{"id":373,"date":"2024-07-25T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/?p=373"},"modified":"2024-07-25T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T13:21:00","slug":"message-of-support-to-free-casey-goonan-free-them-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abcf.net\/losangeles\/2024\/07\/25\/message-of-support-to-free-casey-goonan-free-them-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Message of Support to Free Casey Goonan: Free Them All!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cRevolutionary Greetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Hybachi LeMar and I\u2019m a member of the Black Autonomy Federation Chicago Local Organizing Committee. I\u2019m sending this message to support the release of scholar activist dedicated community organizer and friend Casey Goonan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

When I was houseless, he let me eat and sleep in his home. Each morning we asked each other, \u201cWhat\u2019s your positive affirmation for the day?\u201d We take a meaningful moment before sharing a positive truth, both of us knowing it\u2019s significance in our lives when we internalize it as an instrument of our liberation. More often than not, for the years I\u2019ve known Casey, he\u2019s neglecting his own needs to prioritize those of others, has led me to ask him instinctively, if he\u2019s taken his meds yet. And I\u2019ve lost count how many times he thanked me for reminding him before asking if I remembered to take mine too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With barely anything in his pocket, I watched him fill a perfect stranger\u2019s diabetic medication prescription. He\u2019s loved, and I don\u2019t mean by me, but by street walkers and other commoners throughout Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s organized fundraisers in one particular area of the city on several occasions. We\u2019d pass out $20 bills he prefilled in envelopes, for every single houseless person on the street, or asking for change. From one corner to the next, up one gentrified block and up another, not letting him know the contents, or lingering around for thanks; often with the clenched fist of unity and a solidarity smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was heartwarming to hand out gloves, masks, hygiene supplies like cases of hand sanitizer, chips, and other community needs for free, under the el train one blistering winter amidst the pandemic from a makeshift warming center he\u2019d open each weekend. A smile on people\u2019s faces glow from appreciation, from those of us who know him, to the newcomers asking \u2018And this is for free?\u2019 when glancing at the fold-out tables, not far from the turnstile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMm-hmm! Yep! Help yourself,\u201d Casey responds, wishing them a good day and to take care, which is substantial to folks rendered socio-economically invisible in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free, the root word in freedom, has been top priority as an agenda item for Casey from dusk til dawn every day of every year that I\u2019ve known him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He likes to remind everyone how special we are in this world, by showing how easy and necessary it is to care for each other, and to help a world that could certainly use it, offering a space and a table of togetherness, and free education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a publisher, he provides an invaluable resource for writers. With freedom inspired by billions of us, it speaks not only to our conscious, but to our collective benefit to know we\u2019re substantially freer in this world with him inside it. We, particularly poor folk throughout the city, appreciate him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The socio-economically engineered gentrification spiraling genocide by poverty in Chicago\u2019s northside has been as politically protracted as an alienated southside housing he helped me leaflet. His spirit of spending his last to buy insulin for the diabetic outside the electric doors at Walgreens is the same one alive in the Holy Land 5 that sends medicine and food supplies to orphans in Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casey Goonan is a walking model of our aspired-after ideals as Human Beings. A genuine listener, whose aura is evident in the integrity of compassion. His ideals against genocide are shared by me and each of us around the globe who envision a world released from it\u2019s grip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free Casey Goonan! Free Jack Mazurek! Free the Cop City 61! Drop the charges against the Merrimack 4 and the Mountain Valley pipeline defenders! Free the Holy Land Foundation 5! Free Leonard Peltier! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free Cletus C Rivera! Free them all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In solidarity with the Columbia University Hinds Hall demonstrators and the CUNY 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love and soli,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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