Free Alvaro Now
“The main portion of the episode features an interview with Alvaro Luna Hernandez, a Chicano political prisoner serving a 50 year sentence in Texas for disarming a Sheriff who pulled a gun on him, and then fleeing. Mr. Hernandez speaks about his case, his legal history, his political development, and his imprisonment. …
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Action Update: Letters to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Needed in Support of Alvaro
For years the Committee and Alvaro have been trying to convince the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States to formally investigate and take up Alvaro’s case, to help push for his freedom. …
Posted on May 17, 2011 by californiaprisonwatch
Excellent guest post today from Max Kantar (originally published at Counterpunch): Max is a Michigan-based independent writer and the Midwest representative for the Committee to Free Alvaro Luna Hernandez. For more information on Alvaro’s case, visit www.freealvaro.net. …
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Without Fear
The Ballad of Alvaro Luna Hernandez
By MAX B. KANTAR (originally printed in counterpunch.org)
“I will never surrender my pride and dignity nor allow the system to ‘cut my tongue’ and I will always, without fear, speak out against these war crimes and crimes against humanity, …
“On 18 February 2011, Chicano political prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez (in solitary confinement in Hughes Unit, Gatesville,TX) was denied the right to receive this book, Defying the Tomb, sent to him by the publisher, Inside Out Books, on the grounds that pages 112-113, and 120-121 of the book violated prison mail rules because the said pages were allegedly “construed and written solely for the purpose of communicating information designed to achieve the breakdown of prisons through offender disruption, …
URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT: Political Prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez Facing Censorship and Threats to Cut Off Mail Correspondence
Texas political prisoner ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ needs mobilized support and solidarity to protest the unlawful censorship of his mail by HUGHES UNIT prisoncrats and mailroom officials. Because of Alvaro’s persistent criticism of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, …
Who are political prisoners and prisoners of war?
They are brothers and sisters, men and women who, as a consequence of their political work and/or organizational affiliations were given criminal charges, arrested or captured, tried in criminal courts and sent to prison.
Alvaro addressing a protest in support of Ricardo Adalpe Guerra, …
THE CHICANO NATION: AN INTERNAL COLONY FORGES ITS INDIGENOUS IDENTITY AND RESISTS THE LEGACY OF EURO-AMERIKKKAN COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM IN THE AMERICAS
by Alvaro Luna Hernandez
(A supplement to the 2010 certaindays.org calendar on Indigenous Resistance)
The 1519 European colonial conquest and annihilation of Mexico’s Aztec tribe resulted in a forced European culture, …
Alvaro is one of many political prisoners, and his case reflects a criminal justice system that few organizations have the courage to challenge. The statistics related to Latinos, organizers and our collective experiences with law enforcement are disturbing, but offer a glimpse of the true nature of a system that keeps Alvaro in a cage today. …
