ABOUT BILL DUNNE

“According to the ensuing state and
federal charges, I and a codefendant and
unknown other associates of a San Francisco
anarchist collective had conspired to effect

a comrade’s armed liberation from a Seattle
jail and attempted to execute the plot on
October 14, 1979. The charges further
alleged the operation was financed by bank
expropriation and materially facilitated by
illegal acquisition of weapons, explosives,
vehicles, ID and other equipment.

After long subjection to atrocious jail
conditions and three sensationalized

trials, 1 got a 90 year sentence in 1980. 1
subsequently got a consecutive 15 years as a
result of an attempted self-emancipation in
1983, The aggregate 105 years is a parole-
when-they-feel-like-it sort of sentence.”

From 1982, when Bill Dunne was banished
into internal exile in the federal prison
system from the Washington state system,
he had never seen a medium security

federal prison until 2014 (when he was
moved from USP Pollock to FCI Herlong).
Since that transfer, he has been in three
different medium security federal prisons

in California. In those three years Bill

has gotten a lot of support, but has had to
persevere through a lot along the way as
well. First, he received a fifteen year hit at
his parole hearing in late 2014, which means
he won’t get another formal parole hearing
until the year 2029,

While he was still at FCI Herlong, Bill was sent
to the SHU (secure housing unit) pending an
investigation after an anonymous note was said
to have been received saying Bill was planning
an escape. It seems much more likely that the
administration was attempting to stop Bill from
litigating by putting him in the SHU. Once a
lawyer got involved, Bill was moved from the
SHU at FCI Herlong to general population at
FCI Lompoc. Most recently Bill had a brief
health scare while he was in the SHU at FCI
Lompoc when a guard found him passed out

in his cell. Bill was then rushed to an outside
hospital and regained consciousness soon after.

Bill has never stopped struggling since his
arrest and imprisonment in October of 1979,
‘The Washington state system sent him to the
federal system simply for editing Washington
Prison News Service (WPNS), a prisoner run
newspaper. After the escape attempt in 1983,
Bill was eventually sent to the notorious control
unit at USP Marion- essentially a prison within

a prison. After arriving at USP Marion
in 1985, he served the next seven and a
half years. While imprisoned at Marion,
Bill edited the Marionette, an important
newsletter that exposed the destructive
conditions of that prison. The Marionette
grew into Prison News Service, a much
more broadly focused paper.

Also, in deep solidarity with all political
prisoners and the movements from which
they come, Bill has contributed to projects
that work to help give a voice and help
provide material support to other political
prisoners. Some of those projects include
4strugglemag (4strugglemag.org), and
Running Down the Walls, an annual Sk
fundraiser where all the money raised goes
towards prisoners for whom the Anarchist
Black Cross does support work.

In Bill’s words: “I am also happily atheist,
anti-sexist, anti-racist, globalist, anti-
authoritarian, environmentalist, anti-
imperialist, democratic (litcle d). However,
none of those sufficiently characterizes my
politics over the others that I can define
myself by any of them alone. Rather than a
gaggle of competitive identities, my vision
of the road to revolution encompasses all
of them as necessarily synergistic strands
We must weave into a new social fabric.”

One of the easiest, and most important
things we can do to support political
prisoners who have kept the struggle alive
after they’ve been captured and during
their incarceration is expressing support and
solidarity through writing a letter or getting
together with a group of comrades and
filling out a greeting card to send off.

Bill would love to hear from all supporters,
and he’d especially enjoy receiving any
printed-out news articles pertaining to the
struggle or even general world events that
you two could engage in a discussion on.

‘Write Bill Dunne:

Bill Dunne #10916- 086

FCI Butner Medium I

Post Office Box 1500

Butner, North Carolina 27509

Local groups supporting Bill:
NYC Anarchist Black Cross

NYC Anarchist Black Cross is a collective
focused on supporting US-held political
prisoners and prisoners of war and opposing
state repression against revolutionary social
justice movements.

NYCABC
Post Office Box 110034
Brooklyn, New York 11211
nycabc@riseup.net
nycabe.wordpress.com
facebook.com/nycabe
instagram and twitter @nycabe

New York City Jericho Movement

New York City Jericho Movement
Post Office Box 670927

Bronx, New York 10467
nycjericho@gmail.com
jerichony.org,

Bill Dunne