National Boricua Human Rights Network

…over 130 community leaders and students came out to brainstorm and plan the campaign for 2010

Oscar Lopez Rivera art on web! Prints for sale at: http://artbyoscarlopez.org! To benefit grandaughters college fund

NEW! Urgent Parole Campaign for Carlos Torres-new letter at http://boricuahumanrights.org Goal: 10,000 letters in 30 days! Please retweet

In July 2009 Jonathan Lizardi, José E. López, and José Luis Rodríguez from the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago and Dan Berger from Philadelphia traveled to Puerto Rico to interview leading figures of the independence movement. Interviewed were Lolita Lebron, member of the Nationalist Party who served 25 years in prison for the March [...]

“…you represent a ray of hope and encouragement to persevere and continue fighting…I am physically far from my country, but I carry it in my soul…”

The Parole Commission will make the final decision, hopefully within the next 30 days. There is still time to write to the Parole Commission to urge them to release Carlos Alberto. Download new sample letter

If granted parole, Carlos would be released in April 2010! That’s just a couple of months away!

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) of the United States government continues to obstruct the parole of Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres, while Torres is supposedly set for a hearing with the U.S. Parole Commission’s (USPC) hearing examiner next Tuesday, January 19.

Bill Sutherland Passes On Papa Bill left us in the evening of Saturday, 2nd January 2010. We were always aware of his many dear friends from all over the world who were brought into the fold of our family. So ‘condolences to you and condolences to us,’ as we say in Ghana. Arrangements for memorial activities in [...]