Archive | April, 2008

Photo Archives: Puerto Rican Culture Center

This slide show features PRCC images from the 1970s through 2000s. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

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Lolita Lebron convokes 100 Women for Puerto Rican Independence

In Puerto Rico, we women are fighting for our rights as workers, we are fighting for a healthy environment, for poor and marginalized communities, for the freedom of the political prisoners…

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You want to just take Oscar with you

By Samuel Vega Crime Against Humanity actor Samuel Vega was recently able to visit Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The play is based on a series of extensive interviews with the Puerto Rican political prisoners excarcerated by President Clinton in 1999. What follows is a short reflection. I get to the prison. As [...]

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Puerto Rican patriot Carlos Alberto Torres transferred to FCI Pekin

Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres was transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution at Pekin, Illinois, approximately 2 hours away from Chicago. Carlos has communicated with the Network and indicated that he is in the process of settling in and has received much help from old and new friends. Please note his new address: [...]

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Puerto Rican political prisoner Avelino González Claudio is awaiting bail hearing

Avelino González Claudio is presently incarcerated at the Northern Correctional Institution in Somers, Connecticut, and awaiting trial.

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