Free Alvaro Now
See below for details on how to support Xinachtli’s parole campaign. Letters are due by MARCH 20, 2021.
Xinachtli (Nahuatl, meaning “seed”) is an anarchist communist community organizer and Chicano movement revolutionary, currently imprisoned in Texas. Formerly known as Alvaro Luna Hernandez, he worked diligently in the barrio on civil and human rights issues, …
“Build them, and they will come” was the motto of the architects of the U.$. prison industrial complex and the proliferation of control unit prisons. This system of mass incarceration has historical roots. It was legalized in 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the U.$. Constitution, which replaced plantation chattel slavery with modern-day prison slavery as punishment for a criminal conviction. …
A tribute to Ricardo Flores Magon, created by the Xinachtli Defense Committee and the Central Texas ABC Collective
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“[W]e consider it absurd that a few people should possess the Earth, and the many not have a place to lay down their heads for rest. …
Xinachtli (meaning “Germinating Seed” in Nahautl), is a renowned Chicano political prisoner and NLG jailhouse lawyer member. He has been in a Texas “control unit” prison for 20-plus years. What follows are new writings and an update from Xinachtl.
“I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. …
Continue reading “#Texas “control unit” prison: New writings and update from Xinachtli”
by David Rovics
#FreeAlvaro
Lyrics:
Alvaro Luna Hernandez started life with a shorted hand
Growing up in Texas, on occupied land
His troubles with the law, and with the Sheriff of Alpine
Resulted from a racist gang, crossing every line
Of respect for human decency, …
“[I]t is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains…”
– Sister Assata Shakur, soldier, Black Liberation Army, in exile in Cuba
Monday, 07 November 2016
Allred Prison Slave KKKamp
…In the true spirit of revolutionary internationalism, …
Continue reading “Letter from Revolutionary Prisoner Xinachtli 11/2016”
“It is the duty of us poor people to work and to struggle to break the chains that make us slaves…” – Ricardo Flores Magon, Mexican revolutionary anarchist, assassinated by Leavenworth federal prison pigs, Nov. 21, 1922
Monday, 19 September 2016
Allred Prison Slave KKKamp
Dear international supporters,
From within the belly of U.S. …
Continue reading “Letter from Revolutionary Prisoner Xinachtli 9/2016”
From Denver Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Political Prisoner Hanif Shabazz Bey’s Statement on Running Down the Walls 2016
Much respect to the organizers of this annual run, and the participants. I have been a runner since 1970, but now as I am turning 66, and the only place I have access to run is around a concrete basketball court, …
Continue reading “Solidarity statements from PPs for RDTW 2016!”
May 1st celebrates international workers’ day with rallies, marches and events staged by workers all over the world. Texas prison slaves join this celebration behind prison walls, in recognition that out of the death of plantation slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment, U.S. Constitution, was enacted in 1865 legislation legalizing slavery “as a punishment for crime”, …
Power to the people! Power to our fallen Comrade Brother Hugo “Yogi Bear” Pinell! We were saddened by the news that Yogi was murdered last Wednesday, Aug. 12, during an alleged “prison riot” at a Sacramento maximum security prison, after Yogi’s recent release from decades in solitary confinement in the California prison system.