Ashanti Alston at Political Prisoners support rally in Mexico

national_jericho@riseup.net wrote:

THE JERICHO MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED “SNAKES” OF
AMERICA SUPPORTS THE STRUGGLE TO FREE THE ATENCO
POLITICAL PRISONERS AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN
MEXICO

July 25, 2006

To you who are the dreamers and keepers of the dreams, the
people's dreams.

To you who picked up arms, pens and the volume of freedom cries.

To you who the hands of the dream-killers have imprisoned from
1994 to Atenco because you dared to follow the leadership of your
hearts along with many other hearts that now sing with freedom
songs. We sing in the African community churches of the United
States: A CHANGE IS GOING TO COME
because GOD DIDN'T BRING YOU THIS FAR TO LEAVE YOU
HERE. And we understand that in all faiths and most (ha! ha!) ideologies.

To you who are POLITICAL PRISONERS, like our own in the
USA, we honor you. We hold you dear in our hearts, the place
where your dreams (which are our dreams) find nurturing embrace
with people in resistance. Dreams that also grow wings in the course
of adversity and fly through the cracks of the walls and bars of your
and our confinements.

It is even under these extraordinary and horrible conditions that we
find each other and inspire each other. What was our isolation is
destroyed that easily, because we know that prison can have no
real victory of us. Our spirit is greater than arrogant political, military
and corporate power-holders who, even behind all of their wealth
and weaponry, fear the wonderful life-affirming power of the people.

To you new human being imprisoned for resistance, I send you the
salute of all the POLITICAL PRISONERS in the United SNAKES
of America, political prisoners who are African, Asian, Latino European,
working folks, gays – ALL DREAMERS – they would want me to say to you:

THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN MAN'S TECHNOLOGY.
IT IS GREATER THAN ALL THE POLICE AND MILITARY IN THE
WORLD. IN FACT, THE MERE SMILE OF A CHILD AND RAISED FIST
OF A SINGLE POLITICAL PRISONER CAN HALT ENTIRE ARMIES OF MACHINE-LIKE NEO-LIBERAL DREAM-KILLERS.

We met your compañeros in San Cristóbal yesterday and saw their wings.
They are fighting for your “return flight”. Isn't that wonderful? What a
glorious revolution of winged hearts. Hold fast – VICTORY IS OURS.

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that
cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field,
Frozen with snow.” —Langston Hughes, black revolutionary poet

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

FREE ALL THE POLITICAL PRISONERS!

THERE ARE WORLDS THAT COLLIDE, AND THERE ARE WORLDS
THAT COMMUNE AND DANCE. WE ARE…. DANCING and
DREAMING TO VICTORIES and IT IS REAL.

Ashanti Alston

Former member of the Black Panther Party/Black Liberation Army,
imprisoned 14 years – USA

Co-chair of the National Jericho Movement (for the freedom of all
Political Prisoners in the USA and its colonies)

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