow the jury to hear about the prior shooting after the defense presented newspaper articles about it, wanting to use that shooting to demonstrate bias and motive to plant guns. If defense attorneys had presented recently interviewed witnesses rather than relying on articles, the judge likely would have allowed the jury to consider that information, the new filing argues.

New DNA evidence

Al-Amin’s lawyers argued that nothing connected Al-Amin to the guns used to shoot the deputies. Willis’ office used DNA testing that wasn’t available at the time of the trial to test the guns and related items.

The tests excluded Al-Amin from the DNA found on both guns. But Al-Amin’s DNA was identified on a leather belt wrapped around one of the guns, the filing says. That evidence is a strong indication of his guilt, especially when paired with prior ballistics evidence and testimony, the filing says.

The shooting

As a radical activist in the 1960s, Al-Amin once said violence was “as American as cherry pie” and that Black people would use violence, if needed, to fight oppression.

He converted to Islam during a prison stint and moved to Atlanta in the 1970s, becoming the leader of one of the nation’s largest Black Muslim groups, the National Ummah.

On March 16, 2000, Fulton County sheriff’s deputies Ricky Kinchen and Aldranon English went to Atlanta’s West End neighborhood, where Al-Amin lived, was an imam and owned a grocery store, to serve a warrant for failure to appear in court on charges of driving a stolen car and impersonating a police officer during a traffic stop the previous year.

English testified at trial that Al-Amin fired a high-powered assault rifle when the deputies tried to arrest him. Then, prosecutors said, he used a handgun to fire three shots into Kinchen’s groin as the wounded officer lay in the street.

He was arrested four days later in White Hall, Alabama, a small town where he had helped develop a Muslim community.

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This story was first published on Feb. 19, 2026. It was updated on Feb. 23, 2026, to correct that the date of the murder conviction was in 2002, not 2000.

Please write:
Malik Muhammad #23935744
Eastern Oregon Correctional Institute
2500 Westgate
Pendleton, OR 97801-9699

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As of February 2026, Mumia has yet to receive eye treatment for diabetic retinopathy and aggressive glaucoma. Although his vision has been restored to some degree with the secondary cataracts removed, the serious eye diseases which could rob Mumia of the sight he has, have not been addressed.

We need the Pennsylvania Dept of Corrections (PA DOC) and Wellpath to obtain ophthalmologists to treat the diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.

We ask the public to resume calls, emails, and letters to SCI Mahanoy (the prison) and the Secretary of the PA DOC this week. Operation hours are Monday thru Friday 9:00am to 4:00pm Eastern Standard Time

• SCI Mahanoy Superintendent (Bernadette Mason): 570-773-2158
  
• PA Department of Corrections Secretary (Dr. Laurel Harry):
  717-728-4109 or 717-728-2573
  
• PA DOC Secretary email (Dr. Laurel Harry): [email protected]
  Bernadette Mason, SCI Mahanoy, 301 Grey Line Drive, Frackville PA 17931

Basic Script:
“Hello, my name is ————- and I’m calling to request that Mumia Abu-Jamal, number AM 8335, be seen and treated by specialists who treat diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma, serious eye diseases that can cause permanent blindness. He also needs to be examined for new glasses.

Due to his congestive heart disease, Mumia must have a heart healthy diet, filtered water and regular exercise, indoors and out. “

*Mahanoy is pronounced Ma’-ha-noi
Thank you for calling, emailing, and sending letters.