Step 1: Donate to José here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “Organizing with Political Prisoners” here

In this workshop, members of the Xinachtli Freedom Campaign will discuss their organizing work with Xinachtli, a political prisoner, artist and Chicano revolutionary who has been unjustly held in solitary confinement for over 20 years. They will share experiences and advice on how to organize with U.S. political prisoners as well as the importance of centering them in broader movement work.

Drawing on lessons from the New Afrikan Independence movement as well as the Palestinian National Liberation struggle, the Xinachtli Freedom Campaign will discuss the role that political prisoners have played historically and presently as leaders in our movement as well as in their own struggles for liberation.

As more of our comrades are captured each day, it is the duty of those of us who remain outside the prison walls to organize alongside them for their release, and to situate their fight for freedom as integral to the broader struggle against state repression that targets all working class and colonized people.

Maria is a teacher, community organizer, historian, and writer. Born in Mexico and raised in Texas, Maria has experienced the violence of the state’s racist government, leading to her involvement in political education, community organizing, and ultimately, political prisoners’ campaigns.

Jazz is a public health researcher, community organizer, writer, and poet. A lifelong Texan, they began organizing in elementary school against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and have since continued to struggle against U.S. imperialism, racial capitalism, and the oppression of all colonized people—from the southern border to Palestine.