Help Him Get Home
Over the years we’ve published some communiqués from Ferguson uprising participant Joshua Williams, always with the double desire to introduce his brilliant self to the world and to advocate for his freedom from Missouri cages. At long last—and years late—he will come home in early November.
It is our duty to support his freedom. Entire movements, countless non-profit careers, thousands of academic papers, a million BLM lawn signs owe their existence to the guts and political acumen of those who took to the streets of Saint Louis County in August 2014, and while a number of Ferguson rebels have been killed or taken from us in the intervening twelve years, the ones who remain deserve every bit of material support we can muster.
Check out Midwest Books to Prisoner’s fundraiser for Josh, and contribute what you can. If it’s easier, you can Venmo to @midwestsolidarity (be sure to write “For Josh” in the note).
Sisters, brothers: I love you. I will see you soon. Please share this with somebody you know. My name is Joshua Williams. I am a black king and a black revolutionary. Power to the people. Hands up, don’t shoot. —Joshua Williams, 2019
