Imprisonment is for Burning (2023) is set in ‘Danni’, a beautiful forest, threatened by a highway expansion in the middle of Germany, 2020. A place where large numbers of activists chose to live and defend it. Many refused to give law enforcement any personal identification, acting as one resistance front, for intact ecosystems, human and earthly.

This short and precise memoir speaks from the lived experience of one of those anonymous people, who gives insight to this year of the occupied autonomous zone; with which their consequential year and a half long challenge, through incarceration and criminal justice system. This was an unfolding of events that came to be known as a climate emergency scandal, exposing a joined state and capital agenda for control based on fear. The ‘Ella case’ alerted comrades and awoke citizens en masse.

‘Ella’ affirms in their cautionary tale, the need for a more loving world integrating one’s ego; and their burning desire for honest thoughts, words and actions to make freedom & responsibility a reality.

Prisons are not just for burning, the whole goddamn concept of imprisonment is.