Eric is at Grady County Jail in Oklahoma City and we want to keep him there and stop him from being sent to a dangerous situation at USP Lee.

Today, we are asking you to call/fax and email the Bureau of Prisons staff below and urge them to transfer Eric to an appropriate low or medium security prison so he can finish his sentence and go home to his family and community. The Bureau of Prisons knows what will happen if they send him to USP Lee. We do not accept indefinite placement in segregation as an alternative.  Ask them to remove his management variable and send Eric to a federal prison close to home so he can prepare for release in December 2023.

Be sure to tweet at the BOP at @OfficialFBOP

Reach out to your U.S. Senators and Congressional Reps and ask them for your help on this issue. Find who they are at https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

Templates and all contacts live here.
A helpful guide for writing these letters and making calls.
Eric is in his own words
Eric on It’s Going Down’s “This is America” podcast

Bureau of Prisons contacts:
Mid-Atlantic BOP Regional Office
[email protected]
[email protected]
Phone: 301-317-3100
Fax: 301-317-3119

DSCC Office
GRA-DSC/[email protected]
Phone: 972-352-4400
Fax: 972-352-4395

BOP National Office
[email protected]
Phone: 202-307-3198
Twitter: @OfficialFBOP
[email protected]

Senators and Reps

Colorado (Eric’s release location and home)
Michael Bennett
https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/write-to-michael
Toll Free: 866-455-9866
Phone: 303-455-7600
Fax: 720-904-7151
@SenatorBennet

John Hickenlooper
Email
303-244-1628
@Hickenlooper

For urgent help with a federal agency, please call the Denver office at 303-244-1628 or e-mail [email protected]

Missouri (where Eric was born, raised and indicted)

Senator Roy Blunt
https://www.blunt.senate.gov/contact/contact-roy
Phone: (202) 224-5721
Twitter: @RoyBlunt

Senator Josh Hawley
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/contact-senator-hawley
Office: 202-224-6154
Fax: 202-228-0526
Fax: 816-472-6812
Fax: 417-869-4411
Fax: 314-436-8534
Twitter: @HawleyMO or @SenHawleyPress

Congresswoman Cori Bush
6724-A Page Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63133
Phone: (314) 955-9980

563 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2406
Fax: (202) 226-3717
Twitter: @coribush

Virginia

Tim Kaine
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/share-your-opinion
Twitter: @TimKaine
231 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
PHONE: (202) 224-4024

Mark. R Warner
Email: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactPage
Twitter: @MarkWarner
703 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2023

FREE ERIC KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As of last night, Eric is still at Grady County Jail in Oklahoma City and we want to keep him there and stop him from being sent to a dangerous situation at USP Lee.

We recounted last week that Eric has already been threatened by white supremacists on the way to USP Lee last time and was walked into an empty chow hall to fight a nazi enforcer at USP McCreary last year. The Bureau of Prisons knows what they are doing by sending him to USP Lee. We do not accept indefinite placement in segregation as an alternative. We demand Eric be transferred to a low or medium security prison and be allowed to finish his time and be released in December 2023.

To that end, we are asking for your solidarity for another week of calling, faxing and emailing various Senators and BOP staff. We added Missouri Senators Blunt and Hawley on Friday (that is where Eric was born, raised and lived until his 2014 arrest). Today we are asking for you to contact Colorado Senators Bennet & Senator Hickenlooper (this is where Eric’s family lives and where he will be released). Of course, please continue to contact the Bureau of Prisons contacts at DSCC, Mid Atlantic Region and the new one we added: USP Lee.

Templates and all contacts live at https://supportericking.org/2022/04/03/help-protect-erics-life/

A helpful guide for writing these letters and making calls

Eric is in his own words:

ICYMI, Eric on It’s Going Down’s “This is America” podcast

Senators to Contact

Colorado:

Michael Bennet
https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/write-to-michael
Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Building
1244 Speer Boulevard
Denver, CO 80204
Toll Free: 866-455-9866
Phone: 303-455-7600
Fax: 720-904-7151
@SenatorBennet

John Hickenlooper
https://www.hickenlooper.senate.gov/email-john/
Byron Rogers Federal Building|
1961 Stout Street, Suite 12-300
303-244-1628
https://twitter.com/Hickenlooper

Missouri:
Senator Roy Blunt
https://www.blunt.senate.gov/contact/contact-roy
Phone: (202) 224-5721
Twitter: @RoyBlunt

Senator Josh Hawley
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/contact-senator-hawley
Office: 202-224-6154
Fax: 202-228-0526
Fax: 816-472-6812
Fax: 417-869-4411
Fax: 314-436-8534
Twitter: @HawleyMO or @SenHawleyPress

Virginia

Tim Kaine
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/share-your-opinion
Twitter: @TimKaine
231 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
PHONE: (202) 224-4024

Mark. R Warner
Email: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactPage
Twitter: @MarkWarner
IG: https://www.instagram.com/senatorwarner/
703 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-2023

Bureau of Prisons contacts:
USP Lee
Lee County Industrial Park
Hickory Flats Road
Pennington Gap, VA 24277
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 276-546-0150
Fax: 276-546-9115

Mid-Atlantic BOP Regional Office
302 Sentinel Dr,
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 301-317-3100
Fax: 301-317-3119

DSCC Office
U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Complex
346 Marine Forces Dr.
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
Email: GRA-DSC/[email protected]
Phone: 972-352-4400
Fax: 972-352-4395

BOP National Office
320 First Street, NW
Washington, DC 20534
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 202-307-3198

How are your calls going? What are you hearing? Email us at [email protected]

FREE ERIC KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oso Blanco, other Native Prisoners, campaigning for their rights

A campaign was recently launched on behalf of indigenous political prisoners at the US Penitentiary Victorville in Adelanto CA, and their right to engage in their religious ceremonies and practices, especially the restoration of their sweat lodge, which had been destroyed and desecrated by prison authorities.

In response, there have been some developments regarding Oso Blanco (Byron Shane Chubbuck), a Native political prisoner recognized by the Jericho Movement, who is incarcerated there. His outside supporters have been instrumental in the campaign.

Here are some recent developments:

–USP Victorville has been on lockdown since March 24th due to two deaths (OD’s) that are being investigated. Prison staff are responsible for bringing those drugs into the facility.

–Oso Blanco (OB) is currently in administrative segregation. In accordance with his personal beliefs, he does not use or distribute drugs. Prison staff and administration know this.

–OB was not directly informed why he was placed in segregation. But he was placed in administrative segregation following an exchange with Chaplain Doran Kelvington in which OB calmly advocated for peaceful resolution of the issues around rebuilding the sweat lodge.

–AW Lepe came and told OB on March 29th that a couple people including the pipe holder, Larry, will start cleaning up the sweat lodge area.

–Lepe stated that he will be sure to get the willows himself, he will not wait for the chaplain to do this.

–OB also told Lepe that grass is needed surrounding the area due to the intense heat. It is dangerous to step on the ground/dirt barefoot. Shade is also needed so that no one is at risk for heat stroke which could be fatal.

You can write to Oso Blanco at

Byron Shane Chubbuck #07909-051
USP Victorville United States Penitentiary
PO Box 3900
Adelanto CA 92301

April 19th marks Jessica’s 250th day of being locked up and separated from the people and places she loves. To punish Jessica for protecting our waterways and the climate, the federal government has walled Jessica off from the wind, the rain, the rivers, the sun, and all of us. To mark this day, show solidarity, and explain the significance of her case we will be hosting a webinar that we encourage you all to attend.

The webinar, USA v Jessica Reznicek: fighting the criminalization of water protectors, will highlight the people fighting back against the criminalization of climate action in the United States.

Since the No-DAPL movement, dozens of states have passed critical infrastructure laws that increase criminal penalties for anyone taking action against destructive fossil fuel projects. In 2017, 80 Republicans and 4 Democrats asked the Justice Department to prosecute Jessica Reznick and the valve turners as terrorists. Last year, the justice department answered the call and applied a terrorism enhancement to Jessica’s case, doubling her sentence.

The Speakers will include:

Cherri Foytlin and Cindy Spoon from the L’eau Est La Vie Camp who will share about their federal lawsuit against the critical infrastructure bill in Louisiana.

Nizhóní Begay Diné/Quechua Communications Coordinator & Jaden Cowboy Diné/Nahiłii Community Legal Liaison of the Water Protector Legal Collective who will speak about the criminalization of water protectors since NoDAPL and beyond. WPLC has also filed a Amicus brief in support of Jessica’s appeal.

Alex Marquardt an attorney form the Climate Defense Project on the abuse of the terrorism enhancement and their Amicus brief in support of Jessica’s appeal.

Bill Quigley, longtime attorney for Jessica Reznicek.

Monty Hollywood from our team, The Campaign to Free Jessica Reznicek!

We hope you’ll join us in solidarity with those fighting to protect our right to struggle for clean water and a stable climate. Secure your spot by registering for the webinar!

Until then help us spread the word on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

Feel free to share and post the flyer below.

!Today is day 5 of our call-in campaign for Eric King. We are going to switch it up and focus on Missouri Senators today (and BOP). As you know, Eric is from Missouri and that is where his case originated so we are going to bring our concerns to the two Missouri Senators.

Remember, Eric is currently in Grady County Jail in Oklahoma City and en route to USP Lee, which is a maximum security prison. Eric should not be going here for two reasons:

1- a management variable was placed on him at FCI Englewood and has not been removed yet. This should be done ASAP.

2- Threats were made against Eric at USP Atlanta from white supremacists who told him he would be killed at USP Lee if he walked the yard.

We are asking the Senators to inquire to the BOP why Eric is being sent to this maximum security prison when his point total is much lower and he only has 18 months left on his sentence. Also, the BOP has already documented the threat against Eric. What point is there sending him to USP Lee when it is well known he would be placed in a dangerous situation? Staying in a miserable segregation unit for the remainder of his time with no access to phone, visits, emails, books and access to his loved ones and legal teams is NOT an alternative.

Background, info for BOP contacts and more is at https://supportericking.org/…/03/help-protect-erics-life/

Missouri Contacts:

Senator Roy Blunt
https://www.blunt.senate.gov/contact/contact-roy
Phone: (202) 224-5721
Twitter: @RoyBlunt

Senator Josh Hawley
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/contact-senator-hawley
Office: 202-224-6154
Fax: 202-228-0526
Fax: 816-472-6812
Fax: 417-869-4411
Fax: 314-436-8534
Twitter: @HawleyMO or @SenHawley

Sample letter (please use as a basis but change the language)

Dear Senator,
I am writing regarding a friend of mine who is a prisoner in the Federal Bureau of Prisons that is from Missouri. His name is Eric King, Register Number 27090-045. He was most recently on writ in the U.S. District of Colorado for a trial, of which he was found not guilty on all counts. Eric was moved from FCI Englewood and is in transit right now. As of today, he is being held in a private facility- Grady County Jail in Oklahoma. He has been told he is en route to a maximum security prison in Virginia: USP Lee.

The reason I am writing is because I believe Eric should not be sent to USP Lee. There is an active threat against his life. Before Eric was sent to Colorado, he was held in the Segregation Unit at USP Lee for roughly 13 days. Prior to that, he was at USP Atlanta transit unit and a white supremacist/skinhead gang member told him he would be killed at USP Lee if he was released into general population. This had been documented at USP Lee and it is imperative that he not be put in harm’s way. I am asking that you not send him into a situation that is so dangerous.

The Bureau of Prisons knows this and there is established case law regarding the BOP sending someone into dangerous and life threatening scenarios. ), See, Fitzharris v. Wolf, 702 F.2d 836, 839 (9th Cir. 1983); Gullatte v. Potts, 654 F.2d 1007, 1012-13 (5th Cir. 1981); Roba v. U.S., 604 F.2d 215, 218-19 (2d Cir. 1979).

Additionally, Eric has a maximum management variable that is on his security profile that has him erroneously being sent to a custody beyond his actual security level. He has no pending charges, incident reports and a release date of 12.27.2023. He intends to live with his wife and his two children upon release. I ask that this management variable be removed so that he can be sent to a medium or low custody prison close to home and he can work on release preparations. I fear great harm will come to my friend and I am asking that you intervene and ask the Bureau of Prisons not to send Eric King into harm’s way at USP Lee.

His lawyer’s name is Lauren Regan and can be reached at 541-687-9180 or [email protected].
Thank you for your time.

All details at https://supportericking.org/2022/04/03/help-protect-erics-life/

The focus today is the Bureau of Prisons. Eric is in the process of being transferred to USP Lee, a high security prison across the country in Virginia. Eric, who should be placed at a medium security facility, reasonably fears that this move is punitive and that at Lee he will lose access to reading materials and, more importantly, his ability to communicate with his loved ones.

More so, placing him at USP Lee near white supremacists who have already threatened Eric’s life is reckless and he can easily be moved to a medium or low security prison.

We must prevent another incident like the one that occurred at USP McCreary and is documented in Eric’s lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons, where Eric was marched into the chow hall and forced to fight a nazi enforcer.

Make sure to call, fax and email these contacts:
Designation & Sentence Computation Center
U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Complex
346 Marine Forces Dr.
Grand Prairie, TX 75051
Email: GRA-DSC/[email protected]
Phone: 972-352-4400
Fax: 972-352-4395

Mid-Atlantic BOP Regional Office
302 Sentinel Dr,
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 301-317-3100
Fax: 301-317-3119

BOP National Office
320 First Street, NW
Washington, DC 20534
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 202-307-3198

.Please keep up the pressure and call/email/fax. All the details are athttps://supportericking.org/…/03/help-protect-erics-life/

Synopsis
Eric was found not guilty at trial but within a week, was put on the road and is being sent to a notorious and dangerous prison (USP Lee). We need your help to call attention to this situation and to shine light on the Bureau of Prisons so history does not repeat itself and Eric is put put in harm’s way by the BOP (Eric was marched into the chow hall to fight a nazi enforcer at USP McCreary by BOP staff).

Hear Eric talk about what he needs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0m8Hj1W0U

We have to do everything we can to protect Eric and call attention to the hazardous situation they are putting him in by sending him to USP Lee. The Bop can and should send him to a low security prison as he is 18 months from release.

Be sure to tweet at the Virginia senators and call/email/fax* the BOP contacts.
Info at https://supportericking.org/…/03/help-protect-erics-life/

* Free online faxing is at https://faxzero.com/

Eric King has been moved and held at Grady County Jail in Oklahoma. He has been told he will be sent to USP Lee, a maximum security prison where he has already been threatened by white supremacists. 

Eric was found not guilty at trial but within a week, was put on the road and is being sent to a notorious and dangerous prison. We need your help to call attention to this situation and to shine light on the Bureau of Prisons so history does not repeat itself and Eric is put in harm’s way  by the BOP (Eric was marched into the chow hall to fight a nazi enforcer at USP McCreary by BOP staff). Hear Eric talk about what he needs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0m8Hj1W0U

We have to do everything we can to protect Eric and call attention to the hazardous situation they are putting him in by sending him to USP Lee. 

From supporteric.org

Within days of winning a federal court case in Colorado against his treatment at the hands of the Federal Bureau of Prisons staff, Eric is in the process of being transferred to USP Lee, a high security prison across the country in Virginia. Eric, who should be placed at a medium security facility, reasonably fears that this move is punitive and that at USP Lee he will lose access to reading materials and, more importantly, his ability to communicate with his loved ones. 

Elements in the BOP have already shown their petty and desire for vengeance against Eric through multiple instances of him being moved across the country, pitted against racist prisoners, beaten by guards and suffering years of mail, phone, visitation and book bans. During the trial, Eric’s safety and health were disrupted and property for his case destroyed by BOP staff so blatantly that Judge Martinez noted that it would be far reaching to say the disruptiveness wasn’t intentional on the part of the BOP. The judge also noted that the BOP was setting itself up for a civil suit, which is currently underway by the CLDC. 

In the meantime, Eric needs our help. As Eric isn’t set for release until December of 2023, we need to keep the light on him to avoid EK being isolated and further harmed. Below you’ll find a script and contact information for public officials in the Federal system who must be pressed to check in Eic’s well being and demand to know: 

1. Why is Eric King, who is at a medium level according to the BOP, being moved to a high security facility across the country?;          
2. Why is this  move coming so quickly after Eric successfully won a lawsuit showing  that the BOP was closing ranks to set Eric up for 20 years of additional prison as he approaches his out time?;          
3. What will you, as a public official, do to challenge the impunity of the federal  prisons to persecute prisoners and violate their human rights?; 

Contact info for who to email/call and draft templates are at
https://supportericking.org/2022/04/03/help-protect-erics-life/

Call in starts at 8am EST  Monday morning

Virginia Senators 
Senator Tim Kaine
Email: https://www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/share-your-opinion 
Twitter: @TimKaine
PHONE: (202) 224-4024 

Senator Mark. R Warner
Email: https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactPage 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkRWarner 
Twitter: @MarkWarner
IG: https://www.instagram.com/senatorwarner/ 
Phone: 202-224-2023 

Mid-Atlantic BOP Regional Office 
302 Sentinel Drive, Annapolis Junction, MD  20701
Email: [email protected] 
Phone: 301-317-3100
Fax: 301-317-3119 

DSCC Office
Designation & Sentence Computation Center
Email: GRA-DSC/[email protected] 
Phone: 972-352-4400
Fax: 972-352-4395 

BOP National Office
Email: [email protected] 
Phone: 202-307-3198 

The Certain Days collective will be releasing our 22nd calendar this coming autumn. In lieu of a 2023 theme, we are doing  an open call for abolition-related art and article submissions to feature in the calendar, which hangs in more than 6,000 homes, workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the world. We encourage contributors to submit both new and existing work. We especially seek submissions from people in prison or jail, so please forward this call to any prison-based artists and writers.

Why no theme?, you ask. Since 2008, the Certain Days collective has developed a theme for each year’s calendar. During our “off season” this year, the collective has been weighing the decision of whether to continue this project or wrap it up. After much deliberation, we are going full-steam ahead with a 2023 calendar and decided to do an open call for submissions. While “transition” may be a great theme for us, at this moment, we leave it to you, trusted artists and authors, to submit what you think would be a great fit for our 22nd calendar!  Download as PDF

Deadline: Friday, June 14, 2022

FORMAT GUIDELINES

ARTICLES	ART
• 400-500 words max. If you submit a longer piece, we will have to edit for length.• Poetry is also welcome but needs to be significantly shorter than 400 words to accommodate layout. • Please include a suggested title.	• The calendar is 11” tall by 8.5” wide, so art with a ‘portrait’ orientation is preferred. Art need not fit those dimensions exactly. • We are interested in a diversity of media.• The calendar is printed in colour and we prefer colour images.

Due to space limitations, submissions may be lightly edited for clarity and concision, with no change to the original intent. 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Send your submissions by June 14, 2022, to [email protected]2. ARTISTS: You can send a low-res file as a submission, but if your piece is chosen, we will need a high-res version of it for print (600 dpi). 3. You may send as many submissions as you like. Chosen artists and authors will receive a free copy of the calendar and promotional postcards. Because the calendar is a fundraiser, we cannot offer money to contributors. Prisoner submissions are due July 1, 2022, and can be mailed to:  Certain Days, c/o Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo, NY 14213.Download the call as a PDF.

ABOUT THE CALENDAR 

The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, New York, and Baltimore, and current and former political prisoners, including currently imprisoned Xinachtli (s/n Alvaro Luna Hernandez) in Texas. We were happy to welcome founding members Herman Bell and Robert Seth Hayes (Rest in Power) home from prison in 2018, and David Gilbert in 2021, each of whom spent over forty years behind bars. All of the current members of the outside collective are grounded in day-to-day organizing work other than the calendar, on issues ranging from legal aid to community media, radical education to prisoner solidarity. We work from an anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, feminist, queer- and trans-liberationist position. All proceeds from the calendar go to abolitionist organizations working for a better world.