Free Alvaro Now
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, …
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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.
“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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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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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, …
Solidarity Statement to the Mexicano United Front Delegation for Tear Down the Walls
In The Spirit of Internationalism:
With much enthusiasm and in the spirit of true internationalism, I welcome the idea for a unity meeting to be held in El Paso, Tejas, in December 2001 to create the foundation for a Mexicano United Front Delegation that would attend the international conference scheduled for March 2002 in Havana, …
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If you believe that there exists true Justice in this country for Chicanos Mexicanos, this pamphlet is not intended for your eyes. It is aimed at those willing to shake off the yoke of mental conditioning and recognize that inherent injustices of the current system; who consider themselves oppressed, treated as second-class citizens, …
Unión del Barrio:
It needs not be repeated, but I really appreciate all the support and solidarity that you and the rest of our Raza in Califas have given me. To support me, is to support the struggle against insanity and imperialism.
At the inception of this case, I gave serious thought about rejecting the unlawful jurisdiction of these repressive U.S. …