Revolutionary groups like the Brown Berets, Black Panthers and the Young Lords were seen as a threat to the oppressor nation and were destroyed. organizations were infiltrated and undermined by agent provocateurs, Tio Tacos (Chicano uncle Toms) and the Feds. What destroyed the Chicano Movement of the 1970’s was the state’s COINTELPRO and other methods which sought to neutralize our Movimiento. There is no denying the fact that the SHU has done damage to but something else began to happen that even surprised me, people began to develop under this repression like a nopal growing through concrete. These SHU’s and particularly the torture kamp at Pelican Bay is designed in my opinion to dehumanize us and to destroy our ability of Chicanos to not just endure these horrific conditions and specifically solitary confinement, but go on to struggle and rise up. history would be spearheaded from the SHU’s in Califas. It was no surprise to anyone who is in the pinta or who has ever been to the pinta, that the largest hunger strike in U.S. Anyone who has ever studied the natural laws of development will know that wherever you find the most injustice you will find the most resistance, for this reason I believe that the New Chicano Movement will find it’s fiercest fighters within these torture kamps. This means that within prisons, ground zero for repression and the front line for the offensive that is aimed at can be found in California’s pintas. i.e torture kamps, Chicanos are the largest population being targeted by the state to be sent to the SHU’s. Today California prisons hold the largest prison population in the U.S.
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