Running Down the Walls is a non-competitive 5K event that happens in cities all over the country to raise money and awareness for political prisoners. We hope you’ll join one near you and walk, roll, or run to support political prisoners. Peppy will be participating from the inside by running 5k and doing a thousand burpees. If you are unable to join in person, you can still support by making a donation to support the ABCF Warchest.
Collective action to protect and care for each other is paramount to our survival.
The statement
Dearest Comrades,
Greetings from behind the layered walls of imprisonment, where we are captives in rebellion seeking collective liberation. We are each braving the forces of fascism, and although we may not know all that confines you, we hear and meet your calls for freedom. May we all draw strength today from the future we are building, the necessity of the times we are in, and from the memories of our fallen.
Our comrades in Athens once declared boldly, “The passion for freedom is stronger than their cells”, and we wholeheartedly profess the same. Between the rage and sorrow of our forced separation and more importantly the separation of vecinos all around you, we know undoubtedly that social media posts, yard signs, and performative protests are no longer enough. We need revolutionary commitment – a refusal of debilitating despair and comfortable delusions. We need examinations of uncomfortable complexities and contradictions to resolve doubt and cast off the chains of a shallow past.
When you take to the pavement today, know that we are with you. Our liberation bound together with great love because without it, our dreams would have no meaning. Today we move with you; in motion, imagination, and spirit: great strikes against defeat! Although we have yet to abolish these prisons where pain goes to burrow, multiply, and explode, we remain hopeful because from the shadows of these margins, humans brave daring acts of subversion.
We are able to live with our losses without succumbing to misery because of your unwavering comradeship. Running Down The Walls creates social and political bonds that make visible our existence and our shared struggle in this threatening world. We are honored to run with you because “a wall is just a wall” after all, let’s run those shits down!
Juntos,
Peppy & Krystal