Crime Against Humanity, Industry Preview: Video
This is the film of the industry showing of Crime Against Humanity shown on January 26, 2008. Visit www.CrimeAgainstHumanity.net for more information on the play and show schedule.
Acknowledgments: Industry Opening
We would like to acknowledge those who came out for the industry preview of Crime Against Humanity at Batey Urbano: Robert Teitel, Producer of Barber Shop and Humboldt Park Sharon King, King Casting Jessica Camacho, Peoples Theater Ivan Vega, Urban Theater Company José López, Puerto Rican Cultural Center Lourdes Lugo, Pedro Albizu Campos High School [...]
Appearances of Puerto Rican independentists postponed
María Vega, El diario La prensa (Click here to read original article) January 12, 2008 New York—In their visits to independentists in New York, FBI agents have been showing “some twenty” photos of activists, apparently recently taken according to leaders of the movement, protesting in front of the federal court in Brooklyn. The three activists [...]
Protest in Puerto Rico in Against the Grand Jury: January 10
Visit IndymediaPR.org for photos on the January 10, 2008 protest in Puerto Rico.
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FBI on fishy fishing expedition
Juan González, New York Daily News (Click here to read the original article) Wednesday, January 9th 2008, 4:00 AM A few days before Christmas, two men walked into Julio Pabon’s sports memorabilia store on E.149th St. in the South Bronx. One of them identified himself as an FBI agent; the other was from the Joint [...]
Statement Of National Lawyers’ Guild, NYC Chapter Opposing Grand Jury Abuse
Bob Boyle January 10, 2008 Originally designed as a Constitutional protection against unsubstantiated charges, the federal grand jury has long been recognized as an investigatory tool of the Justice Department and evolved into a mechanism of repression and abuse. At the request of a prosecutor, a grand jury can summon anyone to appear and testify [...]
NBHRN Condemns Torture on Int’l Human Rights Day
January 2008, La Red On a cold Saturday, December 8, the Peace Pledge sponsored its 5th annual commemoration of International Human Rights Day. Peace Pledge, along with American Friends Service Committee, Amnesty International, Christian Peacemaker Teams, 8th Day Center for Justice, National Boricua Human Rights Network and the National Lawyers Guild held signs, banners and [...]
15th Annual Pancake Waffle Breakfast sponsored by Friends of the PRCC
January 2008, La Red Batey Urbano was the site of this year’s 15th Annual Pancake Waffle Breakfast fundraiser sponsored by the Friends of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Over 250 people ate a delicious vegetarian breakfast and listened to videos of the Puerto Rican political prisoners, Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar López Rivera. The audience [...]
Crime Against Humanity Preview a Success
January 2008, La Red Monday, December 10, International Human Rights Day, over 70 people delighted in previewing a four-scene preview of Crime Against Humanity a play about Puerto Rican political prisoners in general and featuring monologues taken from letters Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar López Rivera wrote to the playwright, who have served 27 and [...]
Holiday Greetings From Carlos Alberto Torres
January 2008, La Red Season’s greetings to you and to all the compañeros(as) in the National Boricua Human Rights Network. May the New Year bring us success in our endeavors, happiness and many victories. Know that I hold you all close to the heart and feel a lot of pride for all your dedication and [...]
NBHRN supports ex-political prisoner José Pérez González
January 2008, La Red Michelle Morales of the NBHRN delivered a check to Dr. Ché Paralitici of the Puerto Rican Human Rights Committee as a donation to the Vieques ex-political prisoner José Pérez González. The donation of a thousand dollars was presented during the conference celebrating the 112th anniversary of the adoption of the Puerto [...]
New York the site of National Meeting: NBHRN and PR Human Rights Committee Discuss Campaign
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NBHRN Sponsors Picket in Support of Subpoenaed NY Compañeros
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Protests announced against the FBI in six states
Jesús Dávila, El diario La prensa (Click here to read the original article) January 8, 2008 SAN JUAN/ EDLP Correspondent—Protests against the Federal Bureau of Investigations, for subpoenas of Puerto Rican independentists to appear before a grand jury investigation of the Popular Boricua Army-Macheteros, will take place in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Illinois and [...]
Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas Three Pro-Independence Activists
Demonstrations In New York and in San Juan, Puerto Rico Pro-Independence, Socialist, Student and Peace Groups Unite to Confront Repressive Wave (January 2, 2008, from press release) The F.B.I. continues its attacks against our people and especially against the Puerto Rican independence movement in Puerto Rico and the United States. In mid-December, 2007, three young [...]