https://freekarawild.org/ 26.6.16
Kara Wild is an artist, comrade and resilient force of nature, currently being detained in France for her alleged participation in a protest against draconian labor reforms and police repression. She is a trans woman and is currently being held in a men’s jail without access to hormones. She is also a U.S. citizen and has been denied bond because French authorities consider her a flight risk.
On May 18th, thousands of people converged in Paris to defy an ongoing siege of police violence and to oppose a new neoliberal labor reform. During one of these marches a police car was attacked and set on fire. Kara was brutally arrested in connection to this incident more than a full week later, on May 26th, at a separate event near La Place de la Nation. Despite a distinct lack of evidence, she is being accused of smashing a pole through a police car’s windshield moments before it was set on fire. Her charges are, “attempted voluntary manslaughter of a person holding public office, destruction of property, group violence and participating in a masked armed group.”
Kara is among 6 people currently facing charges in connection to this incident. To make matters worse, France’s Prime Minister, Manuel Valls is vowing to execute “unrelenting punishment,” in order to set an example and de-mobilize protests.
Despite attacks by the state, global movements against capitalism, white supremacy, hetero-sexist patriarchy and austerity grow stronger each day, from Paris to Oaxaca. As the flames of resistance multiply this summer, let us make sure not to leave our friends behind! Please help us support Kara Wild by writing to her, donating to her defense fund, and spreading the word about her case.
Freedom to all political prisoners! Freedom to all transwomen prisoners! Freedom to all prisoners!
Write to Kara
Being confined in a prison cell day in and day out is a horrible ordeal. The amount of mental and physical stress it puts on a person is indescribable. For Kara, who is confined in isolation in a foreign country, receiving letters means the world. So please, send Kara a letter knowing that you are thinking of her, that we are fighting for her on the outside, and make a new pen pal!
Remember, that all letters will be read by prison staff, so avoid putting anything in your letters that would incriminate yourself or others.
Check out Black and Pink’s suggested guidelines on prisoner letter writing before writing:
http://www.blackandpink.org/pen-pals/pen-pal-guidelines/
Kara can be written to at:
Association Acceptess T
39 bis boulevard Barbès
75018 Paris
France
or via email (which will be printed and transferred to her by her Paris support group) at:
com.prison.acceptess-t@outlook.fr
For email, set your subject as TO KARA. For letters, please include an extra piece of paper (it can be just a post-it note), noting that your letter is for Kara.