NBHRN Meets in NYC; Former PPS Present; Adds Chapters to Grow the Campaign to Free Oscar and Carlos
…over 130 community leaders and students came out to brainstorm and plan the campaign for 2010
Oscar Lopez Rivera art on web!…
Oscar Lopez Rivera art on web! Prints for sale at: http://artbyoscarlopez.org! To benefit grandaughters college fund
NEW! Urgent Parole Campaign fo…
NEW! Urgent Parole Campaign for Carlos Torres-new letter at http://boricuahumanrights.org Goal: 10,000 letters in 30 days! Please retweet
Interview with Lolita Lebron by Dan Berger
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 [...]
Octavitas pa’ Avelino
“…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…”
Urgent New Campaign for Carlos Alberto Torres
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
Carlos Alberto petition to the Parole Board
If granted parole, Carlos would be released in April 2010! That’s just a couple of months away!
Harassment of Carlos Alberto and Avelino continues
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.