[Occupymendocino] AfGJ petition.....[Fwd: International Solidarity with Colombian and North American Prison Strikes]
nlnelson at mcn.org
nlnelson at mcn.org
Fri Sep 7 01:05:09 PDT 2018
ATTN Occupy Members -
please find attached the HTML version of Human Rights Observatory
Declaration of Solidarity
This issue of prison imperialism is a very serious one, I believe. I
signed on as an individual, but wondering if any Occupy member would
propose this at SAT mtg for grp. deliberation. On an AfGJ delegation we
were at the gates of La Tramecua - the US exports only the best!!!
Please contact me with any questions.
Nancy Wallace Nelson
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Subject: International Solidarity with Colombian and North American Prison
Strikes
From: "Alliance for Global Justice" <Afgj at Afgj.org>
Date: Fri, September 7, 2018 12:08 am
To: "Nancy Wallace Nelson" <nlnelson at mcn.org>
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People's
Human Rights Observatory Declaration of Solidarity with
Colombian, U.S., and Canadian Prisoner Resistance - NO to
Prison Imperialism! NO to Mass Incarceration!
Click HERE if you would like to add your name to this
declaration Para leer y firmar en español... Visit
our newly updated list of US Political Prisoners / Prisoners
of Empire We, the People’s Human Rights Observatory
(Observatorio de los Derechos Humanos), declare our solidarity
with the worldwide resistance to prison imperialism and reject
the expansion of the United States model of mass
incarceration. Likewise, we express our support for the
demands of the prisoners of La Tramacúa Penitentiary in
Valledupar, Colombia, and of the prisoners of various North
American penitentiaries, and their desires for dignified
lives. The prisoners of La Tramacúa waged a hunger
strike for more than a month, beginning on July 11, 2018.
Their demands included calls for access to water, ventilation,
and medical attention. People interned in jails of the United
States and Canada have been in the largest prison strike in
the history of the region since August 21, 2018: strikes in 17
U.S. states and some Canadian jails. The demands of the North
American prisoners are similar to those of the La
Tramacúa strikers, for medical attention and against
the excessive number of deaths due to lack of medical care and
penal system abuses. Especially, the North American strikers
denounce the racism of the penal and justice system that has
found new wayt to convert jails into centers of slavery. The
strikes have had an emblematic significance internationally.
The United States has the largest population of the
incarcerated – 2.3 million inmates – and the highest rate
in the world of its population in jails. Meanwhile, while
non-Hispanic White people constitute 63.7% of the U.S.
population, persons of African and Latino origins represent
almost two thirds of the prisoners in the United States.
People who lack a GED (General Education Diploma) or high
school degree represent 47% of the incarcerated. With less
than 5% of the world population, the United States has 25% of
the world prison population. Apparently, the U.S. government
considers this a good situation. Today, the United States is
exporting its models of mass incarceration to the world and
has involved itself in the prison systems of at least 34
countries. In some of these countries, they are not only
financing and advising the construction of new jails, but also
restructuring whole prison systems. Prison Imperialism began
in the year 2000 when the United States and Colombia signed an
accord to restructure the South American country’s penal
system following the US example.The first penitentiary built
as a consequence of this project was La Tramacúa,
finished in November of that same year. Since then,
overcrowding in Colombian prisons climbed to its highest level
in recent history. In 2018, overcrowding was still at an
unacceptable rate of 45.6%, according to government
statistics. From the beginning, La Tramacúa has been a
Hell for its inmates. Various prisoners have been victims of
systematic tortures, particularly political prisoners. The
lack of access to healthcare is endemic and has resulted in
the deaths of various prisoners. Despite the jail’s location
in a place where temperatures reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit,
ventilation is insufficient, and the water supply is limited
to between 10 and 20 minutes daily. Toilets rarely function,
and the inmates must evacuate in plastic bags and buckets. On
at least four occasions, governmental and non-governmental
agencies have encountered putrid food and food contaminated
with fecal matter. The model presently developed in Colombia
is based in the U.S. model, with variations in style to adapt
to the particularities of the Latin American nation. Many of
the demands of the prisoners in the United States and Canada
are the same as those of the Colombian prisoners. In the
United States the strike has an especially anti-racist
character: the strike exposes the history of forced labor in
the United States. After the Civil War and the end of slavery,
the authorities began to detain Afro-descendants to demand
that they work with little or no remuneration and thus assure
the flow of profits to the pockets of big land owners and
industrial capitalists. This situation continues in a system
that incarcerates Afro-descendants, Latinos, indigenous
persons, and poor people at rates that exceed the percentage
of the general population that they represent, despite the
fact that the rates of crime among the different populations
are around the national average. The People’s Human Rights
Observatory recognizes that the struggles of the prisoners of
La Tramacúa and of the U.S. and Canadian jails are not
isolated from each other, nor from the rest of the world.
Prison Imperialism is not simply an attempt to spread the U.S.
model throughout the planet. Prison Imperialism is part of the
infrastructure of the U.S. and NATO Empire in service to
global capitalism, the same as the expansion of U.S. and NATO
bases in the world, police militarization, border
militarization, and the development of neoliberal economics.
With all of this, we say to the prisoners and strikers in the
jails of Colombia, North America, and the whole world: YOUR
STUGGLE IS OUR STRUGGLE! Organizaciones y Personas Firmantes
Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos
Integrantes del Consejo Consultivo: Argentina Adolfo
Pérez Esquivel Premio Nobel de la Paz, Stella Calloni
Corresponsal de la Jornada en Buenos Aires; Colombia Dra.
Piedad Esneda Córdoba Ruiz Senadora y Defensora de
Derechos Humanos y Coordinadora Internacional del Observatorio
de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos. Vocera de colombianas y
colombianos por la Paz, Camilo González Posso
Presidente de INDEPAZ, Dr. Mario Hernández
Álvarez Coordinador Doctorado Interfacultades en Salud
Pública Universidad Nacional de Colombia; España
Ana Andrés Ablanedo Defensora de Derechos Humanos de
Soldepaz Pachakuti, Ricardo Sanchez Andrés miembro de
la junta de la (ACP) Asociación Catalana por la Paz –
miembro de la Asamblea de Internacional de (Comunistes de
Catalunya) y miembro permanente del consejo de Solidaridad de
la Ciudad de Manresa, María Victoria Fernández
Molina Candidata a Doctora en Derechos Humanos, Estados Unidos
James Patrick Jordan Coordinador Nacional de la Alianza por la
Justicia Global y NasimChatha Activista de la Alianza por la
Justicia Global e integrantes del Observatorio de Derechos
Humanos de los Pueblos capítulo Estados Unidos; Suiza
José Manuel González López y Gerardo
Romero Luna de la Red Latinoamericana de Zurich integrantes
del Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos
capítulo Suiza; Venezuela Héctor Orlando
Zambrano Diputado de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de
la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y Miembro de la
Coordinación Nacional de la Corriente Revolucionaria
Bolivar y Zamora, Nieves Hugo Alberto Integrante de la
Comisión Política de la Corriente Revolucionaria
Bolivar y Zamora – CRBZ, Gioconda Mota Gutiérrez Red
de Colectivos La Araña Feminista, José Miguel
Gómez García Movimiento Internacional de la
Economía de los Trabajadores; Ecuador Abg. Franklin
Columba Cuji Dirigente Nacional y Coordinador de Asuntos
Políticos del FENOCIN; Bolivia Strio. General de
Confederación Sindical Única De Trabajadores
Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB); Palestina Jamal Juma
Coordinador STOP The WALL; Guatemala Ana Laura Padgett Rojas
Red de Integración Orgánica - RIO - por la
Defensa de la Madre Tierra y los Derechos Humanos; Uruguay
AnahitAharonianKharputlian Ingeniera Agrónoma y Docente
Comisión Multisectorial de Uruguay; Panamá Ligia
Arreaga Integrante de la Alianza por un mejor Darién
– AMEDAR; México Eduardo Correa Senior Profesor de la
Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México –
UACM, Carlos Fazio Analista Internacional, Dr. Gilberto
López y Rivas Investigador del Instituto Nacional de
Antropología e Historia, Dr. José Enrique
González Ruiz Profesor de la Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México – UNAM, Dr. José
Rafael Grijalva Eternod Doctor en Derechos Humanos, Dr. Felix
Hoyo Arana Profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de
Chapingo; Dr. John MillAckerman Rose, Daniela González
López Coordinadora Internacional del Observatorio de
Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos, Samuel Hernández
Morales CODEP – MNPP, Juan Torres Pereda CODECI, Herzahin
Michel López – COIVO, Artemio Ortiz Hurtado CEND –
SNTE, Sergio Espinal CEND – SNTE; Prof. Antonio Castro
López Secretario General del CEND – SNTE, Prof.
Miguel Guerra Castillo Secretario General del CEND – SNTE,
Prof. Alejandro Trujillo González, Secretario General
del CEND – SNTE, Prof. Eugenio Rodríguez Cornejo CEND
– SNTE, Prof. Jerónimo Sánchez Sáenz
CEND – SNTE, Roberto Palma Juárez ONPP – Morelos,
Arquitecto José Márquez Pérez Presidente
del Patronato Pro Defensa y Conservación del Patrimonio
Cultural y Natural de Oaxaca PRO – OAX y Lic. Hugo Aguilar
Promotor y Defensor de Derechos Indígenas.
Organizaciones integrantes: Observatorio de Derechos Humanos
de los Pueblos; Soldepaz – Pachakuti de España; Red
Latinoamericana de Zurich de Suiza; Alianza por la Justicia
Global, SOA Watch – Observatorio por el Cierre de las
Escuela de la Américas de Estados Unidos; Red de
Colectivos La Araña Feminista de Venezuela, Corriente
Revolucionaria Bolívar y Zamora de Venezuela,
Movimiento Internacional de la Economía de los
Trabajadores de Venezuela; Comisión Multisectorial del
Uruguay; Red de Integración Orgánica – Rio –
Por la Defensa de la Madre Tierra y los Derechos Humanos de
Guatemala; Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones
Campesinas, Indígenas y Negras (FENOCIN) de Ecuador;
Confederación Sindical Única De Trabajadores
Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB); Observatorio de Derechos
Humanos de los Pueblos capítulo Estados Unidos y Suiza;
Campaña Popular Palestina contra el Muro de Apartheid
(Stop the Wall), Coalición de la Defensa de la Tierra
Palestina; Alianza por un mejor Darién – AMEDAR de
Panamá; Movimiento Nacional del Poder Popular –
México (MNPP); Movimiento Nacional del Poder Popular
Zacatecas (MNPP – Zacatecas); Movimiento del Magisterio
Democrático Nacional, Comité Ejecutivo Nacional
Democrático del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de
la Educación en Lucha (CEND del SNTE en Lucha);
Asamblea de los Pueblos en Defensa del Territorio, la
Educación Pública, Laica, Gratuita y los
Derechos Humanos; Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra en
San Salvador Atenco (FPDT-Atenco); Consejo de Defensa de los
Derechos del Pueblo (CODEP-MNPP); Consejo de Organizaciones
Interdisciplinarias Vinculadas por Oaxaca (COIVO); Consejo de
Comunidades Indígenas de la Sierra Sur (COCISS);
Comité de Defensa Ciudadana (CODECI); Consejo de
Organizaciones Indígenas y Populares de Oaxaca
(COIPO)¸ Contingentes del Comité Ejecutivo
Nacional Democrático del SNTE en Lucha (CEND SNTE en
Lucha), Congreso Nacional de Bases, Movimiento del Magisterio
Democrático Nacional: Sección III de Baja
California Sur; Sección V de Campeche; Sección X
de la Ciudad de México; Sección XIII y XLV de
Guanajuato; Sección XIV de Guerrero; Sección XV
de Hidalgo; Movimiento Magisterial Jalisciense, Secciones XVI
y XLVII de Jalisco; Sección XVIII de Michoacán;
Movimiento Magisterial de Bases, Sección XIX de
Morelos; Consejo Democrático Magisterial Poblano,
Secciones XXIII y LI de Puebla; Movimiento Magisterial de
Bases de Querétaro, Sección XXIV de
Querétaro; Bases Magisteriales Democráticas de
Quintana Roo, Sección XXV de Q. Roo; Bases
Magisteriales de Tabasco, Sección XXIX de Tabasco,
Trabajadores del Colegio de Bachilleres de Tabasco;
Comité Estatal Democrático, Sección XXXII
y LVI de Veracruz; Sección XXXVI del Valle de
México; Consejo Nacional de Sistematización;
Escuelas Integrales de Educación Básica de
Michoacán; Colectivo Pedagógico “Francisco
Javier Acuña Hernándezâ€; Promotora del Poder
Popular de Michoacán; Caja Popular de Ahorro
“Emiliano Zapataâ€; Colectivo de Estudios “Ricardo Flores
Magónâ€; Movimiento de Unidad Social por un Gobierno
del Pueblo (MUSOC-GP) Michoacán); Coalición de
Jubilados y Pensionados “Elpidio Domínguez Castroâ€;
Talleres Comunitarios del Municipio de Nezahualcóyotl,
estado de México; Barzón Federación:
Estado de México, Querétaro, Morelos, Veracruz,
Guerrero y Distrito Federal; Coalición Nacional de
Cooperativas y Empresas Sociales (CONACyES);
Organización Nacional del Poder Popular (ONPP);
Organización Nacional del Poder Popular de Morelos
(ONPP-MORELOS); Organización Nacional del Poder Popular
del D. F.; Asamblea Permanente de los Pueblos de Morelos,
Instituto Mexicano de Desarrollo Comunitario (IMDEC); Centro
de Atención en Derechos Humanos a la Mujer y el Menor
Indígena (CADHMMI) y Centro Regional Indígena en
Derechos Humanos “Ñuu-Savi†(CERIDH).
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