[Ppnews] Alvaro Luna Hernandez - Update

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Greetings comrades,
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.

Yours in the revolutionary spirit,

John ("Twitch") Dolley, Jr.,
Committee to Free Alvaro Luna Hernandez

..."For Prisoners, there is no alcohol nor 
flowers, but the night is so lovely, how can we celebrate it?
I go to the air hole and stare up at the moon, 
and through the air hole, the moon smiles at the poet..."
- Ho Chi Minh, Prison Diary

COMMITTEE to FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ
COMITE PRO DEFENSA ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ
P.O. BOX 7187 • AUSTIN, TEXAS 78712 • (512) 320-0511

November 24, 2009

RE: INJUSTICES: A POLITICAL PROFILE, UPDATE

ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ is a Chicano-Mexicano political prisoner.
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 MEXICAN AMERICANS AND THE ADMINISTRATION 
OF JUSTICE IN THE SOUTHWEST, (Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

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.

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.

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 
<http://www.freealvaro.org>www.freealvaro.org.

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 ALVARO 
LUNA HERNANDEZ v. UNITED STATES,  No. P-1033-08. 
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.

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
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.

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.

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!

Download the petition at 
<http://www.freealvaro.org>www.freealvaro.org, 
and sign and mail it to the COMMITTEE TO FREE 
ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ, Main Headquarters, in 
Austin, Texas, at the address below.

      You may also write a letter of support to 
Alvaro at the following address:
       ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ,
       TDCJ-CID#255735,
       Route-2, Box 4400,
       Gatesville, Texas 76597

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA,                      ERIC HOLDER,
   The White 
House,                                                U.S. Attorney General,
   1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 
N.W.,                        U.S. Department of Justice,
   Washington, D.C. 
20510                                      10th 
Street & Constitution Avenue, N.W.,
   <http://www.whitehouse.gov>www.whitehouse.gov 
Washington, D.C. 20530
                                                                                 <http://www.justice.gov>www.justice.gov

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.

COMMITTEE TO FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ
P.O. BOX 7187,
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78713
(512) 320-0511

JOHN “TWITCH” DOLLEY, JR.,                -SARA FALCONER,
National 
Coordinator                                     International Spokesperson
<mailto:twitchon at hotmail.com>twitchon at hotmail.com 
Toronto, ONTARIO, Canada
                                                                     <mailto:torontoabcf at gmail.com>torontoabcf at gmail.com 


PETITION
TO CONDUCT FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION
BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INTO THE ALPINE, TEXAS
POLICE FRAME UP OF AN INNOCENT MAN

        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.

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Contact John Dolley at: <twitchon at hotmail.com>
www.freealvaro.org



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