Oscar López Rivera Fasts in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
Oscar will be fasting on Dec. 10th – International Human Rights Day. He’ll start it the evening of the 9th, and is inviting every person who loves freedom and justice and believes that a better and more just world is possible to join him. The fast is in solidarity with the OWS movement and the [...]
Holiday Writing & Commissary Initiative
Write to the patriots! The National Boricua Human Rights Network is initiating a holiday letter and card writing campaign to Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Oscar López Rivera and Avelino & Norberto González Claudio (Addresses below). As part of our annual commissary campaign, the Network has sold pasteles for Thanksgiving, raising over $1000 and is hosting [...]
December 22 Ateneo to dedicate flag-raising to Oscar López Rivera
On December 22, the Puerto Rican Ateneo will dedicate its solemn act of raising the Puerto Rican flag to Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The activity will take place, as it does every year, at noon in front of the historical headquarters in Old San Juan. The family, including his brother José López, [...]
Annual Pancake & Waffle Breakfast and Artisans Holiday Bazaar
To Benefit the Campaign to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Holiday Commissary Sunday, December 11, 2011 9:30am -12:30 pm Casa Puertorriqueña, 1237 N. California For more info contact Michelle at michellem@boricuahumanrights.org
Conference on Political Prisoners at Hostos College 1993
State Assemblyman Jose Rivera (than a City Councilman) leads a conference on the campaign to free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners at Hostos College on March 13, 1993.
¡Gritando por la libertad!
Celebrating the Grito de Lares-September 23, 1868 Continuing the Campaign to Free Oscar López Rivera Featuring music by: • Buya! • Nuestro Tambo • DJ Xavier Plaza multikulti 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave. Friday, September 23, 2011 9pm-3am Donation accepted Download the flyer and forward to your friends here!
NBHRN & Centro Sin Fronteras welcome Cuba Caravan to Paseo Boricua
A crowd of 50 enthusiastic well-wishers and supporters greeted Father Luis Barrios and the 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba last Sunday, July 10 at the Adalberto United Methodist Church. Pastor and activist Emma Lozano began the event with a service and powerful service linking the Cuba Caravan to the struggle to free the [...]
Rally at Puerto Rico’s Capitol remember UPR strike (PR Daily Sun)
By Rafael Díaz Torres Special to Daily Sun “Prohibido olvidar” (You are not allowed to forget) is the title of a popular tropical song that has served as a “motto” to those sectors that continually resist the fiscal policies of the current government administration in Puerto Rico. A group of university students made sure that [...]
Norberto González Claudio isolated in jail for “safety”!
Norberto Gonzalez Claudio, the 66-year-old Puerto Rican nationalist was held in isolation from other inmates for several weeks, after complaining to supporters about his treatment as he awaits trial in a 1983 robbery because of “safety” concerns, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday. Norberto Gonzalez Claudio, who was captured in May in Puerto Rico, was [...]
Demand for Oscar’s release stood out during Obama’s visit
By Cándida Cotto, Claridad Newspaper (registration required) Above the servile behavior of the politicians and some pro-statehood followers of the New Progressive Party (NPP) and the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) during the visit of the president of the United States Barack Obama, one indisputable fact that stood out was the consensus that exists among the [...]
Chicago Student Film Project on OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA
This video is by Matt McCanna, a 19 year film major at Columbia College Chicago. From Matt: “I decided to make this documentary due to my concern about the general lack of knowledge the public has to the issue of the colonial status of Puerto Rico. However this documentary mainly focuses on the unjustly imprisonment [...]
WBAI interviews Ricardo Jiménez
During WBAI’s 6-hour LGBT Pride Special today (Sun., June 26), at around 2 PM Eastern time, on WBAI (99.5 FM in NYC or streaming live on http://www.wbai.org), OutFM will replay part 2 of the interview recorded in April by Out-FM producer John Riley and Health Action producer Bob Lederer with openly gay Puerto Rican political [...]
N.Y. Friends of Puerto Rico at the United Nations report on UN hearings
After a successful round of hearings at the United Nation Decolonization Committee and reception on Monday, June 20, this is to commend all who contributed to this year’s success through work, presence in the activities or both. The resolution adopted at the hearings, sponsored by five countries, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, once again [...]
Overwhelming Support for UCC Resolution urging freedom for Oscar and Avelino
A resolution calling for the release of Oscar López Rivera and Avelino González Claudio was overwhelmingly adopted at the UCC General Synod in Tampa on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 (see http://www.ucc.org/news/resolution-calling-for.html; Norberto González Claudio was not mentioned because the January 1 deadline for submitting resolutions was several months before his May 10, 2011 arrest took [...]
Oscar exhibits at “Inside Out” show in Vermont
During the month of May, Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera participated in an art exhibition sponsored by Vermont Action for Political Prisoners (VAPP), to raise money for prisoner artists and their prisoner support funds. The exhibition, titled, “Inside Out” debuted at the Through the Music Gallery. The art exhibit was also featured in [...]
Comité Pro-Derechos Humanos presentation to the UN
LA PAZ NO PUEDE SER IMPUESTA POR LA FUERZA DEL ESTADO Señor Presidente, señores delegados. Soy Eduardo Villanueva Muñoz, portavoz del Comité Pro Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico. Comparezco, como tantos años, a llamar la atención, no sólo de éste Comité, sino de la comunidad latina que vive y vota en Estados Unidos, de la [...]
Oscar López Rivera Message to Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School 2011 graduating class
For me it’s a privilege and honor to be able to share this moment with you, albeit via the written word. i would like to congratulate the graduating students and wish you much success with your goals and future. I would also like to exhort you not to allow anyone or anything to stop you [...]
Obama visit to Puerto Rico (various) June 14, 2011
Obama in Old San Juan By MARITZA STANCHICH Published: June 14, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/opinion/15Stanchich.html?_r=1&ref=contributors San Juan, P.R. A MONTH of steady rain has brightened the cobblestones of Old San Juan. Now they are as blue as the crabs hawked alongside the coastal roads of this Caribbean territory of the United States. Public employees must have been [...]
Sen. Norma Burgos asks Obama for release of Oscar López
By: Manuel Ernesto Rivera June 14, 2011 http://www.noticel.com/noticia/105995/norma-burgos-pide-libertad-de-oscar-lopez.html Spanish translation follows English Senator Norma Burgos supposedly asked the president of the United States to release independentista prisoner Oscar López, who has been in prison for more than 30 years on a sentence for the theft of a Wells Fargo truck in 1983. [translator’s note: [...]
A visit on Father’s Day: “And grandpa, why can’t I be over there with you?”
The visit from my children, grandchildren and wife should have been a beautiful time to share, a beautiful time of family sharing. And it sort of was… My girlfriend, wife, lover and compañera (the young woman I prefer) and some of my children came from the Borinquen Nation to visit their husband, father and grandfather [...]
(Mexico) Comité Amigos Puerto Rico to denounce US invasion of Puerto Rico
On July 25, the Comité Amigos Puerto Rico will participate in a demonstration denouncing the US invasion on the same date in 1898. Below are the posters for the mobilization and the poster demanding freedom for Oscar, Avelino and Norberto.
National Lawyers Guild-Chicago hosts Quarterly Meeting in Paseo Boricua
The Chicago chapter of the National Lawyers Guild hosted an event open to all members at Nellies Restaurant on Paseo Boricua on June 3, 2011 in order to kick off quarterly meetings of the chapter. Attorney and Chapter Board Member Melinda Power introduced the speakers and explained that the meeting was held in the Puerto [...]
Avelino parole hearing with Vista Probatoria
Spanish follows English version Avelino writes: To: My Wife, Children, Family and Friends, On May 27, 2011, I went to a hearing to see if they would grant me a discretionary parole prior to Mandatory Parole. Discretionary parole covers the period after serving 28 months of my sentence. After 56 months comes the [...]
Oscar López presente en Nueva York
El pasado 3 de junio de 2011 se celebraron los 40 años de aportaciones a la música nacional puertorriqueña de Andrés Jiménez, El Jibaro ante un auditorio lleno a capacidad en el Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture del Hostos Communitty College, en la ciudad de Nueva York. La actividad fue auspiciada por el [...]