[Occupymendocino] maybe more readable..... International Solidarity with Colombian and North American Prison Strikes]

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Fri Sep 7 01:06:52 PDT 2018 

MAYBE this is a more readable forward....

Nancy



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Subject: International Solidarity with Colombian and North American Prison
Strikes
From:    "Worker to Worker - afgj Obrero a Obrero" <workertoworker at gmail.com>
Date:    Fri, September 7, 2018 12:12 am
To:      lasolidarity at lists.mayfirst.org
         "Tucson Activist Network" <tucsonactivistnetwork at yahoogroups.com>
         colombia-afgj at googlegroups.com
         "Allforglobaljustice" <allforglobaljustice at googlegroups.com>
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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!
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We, the People’s Human Rights Observatory (Observatorio de los Derechos
Humanos) <http://codepappo.org/CODEP-MNPP/observatorio-d-h-de-los-pueblos/>,
declare our solidarity with the worldwide resistance to prison imperialism
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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 Hernández”; Promotora del Poder Popular de
Michoacán; Caja Popular de Ahorro “Emiliano Zapata”; Colectivo de
Estudios
“Ricardo Flores Magón”; Movimiento de Unidad Social por un Gobierno del
Pueblo (MUSOC-GP) Michoacán); Coalición de Jubilados y Pensionados
“Elpidio
Domínguez Castro”; 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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