June 11th Events Raise Thousands for Marius Mason and Other Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners

Collection of reportbacks from June 11th on recent events in solidarity with Marius Mason and other long-term anarchist political prisoners.

Over $2,500 was raised for Marius this year! Thank you to everyone who took part in meeting our fundraising goal, which was the first time since the pandemic started that we have been able to! Everything you do for June11th lets our comrades know that they are never alone.

Here are some report-backs that we received, which is a small representation of all that happened for June 11th this year.

Cincinnati, OH

This year Cincinnati gathered at Boxelder Community Room where wrote a good stack of letters, made buttons, read the new J11 zine together. Dinner provided by Food Not Bombs, and we showed two movies, The Gentleman Bank Robber, a documentary about Bo Brown of the George Jackson Brigade, and How To Blow Up a Pipeline.

There was also a tattoo sale at Beelistic West Clifton. This combined with donations at Boxelder totaled around $505 sent to Marius’ support.

We are seeing a lot of younger faces participating now, some who were born around the time of Marius’ initial incarceration. This new generation carrying the torch for prison abolition ensures Cincinnati is indeed staying in the fight for as long as it takes. Much love to all resistance around the world. Empires always fall, and we are here for it!

Ferndale, MI

It went really well! We raised $380 in cash and an unknown amount in venmo/paypal donations. 35 people came, most of whom didn’t know about Marius before. The venue got a ton of clothes for their free clothes closet. Some folks are activated and looking to get more involved in supporting Marius in a more long term kind of way!

Minneapolis, MN

We haven’t given a reportback in the last few years so here are some! The autonomous zine fest is usually around June 11th, so we have always tabled there each year.

In 2022, a comrade’s dog is June 11th, so there is usually a dog birthday party/prisoner card/letter writing party in the park as a way to celebrate. (That is a picture of the dog pooping on a prison). Later that evening we had a info night/letter writing event at The Landing Strip (autonomous green space) where a presentation/discussion was had with many people who had never heard of June 11th before.

In 2023, we had another dog birthday party/letter writing gathering. Then we tabled at the zine fest and finally we had a presentation and movie showing at the Seward Cafe.

In 2024, we tabled at the zine fest and had letter writing there. Something this year that was very popular was the QR codes so that people could donate via paypal and venmo.

For more reports, see the June 11th website. These reports have been slightly edited for readability.