It's 30 minutes til midnight when I begin to write these words, so I hope they will humbly stumble out of me as direly as I need them to. Today's date is important, and these words need to be spoken before it is over shortly. This is my best attempt at that. Today, exactly 23 years since this country sentenced a Pakistani doctor, Aafia Siddiqui, to 86 years in prison under the pretense that she was a "terrorist", the colonial courts of this country reminded us that, in the United States of America, history is indeed nothing more than just another synonym for the future. Today, political prisoner Dr. Casey Goonan was sentenced to serve 19 years in an American prison for their actions undertaken during the height of the student intifada, in the spring of 2024. In a country where right wing insurrectionists that kill human beings get to walk around as free men, those who rise up and take action against mass genocide are slandered as “domestic terrorists”, before they are thrown into the dungeons of this country and robbed of decades of their lives. This government protects property more fiercely than human beings, because they hate the people who touch cop cars but love the ones that rise up violently, as long as it is for their own vile cause. There is so much I want to say, both about these two incredible human beings and the despicable ones who have stolen them away from us. I used their honorifics before their names, not because I want to allocate authority or show desirability for them over other prisoners, but because these are rightfully earned titles that have been stripped away from these people, in order for them to be depicted as anything except for the incredibly smart and exceptional human beings that they are. This colonial government slanders them of the crimes that it itself has committed freely for over 200 years, in order to be able to wipe its own hands clean. Today, I hope you will resist against this and remember Aafia and Casey for the dynamic human beings that they are, and not as these one dimensional monsters the government pathetically attempts to portray them out as. Today, I hope you will remember them as human beings who should be out here with us right now. It is now a handful of minutes into the next morning that I catch myself wrapping up these words. They spilled over into the next day, almost as reminders that our love and loyalty to our people on the inside cannot be confined to just the anniversaries of their misery. Our commitments must be lifelong, until all of our comrades are able to join us here on the outside, until all of the cages that entrap them are burnt to the ground. More thoughts on this disgusting sentencing outcome soon. Until then, Free Casey Goonan. Free Aafia Siddiqui. Free Palestine. Free literally everybody.
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