Xinachtli (Nahuatl, meaning “seed”) is a community organizer from Texas. Police informants were used to monitor Xinachtli’s organizing activities in the barrio. They were told Xinachtli was “typing legal papers,” “had many books” and was working on police brutality cases in Alpine. The police knew of Xinachtli’s history of community-based organizing and his legal skills. Xinachtli was recognized nationally and internationally as the national coordinator of the Ricardo Aldape Guerra Defense Committee, which led the struggle to free Mexican national Aldape Guerra from Texas’ death row after being framed by Houston police for allegedly killing a cop.

Xinachtli’s human rights work was recognized in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Mexico and other countries. He was sentenced in Odessa, Texas on June 2-9, 1997 to 50 years in prison for defending himself by disarming a police officer drawing a weapon on him. The trial evidence clearly showed Xinachtli was the victim of witch hunts and a police-orchestrated conspiracy to frame or eliminate him.

Xinachtli is a member of the Certain Days collective.

More information: freealvaro.net

Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Xinachtli* #255735
Post Office Box 660400
Dallas, Texas 75266-0400
*Address envelope to Alvaro Hernández.

Birthday: May 12

via NYC ABC

One part of NYC ABC‘s every-other-week Political Prisoner Letter-Writing Dinners is presenting updates and announcements. These typically relate to PPs, POWs, or are especially relevant to folks in NYC. Since February 2011, we’ve been printing and mailing hard copies of the updates and announcements to about a dozen imprisoned comrades.

In April 2013, along with Denver Anarchist Black Cross and Sacramento Prisoner Support, we expanded printing and mailing to include all U.S. held political prisoners and prisoners of war. As of September, 2014, that work has diffused over several support crews, collectives, and individuals.

On this page you will find an archive of what we’ve compiled since mid-March 2011. Please download and mail the current edition to prisoners with whom you correspond and share links with those who might be interested in doing the same.

Download the November 11, 2025 updates.

Hridindu Roychowdhury is an anarchist from Madison, Wisconcin who was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for attacking a building with a Molotov cocktail in the wake of the leak of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overruling Roe v. Wade.

He targeted the building because it was occupied by an anti-choice organization (Wisconsin Family Action). Roychowdhury acknowledged spray-painting the message “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either” on the outside of the building. No one was in the office at the time. Roychowdhury pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2023. He was was ordered to pay nearly $32,000 in restitution and received a 7.5 year sentence.

In May 2025, he was shipped to Wisconsin to go before a grand jury. After the judge found him in contempt for refusing to answer questions within the grand jury room, he sat in this county jail without earning any good time—in essence his federal time was frozen until contempt is purged. Hridindu was released from contempt and returned to the Bureau of Prisons in September 2025.

Originally from the U.S. Southwest, he is a diligent academic and enjoyer of word puzzles and Terry Pratchet novels. Earlier in federal detention, he had been keeping himself busy by taking courses in advanced mathematics, tutoring other people in prison to complete their GED tests, and participating with a dog training program.

Write:

Hridindu Roychowdhury #51111-510
FCI Marion
PO Box 1000
Marion, IL 62959

Birthday: February 24th

Download support flyer

Via NYC Anarchist Black Cross

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
Jamil Al-Amin
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

Peppy is an anarchist serving 60 months after accepting a noncooperating plea agreement for conspiracy and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder. The case against Peppy arose out of an April 18, 2023, demonstration against a University of Pittsburgh-sanctioned event that promoted hatred toward transgender people and communities. The speaking event features notorious transphobes Brad Polumbo and Michael Knowles, and posed the question, “should transgenderism be regulated by law?” It is important to note that in the affidavit for a search warrant, the FBI described their following of Peppy beginning a week before the April 18th protest–that is, a week before any allegation of any law being broken–on the pretext of having found a pamphlet about the movement to Stop Cop City in an unwarranted search of Peppy’s trash.

More information: freepeppy.org

Peppy* #66590-510
FCI Elkton
Post Office Box 10
Lisbon, Ohio 44432
*Address envelope to Brian DiPippa

Birthday: October 1

Download flyer.

Marius Mason is a transgender environmental and animal rights activist and anarchist. In 1999, in the name of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) he set fire to a lab at the University of Michigan that was conducting research on genetically modified
organisms (GMO). After Marius’ husband turned state’s-evidence, Marius was threatened with a life sentence for the arson and other acts of sabotage. With little financial stability and fear of dragging his family into a costly legal battle, Marius pled guilty and was given an extreme sentence of nearly 22 years. No one was ever harmed in any of his actions.

More information: supportmariusmason.org

Marie* Mason #04672-061
FCI Danbury
Route 37
Danbury, CT 06811

Address envelope to ‘Marie’ and letter as “Marius”
Birthday: January 26

On January 6, 2021, right-wing agitators gathered outside the New York State Capitol in support of the Stop the Steal rally in Washington DC. A handful of counter protesters spoke out against them and a melee broke out after a Proud Boy tased a Black man in the neck.

Alex Stokes was watching from the sidelines and ran to help others. Police did not intervene until the violence had ended, arresting three Black activists. Alex was charged with several felonies. The Proud Boys were not arrested at the scene.
Alex’s family and friends maintain that he was railroaded by the system. He was a
journalist under a court-ordered gag-order for over a year. His previous work and
experience with dangerous hate groups were inadmissible for his defense, but the
prosecution picked apart his social media accounts and portrayed his actions as
premeditated.

He was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison,
despite the fact that no one died and neither of the victims received life-altering injuries.

Alexander Contompasis 22-B-5028
Upstate Correctional Facility
PO Box 2001
Malone, NY 12953

Birthday: February 26

More Information: freealexstokes.com