Rev. Nyle Fort writes a letter to Mahmoud Khalil’s and Noor Abdalla’s newborn son, Deen. “Even genocide cannot exterminate our will to live. This is what makes you dangerous to the powers that be. For you are proof of irrepressible life.” 

Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Alireza Doroudi are all being held in ICE detention in Jena, Louisiana. Jena represents the nexus of white supremacy, prison profiteering, and state repression. But its history also shows us the path of resistance.