Oso Blanco Birthday Statement

Oso Blanco’s birthday is February 26th. Send him a note and check out his birthday statement below. Also, check out his birthday raffle at https://www.abcf.net/blog/oso-blanco-birthday-raffle-is-on/

Byron Chubbuck #07909­051
USP Atwater
PO Box 019001
Atwater, CA 95301

Brothers and Sisters and Everyone in the Struggle:

I am now about to turn 59 years of age, and this will be my 26th birthday serving time on this case in federal prison. It is often very empty and cold on birthdays and holidays, because you’re obviously far away from your family. But when people reach out, when brothers and sisters in the struggle reach out and write to a political prisoner on their birthday, it is amazingly powerful. But when you share something that sounds like it was written according to a format, or like it comes from a robot, it is disheartening. Because I often receive birthday greetings from people where it sounds like there is no real heart to the message. I’m a human being, and I like people to express human love from the heart. When they write they should write something from the heart—because I can tell the difference, and I don’t feel any human interaction because they don’t express real human emotions. It is often the same thing—the same words—over, and over, and over, for years.

If you’re reaching out to me on my birthday, you should express real thoughts. Don’t go by a format, a set of words, that someone told you to say. I want you to express your real hearts because I put in my work for the struggle, for the Native-American struggle, for the Zapatista struggle—and I want you to express your real selves, your real heart, your real emotions.

I am far away from my family, and the letter will come a month after February because the police won’t let me have my mail, and they will hold it for at least that long. People must express themselves more genuinely, more from the heart, because you’re talking to a person that is suffering because they’re missing their birthdays with their family, because they’re missing their birthdays with their friends, missing their birthdays with their community. You’re talking to a person who is excluded and exiled from society and all human connection.

When you reach out to a political prisoner and it’s their birthday, it’s really meaningful. I still get birthday greetings from my homeboys in the streets in Albuquerque sometimes, but Fentanyl killed 100 people that I knew in New Mexico, and that’s a real number. And that almost ended the greeting cards coming from people I knew from the streets. My parents are too old. I get some birthday greetings from my Cherokee sister’s side of the family in Oklahoma, on the reservation in Tahlequah. When you’re reaching out to a political prisoner, don’t sound like a robot. Sound like a real human being with real emotions and real love. Because I can tell the difference as time goes on. And I would venture to say society is really messing up the human-emotion-connection for things as important happy birthdays.

When someone that reaches out to you for you birthday, something that is so deep and meaningful when you’re in prison doing a zillion years for your political actions, it is very powerful. So, let’s keep the human connection going for political prisoners because they’re in here for you. They’re in here for people who want a better world. They’re in here for people who know we have to heal the Earth. And they’re in here for the struggle to uplift love. Because without love there will be no change, there will be no better world, there will be no revolution—not without love.

If I have a birthday wish, I wish that people would get up off their asses and really do something to end oppression. Really organize. Really bring oppression, and repression, and abuse by the State to an end. That is my birthday wish.

I love you all, and I thank you so much. Anyone who picks up a pen or types up a letter, I love you so much. I could never have survived these 26 years alone. I never could have survived these years without people like Leonard Peltier, Tom Manning, and Dr. Mutulu Shakur, who I crossed paths with—and not without little things. Not without little things that mean a lot—like birthdays.

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Oso Blanco’s 2024 Running Down the Walls statement

Sisters and Brothers and all beings we love and fight for. I Oso Blanco
thank you so much for coming out this year. I love you all and cannot
make it without you all as a whole. For one is never bigger than the
whole of everyone. We must acknowledge that. Run down these walls! RUN
THEM DOWN TO DUST! It has never been worse inside these prisons. We must
run down these walls and free all life. We must reach deep down within
and hit the internal switch. The switch of power in our sacred heart
realm. We must activate the warrior of fire inside of us all. Things on
the inside of federal prisons have gotten much worse in the last year.
The system is broke and they nearly starve us much of the time. We are
always on the hunt for food. And we are suffering a much higher pattern
of violence against prisoners by staff. Things are more serious than
ever and I have close to 30 years in federal prisons. This is my second
case that’s federal, so I’ve seen the extreme decline in federal
prisons. It’s time to really truly rise up and run down all walls
forever. It’s time to put in the real and serious work action.

Love,

Oso Blanco

Byron Chubbuck #07909-051
USP VICTORVILLE
P.O. BOX 3900
ADELANTO, CA 92301

From: Anarchist Black Cross Federation

Xinachtli’s 2024 Running Down the Walls statement

SOLIDARITY DECLARATION
25TH ANNUAL RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS EVENT
ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS FEDERATION
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

As a long-time recipient of economic support from the WARCHEST FUND of
the ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS FEDERATION (ABCF), let me extend my gratitude
for your persistent support and let you know that I have appreciated
your consistent support down through many years of struggle, given the
circumstances. Texas prison does not compensate prisoners for their
slave labor, and, even if it did, I would never participate in
contributing prisoner labor to a slavery institution with deep roots in
white settler colonialism, white supremacy and the African slave trade,
as Professor Gerald Horne, University of Houston History and African
American Studies Department, archived in his excellent book, THE COUNTER
REVOLUTION OF 1836: TEXAS SLAVERY & Jim Crow AND THE ROOTS OF U.S.
FASCISM, 20220, Int’l Publishers, New York; and to a “criminal justice
system” that targets people of color for genocidal mass incarceration,
and used to repress radical political movements seeking freedom from the
chains of capitalist, oppression, movements we are a part of, the
government and the ruling class always seeks to destroy in maintaining
its tyranny over society and the rest of the world, more pernicious and
naked in the Deep Jim Crow South. We thank ABCF for being true to its
principles, and for supporting the “prison movement” and those of us
imprisoned as a result of our direct actions in fighting back against
predatory neocolonialism, capitalism, and imperialism, from within the
belly of the fascist beast.

I am a renowned Chicano political prisoner, supported by prominent
advocacy groups like the National Jericho Movement in support of POWs,
political prisoners, New York City, among other groups as a target of
COINTELPRO’S NEW LEFT repression in its war against Chicano militancy
and dissent, for my lifetime work of political activism, outside and
inside prisons walls, see www.freealvaro.net; CAN’T JAIL THE SPIRIT,
Comm. Against Marion Lockdown, 4th Edition, 2022; I am now going on
23-plus years in consecutive supermax solitary confinement in one of
AmeriKKKa’s most racist and repressive supermax control unit prisons in
the nation, so described by psychologist/lawyer Dr. Craig Haney, who
testified on behalf of the Texas prisoner class in the prison conditions
case in Ruiz v. Johnson, 37 F. Supp. 855, at page 908, a case I was a
witness for the prisoner class against the state, legal victories we
won, but changes were few and short, as the capitalist system will never
allow true freedoms within a system of injustices and prisoner slavery,
a prison system that has surpassed California prison as the largest
prison system in the nation, “…consistent with the state’s historical
tradition of harsh punishment, one that cages an astounding proportion
of the state’s minority population,” in the words of Professor of Law
and Sociology and Northern Illinois University Michael C. Campbell,
quoted in his excellent essay, POLITICS, PRISONS, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT:
AN EXAMINATION OF THE EMERGENCE OF “LAW AND ORDER” IN TEXAS, at 45 LAW
AND SOCIETY REVIEW 631 (Sept. 2011> You can read about the unspeakable
horrors of the brutalities and dehumanization of prisoners in Texas,
that continues to this very day, despite all the epochal legal victories
prisoners won in the celebrated prison conditions case in the Ruiz
litigation. See also 503 F. Supp. 1265 (S.D. Tex. 1980); TEXAS PRISONS;
THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN, Martin & Olsen, Tex. Monthly Press, 1983.

Fascism is on the rise, domestically and internationally, leading the
way is the hypocritical and manipulative government of the United
States, calling itself the “champion of human rights” and “moral leader
of the free world,” as its prisons run rampant with racism as held by a
panel of the UN Special Rapporteur on September 26, 2023, and as blood
drips from its genocidal murderous class, of men, women and children as
enabler of the Israeli zionist bombs exploding in encampments of
displaced Palestinians, having nothing to do with terrorism, nor attacks
against the Israeli populace, supported by our taxpayer dollars of the
U.S. imperialism war machine. Humanity mandates that oppressed people
within the juggernaut of “head of the snake fight imperialism.” We must
call it as it is, and never sugar-coat these atrocities against
oppressed humanity, nor bury our heads in the sand like a cowardly
ostrich, pretending that it is not happening. We must build unity and
solidarity amongst liberation movement organizations that stand in
opposition to U.S. imperialism, and support the defenseless Palestinian
masses entitled to the return of their occupied territories, a struggle
we link to our struggle of the oppressed Chicano people to the return of
our stolen lands, for reparations and for prosecution of past and
current war criminals responsible for massacre of innocent people in
sustaining their criminal empire of capitalist and imperialist slavery,
as the rolling class continues to destroy PLANET EARTH with their carbon
emissions fossil fuel industries, seeking world domination and
conquering all world markets for excessive enrichment of their ruling
class and its oligarchical empires.

We encourage ABCF to continue to lead the way, support its political
prisoners, as well as all oppressed and colonized nations domestically
and around the world, as the Nobel and generous work done in collecting
monies to support the Palestinian masses in the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip, starving and being this moment butchered by Israeli zionist and
U.S. imperialism bombs. LET OTHER SOCIAL MOVEMENT ORGANIZATIONS PAY HEED
TO YOUR INSPIRING ABCF WORK AND YOUR PERSISTENCE BY WAY OF SHOWING THE
WAY TOWARD OUR FREEDOM BY EXAMPLE.

SUPPORT THE WARCHEST FUND OF THE ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS FEDERATION!
SUPPORT THE PRISON MOVEMENT AND OUR IMPRISONED FREEDOM FIGHTERS!
ISRAELI ZIONIST PIGS, OUT OF THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP!
MUERTE AL COLONIALISMO, CAPITALISMO, IMPERIALISMO, YANQI!
FREE PLANET EARTH!

– Xinachtli
Chicano political prisoner
MCCONNELL SUPERMAX CONTROL UNIT – BEEVILLE, TEXAS
HONORING BLACK AUGUST MARTYRS, AUGUST 2024!

Write:
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Alvaro Luna Hernandez #255735
Post Office Box 660400
Dallas, Texas 75266-0400.

From: Anarchist Black Cross Federation

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