#malikspeaks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #malikspeaks, aggregated by home.social.
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“In order to break free, one must be acutely aware of being a slave”
There’s a pattern here: for the last 3 years Ramadan, I’m targeted. I’m snatched from mainline and taken to the hole under “Investigation”. I’m hit with some bogus “Unauthorized Organization” and I’m locked away in the hole for the rest of the year. It’s often that those targeted in prison, those considered activists or revolutionaries are sent to the hole, not for something they’ve done, but for what the administration thinks we MIGHT do. For them, it’s better to be preemptive. Not unlike the U.S. and Israel’s “preemptive” strikes on Iran. It’s just a cover for doing what they want anyways.
For 3 years, I’ve been dealing with this, now I’m here again, spend my Ramadan in the hole again due to nothing more than white fragility. The white male ego. Hurt at the notion that not only do I not like or respect the fascist state, [...]
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On Fedjacketing
Within the microcosm of society that is prison, people must be careful of the way they tread. Careful of their thoughts that become their words, careful of their words that become their actions, careful of their actions that become their habits, careful of their habits that become their character. Or so the saying goes. It’s a prudent way to live. In prison, it’s the only way.
So for example, claiming that someone is a rat, cop, fed, or sex offender isn’t taken lightly [in prison]. Nor should it. If someone hits the main line, and you know for a fact, 100%, that they ratted, you can give the time, date, and place, but you still have to produce paperwork for your claims. Any accusations as serious as that require empirical evidence.
Too often in prison, I’ve seen people get slapped as a bad dude simply because the most popular person with the most clout said so, and others just follow their lead. [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/29/on-fedjacketing/
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Pal Action’s Hunger Strike
To everyone who took the time to call and demand my release from the hole these past two years, thank you. I want you to know that it worked. I know that it can be daunting, we can feel so powerless in the face of this repressive beast that is the state — but it’s only an illusion. What they want you to think. I’m out now and transferred and received mail, and that’s all thanks to you.
AND, at this time our siblings in the UK need that same energy times ten. Pal Action protesters have been held without bail as you know, and are facing intense repression under bogus terrorism charges. They need you all to put in the same energy calling and demanding for the release of their mail. The opposition hopes to keep our movements separate and fractured when nothing could be further from the truth. [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/16/pal-actions-hunger-strike/
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"The News"
What makes something "newsworthy?"
Is it shock value, like Trump going on a racist, xenophobic rant targeting Somalians? Despite the fact that this man has shown he’s blatantly racist. This is supposed to be shocking. To anyone paying attention, he’s a fucking racist. It is known. It’s been known. The fact that reporters can say that him saying racy things is “expected,” but outright racist and xenophobic is a surprise — on his initial run, he said Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, like what? [...]
But the hundreds of Palestinians still murdered in a genocide draped in a “ceasefire,” they’re un-people, and the ceasefire is holding because those were un-bombs and not-bullets. Lebanon is bombed and invaded by the IOF under the ceasefire flag. Also not news, ’cause, you know, un-people. Syria, invaded, too, also un-people. The 83 people murdered by the US off Venezuela’s coast, only the conduct is news ’cause maybe or maybe not, Pete did a “double tap,” as Jesse Eisenberg would say. But the murders themselves and the flagrant violation of the UN charter that bans the threats of force and the use of force on any sovereign nation, unless approved by the UN, and in case it’s unclear, they did not approve this threat and use of force against Venezuela — this is not news. [...]
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Support Malik with Funds!
https://chuffed.org/project/157063-free-malik-now
Malik Muhammad is a Black/Palestinian direct actionist, radical anarchist, anti-fascist and father, as well as a writer, poet, and musician who is dedicated to liberation.
During the George Floyd uprising, they traveled the country organizing and fighting, and were ultimately kidnapped, ransomed, and held hostage by the state of Oregon, where they have been unjustly held captive on a ten-year sentence, the longest of any political prisoner from the 2020 uprisings.
This fundraiser will provide ongoing financial support to Malik in prison to cover the cost of their commissary, phone calls, stamps, books, as well as travel for lawyers, family members and siblings (comrades) to visit them.
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/11/15/support-malik-with-funds/
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Getting back to “normal”
Normal was traffic stops turned fatal
Arrest warrants served with halos
poverty job seeking surviving at minimum rates
certainly not living.
No time.Normalcy was
four year degrees
with nothing to show
but hopes and dreams.
Perhaps a pretty plaque.Normalcy was
immigrant fear mongering
demonizing
categorizing as “enemies within.”Normal was
presidential bail outs and
pardons for the rich and wealthy.Normal-see — was
bombing overseas
proxy wars with government funding autocracy
fascist police in city streets
militarized humanity perceived as enemies.
Rising cost of food
scarcity
unaffordable housing
inadequate government aid
moving the retirement age
working into the grave
numbered
statisticized
cradle to the grave
wage slaves.
A fate worse than death.
Mass incarceration rates
as high as 3.15
repeating.
The “American dream,” scheme
that pie in the sky
a pipe dream
the smoke
blowin’ up your own ass.
Like tryna to stop a heart attack.You wanna
“get back”
to
“normalcy?”
See: normal.https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/29/getting-back-to-normal/
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ICE in Portland
There actually are lawless criminals fucking up the streets of Portland and destabilizing communities across the nation. They go by the name of DHS, ICE, Border Patrol, and the fascist jack boots employed as the National Guard. And this is abhorrent. The pigs in 2020 protected Proud Boys and other fascists assaulting Portlanders in these city streets. The pigs worked with DHS in assaulting and kidnapping Portlanders in these city streets. Tear gas cakes the residential neighborhoods and family homes, courtesy of the Portland Police Bureau. All this under the guise of protecting the public. Protecting the public from “violent rioters,” they say. Anarchists and criminals terrorizing the community, they say.
Yet, it’s 2025, the fascist autocrat deployed DHS, ICE, and the National Guard to come and terrorize Portlanders. [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/22/ice-in-portland/
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Update from the hole
I’ve broken down Oregon’s hole abuses before and documented their violations many times, as yet another year passes, another winter spent in segregation. Actually, spring, summer, fall, and now, winter again. Spent in the most freezing cells, no phone access, and mail obstructions with no mail violation notices.
I’m bound to this freezing cell they keep AC blowing in, day and night, despite it being winter. It’s the exact circumstances as last year in the hole. I’ve been in segregation for two years, with barely a month between. SRCI, OSP, same hole, same SHU, same abuse. These hole practices are heinous, barbaric, archaic, harsh, punitive, unjustified, and ineffective in achieving any semblance of “rehabilitation.” [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/22/update-from-the-hole/
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"After Assata"
Assata said, “I’m tired of bulletins. I want bullets.”
Assata said, “Tears fallen and bodies dropped, blood shed. Fuck the high road. When they go low, instead, knee ’em in the face, sprawl lower. Take their back, wrap the neck, fuck a tap out, listen for the snap. Put your ballot in the barrel of the gun, overnight express, direct action shipping. Paint the city streets with the bodies of little piggies, spelling, ‘I can’t breathe’ and say, ‘Look, see, told you stop resisting. Didn’t listen, your body’s glistening, lilac over your velvet blues, families, confused, thinking, ‘why him?’ like they’re better than you. Well, better them than you. Let a piggy disrespect, and I’ll gladly shoot. Fascist ain’t bulletproof. To protect and serve ’em up, like fried bacon, crispy.”
None for me, though, that swine’s haram.
Burnt piggies only entice me when I light a message in a bottle and make ’em catch it like a hollow, burning through like zombie tips.
Painting, blue pigs, orange and red, like the sweetest sunset, the best the man can get, close to what the Creator projects at dawn.
Back to where I begun.
Where it all came from.
I’m tired of running from bullets and later posting bulletins, like Assata said, “I want — “https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/05/after-assata/
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“We are interconnected and inseparable”
Our sib in the UK, T. Hohxa, has direct action in her blood. For 28 long days she resisted colonizer fascists. Every ounce of resistance is a win. She won, we all did. Solidarity is the most important part of our movement. I wouldn’t have cared if she were asking for a PS5 and a 25in TV or a chartered flight to Indiana. If you ride, we all ride!
Resistance is essence and solidarity foundational. International solidarity is imperative. [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/09/we-are-interconnected-and-inseparable/
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Black August Update
Thank you to all my siblings that rocked out with me for Black August! 5 more Augusts and I'll join you out there for the 6th and RDTW. I'm really appreciative. I hope the solidarity and love for each other and liberation remain steadfast and transcend the month!
LOVE RAGE AND SOLIDARITY
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/03/black-august-update/
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8/14/25 poetry roundup #2
Where I Reside
The annals of society; where I reside
As far removed as the dark side of —
The moon
Cold concrete graves encased in
Steel bars
Piercing supernatural lights
Policed and patrolled by
Horned custodians
Sanctioned — to exact violence
Draped in red white and blue capes
Nature? This is anything but
This gloomy construct
Manufactured to house the poor, brown, and sick
Humans dismissed — in the millions
Overcrowded — close spaces
Oppressed people
Entombed in “justice”
It’s criminal
Removed from society
REMOVED FROM SOCIETY
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https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/29/8-14-25-poetry-roundup-2/
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Queer/Trans Liberation
To be is to become. Change is the only constant in life, in love, in the evolution of humanity and all species. It is inevitable. Fighting against change is counterproductive; molding or shaping change is only logical. To explore, to endeavor to find humanity’s potentialities is the objective of humans — finding limits and constructed barriers of the species and pushing past them, both as individuals and a collective. To break free. Of course, not without consideration for lesser conscious and capable species, but as a role explicitly with that in mind. As Uncle Ben told Peter, “With great power comes great responsibility.” And we bear a responsibility to our planet and the ecosystems here to maintain their considerations.
Humanity is one species. Gender, race, sexuality are all constructed. [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/29/queer-trans-liberation/
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Tyrants and Collaborators
I don’t understand the lack of urgency in this genocide. Countries are careful not to be “too quick” to call it a genocide. War crimes, “sure,” they say, breaches of international laws, “yeah, maybe,” but genocide, they won’t say. Perhaps because that would mean they HAVE to act. And act in a substantive manner. Currently, the best they can do is recognize Palestinian statehood. Years late, as 150 countries already do, but France is the first “influential” one? It’s insane that unless countries say, “I see you,” to recognize your suffering, then you pretty much don’t exist. No country has recognized the human rights abuses of Blacks. Yet it persists. [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/19/tyrants-and-collaborators/
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Black August starts soon. Usually I have others to participate with me, but since I don’t, I’m calling on those of you out there to get together in your cohorts, do 100 of something everyday with me for the month of August, and tell me how its going for you. Burpees, push-ups, sit-ups, a mile run/walk, 100 of some exercise for 31 days with me, that’d be rad! The key is unity, solidarity, so try to do them at least with one other person. You can split things up and make 100 squats into 50, plus its more fun together, and that’s what its about, what we can do together!
Love, rage, and solidarity
— Malik
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/01/black-august/
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7/2/25 poetry roundup
I know pride month is over, but EVERY month is pride month, and every day is an awesome day to take pride in our personhood and our right to BE.
A bit of backstory, I took inspiration from sibling (what I’m starting to call my supporters) Andy from Ohio, who once wrote to me about flies in a vent, making music and ramming bodies, and I thought it was poetic as fuck. The poems below borrow his words.
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In the meantime, we get to make music and ram our bodies together to harmonize with the rain
“Where are we going?” I ask as my lover leads me by the hand.
“To the club, to dance,” he says.
“No, I mean humanity!” I shout over the pounding bass [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/17/7-2-25-poetry-roundup/
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"The slack door"
The first one of these disastrous monstrosities [ICE’s new “detention centers”] is FCI Dublin. FCI Dublin is a notorious women’s federal prison recently shut down (last year) after an FBI raid. In which many staff were arrested for raping and abusing the female inmates. This raid came after 60+ lawsuits pending against the FBOP on behalf of tortured and abused women, over years. NOW the Feds are REOPENING it as an “ICE detention center”… it’s a prison. A PRIVATE federal sponsored/requested prison. Presumably to house co-ed soon-to-be deportees. This NEEDS to be condemned, and we need spotlights on this soon-to-be disaster. [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/07/the-slack-door/
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On the here and now, and trying
It IS happening HERE and NOW. Clear and present danger.
I remember years ago, during China’s student protests, I reference this picture a lot: “Hear us now or be us later.” We were deaf then. We adapted some tactics, but the masses were deaf then. It goes back farther, much farther than that; though we’re HERE now. This “democracy” is gone. To believe we’re not there yet, or we’ve got a ways to go before we’re cooked… God, it’s harrowing. It’s gut wrenching and heartbreaking that people can be so obtuse.
First off, the democracy we HAD wasn’t great, but that IS gone. And second, if you think it’s not THAT bad, it’s because you sit from an observational site of fucking privilege. Not THAT bad? How BAD does it have to get? When it affects YOU. This idea of, “we can get back” — NO! There will NEVER be a time that is before Trump.
This democracy is dead. [...]
https://malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2025/06/28/on-the-here-and-now-and-trying/