Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!!

I grew up in a run-down, poverty-stricken neighborhood, where gangs, drugs, prostitution and violence were created by social injustice. A place where I had no role models. I had no parental guidance in my life. Drug lord’s gang members looked for and targeted children like me. A place where one develops a false sense of manhood and lives in a perpetual state of fear.Once veiled by ignorance, my destructive actions were but reflex actions to a hostile social order. Due to this blinding veil of ignorance, the social order of things, though hostile, appeared in no way unnatural to me.I was born and raised seeing only this reality. Never was I admonished that I was born into a predetermined set of social circumstances, arranged by oppressive forces, and devised to make prison and death row the likely fate of the Latino child. Thus, without awareness I was on a track fated for my current confinement: Texas Death Row.Fourteen years ago San Antonio County placed me on death row for a crime I did not commit!There I sat, young, unconscious, and with no idea of where I was or where I was going. That was a decade ago. Today, I can hold my head high and say to the world, “I have embraced the gates of manhood and I am no longer that young, unconscious individual who was sent to death row so long ago under pretentious, controversial, unprecedented circumstances”.While wrongfully convicted and sentenced to die, I have utilized my time as a beneficially as possible via study: Social, Political, Spiritual and Cultural awareness and implementation, introspection, recognition of mistakes and misconceptions of manhood.I am a Latino father of three and a husband to a wife who I love more than anything. I am a prison activist involved in many social causes. I’m a poet and artist. I love to read and write. I spend most of my time writing, reading and seeking to extend myself beyond the limitations of this cruel and unusual confinement of isolation, sensory deprivation, and physical and psychological abuse.They can confine my body, but not my MIND and SOUL.Solidarity, Action and TransformationGabriel Gonzalez---------------------------------------------------- --- ------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------WRITE GABRIEL Gabriel Gonzalez # 521992 Bexar County Adult Detention Center 200 N. Comal San Antonio, TX 78207 --------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------NOT E: I do not have access to the internet. All comments and messages will be printed and mailed to me by the webmaster