CMPP 10 Point Program

– The Chicano Mexicano Prison Project (CMPP) is a Project of Uníon del Barrio –

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  1. We recognize that the United States is an illegal settler government that stole our land in 1848 and has oppressed our gente, therefore it has no right to judge or imprison the Mexicano people.
  2. As colonized oppressed people, we are prisoners of this foreign system in our land, and we understand that most Raza in prison are political prisoners.
  3. We understand that capitalism and colonialism are by their very nature breeders of crimes, therefore, if we are to eliminate crime, we must first eliminate capitalism and colonialism.
  4. We understand that the prison industry has become a cornerstone of the U.S. capitalist economy.
  5. We understand that prisons are used specifically to neutralize liberation movements using new and existing laws with longer sentences as a way of eliminating threats to the capitalist/colonialist system.
  6. We understand that the general white population and vendidos (neocolonialists) support the increasing number of prisons being built, as they benefit materially and socially from the incarceration of Raza and other oppressed people.
  7. We must create a system where Mexicanos and Mexicanas accused of crimes can only be tried by revolutionary tribunals consisting of members of  national liberation movements.
  8. We understand that the United States systematically imposed the illegal drug economy in our barrios and it is used to criminalize and lock down our gente.
  9. We understand that the rapid incarceration rate of Raza women is part of the U.S. genocidal strategy to destroy our families and communities.
  10. We recognize that the mass incarceration and criminalization of Raza youth is another form of genocide.

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