#eric-king — Public Fediverse posts

No Way Home: An Anarchist Ex-Prisoner’s Response to Fire Ant Movement Defense

A statement from Eric King, an anarchist and former political prisoner who spent nearly a decade behind bars, about one aspect of the Fire Ant Movement Defense statement Crimethinc published earlier this week discussing the Prairieland verdicts.

https://crimethinc.com/NoWayHome

#Prairieland #PrairielandVerdicts #EricKing #NoWayHome #FireAntMovementDefense @CrimethInc

Rad! Looking forward to reading #EricKing’s book after listening to him talk at #SeattleAnarchistBookFair and be interviewed for the press tour.

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1872

The #FreedomForFelons podcast interview released today is a standout for being about to talk about aspects of prison life with a level of immediate mutual intelligibility that is impossible without lived experience. The reminder of the “Rattling the Cages” oral histories King edited with #JoshDavidson was good to have, and would make a good next read, but like King and the hosts were saying, people who haven’t lived it find it hard to believe that prisoners talking about personal and systemic abuse by guards is real. “Rikers: An Oral History” by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau was comprehensive and beyond persuasive, but a huge part of that was guards also admitting it.

With #Anark on YouTube, King also spoke to the realities of how you hold onto your principles amid systems that don’t give you agency for ideological purity (e.g. being forced at higher security prisons to only associate within-race, therefore with white supremacists) or what battles you fight for your principles (e.g. veganism). The conversation on what prisoner support really looks like and how letter writing should not be viewed as charity but mutual exchange between people was also really insightful, esp. “send me the books I like to read, not the ones you think I should read”. That wasn’t primarily a lesson on anarchism but worth remembering: even people who are in the most vulnerable circumstances deserve better than you thinking you know what’s best for them rather than themselves.

And the #SeekingWitchcraft podcast was a really good conversation on many of those same things but with the added focus on what following a personal, non-Christian and specifically pagan practice looks like inside a culturally Christian institution meant to dominate and destroy your body and spirit.

Again, have not yet read the book itself, but really excited to, based on all these things so far.

Last, @pmpress sends a whole bunch of little treats to go along with their orders! Which was a nice surprise.

@nobonzo @igd_news @june11

Many dear, warm and supportive greetings here from the other side of the ocean, from Germany to Eric King. We had occasional correspondence when he was in prison in the USA, and I was here in Germany. The state authorities tried to break us. They did not succeed. Such letter-writing events help the prisoners to survive!

Thomas

#freeallprisoners #ericking #letters #letterwriting #prisonersupport

Episode 60 of the Non Serviam Podcast is available now!

We were honored to speak with political prisoner Eric King about surviving inside a federal supermax with Nazi gangs and guards, and how to maintain hope and radicalism in and out of prison.

🎙️ https://soundcloud.com/nonserviammedia/nsp60

@LucyStag #nonserviammedia #ericking #anarchism #prisons #police #abolition #acab

Eric King Released from Prison After 9+ Years as Political Prisoner https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/eric-king-released-from-prison-after-9-years-as-political-prisoner/ #EricKing #anarchism

Anarchist Prisoner Eric King Released to Halfway House After Ten Years
#AnarchistPrisoners #EricKing

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/12/13/anarchist-prisoner-eric-king-released-to-halfway-house-after-ten-years/

“Prison ain’t for sensitive boys” a poem by Eric King

I still think about every fight
every scraping – making of knives
wondering what happened to those lives
they were sharpened for?
I still feel every spray
every breath it stole away
wondering what violence will come today
W/the squad at your door
I still hear every screaming voice
every life isolation destroyed
prison ain’t the place for a sensitive boy
I don’t want this no more

Eric King, November 30, 2022

#EricKing #poetry #prison #AbolishAllPrisons

As Eric King is finally set to be released, I feel it’s important to remember the abuse he (and other prisoners, political or not) has had to face and to never forget. https://itsgoingdown.org/political-prisoner-eric-king-faces-retaliation/

#EricKing #AbolishAllPrisons #abolish #antifascim

You can still contribute to his release fund: https://anarchistnews.org/content/eric-kings-release-fund-close-reaching-its-goal

More about Eric: https://supportericking.org/

Don't miss our newest episode of #ThisIsAmerica, featuring interviews with the support crew of anarchist prisoner #EricKing - who speak on a campaign to support Eric as his release date nears.

We then interview the two directors behind "Elements of Mutual Aid," a new upcoming four-part series on grassroots mutual aid organizing across North America.

We also discuss Biden's call to ban #TikTok and the current push by politicians to roll back rules around child labor.

Listen and download here: https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-184/

There is a new fund to support Eric King for his hopeful 2023 release: https://www.gofundme.com/f/release-funds-for-political-prisoner-eric-king

From the fundraiser:
"Eric is a father, a poet, activist and amazing friend. He had the courage to go to trial against the government after being taken into a closet at FCI Florence and attacked by a guard and subsequently tortured. He spent 4 years in segregation facing massive oppression while fighting his case. Physically attacked, complete separation from his family, friends and community. After his acquittal the Bureau of Prisons they sent him further from his family while they orchestrated a designation to the federal supermax in Florence Colorado. He will spend the rest of his time in complete solitude while he fights his ongoing civil case against the Bureau of prisons. These years have been brutal for him and his family and he's ready to come home."

#EricKing #jailsupport

“Prison ain’t for sensitive boys” a poem by anarchist prisoner Eric King

#EricKing

https://www.abcf.net/blog/prison-aint-for-sensitive-boys-a-poem-by-eric-king/

Support Political Prisoner Eric King at the Supermax

#EricKing #PoliticalPrisoner
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2022/09/15/support-political-prisoner-eric-king/

#UnicornRiot

Trigger warning

#EricKing Highlights #Mistreatment and #Indignity in Prison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfoJOKddP14

Eric King (anarchist and antifascist political prisoner) and his partner talk about his case, about life in the BOP, realities of being family of incarcerated folks, CMU's, antifascist struggle and Tom Manning's murder.

#politicalprisoner #anarchist #antifascist #antifa #ericking #tommanning

See comment for info on his surprise court case of today where he faces up to 20 additional years on some bs charges...

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2019/08/25/we-need-to-keep-that-spirit-alive-anarchist-prisoner-eric-king-and-partner-speak/