ICYMI, here is an article from 2 weeks ago about the recent trial loss for the Prairieland Defendants.

The government won on most of its charges, including convicting defendants for moving a box of radical zines. by Matt Sledge March 13 2026, The Intercept.

A federal jury handed prosecutors a mixed victory in the trial of nine protesters for their roles during or after a chaotic demonstration outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility last July, convicting eight defendants of terrorism charges but sparing some of them on attempted murder counts.

The widely watched trial could serve as a bellwether as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to crack down on left-wing groups — and the convictions could encourage prosecutors to bring more such charges. A top FBI official said in December that the agency is now treating “antifa” as a major domestic terror threat.

“This is a sham trial, built on political persecution and ideological attacks coming from the top.”

In a statement posted online, a support group for the defendants said, “Everything about this trial from beginning to end has proven what we have said all along: this is a sham trial, built on political persecution and ideological attacks coming from the top.”

The Trump administration celebrated the verdict.

“Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that has been allowed to flourish in Democrat-led cities — not under President Trump,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “Today’s verdict on terrorism charges will not be the last as the Trump administration systematically dismantles Antifa and finally halts their violence on America’s streets.”

The court case centered on a nighttime July 4, 2025, protest outside ICE’s Prairieland Detention Facility that started with demonstrators shooting fireworks and spray-painting cars in the parking lot.

Signal messages obtained by the government showed that the demonstrators believed that less confrontational protests against ICE — such as one that had occurred earlier in the day at the same facility — were ineffective. Some of the protesters had brought guns, which is legal in Texas. A police officer responding to the scene was shot in the neck by one of the protesters, Benjamin Song, who had brought an AR-15 with a trigger modified for a higher rate of fire.

The defendants said the protest was a peaceful demonstration meant to show solidarity, pointing to the megaphone that one member of the group brought to shout slogans to detainees. Prosecutors pointed to the guns, ballistic vests, and trauma first-aid kits they brought as evidence of malicious intent.

Song was convicted of one count of attempted murder for shooting the officer, but acquitted on two other counts of attempting to shoot at two correctional officers. Song was also found guilty of discharging a firearm during a violent crime. Four other people accused of attempted murder counts were acquitted on those charges. Song faces up to life in prison.

In a significant victory for the government, jurors convicted eight defendants on material support for terrorism charges for wearing black clothes to the late-night demonstration. That use of “black bloc” clothing was an antifa tactic that assisted in the shooting of the officer, prosecutors said during their closing arguments.

The defendants convicted of providing material support to terrorists were Song, Autumn Hill, Zachary Evetts, Savanna Batten, Megan Morris [note: cooperating defendant), Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, and Ines Soto. They face up to 15 years in prison on that count. (Note: Support for non-cooperating defendants’ information is at https://prairielanddefendants.com/meet-the-defendants/ )

The same defendants were also convicted of riot and two explosives charges related to the fireworks. Hill, Evetts, Morris (note: cooperating defendant), and Rueda were acquitted on attempted murder charges that would have carried sentences up to life imprisonment.

The prosecution of the Prairieland defendants represented the federal government’s first use of the material support charge against alleged antifa members accused of domestic terrorism.

The prosecution was the government’s first material support for terror charges against alleged antifa members.

The verdict came after 10 days of testimony inside a Fort Worth courtroom packed with family members of the defendants, law enforcement officials, and journalists.

Prosecutors called the wounded police officer and detention center guards to describe what it was like on the receiving end of a barrage of bullets, as well as four cooperating defendants who pleaded guilty before trial.

Another significant witness was a researcher at a right-wing think tank who said the tactics used by the demonstrators that night, including “black bloc” clothing and the encrypted messaging app Signal — the latter of which the witness said he also used — were typical of antifa.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Note: We do not support cooperating defendant Meagan Morris, who is featured in article. More https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-profile/meagan-morris/

We are concerned community members from the Oregon area, asking for calls to Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI). The prison has:

Thrown Malik Muhammad, a political prisoner from the 2020 uprising in solitary confinement.
    It’s been days since they should have been released back to general population (Gen Pop)
Restricted Malik’s communication access
    Including access to their lawyer
    Mail has slowed drastically

This comes after Malik was in solitary confinement at Snake River Correctional Facility for over year, before suddenly transferring them to EOCI.
Demands:

Release Malik back to Gen Pop immediately
Fully Restore Malik’s access to communication
    Release all withheld mail
    Restore access to the tablet/calls
    Restore reliable access to Malik’s legal team.

Instructions:

You likely already know that the prison is not a place of justice, but a site of oppression, and struggles against it. Prison guards and officials may sound hostile or annoyed, lie, try to intimidate you, or ask you for information about yourself or prisoners. You do not need to give them any information about you.

Don’t believe their lies!
“They aren’t in solitary they’re in ABC.”
“I can’t take information without a name.”
“If you stop calling, we’ll do [x]!”

Remember that these tactics are a small fraction of what people inside face daily. Remain firm and polite in your demands.

Hide your name and number from the Prison’s Caller-ID, press *67 before the number you want to call.
    For example: *67-555-555-5555. You can test this by calling a friend using this method.
Using a VPN can conceal your location, but using one is not necessary.
    Proton VPN is free; free VPNs don’t have to store your payment information.
    VPNs won’t conceal GPS data from your device.
Do not answer personal questions or questions on behalf of anyone.
You do not need to offer further comment. You can hang up when they are done talking, or say “Thank you for your response.”

Information:

Weekdays work best for phone zaps.
CALL AT: 12PM, 2PM, 4PM

David Pedro, EOCI Superintendent: *67-541-276-0700
Jeana Jeffries, ODOC Recruitment Officer: *67-458-251-9137
Michael Reese, Director of Oregon Department of Corrections: *67-503-945-0927
Jessica Hale (Executive Assistant): *67-503-945-0978
Ryan Dwyer (Acting Inspector General): *67-503-945-0988

Sample Script:

“Hello, I am a concerned community member of calling to express support for Malik Muhammad #23935744. We have recently learned that it has been days since they should have been released back to general population from solitary confinement. Not only that, that they were denied access to communication, including contact with their lawyer. This is abuse and it won’t be tolerated. The community demands that Malik is released back to general population immediately, and their access to communication is fully restored. This includes releasing all withheld mail, restoring access to the tablet, and reliable access to legal counsel.”

NYCABC has finished the latest version of the “Illustrated Guide to
Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War” and it’s available for download
by clicking on the link below.

https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/nycabc_polprislisting_march-2026_legal.pdf

This update includes updated mini-bios, illustrations, and address changes
for several prisoners. Amazingly, this edition includes the removal of
Peppy. Welcome home, Peppy!

We are also adding Malik Muhammad, who has been incarcerated since the Floyd Uprising but is now receiving support from the ABCF.

Download the latest batch of updates from NYC ABC at
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/17-mar-2026.pdf

Check out the list of books Casey has requested at https://bookshop.org/wishlists/56b98684a2c55d72748aa7fae7dfa536217a1b5f

This wishlist comes from Casey directly and will be updated. The list is also prioritized with the most important to Casey starting from the top.

Casey has also shared this list of interests for other texts: 

• Beginners chess books
• Drums and drummers (jazz, punk, metal, rock, r&b, soul)
• World history/indigenous histories of “North American” continent
• Ohlone and Miwok stories/history (Bay Area Native history)
• College football and NFL football
• MLB baseball
• Culinary arts (outside and inside prison)
• Critical prison studies/carceral studies articles
• History of revolutions (international)
• Palestinian history, political analysis, and literature
• Black philosophy and critical theory
• Anarchist and anti-state communist analysis and literature
• Autonomous marxisms
• Arab Marxist texts
• Historical fiction (19th and 20th century revolutionaries) & memoirs
• Irish national liberation struggle
• Analysis of 21st century “abolition” movement
• Analysis of George Floyd Uprising
• Liberatory pedagogy and teaching methods
• History of science
• Brain Games (word searches, crosswords, puzzles)
• Exercise and fitness in prison
• Books by Paul Avrich (anarchist historian)
  
  If you purchase books through other outlets please be mindful of the mail rules for Casey’s facility. You can send them to: 

Casey Goonan #24611-511
FCI Allenwood Medium
P.O. Box 2000
White Deer, PA 17887

After 15 years in prison, anarchist political prisoner Casey Brezik has come home!

He is adjusting well, and psyched about life, but needs help to get started.

Living expenses and basic needs can be difficult to meet without a job, connections and experience moving through this technology-driven, end-stage-capitalist reality.

Anything you give will help ease the labor and anxiety that anyone would be dealing with after nearly two decades in a highly-controlled, hyperviolent carceral system.

Donate: 

cashapp: $caseybrezik
venmo: @casey-brezik

Read more at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/texas-terrorism-trial

More about the case and defendants
https://prairielanddefendants.com/
(We share this with the caveat that this support committee continues to support a defendant who cooperated against others. We do not support this stance and share this link with this reservation.)

It’s Friday and the weekend for lots of people. Why not write a political prisoner today? Our list is at https://www.abcf.net/prisoner-info/

There is also an Illustrated Guide to Political Prisoners downloadable at
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/nycabc_polprislisting_february-2026_legal_v3.pdf

(Important to note that there is one edit in that guide. Brian ‘Peppy’ DiPippa has been released from prison and is in a halfway house! Welcome home, Peppy!)

There are great tips on how to write a letter at
https://nycabc.wordpress.com/write-a-letter/

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, which is always on February the 14th, I understand the meaning of that celebration of love between two individuals to two persons, that part of the love that we had, when we joined unions, when we join marriages and so forth, it could be even of our friendships, that’s okay with me.

But the thing is, what I’m looking at on tomorrow, February the 14th is that there’s also another element to LOVE, in the sense of not being connected to the capitalist markets, not being connected to the capitalist ideology that we have all been indoctrinated with. All liberation movements and oppressed people should look into the revolutionary love that we must nurture between people who love the struggle. People who understand the necessity, especially now in these times of fascism.

Fascism is here, as George Jackson said. People are living butchered lives. Not only that but people are dying for taking the stand in defense of the oppressed, in defense of immigrants, in defense of prisoners, In defense of the poor, in defense of LGBTQ+ community, you know, on and on and on. You know what I’m saying? I mean, you see the brutality, the brutality that’s going on the murderers of innocent people who go into the streets like in Minnesota, like in Los Angeles.

First of all, we must decolonize our mind. Through that process, it’s a dialectical process, because remember the different colonial, neo-colonial system has always defined itself to erase our historical language. To dehumanize, to dehumanize us, first by taking possession of our ancestral lands and then and then conditioning us to be in the mentality of them. To think a certain wait that celebrates capital, and I mean between individual rights. You know this vision of competition, because that’s what that what capitalism is. You compete with individuals. You compete within corporations. The strong will survive. The big fish eats the smaller fish. That’s what capitalism represents.

In my consciousness, it’s freeing myself of that mentality, to embracing that mentality of revolutionary love for our community, for people who are oppressed, for people who are under siege. That’s what I’m talking about. Love for community care for community health, for community unity, for community prosperity for independence from colonialism, capitalism. For establishing a right to autonomy or creating our own spaces. What this campaign is doing here, we are creating our own spaces, which is amazing. I mean, that’s where people power grows. Creating this economy, creating this thing for our own self determination, so we can, so we can, you know, own our own destiny. So we can create our own destiny. We don’t need kings, queens or fascists to tell us how to run our lives. We create our own community. We create our own system of justice. We don’t need the capitalist state, we don’t need the police state to administer justice to our people. We separate ourselves from the capitalist economy. We must create the economy that is helpful to our liberation to our complete liberation from freeing our mind to freeing our labor power.

This is the decolonization we have to go through. And we go through that, realizing our, using the word of Indigenous nations of “right power,” to not only free in our mind, but to create bases—for example, this freedom campaign all of you have created.

This is political re-education—that’s the most important key to our liberation.

That’s why this prison system hates me because they see the revolutionary love that I have for the prisoner class. Those who want to change their life, go through a metamorphosis. Go through a transformation of our souls, of our hearts, of our minds, to stop this state cycle of violence.

☎️⚡️ Join our urgent phone blast for Xinachtli!
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.

Sign up for a call shift here: bit.ly/xphoneblast

NYC ABC will be hosting this important event on March 5th.

WHAT: Letter-writing
WHEN: Thursday, March 5th, 2026 6:30-8:30pm
WHERE: Property Is Theft (P.I.T.) (411 South 5th Street, Brooklyn 11211)
Access: Quick ramp setup; bathroom not accessible
COST: FREE (Donations to cover the cost of stamps greatly appreciated)

On Thursday, March 5th, Join NYC ABC for a letter-writing & solidarity event for the imprisoned Prairieland (Texas) defendants. Prairieland is a political repression case stemming from a noise demonstration in solidarity with ICE detainees that took place on July 4, 2025, outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. The current defendants are charged as an alleged “Antifa Cell,” including the transport “antifa materials”—a box of commonly available anarchist zines.

The defendants face decades or even life behind bars, and in the case of green card holder Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada, also deportation. They are currently being held in a disgusting county jail while awaiting trial, scheduled to begin on February 23rd. Beyond destroying these defendants’ lives, this case could have wide-ranging impacts: making it an act of “domestic terrorism” to resist fascism, whether with organizing, solidarity, or words.

For more details, see: prairielanddefendants.com | @dfwsupportcommittee | freedes.net | @free.des.revol

We encourage people to wear an N95/KN95 mask * Letter-writing supplies, vegan snacks, and info will be provided