COMMEMORATING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
THE UNITED STATS IS KNOWN AS the "prison capital of the world," due to its alarming mass incarceration rates. It imprisons 2.3 million people in jails and prisons, with a disparity per capita rate, while comprising only 5% of the world's population, it constitutes 25% of theworld's carceral population statistics.
In almost all state prisons, minus the federal prison system that does pay its prisoners for their labor, albeit at grossly slavery wages, state prisons ate sustained through forced prisoners slavery industries that do not compensate prisoners for their labor Prisoners are forced to work under dangerous conditions, in factories, slaughter houses, agricultural, industries, resulting in prisoners deaths and other serious injuries to life and limb. Prisons are big business in corporate AmeriKKKa, and are the"cookie jars" for established politicians and the bureaucratic "law and order" career elites that loot the state treasuries of taxpayer monies, playing on hysteria and other reactionary "tough on crime"" propaganda. Career bureaucrats in control of the prison industrial complex create their private front industries to produce goods to sell to prisoners, much like the so-called Barbco Inc. industry that produces corn chips, f!our tortillas, and other food stuffs for prisoner sales at exorbitant prices.
In Texas. Many high ranking prison officials have ended up in federal prison cnvicted of bribery, corruption, sale of paroles and other criminalities in administering Texas prisons. See TEXAS PRISONS, THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN, by Martin and Olsen, Tex. Monthly Press 1983.
Through sustained collective prisoners struggles, such as attempts at forming prisoner labor unions, work/hunger strikes, filling of prisoner class action civil rights suits, and other forms of prisoner resistance, many struggles have turned violent such as the prisoner rebellions at Marion, Attica, San Quentin, Lucasville, Santa Fe, Texas among other prisons. Decades of ignoring legitimate prisoner grievances complaining of horrific prison conditions erupted in violence on both sides with the loss of life. These struggles were supported by federal court decisions on behalf or prisoners, spearheaded by jailhouse lawyers and other politicised prisoners winning epochal legal victories, even in the face of "war-like" conditions against prisoner organizers by prison administrators and gangs they have used to divide and conquer prison populations. Began the proliferation of supermax control unit prisons across AmeriKKKa, using the"Marion model" of systemwide lockdowns and the targeting of rebellious prisoners that demand to be treated like human beings and not like animals in a zoo. Many of these activist prisoners have languished in prolonged solitary confinement for decades causing severe psychological harms to human beings.
Today, there are approximately 80, 000 to 100, 0OO prisoners in some form of solitary confinement in n AmeriKKKa's jails and prisons according to Justice Department Bureau of Statistics numbers. Another reality hidden from public view, is that, like the disproportionate disparities of the U. $ Pri$on Industrial complex,people of color, namely Blacks, Chicanos, Latinos, Native American indigenous colonies, historically oppressed, enslaved as internal colonies under U.S. colonialism, capitalism, and Imperialism, are majority of those in Amerikkka's prisons and supermax solitary cages, as testament to the institutionalization of a inherent racist, genocidal "criminal justice system" and "penological corrections." THE QUESTIONS OF AMERIKKAS' PRISONS ARE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS QUESTIONS.
However, the hypocrite U.S. government turns a blind eye to the systemic torture and other atrocities gong on in AMERIKKKA's prisons and supermax control unit prisons, and converting our legitimate freedom fighters, pows, political prisoners, for their direct opposition to social, racial injustices, militarism, and the persistent "war" this government has historically waged against enslaved, internal colonies of Black, Chicano and Indigenous first nations of its "prison house of nations" it is known for. Our liberation warriors are arbitrarily detained as "common criminals" under the old and new COINTELPRO-style repression, many innocent of any crimes, as our social and ethnic liberation movements are criminalized, to conceal the inherent contradictions of a racist, unjust and criminal socioeconomic system under capitalism's wage-theft slavery. That POWs, political prisoners, nor domestic human rights violations do not exist in the U.S. only in other foreign countries, ARE ALL IMPERIALIST LIES !!! Yet, the U.S. government accuses other countries of imprisoning political prisoners, and of human rights violations proclaiming to be the "moral leader of the free world" and the champion of human rights, which is insulting to the universal send of truth and justice.
The U.S. is signatory to various international human rights treatises, and accords, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention Against Torture, the Nelson Mandela Rules, the Geneva Convention, to name a few, the government tramples on. These international treaties are the "supreme law of the land" even under its own constitutional laws, Article VI of the U.S. Constitution's "supremacy clause." In recent years there has been movement to be invoke international human rights laws, treaties and standards, for prisoner advocacy. The case of the California Pelican Bay prisoner struggles to end solitary confinement: and in the case of former Black Liberation Army soldier Russell "Maroon" Shoats {Rest In Power!), where engaged individual citizens, family and friends of prisoners and other prisoner advocacy groups, filed complaints on behalf of prisoners, with the United d Nations Human Rights Committees that resulted in positive gains for the prisoners. These are tactics human rights activists must consider resorting to, in advancing the nascent Prison Human Rights movement within the domestic confines of the hypocrite, imperialist beast. The National Jericho Movement, as well as all other Nongovernmental organizations(NGO) with NGO status before the United Nations, file the Universal Periodic Review Reports, raising these related U.S. prisoner human rights violations, and demand the tribunal address these issues, and stop giving preferential treatment to the U.S. government in sweeping these egregious human rights under the carpet, converting the U.N. as a puppet of U.S. imperialism.
For example, our collective persistence has produced positive results, that in May 2023 a UN panel off human rights jurists visited the United States, and met with human rights activists in the U.S. to investigate human flights violations against the U.S. and its legalized slavery, repression against leaders of U.S. liberation movement organizations, arbitrary detention of many of our freedom fighters such as AiM activist Leonard Peltier, MUMIA Abu Jamal, Eric Long, author of this document Xinachtli, and many more or our imprisoned warriors held in supermax control unit prison cages tortured by prisons authorities, and punished for their continued social dissent.
The UN panel is scheduled to return to the U.S. soon and visit Georgia prisons and investigate the atrocities currently ongoing there and horrific prison conditions and a rash of prisoner deaths due to rival gang violence. The UN Special Rapporteur has responded to a complaint filed with said investigative arm n behalf of the systemic torture and other atrocities gong on in AMERIKKKA's prisons and supermax control unit prisons, and converting our legitimate freedom fighters, pows, political prisoners, for their direct opposition to social, racial injustices, militarism, and the persistent "war" this government has historically waged against enslaved, internal colonies of Black, Chicano and Indigenous first nations of its "prison house of nations" it is known for. Our liberation warriors are arbitrarily detained as "common criminals" under the old and new COINTELPRO-style repression, many innocent of any crimes, as our social and ethnic liberation movements are criminalized, to conceal the inherent contradictions of a racist, unjust and criminal socioeconomic system under capitalism's wage-theft slavery. That POWs, political prisoners, nor domestic human rights violations do not exist in the U.S. only in other foreign countries, ARE ALL IMPERIALIST LIES !!! Yet, the U.S. government accuses other countries of imprisoning political prisoners, and of human rights violations proclaiming to be the "moral leader of the free world" and the champion of human rights, which is insulting to the universal send of truth and justice.
We call all freedom and justice loving people in the United States and the world, to join us, and stage political rallies, in their own cities, organizing teach ins on the existence of pow, political prisoners, tue n the USA, the horrific conditions and torture they are being subjected to in supermax control unit prisons across AmeriKKKa, and demand the international human rights laws and standards, be observed this INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY,
DECEMBER 10, 2023, and that our POWs, political prisoners be unconditionally freed from such arbitrary detentions, and end their torture, or the world human rights community , and it's tribunals forever live in utter shame and infamy. SPEAK OUT!!! JOIN US !!!
....... [W]hereas, it is essential , if man is not to be compelled
to have recourse, as a last resort to rebellion against tyranny
and oppression, that human rights should be protected
by the rule of law.....
- UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
DECEMBER 10, 1948
- by Xinachtli,
Minister of Defense,
Movimento de Liberacion Nacional
Chicano Mexicano (MLN-CM)
www.freealvaro.net. [***]
Chief Field Marshall,
Prison Lives Matter,
Texas Region,
Supportprisonlives.org
P.O. Box. 9383
Chicago IL. 60609
P.O. Box 134
Arvonia, VA. 23004
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[***]. Xinachtli, means germinating seed under indigenous Nahuatl dialect. Xinachtli's slave name is ALVARO HERNANDEZ. He is I imprisoned at the McConnell Unit in Beeville, TX. Those wishing to send solidarity messages, or exchange emails,phone calls with
Xinachtli must first get registeted at
www.Texas.prison.phpne.com, , or, wwwsecurustech.net.
US Mail can be addressed to him at
ALVARO HERNANDEZ
TDCJ # 00255735
McConnell unit
PO Box. 660400
Dallas, TX 75260-0400
(note, US Mail is taking over 2 months delivery)