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according to the occupation's media, a city politician who supports the building of a metrobloks data center got shots fired at their house in retaliation about a month ago.

the regime politician, ron gibson, was elected to office in 2023. gibson has a career in the for-profit health insurance industry & previously volunteered for the imperial navy before becoming a municipal government official for the city of indianapolis, where at least 22 Black People Have Been Killed By Police in the last 6 years.

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Harrowing news from Malik Speaks! about the Black, Palestinian, non-binary, anarchist prisoner Malik Muhammad:

In the wake of a call-in campaign to get Malik out of solitary confinement (once again), something even more alarming happened. On Monday March 30th, 2026, a member of Malik’s support team realized they disappeared from the prison messaging app GettingOut. Similarly the inmate search database for the state of Oregon showed no record of them.

Family and friends have been frantically calling Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) and various contact numbers for Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC). State representatives were very reluctant to provide any information, though one in the Office of Population Management stated that Malik was moved to a “confidential location” but refused to specify where or for what reason.

Prisoners do not simply disappear from state records; they do not disappear from a state prison with no documentation about a transfer or their current whereabouts.

As of this moment, after dozens and dozens of phone calls, we have no idea where Malik is located. We have not been able to speak with them since they entered solitary confinement.

Nobody at the federal level with the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has acknowledged they now have custody of Malik. They are just gone and nobody is saying a word.

We have plenty of experience with the long stretches where Malik has been cut off from loves ones, refused any communications while enduring the torture that is extensive time in the hole. We are aware of the power and cruelty exercised by the state on a regular basis. But this is entirely different; we are scared. We know nothing about Malik’s condition, location, current circumstances, or how / why ODOC has taken the extraordinary steps to block all access and information about our beloved friend.

The news has also been summarized in french by Secours Rouge:

Le département des prisons de l’Oregon est accusé d’avoir fait disparaître Malik Muhammad, un militant africain-palestinien anarchiste et antifasciste incarcéré après les manifestations liées au meurtre policier de George Floyd. Le 30 mars 2026, son profil a soudainement disparu des systèmes carcéraux et des bases de données officielles, peu après une campagne demandant sa sortie de l’isolement. Depuis, ni sa famille ni ses soutiens n’ont obtenu d’informations fiables malgré de nombreux appels aux établissements pénitentiaires et aux autorités, qui évoquent seulement un transfert vers un « lieu confidentiel » sans justification précise. Cette absence totale de transparence, après des années marquées par un isolement extrême (plus de 250 jours en 2024), alimente les inquiétudes et fait craindre un cas de « disparition forcée », c’est-à-dire la détention d’une personne suivie du refus des autorités de révéler son sort ou son lieu de détention, la plaçant ainsi hors de toute protection juridique.

Michael (Mike) Reese is the head of the “Oregon Department of Corrections.” Reese was also the sheriff of the occupation city of “Portland” during the 2020 uprisings against the police. In that year, Malik was part of the resistance in the region okmana seeks to cover, but was ultimately captured for joining the battle in “Portland.”

In exchange for being a career slavecatcher, Mike Reese & his spouse Cindy are the owners of a house on stolen land valued at over $500,000.

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The ohi:yo' river watershed is ruled by a “community” of pale-skinned colonizers from europe, who have imposed their cultural domination on the locals, including the english language.

With an understanding of:

• the importance of multilingualism for building subversive connections across time & space,
• the continue existence of languages indigenous to the ohi:yo' area in the face of colonial extermination,
• the transplanting of diverse languages to the ohi:yo' area as a result of global enslavement & exile, and
• the widespread apathy of the colonial left regarding the politics of language;

okmana is seeking translators & miltulingual contributions!

Translations of previously published posts; translations of new/upcoming updates; translations of updates relevant to the region that were originally published in other languages; contributions that are not in written or spoken english in the first place. All are sought after. Those interested may use the contact details given in the link at the bottom of this post.

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from Unravel:

January 5, 2025

Someone is in custody for allegedly breaking windows at Vice President J.D. Vance's Ohio home early Monday morning.

The Secret Service confirmed their detention of the individual, who is now in the custody of Cincinnati Police. Vance and his family were not home at the time.

According to regime media, & government records, Vance owns a house worth well over $1 million in a wealthy part of “cincinnati.”

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At a prison facility not far from the (supposedly) New River, a tributary of the Kanawha River: in September, incarcerated people set fires, including to their own bodies, in response to their conditions of captivity. The prison managers respond by locking down the unit where the fires took place, for 2 months. The 2 months pass: one of the jailers, Jeremy Hall, is killed. Repression breeds resistance. (Warden Kevin McCoy is in charge of the prison; Chadwick Dotson is the overseer of all prisons in the “Virginia” colony.)

Some sources: This reformist report; this campaign update on medical oppression in the prison; this repulsive LinkedIn post; maps of Appalachia; this profile of Chad.

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An update adapted from Malik Speaks!:

FREE MALIK NOW!! | Chuffed crowdfunding page

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.

Two flyers were included in the original post:

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as noted on the Louisville Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) instagram page, this week witnessed an attempt to start a protest encampment, named the Maryam Abu Daqqa Liberated Zone, demanding the University of Louisville (UofL) disclose its investment portfolio & divest from all “consortium partners that have financial ties to Israel and/or weapons manufacturers,” among other demands.

it was taken apart in mere hours. one person was arrested (“detained”) in the attempt, & the school has banned the SJP chapter from organizing, as well as at least 2 individuals from setting foot on campus. the suspension was a response not just to the encampment, but also student protest of an inauguration ceremony for the new university president, Gerry Bradley.

like countless other slavery-fueled universities in the hemisphere, UofL has its own police department, ULPD, which disbanded the gathering. the school also collaborates with the city of lousiville's main police force, LMPD, & during the 2020 uprising against anti-Black police violence UofL clarified it has no intention of ending that collaboration. the university is governed by a board of trustees of the city's wealthy elite; most of its members are appointed by the governor of kentucky.

while there have been sporadic small protests alongside other forms of activism, no one working on the okmana project has heard of any other attempts at pro-Palestine university occupations in the state of kentucky since october 7 2023.

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The grocery store chain Kroger was founded in and remains headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

While u.s.-occupied Abya Yala has the continued misfortune of being subjected to this company, that doesn't mean everyone is happy about it. okmana is reproducing the text (no images were included in the original) of a Kroger-critical flyer below, despite its appeal to local governments & misstating “billion” as “trillion” a couple times, as evidence of this discontent.

Kroger Fact Sheet

• Kroger's operating profit for the 1st quarter of 2024 was $1.294 trillion.
• Kroger's operating profit for 2023 was $4.8 trillion.
• Kroger CEO base salary in 2023 was $1.4 million.
• Kroger CEO total compensation in 2023 was $15.7 million.
• Kroger increased associates’ average hourly wage to $18/hour in 2023, suggesting its lowest paid workers earn less. The living wage in 2022 was $25.02 per hour per worker for a family of four with two working adults.
• Kroger claims to direct more than $300 million annually through corporate “giving” primarily using two nonprofit foundations.
• That $300 million works out to about .06% of their operating profit which would be the equivalent of an individual with a net income of $100,000/year donating $62.50.
• Information regarding how the police officers stationed at each Kroger are paid is difficult to find.
• Information regarding who pays for the mobile surveillance trailers in each Kroger parking lot is difficult to find.
• Various reports regarding “shrink” at several retailers have shown this to be overstated regarding customer theft and understated regarding issues with inventory control, spoilage, and employee theft.
• While implementing costly anti-theft measures at targeted locations, Kroger has not increased staffing and lines are longer than ever.
• Maybe our councilpersons should be asking about these things instead of having photo ops at Kroger telling folks to stop stealing.

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in may of this year, captives at Wallens Ridge State Prison (near the administrative border between virginia & west virginia) attacked their captors, injuring three guards. six of them were formally charged with 66 (🙄) felonies last month.

another captive has managed to get out an update about the repressive conditions at the prison since then, sharing it with a Maoist prison support organization:

Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, has been on News Nation due to five Corrections Officers being stabbed. But what they haven’t said is that three prisoners have been beaten to death since then and one has overdosed. The daily oppression and censorship is at an all-time high. We were forced 80 days without phone or JPay (tablet) usage and writing letters hardly ever make it out past the censors. It is a climate of racism and abuse that permeates here.

(the above link also has a Tor website here)

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Hospitals as a mode of health management have been, & continue to be, imposed around the globe through the genocidal destruction of indigenous societies & their diverse approaches to sustaining & nurturing life.

Hospitals hold a special place within the united states empire. “Healthcare” in the imperial core is a for-profit industry; people must pay to receive treatment, or submit themselves to capitalists (directly as workers or indirectly as recipients of government “benefits”) who will pay for them.

Built by a slaveholding aristocracy at the widest point of a river with many names, “louisville” is no exception. Norton healthcare and the university of louisville are 2 of the city's largest employers, between them controlling dozens of the most prominent hospitals, clinics, & academic institutions in “jefferson county” and the surrounding area.

Like all other ruling institutions in u.s. society, norton and UofL health are direct products of Black chattel slavery.

Norton healthcare was founded on the wealth of mary louise sutton norton, widow of reverend john nicholas norton, who—like other white “kentucky” elites—personally enslaved Black people.

Decades earlier, charles caldwell co-founded the “louisville” institute of medicine, which would grow through mergers into UofL's school of medicine. Caldwell was a slaveholder & prominent phrenologist, using skull measurements to support his belief that “by original organization and therefore radically and irredeemably, the African is an inferior race.”

Today, these healthcare institutions are in lockstep with the rest of the city's rulers: led, staffed & attended by people who are opposed to masking & similar protective measures; people who believe that “criminals” belong in jails or prisons or graveyards; people whose awareness of disablement & houselessness fosters ambient hostility towards the disabled & unsheltered; people who conform to daily routines as if COVID is over; people who believe entities like the “united states” or “israel” or “china” or “russia” or “india” have a “right to exist.”

There is a straight line from the founding of hospitals by white enslavers & genocidaires to the pop eugenics of today's COVID pandemic erasure. Call it history, progress, democracy, civilization, anything you like: it remains, with legions of police & soldiers patrolling the borders.

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