Free Alvaro Now
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, known widely for his legal skills. Gaining international recognition as the national coordinator of the Ricardo Aldape Guerra Defense Committee, …
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. …
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, …
