Never too early for a call-out! Marius and friends are organizing events to take place January 22nd to support trans and queer prisoners. Support Marius by supporting others! Let us know if you want to do an event and we’ll…
New Poetry
The River ran Yellow in Colorado (2015) When the river ran yellow past The outfitter’s shack, kayaks lined up Colorful, in Back They could smell it coming first Loaded with silt and clouds of poison A heavy-hearted river full of…
Prison Ecology Project
Some of Marius’ friends and supporters are working on this great project: The Human Rights Defense Center’s Prison Ecology Project is creating tools to dismantle toxic prisons; focused on the intersection of environment degradation and mass incarceration.
We have new t-shirts!
Thanks to some wonderful people on the West Coast we finally have new Marius Mason t-shirts! T-shirts can be ordered by emailing uncontrollableandfree at gmail dot com. Shirts currently come in black, grey, and hot pink in sizes YXL to…
Hooray! Marius Is Out of the SHU!
We have good news! Marius was transferred out of the SHU (or Special Housing Unit) on Saturday, August 1st, after nearly a month and a half of solitary confinement. At this time, we do not know how the alleged violation…
Announcing the ‘Marius Mason Wing’ of the Lucy Parsons Library at The Base in Brooklyn!
We are pleased to announce the opening of the “Marius Mason Wing” at the Lucy Parsons Library, a radical lending library located at The Base, an anarchist social center in Brooklyn, NY.
Marius read these books in prison and wanted to share them with other activists. Thanks to the fine folks at The Base, these books are available to everyone for free—all you need is a Lucy Parsons Library card! We encourage everyone to check out these books and to write Marius afterward with your thoughts!
Painting and Poetry – Trophallaxis
“We have fed you all for a thousand years, And you hail us still unfed…” these Stark words of the old Wobbly song Still time enough now, a hundred years on. But more so, for millennia more (now) The tiny,…
A message and painting from Marius commemorating World Oceans Day
“We’ve celebrated Earth Day every year since 1970. But this day committed to being mindful of the importance of the oceans has only been happening since 2008. With the recent oil spill in the Santa Barbara coast and with the…
Painting – “Wearing Orange, Feeling Blue, Thinking Green”
Marius included this note with his most recent painting from the S.H.U. “New ‘painting’ experiment, since losing my paints/brushes/paper. In the jail we used deodorant on magazines to get colors, not so easy to control how it goes on the…
“Memoriam for Bam Bam (Sinks Canyon)” Featured in EF! Journal
Pick up the latest issue of Earth First! Journal to see Marius’ painting “Memoriam for Bam Bam (Sinks Canyon)” featured on the back cover. Get a copy by going to your local infoshop/radical bookstore or buy a subscription at earthfirstjournal.org/subscriptions…