Trial was officially continued to a later date! We’re also expecting a ruling on discovery-related litigation imminently. We expect to know more on both fronts soon. Therefore, the trial will not begin in May. When the new date is scheduled, we will post a new update. Thank you to everyone who planned to come for court support. We’re going to wind down those threads at the moment til needed. We hope everyone who was planning to travel to Pennsylvania (and new folks!) can join us later for in person court support when we have more information.
On October 19, 2024 Cara and Celeste were arrested and accused of freeing hundreds of mink destined for slaughter at a farm in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. This farm kills tens of thousands of minks every season. The Fur Commission USA has launched an aggressive media campaign targeting and doxing our friends. Cara and Celeste are charged with 14 felonies and misdemeanors, including ecoterrorism.
They spent three weeks in jail, held on $150,000 bail each. During this time, Celeste was held in solitary confinement and subjected to transphobic threats.
On November 7th, Cara and Celeste got out! They have both received so much support from friends, community, and supporters and will need more as they fight these unjust charges.
There are many ways you can join the fight! Donate to support legal, housing, and other living costs. Check out the support tab to learn more about how to support Cara and Celeste.
This essay from Malik was written at the end of March 2026 while in custody at Eastern Oregon Correctional, shortly before they were transferred to South Carolina.
There’s a pattern here: for the last 3 years Ramadan, I’m targeted. I’m snatched from mainline and taken to the hole under “Investigation”. I’m hit with some bogus “Unauthorized Organization” and I’m locked away in the hole for the rest of the year. It’s often that those targeted in prison, those considered activists or revolutionaries are sent to the hole, not for something they’ve done, but for what the administration thinks we MIGHT do. For them, it’s better to be preemptive. Not unlike the U.S. and Israel’s “preemptive” strikes on Iran. It’s just a cover for doing what they want anyways.
For 3 years, I’ve been dealing with this, now I’m here again, spend my Ramadan in the hole again due to nothing more than white fragility. The white male ego. Hurt at the notion that not only do I not like or respect the fascist state, but there’s a whole wide network of folks who also hold hatred for the state and do no think what they do is a “public good”, but rather, a genocide. Slavery by another name.
So I sit in the hole for “Disrespect” in talking to my partner on the phone about my frustrations with C.O.’s [ed.: Correctional Officers]. I was given 14 days – that ended on March 16. They refuse to return me, instead placing me on “STM hold” indefinitely [ed.: Security Threat Management]. No cause. But then, the state doesn’t need a reason to repress us – they need reasons NOT to.
The real reason for all this? Enlightening people, giving people knowledge. I was buying books for people, studying books like “Blood In My Eye”, Settlers, “Open Veins Of Latin America”, studying black anarchist thought from Lucy Parsons to William C. Anderson, Martin Sostre to Lorenzo Irvin and more. That was my true crime. With the book ban nationwide, there’s a clampdown on literature. Oregon just relies heavily on division, racism, politics and drugs to keep people inundated. So when they see a multiracial group of guys studying together, discussing global politics, the intersectionality of oppression, deconstructing they systems that work to create our material conditions, studying the history of movements and people in resistance and defiance together – that disturbed them. Give oppressed people the books with which to liberate themselves – EDUCATION – they lose their fucking minds. The truth of the matter is: you cannot have a mind that knows itself. In order to break free, one must be acutely aware of being a slave.
So the true reason I sit in segregation again is the same as always – fear. Fear of blacks, fear of potential unknowns, those they cannot control. They ask that I be “friendly” and talk with staff, they ask me to apologize for my conversation and not “see staff as enemies”. I will not. I will not censor myself. I will not capitulate. I’ll leave prison saying “Fuck 12” as I did coming in. Pigs are swine, not friends. ACAB includes CO’s too. No matter the hole you put me in, I will not break my principles. You cannot suppress the people forever. That spark of knowledge will grow and spread, with me in the hole or not.
Love, Rage & Solidarity,
~ Malik
You can write to Malik at: Malik Muhammed #400523 Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center Unit F3A-203 4344 Broad River Rd Columbia SC 29210
Malik’s communications are currently very restricted, but although they will most likely not be able to respond in writing, they would still deeply appreciate receiving letters.
Malik has requested that people write their address in their letters because the transfer means they no longer have access to their address book.
They are not allowed to have photographs until they are transferred again.
Two Recently Indicted Stop Cop City Defendants Move to Dismiss Their Case Ahead of June 22 Trial, Four Years After Their Arrest
Attorney General Chris Carr Takes Aggressive Posture Against “Cobb County 3” Despite DA Withdrawing Charges Last Year Against Two Codefendants
COBB COUNTY, GA —Two Stop Cop City activists have moved to dismiss charges filed against them last month by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, just three weeks before the four-year statute of limitations was due to expire. Hannah Kass, Katie Kloth, and Tyler Norman were indicted on April 24 on charges of felony property damage and arson of lands, stemming from arrests that occurred in May 2022. Kass and Norman quickly made demands for a speedy trial and earlier this month the Cobb County Superior Court scheduled their trial for June 22. While Kloth’s trial date is uncertain at this time, supporters are referring to the three defendants as the “Cobb County 3.”
Lawyers for Kass filed motions late Friday, which were also adopted by Norman, to dismiss the charges based on selective prosecution and a violation of due process rights. “The Georgia Attorney General deliberately delayed [Kass’s] prosecution in Cobb County, solely for tactical advantage, while it continues to concurrently attempt to prosecute her in Fulton County,” read the motion to dismiss. Earlier this month, Kass filed a motion to quash the indictment against the Cobb County 3, accusing Carr of sidestepping constitutional and statutory requirements and obtaining the indictment without Governor Kemp’s authorization. The same argument was the basis for a Fulton County judge to dismiss racketeering charges against Kass, Kloth, and Norman in December. A pretrial hearing on the motions is scheduled for June 17.
“This latest indictment is Attorney General Chris Carr’s attempt to gain political points with his base in advance of the gubernatorial primary,” said activist and scholar Dr. Hannah Kass. “The timing of the indictment coinciding with Carr’s losing campaign for governor is no accident and smacks of political theater,” continued Kass. “But Carr is failing in his political race, just as he failed in his attempt to convict us of racketeering, and he’s going to fail in this latest case for the same reasons.”
On May 12, 2022, scores of people were protesting at the headquarters of Brasfield and Gorrie, which served as general contractor for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, widely known as “Cop City.” Five people were arrested that day, two of whom saw their charges withdrawn by the Cobb County District Attorney in April 2025. Even though the case against Kass, Kloth, and Norman have the same set of facts as their two co-defendants whose charges were withdrawn last year, Attorney General Carr—and notably not the Cobb County District Attorney—indicted the three for felony property damage and arson of lands. Cobb County Superior Court Judge Sonja Brown, the same judge who presided over last year’s withdrawal of charges, will oversee the June trial.
“It’s striking that a former co-defendant and I were released from the same case that others are still being prosecuted for, on the same charges,” said Joseph Turner, a former co-defendant of the Cobb County 3 who saw his charges withdrawn by the district attorney last year. “The way these indictments have been selectively pursued by prosecutors underscores their political nature,” continued Turner. “And the addition of allegations such as arson, without substantial proof, appears designed to inflame the rhetoric around an already highly ideological prosecution rather than to serve justice.”
In March, twelve Stop Cop City defendants filed motions to dismiss their three-year-old unindicted domestic terrorism charges in Dekalb County. Then, in April, three organizers with the Atlanta Solidarity Fund moved to dismiss their unindicted charities fraud charges three years after their arrest. All fifteen defendants are currently awaiting a decision from Dekalb County Superior Court Judge David B. Irwin. Two defendants who were arrested in 2023 have already had their unindicted domestic terrorism charges dismissed in Dekalb County, one in March 2025 and another in August 2025.
All of the defendants indicted on April 23 and those currently moving to dismiss their unindicted domestic terrorism charges are part of a group of 61 Stop Cop City activists charged under the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in August 2023. The sweeping RICO charges were dismissed in December, and that decision was appealed by Attorney General Carr in January. Defendants and their supporters are calling the RICO appeal and this latest indictment against the Cobb County 3 an attempt by Carr to revive his failing campaign bid for governor of Georgia.
The 61 RICO defendants, who were arrested on different dates from 2020 to 2023 at various locations across Georgia, have had their lives upended as a result of the charges. Many defendants have experienced job losses, housing issues, career disruptions, and travel restrictions, in addition to the stress and anxiety that comes from the threat of years in prison hanging over their heads.
Kass filed a federal lawsuit in 2024 alleging claims of excessive force, false arrest, unlawful detention, and malicious prosecution, all stemming from her May 2022 arrest and subsequent RICO prosecution. Kass said in a March 2025 statement that, “The state must be held accountable and dissuaded from continuing to use police terror, random false arrests and detention, malicious prosecution, and other civil rights violations as tools of abuse against those who disagree with state actions.”
The Stop Cop City movement has drawn national attention amid ongoing prosecutions of protesters, organizers, and supporters who opposed the project. Supporters of the defendants have criticized the prosecutions as part of a broader effort to criminalize protest and chill dissent against a deeply unpopular City of Atlanta project, which was pushed forward by a constellation of multinational corporations embedded into the prison industrial complex of the United States. In 2023, the people of Atlanta expressed their widespread rejection of this project through the COP CITY VOTE public referendum.
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For more information on the ATL 61, the sweeping criminal cases, and ways to support the defendants and the movement to Stop Cop City, go to: weelauneethefree.org. (Full press release: https://weelauneethefree.org/two-recently-indicted-stop-cop-city-defendants-move-to-dismiss-their-case-ahead-of-june-22-trial-four-years-after-their-arrest/) #StopCopCity #Georgia #Atlanta
The Biden admin’s fascist state propagated prosecution of me to “appear as hard on left wing extremists as the right.” This kicked off the politicized nature of my case. A “Black, Muslim, militant, extremist domestic terror threat,” as my FBI profile says. But I’ve been designated a “doomed man” in the words of George Jackson, long before the FBI did so. Born poor, Black, and Muslim, twenty five was the average age we’d make it to before being dead or in jail. The fascist state’s systems of oppression orchestrate the demise of doomed men, women, and children like this, daily, for fun. They love their controlled and manipulated statistics.
I’m no one to be controlled. ODOC [Oregon Department of Corrections] found that out, clear and present. No matter the hole they put me in, nor the length of time they put me there, I do not capitulate. Nor does the community of love and solidarity and rage I have. The people who fight the state because resistance IS essence, because the people are what matter, their love endures. Oregon chose now — after all their state sanctioned violence did not break me — to make me the problem of another DOC, and to attempt to sever the ties and connections forged in the crucible of revolutionary love and struggle. They’ll succeed in making me another DOC’s problems, at least. But as an abolitionist, it’s nothing new. Our rage at the carceral state encompasses ALL prisons. Cuz none are free ’till we ALL are free, ’till ALL cages are empty, and all prisons are libraries. As a revolutionary, prison is just another front for the war. Any prison.
So I’ll fight and resist on this new front, I’ll continue to agitate, aggravate, and organize against the state. I will NOT leave ODOC alone either. They will need to answer for their hole abuses, their hindering of my legal counsel, turning away visitors without cause or reason. Their blatant, racist political persecution. And their hope that sending me across the u.s. to the south would see me as a fish out of water — but I can swim anywhere. Anywhere the people are, I’ll build community through love, rage, and solidarity.
ODOC did not like my cross racial study group. They didn’t like the education of the people because they prefer slaves. But to break free from the slave mentality, one must be ACUTELY aware of being one. That’s why education is the cornerstone to giving the people the tools to liberate themselves. Militancy without education is wanton aggression. Political education without militancy is all theory — academic. To forge both is to create a weapon most deadly against the state. So ODOC created a fictitious reason to put me in the hole, then created an in-house RICO charge because the other wouldn’t stick. They painted the blog and fundraiser as racketeering and spreading propaganda.The DR [disciplinary review] (I wish I still had it) was as ridiculous as the RICO charge on the Stop Cop City siblings. They wrote it in such a way to convince their superiors I was a threat to be sent away.
No one gets sent FROM Oregon to South Carolina, one of the most dangerous DOC’s in this fascist carceral state. The Lee County riots saw twenty one dead, forty five injured. This prison system has one of the worst overcrowding in the country. The intake and reception process takes up to 180 days — I’ve heard people be here longer — because they don’t have any bedspace. They get bedspace when someone is killed. Each soul carted off from R&E [Reception and Evaluation] to their prison is replacing a dead one. They passed an overcrowding act to let out nonviolent people. They make everyone eligible for parole and do percentages on their time, and still, they do not have enough beds for the people the state persecutes. R&E is three to a cell — one on the floor because there’s only two bunks.
The food has no nutritional value — yesterday’s breakfast was bread and water. This system believing prisoners deserve bread and water is on par with this being the Bible belt, the Antebellum south, the home of those capitalists that sent poor racist whites to defend their ideal form of capital accumulation against the north and were rewarded with Black codes, the prisoner leasing program, and the mass incarceration we see today. Of course, they don’t even believe we deserve bread and water. We’re still only 3/4 of a human being. Work horses that need to be beat, not food.
They mask the racism by having a nominally all Black staff. That means nothing. The overseers of the plantation are just inundated and indoctrinated to do the bare minimum, not think. They’re turnkeys, nothing more. That’s why they do not stop violence, much like how pigs on the street can hide behind the Supreme Court decision that ruled they have “no duty to protect,” so can these fascists let stabbings occur, even orchestrate them, and continue on overseeing the plantation. Who cares about another Black man’s death in here? Certainly not those coming for a check. Prisons are an otherwise destitute economy, providing careers for those not qualified to work at McDonald’s — which would be much more respectable.
Thanks to this transfer and being in R&E, I missed the Eid meal in Oregon and could not participate in the one here. The state’s repressive tools seek to break me down and eviscerate my relationships, but the people who love the people, like I, don’t break so easily and exist all over the u.s. I take state repression as a sign I’m doing something right. Anytime you have the oppressor in a reactionary stance — it’s good. Their rigidity and yearning for consistency is their downfall.
An anarchist’s greatest weapons are their critical thinking skills and adaptability. I adapt well. No environment can change me or break me. So I’ll do here what I do. I’ll organize, aggravate and agitate against the state. I’ll rally community. I’ll educate. I’ll grow ties, build bonds, and forge relationships that will endure lifetimes full of revolutionary love, rage, and solidarity. I’ll never stop fighting for the people. I’ll live, fight, and die for them because I love the people. Because I am the people, not the pig. And those that are with me, I hope it’s not out of pity, but cuz you realize this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly [1]. Ours is a love, rage, and solidarity that recognizes no imaginary border lines, abandons the constructs of time, permeates through walls, bars, and prison gates. It stays like the roots of an oak, stands tall as the fir, and may bend as the willow but still defies gravity and won’t break. Our love persists like daisies pushing through sidewalk cracks and dandelions blown through the wind, scattered from a child’s wish.
I sit on the floor in this cell, meant for two but rooming three, awaiting the ticking clock to send me to what will be my residence for the next four years. And I am reassured, steadfast, and ready. This is an opportunity to meet new people, organize in a new space, a new state. To do whatever I feel called to, by my creator and myself. It feels like part of the plan, Allah’s plan. I will remember that resistance is essence. And no matter the circumstances, I’ll sow seeds of revolutionary love, rage, and solidarity.
At this time, they only give me two envelopes per month and four sheets of paper. I have to buy things from the “cadre” that work the units. It’s gross, prisoners exploiting prisoners, but that’s the deal. If I don’t respond right away to your letters, I will when I can.
If anyone from my queer Ashville community would reach out, I’d love to talk more about the community you’re forging there. I’d love to know if there are any groups like CARE out here.
Love rage & solidarity
Malik
Footnote
[1] From The Undercommons by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney.
You can write to Malik at: Malik Muhammed #400523 Kirkland Reception and Evaluation Center Unit F3A-203 4344 Broad River Rd Columbia SC 29210
After dealing with a tough month or two of extended of unit-wide lockdowns, establishing a reliable program has been difficult, but Casey reports doing very well! Lockdowns still happen sporadically with little explanation so developing a daily rhythm has been a challenge. They have made a lot of friends on the unit though and for Casey’s birthday, all the guys in their car and few others quietly passed around a birthday card to sign. And to cap it off, somebody made a bangin’ spread of nachos for the occasion.
Mail and calls Snail mail has been extremely slow and sporadic through the mailroom. They only are getting mail at least a month later than it’s postmark, which is extra frustrating because…
Casey recently received a 6 month revocation of their calling privileges and lost 27 days of good time credits as punishment for a 3-way call with their mom and brother that they didn’t even know was against the rules. So for the time being, email via Corrlinks or snail mail is the only way to talk to them.
To revisit some mail basics: – Leave big margins on your letters. Casey only receives a black and white hardcopy scan of letters and as of yet the feds haven’t mastered using a scanner or just don’t care. Anything near the edges of the page gets cut off. – Mail is surveilled and often pieces are outright blocked. Casey has heightened restrictions and scrutiny due to their classification and charges. Write accordingly. Know as well that some mail just doesn’t make it through.
At the moment we are asking for people to please stick to the books on this list due to Caseys space concerns. Thank you to everyone who has sent Casey books!
Birthday fundraiser For Casey’s birthday we were able to raise $840 so far for Lil Nicky, their cellie and friend. Let’s double that!
To support Lil Nicky, funds can be sent by Venmo labeled as “Little Nicky” to @juliepetersonG
Lil Nicky has been a great friend, and lifesaver in the yard on numerous occasions. Slated to go home in 15 months to Philly, he will be reuniting with his 13 year old son. Also, Lil Nicky is deaf and needs immediate support to buy his own hearing aids and batteries (Yeah, the prison doesn’t supply those!).
With next to no income from a prison job, it is extremely hard to purchase supplies for your disabilities not to mention save for going home. Without support, re-entry is an extension of the isolation of incarceration, leaving just-released people in an extremely vulnerable position and often in harms way.
Lil Nicky has been there for Casey and Casey is looking to repay the favor.
Together they spend hours on lockdowns discussing sports and the state of the world. Lil Nicky is continually motivating Casey to stay focused on their goals as an abolitionist and their prisoner support work, now from the inside.
Again, to kick down, Venmo @juliepetersonG with the note “Lil Nicky.”
That is Marius Mason, moments after being released from prison and en route to a halfway house! Marius’ sentence ends in May 2027 and he will be at the halfway house until then. Now is a great time to donate to his welcome home fund. See info below.
Who is Marius Mason? Marius Mason is an anarchist, environmental, animal rights activist as well as a loving parent, artist, poet, and musician, currently serving nearly 22 years in federal prison for acts of property damage carried out in defense of the planet.
The uplifting news is that after more than 17 years behind bars, Marius Mason will be released from federal prison in May 2026! That timeline brings post-prison support issues to the fore.
As Marius re-enters life on the outside, we are organizing support and raising funds so this transition can proceed with dignity, care and solid footing. Marius was stolen from his community nearly 20 years ago. That’s 20 years of the world changing, politically, technologically and in other ways. Let’s make it easier for him. That is why we are asking for donations of gift cards, in any amount. All cards will be given directly to Marius upon release for his own use.
A system has been set up for purchase of gift cards, like “Vanilla Gift” that can be purchased, using contact info: Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Attorney at Law, 277 Broadway Suite 1501 NY, NY 10007. For phone # needed with the address, use (212) 219-1919. In addition, there will be a trust account to receive direct donations through the donations page on supportmariusmason.org. Everything helps.
An environmental and animal rights activist, anarchist, writer, artist and trans advocate, Marius was sentenced to nearly 22 years for property damage carried out in defense of the planet in 2009, acts in which no injuries resulted. Nonetheless, his sentence was increased with terrorism enhancement, making it the longest sentence meted out for an act of environmental sabotage. We who love and support him are working to provide solid mutual support, along with room for choices while helping with basic needs.
Marius accomplished a lot while in prison—producing artwork, poetry, book reviews, and other writing for publication. He has taken college courses through several universities, became certified as a Paralegal, studied to be a writing tutor and studied immigration law. He engaged in mentoring while in prison, and counseled other prisoners. Now it is our turn to provide support as he comes back home and establishes his footing with employment, housing and community.
At this time, we do not know what post-release restrictions will be in place, nor for how long. We recognize the many people who have advocated, supported, and worked toward this outcome, and we hope you will join us in raising support for Marius.
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.
The uplifting news is that after more than 17 years behind bars, Marius Mason will be released from federal prison in May 2026! That timeline brings post-prison support issues to the fore.
As Marius re-enters life on the outside, we are organizing support and raising funds so this transition can proceed with dignity, care and solid footing. Marius was stolen from his community nearly 20 years ago. That’s 20 years of the world changing, politically, technologically and in other ways. Let’s make it easier for him. That is why we are asking for donations of gift cards, in any amount. All cards will be given directly to Marius upon release for his own use.
A system has been set up for purchase of gift cards, like “Vanilla Gift” that can be purchased, using contact info: Moira Meltzer-Cohen, Attorney at Law, 277 Broadway Suite 1501 NY, NY 10007. For phone # needed with the address, use (212) 219-1919. In addition, there will be a trust account to receive direct donations through the donations page on supportmariusmason.org. Everything helps.
An environmental and animal rights activist, anarchist, writer, artist and trans advocate, Marius was sentenced to nearly 22 years for property damage carried out in defense of the planet in 2009, acts in which no injuries resulted. Nonetheless, his sentence was increased with terrorism enhancement, making it the longest sentence meted out for an act of environmental sabotage. We who love and support him are working to provide solid mutual support, along with room for choices while helping with basic needs.
Marius accomplished a lot while in prison—producing artwork, poetry, book reviews, and other writing for publication. He has taken college courses through several universities, became certified as a Paralegal, studied to be a writing tutor and studied immigration law. He engaged in mentoring while in prison, and counseled other prisoners. Now it is our turn to provide support as he comes back home and establishes his footing with employment, housing and community.
At this time, we do not know what post-release restrictions will be in place, nor for how long. We recognize the many people who have advocated, supported, and worked toward this outcome, and we hope you will join us in raising support for Marius.
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.
