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<font size=3>Greetings comrades,<br>
please read this petition and update for Alvaro Luna Hernandez, and help
us to fill up as many of these petitions as possible and return to me to
ignite something under these bureaucrats to re-open the cases left
unsolved in SW Texas and overturn all of this that set up Alvaro this
way.<br><br>
Yours in the revolutionary spirit,<br><br>
John ("Twitch") Dolley, Jr.,<br>
Committee to Free Alvaro Luna Hernandez<br>
<br>
</font><font size=1><i>..."For Prisoners, there is no alcohol nor
flowers, but the night is so lovely, how can we celebrate it?<br>
I go to the air hole and stare up at the moon, and through the air hole,
the moon smiles at the poet..."<br>
<b>- Ho Chi Minh, </b>Prison Diary<br><br>
</i></font><font size=3><b>COMMITTEE to FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ<br>
<i>COMITE PRO DEFENSA ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ<br>
P.O. BOX 7187 • AUSTIN, TEXAS 78712 • (512) 320-0511<br>
<br>
November 24, 2009<br>
<br>
</i>RE: <u>INJUSTICES: A POLITICAL PROFILE, UPDATE<br>
</u></b> <br>
ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ is a Chicano-Mexicano political prisoner. <br>
He was born in Alpine, Texas, in 1952, into a racially segregated
society, where police ruled the Chicano barrio with an iron fist. On June
12, 1968, Alvaro was with 16 year old Ervay Ramos and witnessed RAMOS
murdered in cold-blood by Alpine Police BUD POWERS, a known racist cop
with a history of brutality against Chicanos. POWERS never served a day
in jail and escaped justice under the protection of the U.S. Judicial
system, until his recent natural death in November 2009 in Alpine. Along
with the Texas Rangers’ murder of a young Chicano to break union strikers
of the United Farm Workers Union in South Texas, the RAMOS and Farm
Workers cases were documented by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in
their 1970 report <b><u>MEXICAN AMERICANS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF
JUSTICE IN THE SOUTHWEST</u>, (Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.)<br>
</b> <br>
As is the case involving other ethnic nationality groups and police, the
relations between the Chicano community and the Texas police is one of a
legacy of violent confrontations since the illegal colonial occupation of
over 50% of Mexico’s homeland territories during colonial wars of
conquest and expansionism beginning in the early 1800’s. The U.S.
judicial system has always been used by the oppressor occupation forces
to enforce colonial rule with its “kangaroo court” systems, to
disenfranchise Chicanos and keep them enslaved as an internal colony of
U.S. imperialism, and treats them as “foreigners” in their own native
homeland. The infamous “LAW WEST OF THE PECOS” saloon-court of Judge ROY
BEAN and the Texas Ranger’s history are contemporary “historical sites”
celebrating this colonial tyranny enforced against Chicanos in the
occupied territories of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado,
and parts of Utah and Nevada, affectionately called “Aztlán” by militant,
conscious Chicanos. Despite the false promises of the Treaty of GUADALUPE
HIDALGO, signed on February 2, 1848, that ended the war between the
United States and Mexico, Chicanos, or Mexican-Americans have been
constant victims outrageous injustices by the genocidal forces of
national and racial oppression in violation of international law. With
good reason, the United Nations declared “colonialism” an international
crime and a crime against humanity, yet, these protections granted human
beings do not seem to apply to Chicanos and these crimes committed
against them have gone unpunished. It is this colonial history that sets
the stage for the railroading of a Chicano freedom fighter by the police,
the judicial system and the government. <br>
<br>
The Alpine Police kidnapped Alvaro from the barrio and charged him with a
bogus “criminal” charge, he later beat in court acting as his own
attorney. However, during the interim between his initial arrest on this
false charge, his release on bond, and the dismissal of the original
charge, Alvaro disarmed a racist sheriff in self-defense that resulted in
a shoot-out with police. The original pretext of arrest and charge was
the end result of police confrontation and shoot-out with police. Had
police not filed the initial false charge, the subsequent confrontation
would not have occurred. Alvaro was tried in Odessa, Texas, in 1997, on a
change of venue from Alpine due to extensive pretrial publicity, on 2
counts of aggravated assault on police. The jury found him guilty on 1
count but not guilty on count 2. He was sentenced by the jury to 50 years
imprisonment. He is not parole eligible until the year 2021, under Texas’
harsh aggravated sentencing laws.<br>
<br>
Alvaro has pursued on full round of appeals in State and Federal
Courts all his State and Federal Court appeals, as well as to the U.S.
Supreme Court, which refused to review his case in 2005. For more
information on Alvaro’s activities and his case, please visit
<a href="http://www.freealvaro.org">www.freealvaro.org</a>.<br>
<br>
As of this writing, Alvaro’s case is pending review before the
INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, a consultative organ of the
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES, styled <b><u>ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ v.
UNITED STATES,</u></b> <b>No. P-1033-08</b>. The human rights
complaint asserts human rights violations against police and invokes the
diplomatic right of immunity under international law, in Alvaro’s
capacity as a delegate-member of a non-governmental organization, the
INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL, to the 49th Session of the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights, March-April 1993, held in Geneva,
Switzerland, where Alvaro personally addressed the U.N. General Assembly
on the human rights violations of U.S. political prisoners, among other
human rights violations committed by the U.S. government domestically.
<br>
<br>
The Alpine Police were well aware of Alvaro’s activism and barrio
organizing activities, nationally and in Alpine. They knew Alvaro was
attempting to organize the Chicano barrio and was calling for the Federal
prosecution of Police BUD POWERS for the murder of young RAMOS. That is
why they framed him, “criminalized” his human rights work under<br>
the “pretext” of fighting “crime”, used the judicial system to railroad
Alvaro, a system that protects corrupt and racist cops. The system had a
special “hatred” for Alvaro, as he had been responsible in 1977,
for the Federal Civil Rights lawsuits against police and police
considered him a “trouble maker” because of his ardent resistance to
police brutality, institutionalized racism and injustices against
Chicanos in Alpine. COINTELLPRO-like tactics (counter-intelligence
programs) were used by the Alpine Police to monitor Alvaro’s legitimate
activities, and to frame him and railroad him into prison. <br>
<br>
Alvaro is currently held in a repressive “control unit” in a Texas
prison, the Hughes Unit, located in Gatesville, Texas. He continues to
protest his innocence and calls for civil rights investigation into his
police frame-up, as a victim of the U.S. Government’s war on dissent.
Alvaro is a brilliant political thinker and revolutionary writer, as well
as a “jailhouse lawyer” and a leader of the prison movement, form his
“sensory-deprivation” Texas prison cell. He is well known and is
officially recognized as a political prisoner by many human rights groups
domestically and internationally, contrary to the U.S. Government’s
imperialist lie that it holds no political prisoners, while at the same
time hypocritically condemning other countries such as Cuba, Russia and
China for imprisoning “political dissidents” and violating human rights.
Yet, the U.S. judicial system protects real criminals and terrorists like
POWERS and LUIS POSADA CARRILES, the right wing monster involved in the
bombing of the Cuban passenger airline in 1993 that killed many
people.<br>
<br>
We are calling on all justice, freedom-loving people in the United States
and around the world, to support the movement to FREE ALVARO, a classic
case of political imprisonment the government wants to keep away from the
public eye. Including the hundreds of other men and women imprisoned by
the U.S. Government because of their political beliefs, and their
opposition to the injustices and militarist adventurism of the
government, legitimate actions undertaken and protected by international
law. We ask that you call, write a letter, fax, or e-mail PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA, U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER, and demand the Justice
Department open a civil rights investigation into this police frame-up
conspiracy to railroad an innocent man into prison as part of racist and
corrupt police and judicial system practices that protects police. This
outrageous injustice must be exposed and Alvaro must be free now!<br>
<br>
Download the petition at
<a href="http://www.freealvaro.org">www.freealvaro.org</a>, and sign and
mail it to the COMMITTEE TO FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ, Main
Headquarters, in Austin, Texas, at the address below.<br><br>
You may also write a letter of support to Alvaro
at the following address:<br>
ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ,<br>
TDCJ-CID#255735,<br>
Route-2, Box 4400,<br>
Gatesville, Texas 76597<br>
<br>
PRESIDENT BARACK
OBAMA,
ERIC HOLDER,<br>
The White
House,
U.S. Attorney General,<br>
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
N.W.,
U.S. Department of Justice,<br>
Washington, D.C.
20510
10th Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W.,<br>
<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov">www.whitehouse.gov</a>
Washington, D.C. 20530<br>
<a href="http://www.justice.gov">www.justice.gov</a><br>
<br>
If you are interested in forming a Committee to Free Alvaro, and hold
other “teach ins” on his case, and distribute literature and other
organizing materials, that will soon include posters, T-Shirts,
Bumper-stickers, buttons, and DVD’s, please contact us.<br>
<br>
COMMITTEE TO FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ<br>
P.O. BOX 7187,<br>
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78713<br>
(512) 320-0511<br>
<br>
JOHN “TWITCH” DOLLEY,
JR.,
-SARA FALCONER,<br>
National
Coordinator
International Spokesperson<br>
<a href="mailto:twitchon@hotmail.com">twitchon@hotmail.com</a>
Toronto, ONTARIO, Canada<br>
<a href="mailto:torontoabcf@gmail.com">torontoabcf@gmail.com</a> <br>
<b><i> <br>
</i><u>PETITION<br>
TO CONDUCT FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION<br>
BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INTO THE ALPINE, TEXAS<br>
POLICE FRAME UP OF AN INNOCENT MAN<br>
</u></b> <br>
We, the undersigned persons,
petition U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER to order a Justice Department
Civil Rights Investigation into the police, prosecutorial and judicial
railroading of ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ, and an innocent man, as reprisals
for his human and civil rights activism, including his field human rights
work related to the Alpine Police murder of 16 years old ERVAY RAMOS,
cited by the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights, in 1970, as a delegate of a
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) to the 49th Session of the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights in March-April 1993 in Geneva,
Switzerland; the Alpine Police wanted to silence him.<br>
<br>
NAME<br>
Signature/Print
Mailing
Address
City, Zip Code<br>
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<b><i>(RETURN TO: COMMITTEE to FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ, P.O. BOX 7187,
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78713<br>
</i></b>
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Contact John Dolley at: <b><i><twitchon@hotmail.com><br>
<a href="http://www.freealvaro.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.freealvaro.org</a></i></b> <br><br>
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