reading about how zines were used to demonstrate "providing material support to terrorists" in the prairieland sentencing leaves a pit in my stomach. 30 years for zines you'd see tabled at almost any zinefest
@lexmcmenamin.comFlavio Pessoa did an amazing job showing a selection of the files, like photos of Liz Soto and her husband Ines, a fellow defendant, tabling with their Emma Goldman Book Club.
the Sotos had a printing press in their garage. the FBI came for it while they were in jail. that’s in the files, too.
theguardian.com
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
