[Ppnews] Political Prisoner Alvaro Luna Hernandez

[Political Prisoner News]

FREE ALVARO LUNA HERNANDEZ NOW!

(Alvaro's 58th Birthday, is Wednesday, May 12)

Greetings good friends & lovers of freedom


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 8th year in 
Administrative Segregation (solitary isolation) 
at the Alfred D. Hughes Unit, in Gatesville, 
Texas (not quite a "stone's throw" 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.

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 (a 
former exonerated TDCJ-CID prisoner in 1989); 
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 (video was 
evidence blocked by objection) 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.
(See: attached petition and explanation of the case)

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.

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.
Please feel free to print out these documents and 
distribute as widely as it will bear for public 
awareness, and get the petition's signatures page 
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.
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.
(Go to: www.freealvaro.org for more on this.)

Justicia ya!! Justicia para Alvaro!!

John (Twitch) Dolley, Jr.,
Central Coordinator,
Committee to Free Alvaro Luna Hernandez,
P.O. Box 7187,
Austin, Texas
78713

Contact Alvaro at:

Alvaro Luna Hernandez,
TDCJ-CID#255735,
Alfred D. Hughes Unit,
Route-2, Box 4400,
Gatesville, Texas 76597
*******************************************
         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 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.

         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 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.

       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.

       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 







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