Prisoners

Animal Liberation Prisoners

“If they haven’t got prisoners, we have stopped fighting. If our prisoners are forgotten about, they have beaten us.” -Keith Mann, ALF activist and former prisoner

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Released May 14!!
Marius Mason #04672-061
After 17 years behind bars, Marius Mason has been released from prison and is on his way to a halfway house!

Marius is an anarchist and defender of animal rights and the environment who was harshly punished for property damage actions linked to environmental protest. No one was harmed, yet he received a harsh 22 year sentence. His imprisonment became a focal point for political repression against animal and earth defenders during the Green Scare.

In 2014, Marius came out as a trans man while in prison and has been a voice for trans rights.

Marius still needs support during this transition. Here’s a message from his team:
“Marius got out this morning!!!!

Reminders on donating to his re-entry solidarity funds:

1. 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.

2. In addition, there will be a trust account to receive direct donations through the donations page on supportmariusmason.org.

3. All May long, AK Press will be donating $2 from every item they sell to Marius.

Thank you to all who are able to celebrate his release by contributing and sharing.

Everything helps.”

Arrested: March 10, 2008

Charges: Marius Mason is an anarchist and an environmental and animal rights prisoner serving nearly 22 years in federal prison for acts of sabotage carried out in defense of the planet. No one was injured in any of these actions. After being threatened with a life sentence in 2009, he pleaded guilty to charges of arson at a Michigan State University lab researching Genetically Modified Organisms for Monsanto, and admitted to 12 other acts of property damage. The sentencing judge applied a so-called “terrorism enhancement” to his term which added almost two more years than the maximum requested by the prosecution. This is the harshest punishment of anyone convicted of environmental sabotage to date. For comparison, a man who recently set an arson for profit fire that paralyzed a Detroit firefighter and injured six of his colleagues was sentenced to a maximum of seven years in prison.

For more information: http://supportmariusmason.org

Donations by Venmo are made through our friends at Fifth Estate (@Fifth-Estate)

Maxim Plokhoi

Write to him here:
Maxim Krivosh
Correctional Colony #96
Horodische, Rivne Oblast
Ukraine, 35341

In Ukrainian it is as follows:
Максим Кривош
виправна колонія №96
с. Городище, Рівненська обл.
Україна, 35341

It would be preferable if correspondence is Google-translated to Russian. Maxim is alleged to have taken 13 hostages on a bus in Ukraine in late 2020, releasing them unharmed when the country’s president recommended publicly that everyone watch the film “Earthlings”, which depicts the suffering of animals that are eaten routinely by humans.

Maxim was charged with cases under 7 articles: hostage-taking with the aim of inducing authorities to certain actions, terrorism, illegal possession and handling of weapons and explosives, attempted murder of police officers (7 police victims and also one general and the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), these are 4 severe charges and 3 milder. Maxim avoided a potential life sentence and was ordered imprisoned for 13 years. https://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/2022/10/02/vegan-activist-maxim-plokhoi-sentenced-to-13-years-in-prison-ukraine/

Maxim is allowed correspondence now that he has been sentenced.

From Maxim:
“This movie [Earthlings] is about WAR.

The most bloodthirsty, cruel and unfair war in the history of the EARTH – the war of people against other animal species. A war of total, commonly accepted violence against the defenseless, unable to resist. This WAR is the root cause and ground of all wars between humans, It is the firing ground for our cruelty.

I stood up for billions of living beings.

One is not born a human, one becomes a human by the struggle for justice.
Get up, become a human”

Ukranian President Zelensky recommend watching the film ‘Earthlings’

 

Things to remember when writing to prisoners:

1. Don’t discuss any illegal activity (ALL mail is read by prison officials).
2. Each prison has its own mail restrictions.
3. Do not put any stickers inside or outside the card/letter (including Air Mail/Par Avion stickers, if writing from overseas)
4. Do not include any paperclips, staples or anything extra in your letter.
5. Write your address on the envelope AND inside the letter, since prisoners often are not given the envelope.
6. Do not send money to the prison address (please contact activist’s support groups to financially support prisoners).
7. Prisoners appreciate books, but they must be paperback, and must ship directly from the publisher or from online retailers like Amazon.com.
8. Your letters are appreciated , even if you don’t receive a response (prisoners are only allowed a limited amount of paper, envelopes and stamps, making it difficult to respond to every letter).

Fallen Warriors

To my friends and supporters to help them make sense of all these events that have happened so quickly:

Certain human cultures have been waging war against the Earth for millennia. I chose to fight on the side of bears, mountain lions, skunks, bats, saguaros, cliff rose and all things wild. I am just the most recent casualty in that war. But tonight I have made a jail break — I am returning home, to the Earth, to the place of my origins.
— Bill Rodgers, 12/21/05 (the winter solstice, died by suicide in prison)

  • Regan Russel
    On the morning of Friday, June 19, Regan was struck and killed by a truck that was transporting pigs to slaughter. The tragedy occurred during a Toronto Pig Save vigil, while Regan and other activists were bearing witness to the suffering of slaughter-bound pigs and demonstrating the love and kindness deserved by all animals.Update (March 28, 2023): The truck driver who killed Regan Russell pleaded guilty to careless driving causing death, a noncriminal charge that does not reflect the tragic death of a kind and gentle soul who did no wrong. Regan was killed while she was bearing witness to the suffering of slaughter-bound pigs. She spent her last moments on Earth showing kindness to animals, and everyone can honor her memory by going vegan.

  • William Sweet , British anti-bloodsports activist shot dead (January 1976) during an altercation with a man shooting birds.

  • Fernando Pereira , Greenpeace activist killed in New Zealand (July 1985) when the French secret service blew up the ship the Rainbow Warrior.

  • Bartolomeu Morais da Silva (aka “Brasilia”) a Brazilian farmer who led the struggle against illegal logging, land fraud and destructive large-scale infrastructure projects was found murdered from shot gun wounds and his legs broken in July 2002.

  • Mike Hill , British hunt saboteur deliberately run over by a hunter in February 1991.

  • Tom Worby , British hunt saboteur deliberately run over by a hunter in April 1993.

  • Jill Phipps , British activist deliberately run over whilst trying to stop live animal exports in February 1995.

  • Karel Van Noppen , a Belgium vet who was assassinated in 1993 by hitmen after he exposed mafia connections in the meat industry.

  • David “Gypsy” Chain , American eco-activist crushed to death in September 1998 when a tree was felled on top of him by an irate logger in California’s Headwoods Forest.
  • Beth O’Brien , an American eco-activist died in April 2002 after falling from a tree she was sitting in and protecting at the Eagel Creek timber sale and camp.
  • Robert “Naya” Bryan , an American eco-activist who died October 2002 after falling from a tree he occupied in Santa Cruz.
  • Barry Horne, British Animal Lib prisoner starved to death in November 2001 as a result of a hunger strike protesting vivisection.

Recently Released Prisoners

Marius Mason

Sindre Annasson Persson

Mel Broughton A3892AE
Released on Bail!

 

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