Viequenses demand Obama keep promises on health issues
13 June, 2011 Members of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques (CRDV) and the Vieques Women’s Alliance will participate in protest actions on occasion of President Obama’s visit to Puerto Rico on June 14. The group will display a banner with the message: President Obama – Keep Your Promise to Vieques: [...]
Balcon de la Dignidad
Colocado hoy, 1 de junio, en el Balcon de Nazario & Santiago/Balcon de la Dignidad! En preparación de la visita de Obama. Gracias al licenciado Juan Santiago Nieves.
National Lawyers Guild Int’l Committee Presentation to the UN
By Jan Susler National Lawyers Guild International Committee Presentation to the United Nations Decolonization Committee Hearings on Puerto Rico June 20, 2011 The National Lawyers Guild was founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association, which did not admit people of color. The National Lawyers Guild is the oldest and largest public [...]
Solidarity with Carlos Montes
On May 25, the Committee Against Repression held a press conference in Chicago to protest the political attack on Carlos Montes, a long-time Chicano activist and founder of the Brown Berets, a Chicano civil-rights organization. National Boricua Human Rights Network member Alejandro Molina spoke, saying “Under Obama’s administration, there have been more attacks on dissidents [...]
Highlights of May 29 events!
Cleveland short video: On Saturday, May 28, the Cleveland Chapter of the National Boricua Human Rights Network and the Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience Project sponsored an afternoon of drumming and spiritual renewal to call for the release of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera on the eve of the 30th anniversary of his arrest. [...]
May 29, 2011 Events in the US and Puerto Rico
Across the US, the National Boricua Human Rights Network is sponsoring commemorations of May 29, 2011-the arrest of Oscar López Rivera, Puerto Rican Political Prisoner, Vietnam War veteran, decorated for his valor on the battlefield with the Bronze Star, who also distinguished himself by his ceaseless community work in Chicago’s Puerto Rican community and founded [...]
Freedom Walk Day 9; 30 miles away from La Casita; pics and video!
The small but determined group of walkers that left this morning to join Michael and Matt on the last leg of the Freedom Walk 2011, made up for their numbers by their enthusiasm and by showing all who were walking their specially printed Oscar shirts. This group will walk 15 miles today and return tomorrow [...]
Freedom Walk Day 8; Samuel Vega joins Michael and Matt
On Day 8 of the Freedom Walk, Michael and Matt were joined by Samuel Vega, who recently finished his 1 year Pritzker Fellowship with National Public Radio. See Sammy as he begins the walk: Also, Michael and Matt reflected on the the toll the walk has taken on them, but that they are looking forward [...]
Freedom Walk Day 7; new Humboldt Park videos, pics and video
From Enrique Salgado Jr, one of the Humboldt Park Walkers on his Wednesday afternoon walk: This morning I walked alone. This evening I walked with my three year old son, who bike two miles on his tricycle in solidarity with the Freedom Walk for Oscar Lopez Rivera. It was one of my proudest moments…to be [...]
May 29th, 2011-We Walk, Bike, Pray & Rally for Oscar’s Freedom!
URGENT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY! All out to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the arrest and imprisonment of OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA What you can do: Walk on Saturday and Sunday, May 28 & 29th A group of 20 people will be walking 30 miles from Indiana to Chicago on Saturday and Sunday (15 miles a day). [...]
Freedom Walk Day 6; Humboldt Park afternoon walk, pics and videos
Wednesday, May 25, Michael and Matt walked another 21 miles, getting to with 80 miles of Chicago, and expect to reach Highland, IN, where they will be joined by over another 20 Freedom Walkers on Saturday, May 28, to finish the last 30 miles and arrive at the Unity Ecumenical Service on Sunday, May 29, [...]
Freedom Walk Day 5; New Humboldt Park Walkers join Walk; Long Walkers mark Halfway Point
As they end Day 5, Freedom Walkers Michael Reyes Benavides and Matt McCanna reflect on Oscar’s incarceration, while in Humboldt Park, Chicago, Enrique Salgado Jr, has organized a small grouping to walk around the park for the next 4 days, twice a day, in the morning and evening. Ricky has also managed to document the [...]
Freedom Walk Day 4, pics and video
Yesterday, Michael Reyes Benavides and Matt McCanna, the Freedom Walkers journeyed another 22 miles, the longest one day hike so far, to get within 106 miles of Chicago. Michael also made an appeal for interested individuals to join them this Saturday and Sunday, to walk the last 30 miles to Chicago. To register for the [...]
Cleveland NBHRN in Solidarity with Irish Struggle
Thirty years ago, on May 29, 1981, Oscar López Rivera was arrested for his role in the Puerto Rican independence movement. That same summer, Irish Republican Army members Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Tom McElwee, and Mickey Devine engaged in a hunger strike, refusing [...]
Freedom Walk Day 3, pics & video
Today the Freedom Walkers, Michael Reyes Benavides and Matt McCanna, trekked another 20 miles as they continued toward Chicago. Michael Reyes writes in his blog, reyes.com, a post titled “200 Miles to Freedom: 2nd Annual Freedom Walk: Terre Haute, IN to Chicago, IL In response to the 30th year of incarceration of Puerto Rican Political [...]
Machetero pleads not guilty; González Claudio awaits bail hearing in Rhode Island (El Nuevo Dia)
By José A. Delgado / Jdelgado@elnuevodia.com May 22, 2011 http://www.elnuevodia.com/sedeclaranoculpableelmachetero-972327.html WASHINGTON – Norberto González Claudio, linked to the clandestine independentista group The Macheteros and arrested a few days ago in Puerto Rico, will be held in a federal jail in Rhode Island awaiting a bail hearing, according to his family. On Friday in [...]
Norberto González Claudio biography
Biography of Norberto González Claudio Born in Vega Baja on May 27, 1945, the second youngest of 6 siblings: 2 women, Mercedes and María Magdalena, and 3 men, Avelino, Orlando and Wilfredo. He lived in the neighborhood of Almirante Sur with his mother Cristina Claudio Narváez and his father Antonio González Vega until he [...]
Freedom Walk Day 2, pictures & video
Today, Saturday, May 21, the Freedom Walkers (Michael Reyes Benavides, Matt McCanna) got 20 miles closer to Chicago, where they will meet another 30 Freedom Walkers 30 miles from Chicago on Saturday, May 28 as they arrive at the Unity Ecumenical Service on Sunday, May 29 (the day of Oscar’s arrest and subsequent imprisonment for [...]
May 29 Commemorative Event in New York
The NYC National Boricua Human Rights Network will co-sponsor a unitary march, letter signing and cultural program on Sat, 5-28. For more information, nyc@boricuahumanrights.org Community March for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Marcha de la Comunidad por la Libertad de los Presos Politicos Puertorriqueños Saturday May 28th 2011, 12:00 pm Gather at La Casita de [...]
May 29 Commemorative Event in Cleveland
Sponsored by the Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience Project (IPOC) and the National Boricua Human Rights Network (NBHRN). Download the flyer here.
May 29 Commemorative Events in Chicago
An update on the day’s program for Chicago as we head toward the events commemorating May 29, 2011 (the day of Oscar’s arrest and subsequent imprisonment for the last 30 years), 1) Arrival of the Freedom Walkers Over 30 Freedom Walkers will be arriving to the Unity Ecumenical Service, several of which will have marched [...]
Freedom Walk-Day 1! Pictures and Video
The Freedom Walkers, Michael Reyes and Matt McCanna, began their journey from Terre Haute today, walking 30 miles today! In response to the 30th year of incarceration of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, the National Boricua Human Rights Network would like to announce the Freedom Walk. Members of the NBHRN have committed themselves [...]
Parole Board decision negative; ignores own guidelines in justifying 15 more years for Oscar López Rivera
May 10, 2011 Today, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the arrest of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera, the U.S. Parole Commission issued a decision denying his petition to reconsider the February 18 ruling denying parole. The Commission justified its decision by assigning him responsibility for conduct he was never accused [...]
Action Alert! RIGHT WING CAMPAIGNING AGAINST OSCAR’S PAROLE APPEAL
As the right-wing mobilizes against Oscar’s parole appeal, we must increase our efforts. Please do the following immediately and every day until we hear of a decision. Download the letter to fax here and the sample phone script here. WE CAN FREE OSCAR, Alejandro Luis Molina Apparently the Parole Commission has notified the “victims” that [...]