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About Me

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

My Interests

www.drivemovement.org

I'd like to meet:

Those not afraid to fight for what they believe!---------------------------------------------------- ------gabriel is in the most critical point of the fight for his life. Please donate. Every dollar counts. -------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------Send donations to: GABRIEL GONZALEZ P.O.BOX 71199 SHOREWOOD WI 53211-1199 USA--------------------------------------------------------- -- Or visit: www.gabrielgonzalez.net

Music:

Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Progressive Reggaeton, Progressive Hiphop, R&B, Neo-Soul, JAZZ, Blues, Indian, Bomba y Plena

Movies:

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Make an on-line slideshow at onetruemedia.com

Books:

THE ALCHEMIST (by Paulo Coelho--anything by Paula Coelho), THE PROPHET (by Kahlil Gibran--anything by Kahlil Gabran), SALVADOR ALLENDE READER, CHE GUEVARA READER, WE TOOK TO THE STREETS: FIGHTING FOR LATINO RIGHTS WITH THE YOUNG LORDS (by Miguel Melendez), BLUE RAGE, BLACK REDEMPTION (by Stanley "Tookie" Williams), ASSATA (by Assata Shakur) BLOOD IN MY EYE (by George Jackson), SOLEDAD BROTHER (by George Jackson), REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE (by Huey P. Newton), TO DIE FOR THE PEOPLE (by Huey P. Newton), A TASTE OF POWER (by Elaine Brown), THE EVOLUTION OF GHETTO SYTLE ORGANIZATIONS (Zine by Jose Blaze Cruz), WOMEN IN THE SPANISH REVOLUTION: THE MUJERES LIBRES ORGANIZATION (Zine), YA BASTA: TEN YEARS OF RESISTANCE IN CHIAPAS, NECESSARY LOSSES (by JUdith Viorst), CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD (by Donald Walsch), DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD (Alice Miller) DAYS AND NIGHTS OF LOVE AND WAR (Eduardo Galeano), CHAVEZ: AN INTERVIEW WITH HUGO CHAVEZ (by Aleida Guevara)...And the list goes on...

Heroes:

Salvador Allende (R.I.P.)(Chile Revolutionary President/assassinated September 11, 1973) Mario Benedetti (Uruguayan Revolutionary Poet) Emiliano Zapata (R.I.P)(Founder & leader of the Zapatista Liberation Army/Assassinated) Che Guevara (R.I.P.)(General for the Cuban Revolution/Assassinated in Bolivia) Comandanta Ramona (R.I.P.) (Zapatistas Liberation Army Commander/died of Cancer) Lolita Lebron (Independentista Puerto Riquena Revolutionary Freedom Fighter) Rigoberta Menchi (Guatemalen Fighter for Peace) Adelitas (Women Freedom Fighters from the Mexican Revolution)OTHERS:HUGO CHAVEZ, YOUNG LORDS, TUPAC AMARU,ZAPATISTAZ, ASSATA SHAKUR, AFENI SHAKUR, MARYLIN BUCK, SANDRA CISNEROS, PAULO COELHO. KAHLIL GIBRAN, COMMANDER LEILA KHALED, M TYANLA VANZANT, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., GHANDI, ANGELA DAVIS, OJEDA, EVO MORALES

My Blog

Super Max Security Prisons and the Torture of Sensory Deprivation

Super Max Security Prisons and the Torture of Sensory Deprivation         The U.S. criminal justice system is remarkably ineffective, absurdly expensive, grossly inh...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Thu, 29 May 2008 04:00:00 PST

In Dedication of All Wimyn... in honor of "International Womens Day" March 8

In Dedication of All Wimyn An Open Letter To Men In The Struggle For Any/Every Form of Justice& By Gabriel Gonzalez                ...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:09:00 PST

Kenneth

AN URGENT CALL FOR MAJOR ASSISTANCE FROM THE ATTEMPTED JUDICIAL MURDER OF BROTHER KENNETH "HARAMIA KINASSOR FOSTER" 3 days after an act of insurgency against the oppressive administration, still burn...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:28:00 PST

"The Seconds Theory"

The Seconds Theory     Imagine that you've one a contast, and your prize is that every morning a bank will open an account in your name containing eighty-six thousand four hundred doll...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Tue, 15 May 2007 05:00:00 PST

Letter Writing Campaign

Greetings & Salutations To All: As many or most in the anti-death penalty community know in Texas death row have always been inhumane and deplorable to say the least. As the years have gone by ma...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:25:00 PST

My Children

My Children By: Gabriel Gonzalez As the wave of Life pulsate back and forth The intuit feelings we try to assort While the compulsive pain we try to abort As the pressures bare down and tend to exto...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:40:00 PST

Scrappin'

SCRAPPIN' By: Gabriel Gonzalez I sit here and have to wonder... ...do they think I'm an animal? Do they see floppy ears and a tail? Why does this guard ignore when I ask for my mail? Does he underst...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:04:00 PST

A WORD FROM DRIVE

    After being imprisoned for over a decade, we must say that it is impossible to describe what it is like to deal with the emotions created by being forced to live in a tiny cage on T...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:55:00 PST

Poetry

     The below two poems ("Sold" and "Door") are inspired by childhood friends of mine that I lost to death--not here on Death Row, but in the harsh realms of "Ghetto" Amerika wher...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:01:00 PST

Poetry

The below poem is a personal poem I wrote some time ago in memory of my precious Daughter who died 10 minutes after birth due to breathing complications. She was born two months premature and her lung...
Posted by Free Gabriel Gonzalez!!!!!!!!!! on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:13:00 PST