Three Running Down the Walls Anarchist Statements

Toby Shone’s 2024 Running Down The Walls 2024 Statement

I’ll be joining the 5km Running Down The Walls event in September that is organised by our comrades across the Atlantic in the United States. This initiative is another date in the calendar that can help build a revolutionary narrative that prisoners and those outside can participate in together. It promotes physical training and fitness with a mindset of solidarity in struggle. These kind of events give us strength and development. A huge shout out to all those taking part. I write this during the International Week of Solidarity for Anarchist Prisoners, in combative memory of the state murders of Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston 1927. P.S. A greeting also to the rebel prisoners in Italy, I heard of the revolts even here in high security.

Toby Shone 27/08/2024
HMP Garth North West, UK

Jesse Cannon’s 2024 Running Down the Walls statement

Running is a form of meditation for me, while trying to nail a 9 minute mile I find myself at peace, watching the gravel track under my feet like the surroundings of a locomotive. I reminisce of watching friends train for peace and dignity run and run for salmon. Long distance running is an indigenous tradition. I run with you today and everyday in solidarity with all political prisoners and prisoners of war. I stand with all and with indigenous people everywhere fighting for their ancestral sights and rights and land back. Today I pray to creator I will be joining you all next time in person to run alongside y’all. Keep up the fight, break down borders push and run down the walls!!

Stay up. Stay Dangerous!

In Struggle and Solidarity,
T.C.

Jesse Cannon BX4822
5150 O’Byrnes Ferry Road
Dorm 27, Upper Tier 7U
Jamestown, CA 95327

Marius Mason’s 2024 Running Down the Walls statement

We are a small community of queer, transgender and non-binary prisoners here at FMC Fort Worth, and so we recognize the necessity and power in solidarity. As a marginalized faction of an already disenfranchised population, we suffer an added layer of discrimination within the prison system. We can’t get certain jobs, or live in certain Units or eat with certain other prisoners……we are often mocked by both other prisoners and staff for our orientation or gender. This could be suffocating – but we find our voices in supporting each other. We are glad to walk today with our free sisters, brothers and siblings to celebrate our connection and to dream together of a future where no one is incarcerated and all are free. To paraphrase the astronaut’s famous phrase: one small step for any one person, but one giant step for all of us together…until ALL are free! Thank you for your solidarity and support, towards an end to cages.

Marius Mason

M. Mason #04672-061
FMC Fort Worth
P.O. Box 15330
Fort Worth, TX 76119

source: Anarchist News