SOLIDARITY DECLARATION
25TH ANNUAL RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS EVENT
ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS FEDERATION
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
As a long-time recipient of economic support from the WARCHEST FUND of
the ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS FEDERATION (ABCF), let me extend my gratitude
for your persistent support and let you know that I have appreciated
your consistent support down through many years of struggle, given the
circumstances. Texas prison does not compensate prisoners for their
slave labor, and, even if it did, I would never participate in
contributing prisoner labor to a slavery institution with deep roots in
white settler colonialism, white supremacy and the African slave trade,
as Professor Gerald Horne, University of Houston History and African
American Studies Department, archived in his excellent book, THE COUNTER
REVOLUTION OF 1836: TEXAS SLAVERY & Jim Crow AND THE ROOTS OF U.S.
FASCISM, 20220, Int’l Publishers, New York; and to a “criminal justice
system” that targets people of color for genocidal mass incarceration,
and used to repress radical political movements seeking freedom from the
chains of capitalist, oppression, movements we are a part of, the
government and the ruling class always seeks to destroy in maintaining
its tyranny over society and the rest of the world, more pernicious and
naked in the Deep Jim Crow South. We thank ABCF for being true to its
principles, and for supporting the “prison movement” and those of us
imprisoned as a result of our direct actions in fighting back against
predatory neocolonialism, capitalism, and imperialism, from within the
belly of the fascist beast.
I am a renowned Chicano political prisoner, supported by prominent
advocacy groups like the National Jericho Movement in support of POWs,
political prisoners, New York City, among other groups as a target of
COINTELPRO’S NEW LEFT repression in its war against Chicano militancy
and dissent, for my lifetime work of political activism, outside and
inside prisons walls, see www.freealvaro.net; CAN’T JAIL THE SPIRIT,
Comm. Against Marion Lockdown, 4th Edition, 2022; I am now going on
23-plus years in consecutive supermax solitary confinement in one of
AmeriKKKa’s most racist and repressive supermax control unit prisons in
the nation, so described by psychologist/lawyer Dr. Craig Haney, who
testified on behalf of the Texas prisoner class in the prison conditions
case in Ruiz v. Johnson, 37 F. Supp. 855, at page 908, a case I was a
witness for the prisoner class against the state, legal victories we
won, but changes were few and short, as the capitalist system will never
allow true freedoms within a system of injustices and prisoner slavery,
a prison system that has surpassed California prison as the largest
prison system in the nation, “…consistent with the state’s historical
tradition of harsh punishment, one that cages an astounding proportion
of the state’s minority population,” in the words of Professor of Law
and Sociology and Northern Illinois University Michael C. Campbell,
quoted in his excellent essay, POLITICS, PRISONS, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT:
AN EXAMINATION OF THE EMERGENCE OF “LAW AND ORDER” IN TEXAS, at 45 LAW
AND SOCIETY REVIEW 631 (Sept. 2011> You can read about the unspeakable
horrors of the brutalities and dehumanization of prisoners in Texas,
that continues to this very day, despite all the epochal legal victories
prisoners won in the celebrated prison conditions case in the Ruiz
litigation. See also 503 F. Supp. 1265 (S.D. Tex. 1980); TEXAS PRISONS;
THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN, Martin & Olsen, Tex. Monthly Press, 1983.
Fascism is on the rise, domestically and internationally, leading the
way is the hypocritical and manipulative government of the United
States, calling itself the “champion of human rights” and “moral leader
of the free world,” as its prisons run rampant with racism as held by a
panel of the UN Special Rapporteur on September 26, 2023, and as blood
drips from its genocidal murderous class, of men, women and children as
enabler of the Israeli zionist bombs exploding in encampments of
displaced Palestinians, having nothing to do with terrorism, nor attacks
against the Israeli populace, supported by our taxpayer dollars of the
U.S. imperialism war machine. Humanity mandates that oppressed people
within the juggernaut of “head of the snake fight imperialism.” We must
call it as it is, and never sugar-coat these atrocities against
oppressed humanity, nor bury our heads in the sand like a cowardly
ostrich, pretending that it is not happening. We must build unity and
solidarity amongst liberation movement organizations that stand in
opposition to U.S. imperialism, and support the defenseless Palestinian
masses entitled to the return of their occupied territories, a struggle
we link to our struggle of the oppressed Chicano people to the return of
our stolen lands, for reparations and for prosecution of past and
current war criminals responsible for massacre of innocent people in
sustaining their criminal empire of capitalist and imperialist slavery,
as the rolling class continues to destroy PLANET EARTH with their carbon
emissions fossil fuel industries, seeking world domination and
conquering all world markets for excessive enrichment of their ruling
class and its oligarchical empires.
We encourage ABCF to continue to lead the way, support its political
prisoners, as well as all oppressed and colonized nations domestically
and around the world, as the Nobel and generous work done in collecting
monies to support the Palestinian masses in the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip, starving and being this moment butchered by Israeli zionist and
U.S. imperialism bombs. LET OTHER SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS PAY HEED
TO YOUR INSPIRING ABCF WORK AND YOUR PERSISTENCE BY WAY OF SHOWING THE
WAY TOWARD OUR FREEDOM BY EXAMPLE.
SUPPORT THE WARCHEST FUND OF THE ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS FEDERATION!
SUPPORT THE PRISON MOVEMENT AND OUR IMPRISONED FREEDOM FIGHTERS!
ISRAELI ZIONIST PIGS, OUT OF THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP!
MUERTE AL COLONIALISMO, CAPITALISMO, IMPERIALISMO, YANQI!
FREE PLANET EARTH!
– Xinachtli
Chicano political prisoner
MCCONNELL SUPERMAX CONTROL UNIT – BEEVILLE, TEXAS
HONORING BLACK AUGUST MARTYRS, AUGUST 2024!
Write:
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Alvaro Luna Hernandez #255735
Post Office Box 660400
Dallas, Texas 75266-0400.