RAZE THE
WALLS

—
ALL SOLIDARITY
WITHT. HOXHA &

CASEY GOONAN
— et

PALESTINE
SOLIDARITY

POLITICAL
PRISONERS
ON HUNGER

STRIKE

published on Aboftion Media, August 9, 2025

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with whatever weapons at hand

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Political prisoner T. Hoxha is dying.

She s on ber 181 dayof bunger srike in HMP Peseborongh in proest of he prison’s
politcallytargeted abuses. One of the Fillon 24 detained indefriely snder the UK's “Terroriom
Ac” ik anaiting rial next sprig, Hoxtha i alkged o have pariapated i the bemic
dismantling of an Edbit Systems weapons fuctoy, cansing €1 il in darmges.

Oner two wecks into ber stike, Hoxha's bred ones eport that b plysical and mental ealthis
detriorating fast, b bair i flfng ou, e jaw s in pain, and her brain o is wosening, while
the privon mghcts b medical care. Supporters on the ot are organicing a caltin campaign
1o dermand the prison adivistration give Jer lctrote sachts and mee her demands: he
instatement of her job i the prison library and the debirery of e il that the prison
adinistration is withholding fom ber. On 27 Asgot,she deelged a fve, experienced a
peristent beadache, vomited fter taking vitamin, and notied skin discoloration and a wirse
practiioner annunced Horxha s in the “danger sone.” As of 28 Augast, supporters are caling

Jor ber 1o agently b aditted 10 a Pospral

Now more ies are o the ie. When Casey Goonan, the only politial prisoner i he US fiom
the 2024 student intfads, beard about Hoxha's hunger srike on 26 Agus, tey and their
alimate at Santa Rita jail immediaely decared a bunger srike in solidarity nith Hoxcha il
Der demands are e, intenationalicing the stike. Refusing to intake food s espeially risky for
Casgy as a diabetc,but they b organized scvesf ollcive nger srikes i the past.

Sirilary to the Pal Acion UK prisoers, Casey has ben repeatedly aretd for the polical
atur of her allged crime, and delibeatey islated from ot inmates, a classc tatic ed by
the state against polical pisoners o prevent prisoner organicing, Just s surmer, they were
tabated agaistfor g a rievanc against a threateing depuy, and had their phone call,
ssiations, and commisary revoked or over a month, Several tmes, thestae has pushed back.
Casey'ssentencing Iearing, supposed o be in April bt now set for 23 September 2025, They
anefaing up 1o 20 years in federal prison wish “teroris enbancmens” for alkgedly burming
ol ebices at the Universityof Calfori, Berkelo.

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Al similar 1o the weaponization of counter-erorism fare i the UK case, this
Serrorism enbancement” addiion o Casey's charges ives e ederalgorernment far more
oo for abuse and draconian overreach i ther sentencing and treatment of Casg.

To amnounce the strke's expansion, Casey publised the foloing statement:

Today Tleamed about T Hoxha, a Pal Action prisonerin the UK who is on
Day 16 of her hunger strike at HMP Peterborough. As of 4pm EST on August
26,2025, 2 out of 3 of her demands have been met, and she is still on strike to
demand that the prison release the mail they have been withholding from her.

As captives imprisoned for our participation in the Palestinian iberation
movementin the wes, we

ross borders to

a responsibly to each othes
pursue ourlives in prison with the sume steadfastess as the Palestinian

prisoner movement held captive in Iseach prisons.

The states that we have been captured by are the enablers of the Zionist enity's
accelerated genocide and the extermination of Palestinians in Gaza, as well as
the ongoing genocides of Black and Indigenous people whose lands they
continue to occupy

As the westem left continues to move from crisis o cisis and avoid their
responsibilities to Palestine, we are al that we have. By we I am referring to
people facing repression for their support of Palestine, who are sacrificing, trly.
sacificing, People such as T Hosha, who has suffered through 16 days of
starvation just to get her mail.

“The Palestine solidasity movementin the west cannot abandon people like her
who have risked their ives and continue to do so in resistance to this
intolemable condiion of genocide.

Solidarity is actions, not words. As of today, my cellmate and I are on hunger
stake at Santa Rita jail until her demands are met. Solidasity with T. Hosha and
all prisoners of the Palestine solidasity movement!

RAZE THE WALLS!

LIBERATE ALL PRISONERS OF SETTLER EMPIRE!

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As Hoxha and Casey’s bodies shrink & weaken...

and start eating themselves alive, it begs the question, why do we not hear their
names chanted in the streets at pro-Palestine protests, their faces rised on signs
and munls, their demands echoed in conferences and pamphlets? Where are the
cash-rich NGOs that could be using their huge platforms to speak out for Casey
and the Filton 24, if not donating o their legal funds, at least acknowledging their
existence? What about Elias Rodriguer, Jakhi McCray, Tarek Bazrouk, the
countless other political prisoners in the so-called United States? There are too
many to name. How dare anyone here express defeatism from their wamm homes
or complain about how none of us will sactifice, while doing nothing to esclate,
and ignoring the people who have made sacrifices and are now stuck in cold cells?
How many people will get o the end of this aricle but il to make a call or the
hunger strikers?

Hosha, the Filton 24, Casey, Elias, Jakhi, and longterm political prisoners like
Mumia and Tmam Jamil al-Amin do not get the kind of support they deserve from
the movement, especially not from NGOs who identify themselves as the
eadership, because they are not “peefect victims.” They are not
accused of being peaceful, they are accused of resisting, and for that, they are

unapologetic

movement’s

As one of Casey’s comrades wiote in the piece On Casey Goonan and the
Abandonment of Political Prisoners in the Pro-Palestine Movement, “Despite.
vague assertions of the interconnectedness of repression and strugeles between the
American policing and prison apparatuses to that of Istacl, there has been little
materal manifestation from that understanding within the US pro-Palestine
movement. Meanwhile, coordinated struggle between prisoners and outside
militants has been a key point of success for Palestinian kiberation.” They point to
the petit bourgeos class character and NGOization of the “movement” in the US,
and it reformist attitude toward US imperiaism and settler colonialism, as likely
explanations for itsisolation of militants and failure to escalate in general. As D.
Musa Springer put it in Mondoweiss,this tendency is opportunistic and suicidal —
“to not see ourselves reflected in the faces of our political prisoners and organize
accordingly...We have allowed our politcal prisoners to become ghosts, within a
movement claiming to want radical exorcism of oppressive systems”

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“Our prisoners are our compass” is not an empty slogan in Palestine, it the
‘material reality of struggle. When Lebanese revolutionary communist Georges
Abdallah was released in July after decades in French prison, he explained this
axiom in the clearest tems: “The one who resists is the one who has the final
say and determines what should and should not be done. The ultimate decision-
makeris the one who sacifices himself to the resistance. All spectators have no
sight to discuss any topic.” Prisoners of the Palestinian revolution are not
forgotten, or only paid lp service, they are bled for. We cannot forget, after all
that the Al-Aqsa Flood was itself a prison break and it birthed the Toufan al-
Ahear, the Flood of the Frce. But uniil the honoring of poliical prisoners is
actully put into practice here in the west, it wll be just that, just a slogan, and
an increasingly hollow one at thar.

“There is not much more to say here that is not already referenced above about
this tendency to abandon militants facing repression, but the siakes fecl
imminently higher when it is not just lfe in prison on the line, but physical life
itself. T remember when I was in jil las year for taking direct action with Pal
AAction US, for a rlatively very short bid (40 days), and at the fime, Casey was
the only other political prisoner from this teration of the Palestine movement,
as well as the Pal Action UK prisoners. T feltlike we were all breathing
together, our spiits soaring acmss mefal bars, concrete, mountains, and seas,
never alone. We wrote happy birthday messages from our jail ablets to be
passed on to prisoners in the UK. We asked our supporters to stop witing
letters to us and instead o wiite 1o people inside for much longer, like Casey. It
i like Ci ve are all that we have, By we I am referring to people
facing repression for their support of Palestine, who are sacaficing, truly
sacrificing” Since I was released 1 fear sometimes that 1 have sipped back into.
my comforts or my mumbness, that T hae lost touch with the raw clarity and
urgency (not despaie) that T fel while inside, that we should al feel, all the time,
everywhere. But Casey’s words jolt me right back into that clasity. They remind
us that Casey and Hosha are acually freer than us all, because they are ressting.

ey said —

To sare Haxcha and Casey’s e, call and email HIMP Petersborough to demand thy et
alof Hoxha's demands. For th Ltest pates, instructons, and set o demands, go o
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Calla Mairead Walsh
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“As captives imprisoned for our
participation in the Palestinian
liberation movement in the west,
we have a responsibility to each
other across borders to pursue our
lives in prison with the same
steadfastness as the Palestinian
prisoner movement held captive
in israeli prisons.”

(asey Goonan
Santa Rita Jail
August 26, 2025