After being held in a Florida Jail for over 120 days due to a Facebook post, Keegan Quinn has returned home.
Keegan Quinn. Six months in jail over a Facebook post criticizing ICE. The type of repression that's steadfastly becoming normalized in the state of Florida. But he's free. We protested. We advocated. We raised hell, and he's free. And not only is he free, but he's networked. We're networked. It took the effort of over a dozen people from all different angles. Those connections don't go away. That's how it works. One of our people go in, they come out and ten of us are waiting on them. Because if we're not waiting on them, who will be? Who else will be waiting with the grill, burgers and beers ready to go? That's the grillpill in action. If we're not advocating for our people who end up locked up, who will? This is a man who was at Standing Rock, and has spent the last ten years of his life putting in the activist work. And when he went into the jail cell, the state thought he was going in alone. But networks form, people get in touch with each other, late night phone calls happen, articles get written, intel gets shared, letters get wrote and moved between the prison walls.
It hits different when you write an article about someone who's in jail for advocating against ICE. And their mother photocopies that article, prints it out, and mails it to them so they can read it. We are actively pushing beyond the constraints they have binded us with. The shackles they've locked around our arms and ankles. We will break their bondage and we will link arms. That's how we win this game, that's the lock picker's ethos. One of us escapes, we pull another through the hole in the wall. The state might be trying to push every legal button they can to silence us. But with each mouth covered, another three start to scream in solidarity.
