We understand that the freedom of our prisoners, from Turtle Island to Palestine, is the key to our collective liberation, and we dedicate ourselves to the fight until every last prisoner is liberated. We reject the settler logic that deems some of our people—in particular our Black and Palestinian comrades—disposable.

Prisons are institutions of the state created to exert dominion over every aspect of a prisoner's being - from what they eat, to when they sleep, to who they speak to, to what they read.

The imperial war machine operates its courts and its prisons in order to tear apart our families, to criminalize the poverty they forced us into, to isolate our fighters, and to squander the lives of our youth. It is only thanks to state propaganda and the manufacturing of consent among the masses, that the state can maintain this system of domination via criminalization. When we reject the fabricated lines of the state of "guilt" versus "innocence," of "perfect" versus "imperfect" victims, we deprive the state of one of its main goals: to divide us into "worthy" and "unworthy" populations. There are no bad political prisoners and there are no good imperial systems.

We refuse the wedge that the state attempts to drive between the movement and our prisoners based on colonial fabrications of "guilt", and we refuse to pander to "strategy", "optics" or "risk" at the cost of our people enduring torture behind bars.

You can sign your organization onto PSWG's Prisoner Solidarity Statement today

Take Action

Letter Writing

Writing letters is integral to sustaining our relationships with people targeted by state repression and to break through the isolation that the state seeks to impose through house arrest and imprisonment.

If you want more guidance on planning a letter writing event and information for additional prisoners to write to, check out PSWG's Prisoner Letter Writing Guide

Fundraising

Fundraising to meet the material needs of our prisoners is a critical way to organize outside-inside support systems. Fundraisers often go towards legal fees, commissary accounts, political campaign materials, transportation for visitation of loved ones, and more! Fundraising links for prisoners are included on their pages below, and in PSWG's letter writing guide.

Some fundraising ideas include:

• Hosting benefit concerts
• Film screenings
• Dinner parties
• 5K runs
• Creative skills-based trades such as a comrade's Oil Change fundraiser

Film Screenings

You can host a film screening with a minimum recommended donation and use it as an opportunity for political education with a community discussion afterward, and an opportunity for people to donate to a prisoner(s) at the door!

Banner Drops, Wheatpasting, and Art Builds

Banner Drops: Use this simple banner drop how-to guide and amplify the messages to Drop the Charges, Free ___, and Free Them All!

Recommendation: when scouting locations do not use google maps signed into your account, use Tor browser and an anonymous google maps or offline maps app.

Wheatpaste: Wheatpasting is a fun, cheap and easy activity to do with some friends to ensure our prisoners' cases are known far and wide! Use this how-to guide if it's your first time wheatpasting, and you can find printable posters at the support sites of most prisoners listed below, pull from WAWOG's poster project , or you can create your own!

Create and Share Art: You can organize a group to engage in an art build and ask comrades to bring cardboard boxes, paint, brushes, etc., to create art for the next protest, banner drop, etc.

You can submit any art or content to be amplified and circulated to [email protected] or DM us on Instagram: @palestineswg

Prisoner Support Pages

More information on the cases of additional political prisoners coming soon!