Grey Gardens (1975), Albert Maysles
Positive affirmations:
- I shall cut down all who stand in my way
- I shall cut down all who stand in my way
- I shall cut down all who stand in my way
- I shall cut down all who stand in my way
- I shall cut down all who stand in my way
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The US Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis has charged fifteen people with “conspiracy to impede federal officers,” accusing them of defending their neighborhoods from ICE.
Working with anarchist artist NO BONZO, we've made a support poster to inform people about the case. Please print these out and post them everywhere!
For now Meagan and Autumn Hill are at Johnson County Jail, as the state of Texas is trying to double-jeopardy them. If you want to send mail to them, use these mailing addresses:
for Meagan:
Bradford Morris 202502011
Johnson County Jail PO Box 247 Phoenix, MD 21131
For Autumn Hill:
Cameron Arnold 202502023
Johnson County Jail PO Box 247 Phoenix, MD 21131
Books have to be ordered through Barnes and Noble, they go to the same names and booking numbers, but to the physical address of the jail:
[Deadname / booking number] Johnson County Jail 1800 Ridgemar Drive Cleburne, TX 76031
You can also contact them via the GTL app, though it requires registration and costs 25 cents a message. To get to them in the facility lookup , you would select Texas > Johnson County > booking number (for Meagan 202502011 , for Autumn Hill 202502023). You will need to put funds in the "my messaging" account. The upside is that you can send immediate messages and pictures to them.
If you want to send them commissary, you have to go through the Connectnetwork website at https://web.connectnetwork.com/ . Like with GTL you have to look them up by Texas > Johnson County > booking number.
Anyway. I want to say thank you to everyone who's been supporting Meagan and Autumn through this awful time, and that they've really benefited from everyone's support: the letters, commissary, phone calls, everything that helps them keep a hold of their community outside. One day they will be free, but until then thank you all for supporting them <3
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something I want to say as a personal statement, speaking for me, Shelby Donahue:
It always troubles me when people talk about trans women (like Meagan and Autumn Hill, my partners who I talk to every day) in men's prisons, describing them as "rape concentration camps" and emphasizing the sexual violence there. Both Meagan and Autumn Hill have told me, explicitly, that the vast majority of their fellow prisoners respect them and respect their gender, and while some prisoners have been threatening (particularly to Meagan), that the violence against them has primarily come from the institutional systems of the guards, wardens, etc. I know this in part because of their actions: Meagan and Autumn Hill have consistently helped their fellow prisoners, with little things like getting artwork to help a prisoner draw a birthday card for his child, or bigger things like helping someone get back in contact with their family. And a lot of prisoners have been supportive to Meagan and Autumn Hill, especially when they know about the Prairieland case. They make snacks to share, trade books, and comfort Meagan when she's feeling particularly sad.
I say all this for two reasons. The first is that prisoners are not all rapists or bigots, and in fact many of them are not even guilty of the crimes they're arrested for. They're an oppressed class of people, even the worst of them, and they deserve to be understood as individuals, not a nameless and faceless mass of violent threats. And, as individuals, a lot of them have been good comrades to Meagan and Autumn Hill. I want people to keep that in mind when thinking about prisoners. There's a lot of racial stereotypes and bigotries in the way people think of prisoners in the USA, and we need to unlearn those things and understand prisoners as people, as our equals.
The second reason is that you, and me, and everyone we know may end up in jail, or prison. I think about that a lot - getting raided by the FBI will have that effect on you. If we end up in prison, we have to understand the risks and dangers realistically, without excessive fear or unrealistic optimism. And I think it's important people know the facts about what prison is like, and what prisoners are like. Not everyone is violent in prison - but everyone there is the victim of a lot of violence. There are potential friends and allies everywhere.
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