Black August Statement from Xinachtli

AUGUST 29, 1970 – AUGUST 29, 2023

53RD ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION: NAT’L CHICANO ANTI-WAR MORATORIUM TO END VIETNAM WAR, BLACK AUGUST 2023

SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF RUBEN SALAZAR, DIAZ AND WARD, ASSASSINATED BY EAST LOS ANGELES POLICE DURING POLICE ASSAULT AGAINST PEACEFUL PROTESTERS AUGUST 29, 1970 AS OUR FOREIGN INVADER ENEMIES HAVE UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIED TO EXTERMINATE US AS A PEOPLE, NATION, IN OUR OWN INDIGENOUS HOMELAND, today as these invaders celebrate their 200 year Bicentennial celebrations, turning horrific, Holocaust-type war crimes, masqueraded as “acts of heroism and patriotism,” today modern-day neo colonizers continue to seek to erase our identities,and to bury the ugly stains of their criminal war genocidal history, through their anti-critical race theory fascist movement designed to criminalize study of their ugly, genocidal history, banning educational institutions from teaching said history to students, as their history of enacting “laws” to criminalize our resistance movement continues, such as their Black Codes, Law West of the Pecos, to maintain their grip on political, police powers, as a dominant oppressive class, accusing us of indoctrination of our youth, using reverse psychology to justify their white supremacy, as they feel their system of racism and oppression on a spiral downfall, as they cling to their empire, rooted in settler colonialism, white supremacy and plantation racial slavery that includes their genocidal system of mass incarceration targeting Blacks, Chicanos and indigenous peoples, as its disproportionate U. S. prison industrial complex.

ADDING INSULT TO INJURY, over 25,000 young Chicanos were pulled out of high schools and forced to join the military, or face imprisonment, and shipped off to Vietnam and thrown to the front lines to get massacred by the Viet Cong guerrilla fighters who were defending their own homeland against French and U.S. invaders, as cannon fodder for an unjust, racist imperialist war, manufactured by the U.S war machine in the Gulf of Tonkin to justify imperialist war against the Vietnamese people.

The U.S. has never been held to account for these war crimes, like it has never paid reparations for their institution of slavery, made into “law,” such as pronounced in the infamous Dred Scott case, of the so,-called “run- away slave,” noted as the trigger that sparked the civil war between North and South. It is no secret that, like the war waged against the Black Panther Party, and all other liberation movements that oppose colonialism, capitalism and imperialism within the domestic borders of the U. S, a nation-of state built on enslavement of indigenous peoples, our Chicano liberation, civil rights, anti-war, prisoners’ rights movement organizations were also infiltrated by the FBI under its historic COINTELPRO counterintelligence program of planting informants within our movement to spy on us, wiretap our phones, sending agent provocateurs, to discredit our grassroots leadership circles, and to destroy our movement, as the government did against the NAT’L Chicano Moratorium anti war movement, against the militant Brown Beret formations, the Crusade for Justice, La Raze Unida party chapters, the United farm workers union movement, the sanctuary movement, prisoners’ rights groups, among many other groups the government saw as threats to their hegemonic imperialist power domestically and globally.

The governments’ COINTELPRO program was exposed during the Church Committee hearings in Congress in 1976, as well as through court decisions, such as in the case of the assassinations of Black Panther party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. See Hampton v. Hanrahan, 600 F 2d 600 (2ndCir. 1979) (the origins of COINTELPRO, assassinations of Fred Hampton, Mark Clark during police military attack against the BLACK PANTHER PARTY Chicago headquarters); See also, REQUIEM 29 (UCLA MEDIA CENTER, on documentary on the AUG. 29 MOVEMENT, and the investigation into the police murder of Ruben Salazar, winning the. Atlantic Film Festival Award in 1971).

Today, we join our brothers, sisters in the Black Liberation Movement, and pay special tribute to our Chicano martyrs, such as Ruben Salazar, Diaz, Ward, Ricardo Falcon, the Boulder six (Neva, Reyes, Unna Hurimberto, Francisco, Frank) killed during two separate car bombings in Colorado, May 27 and 29, 1974, to Ricardo Flores MAGON, to Ramsey Muniz, and countless others, unknown, but buried in shallow graves across Texas, victims of U.S. Yankee war crimes of colonialism, as well as the police/military/border patrol/ICE murders of men, women and children, massacred along the military-imposed US/Mexico border from Brownsville, Texas, to San Diego, California, in the ongoing war against Chicanos, Mexicans, that continues today in the occupied territories of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, parts of Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming, lands that belong to the Chicano, Mexicano people.

In support of our inalienable right to dismantle the criminal system of colonialism, neo colonialism, fascism and bourgeoisie imperialism, THIS BLACK AUGUST 2023!!!

LONG LIVE THE CHICANO STRUGGLE FOR SELF DETERMINATION, LAND, INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIALISM!!! FOR THE REUNIFICATION OF OUR STOLEN HOMELAND, DEATH TO YANKEE COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM!!!

FREE THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF AZTLAN!!! LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF OUR CHICANO MARTYRS!!! EL PUEBLO UNIDO, JAMAS SERA VENCIDO!!!

THE CHICANO REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT HAS RESURRECTED!!! MUERTE AL IMPERIALISMO YANQI!!!

– XINACHTLI, FIELD MARSHALL, THE NEW CHICANO MEXICANO MOVIMIENTO DE LIBERACION NACIONAL, TEXAS SUPERMAX CONTROL PRISON, MCCONNELL UNIT, BEEVILLE, TX, USA THIS BLACK AUGUST 2023!!! AUGUST 29, 2023

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