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<font size=3><b><i><u>FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ NOW!<br><br>
</u>(Alvaro's 58th Birthday, is Wednesday, May 12)<br><br>
Greetings good friends & lovers of freedom…<br><br>
</i>Wednesday will be Chicano/Mexicano Political Prisoner Alvaro Luna
Hernandez' 58th Birthday, on May 12th, so please find the time to write a
brief letter of solidarity in support for Alvaro's personal act of
resistance, and/or a birthday greeting; it will be appreciated as he is
presently 2/3rds through the <i>8th year</i> in <u>Administrative
Segregation</u> (solitary isolation) at the Alfred D. Hughes Unit, in
Gatesville, Texas (not <u>quite</u> a "<u>stone's throw</u>" as
the crow flies from Bush's Ranch) - his lines of outside communication
are always most important in dealing with the psychological and emotional
deprivation of Ad-Seg.<br><br>
After nearly 13 years since his conviction & 50-year sentence for
Aggravated Assault of a Law Enforcement Officer on June 9, 1997, in
Odessa, Texas, by a jury manipulated by prosecutors painting a picture of
Alvaro as being a public troublemaker (prison rights organizer and
community activist) and thus contaminating any possibility of a fair
judgment in the proceedings by introducing his past acts into the trial
(<u>a</u> <u>former exonerated TDCJ-CID prisoner in 1989</u>); plus the
blocking of pivotal evidence requested by his defense that would have
absolved him of any violent aggressive intent on his part - in the
disarming of (now deceased) Brewster County Sheriff McDaniels who
admitted in an (<u>video was evidence</u> <u>blocked by objection</u>)
unofficial pre-trial video TV news interview that Alvaro was not violent
or aggressive. The Sheriff later recanted all of that through testimony
in court.<br>
<i>(See: attached petition and explanation of the case)<br><br>
</i>Alvaro is always in need of legal support from lawyers and innocence
projects who are willing to offer Pro Bono time and effort to his appeals
at any and all international courts and human rights commissions; we are
now sitting out a 22-month wait on a petition review at the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS). His legal appeals have
been exhausted through the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and
subsequent Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court in
2005, which was dismissed.<br><br>
Aside from the tenuous petition's appeal and status at the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) as of this writing, we need to flood
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's USDOJ Office with filled signature
page petitions in support of an investigation into these gross human
rights violations with the arrest, conviction/sentence, and continued
illegal incarceration.<br>
Please feel free to print out these documents and distribute as widely as
it will bear for public awareness, and get the petition's <u>signatures
page</u> completed and returned to me or sent to Holder direct if you
like; we just need for them to investigate this so we can force the issue
back into a Texas Criminal Court of Appeals as a Petition for
Discretionary Review.<br>
This we are currently developing, but all the pieces need to be in place
to do this; so the Justice Department's involvement will facilitate this
to that end.<br>
(Go to: <i><u>www.freealvaro.org</u></i> for more on this.)<br><br>
<i>Justicia ya!! Justicia para Alvaro!!<br><br>
</i>John (Twitch) Dolley, Jr.,<br>
Central Coordinator,<br>
Committee to Free Alvaro Luna Hernandez,<br>
P.O. Box 7187,<br>
Austin, Texas<br>
78713<br><br>
Contact Alvaro at:<br><br>
Alvaro Luna Hernandez,<br>
TDCJ-CID#255735,<br>
Alfred D. Hughes Unit,<br>
Route-2, Box 4400,<br>
Gatesville, Texas 76597<br>
*******************************************</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 of 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 Alpine Police BUD POWERS for the murder of
young RAMOS. That is why they framed him, “criminalized” his human rights
work under 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, from 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
1976 that killed all 73 of the people onboard.<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
10<sup>th</sup> 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>
<div align="center">COMMITTEE TO FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ<br>
P.O. BOX 7187,<br>
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78713<br>
(512) 320-0511<br>
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<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>
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