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Prairieland

Black and white line drawing of a coyote in the desert. At his feet a skeleton is partially submerged in the ground, with an ICE hat discarded next to it.

From Backfire to Prairieland: Drawing a Line Through 20 Years of Repression

What makes the Prairieland sentences notable is not that the government reached for some new authority. It is that it reached for old ones. Every instrument that produced these sentences was built years ago and used against earlier movements.

Three small paper packets folded and labeled with the names of the seeds they contain.

The Seeds of Prairieland

The first time I met Savanna, Liz, and Ines, they gave me seeds for my garden. On the day Liz and Savanna were each sentenced to 50 years in prison, I held those makeshift seed packets in my hand and thought about what they represent.