In celebration of Valentine’s Day, which is always on February the 14th, I understand the meaning of that celebration of love between two individuals to two persons, that part of the love that we had, when we joined unions, when we join marriages and so forth, it could be even of our friendships, that’s okay with me.
But the thing is, what I’m looking at on tomorrow, February the 14th is that there’s also another element to LOVE, in the sense of not being connected to the capitalist markets, not being connected to the capitalist ideology that we have all been indoctrinated with. All liberation movements and oppressed people should look into the revolutionary love that we must nurture between people who love the struggle. People who understand the necessity, especially now in these times of fascism.
Fascism is here, as George Jackson said. People are living butchered lives. Not only that but people are dying for taking the stand in defense of the oppressed, in defense of immigrants, in defense of prisoners, In defense of the poor, in defense of LGBTQ+ community, you know, on and on and on. You know what I’m saying? I mean, you see the brutality, the brutality that’s going on the murderers of innocent people who go into the streets like in Minnesota, like in Los Angeles.
First of all, we must decolonize our mind. Through that process, it’s a dialectical process, because remember the different colonial, neo-colonial system has always defined itself to erase our historical language. To dehumanize, to dehumanize us, first by taking possession of our ancestral lands and then and then conditioning us to be in the mentality of them. To think a certain wait that celebrates capital, and I mean between individual rights. You know this vision of competition, because that’s what that what capitalism is. You compete with individuals. You compete within corporations. The strong will survive. The big fish eats the smaller fish. That’s what capitalism represents.
In my consciousness, it’s freeing myself of that mentality, to embracing that mentality of revolutionary love for our community, for people who are oppressed, for people who are under siege. That’s what I’m talking about. Love for community care for community health, for community unity, for community prosperity for independence from colonialism, capitalism. For establishing a right to autonomy or creating our own spaces. What this campaign is doing here, we are creating our own spaces, which is amazing. I mean, that’s where people power grows. Creating this economy, creating this thing for our own self determination, so we can, so we can, you know, own our own destiny. So we can create our own destiny. We don’t need kings, queens or fascists to tell us how to run our lives. We create our own community. We create our own system of justice. We don’t need the capitalist state, we don’t need the police state to administer justice to our people. We separate ourselves from the capitalist economy. We must create the economy that is helpful to our liberation to our complete liberation from freeing our mind to freeing our labor power.
This is the decolonization we have to go through. And we go through that, realizing our, using the word of Indigenous nations of “right power,” to not only free in our mind, but to create bases—for example, this freedom campaign all of you have created.
This is political re-education—that’s the most important key to our liberation.
That’s why this prison system hates me because they see the revolutionary love that I have for the prisoner class. Those who want to change their life, go through a metamorphosis. Go through a transformation of our souls, of our hearts, of our minds, to stop this state cycle of violence.
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As Xinachtli continues fighting for his humane treatment following revelations in his medical records detailing multiple life-threatening conditions, the situation has become even more urgent.
Since February 25, Xinachtli has had no access to communication after being transferred from the Carol S. Young Medical Facility to the UTMB hospital in Galveston. He is being held in chains, unable to hold or use his tablet, cutting him off from all communication and all his property. He cannot speak to his lawyer. When one campaign member was briefly able to call, they heard him in a severely distressed and concerning state.
The Carole Young unit is refusing to accept him back, and we currently have no information about where he will be transferred next—all while he continues to be denied the medical treatment he urgently needs for his many serious health conditions.
This ongoing torture and repression must be met with a strong public response. We urge supporters to call throughout the rest of the week to demand answers.
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