The cast of Crime Against Humanity is holding three shows at Batey Urbano (2620 W Division Street) this weekend to raise money for their trip to Puerto Rico. Please support this amazing work.
President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision.
The National Boricua Human Rights Network (NBHRN) and the Comité Pro Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico (Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico) are filing a Motion to Intervene in the Motion to Quash the Grand Jury Subpoenas served on Tania Frontera and Christopher Torres.
Featuring the film, Through the Wire, and guest speakers Jan Sulser of the Peoples Law Office, Stephen Eisenman of Tamms Year Ten and Johnnie Walker, former prisoner at Tamms.
Please note that Avelino González’s mailing address has changed:
NCI # 357422
PO Box 665
Somers, CT 06071
See the Political Prisoners page for more information about Avelino González Claudio.
National Boricua Human Rights Network (boricuahumanrights.org) hosts Legacies of Corretjer: Narratives of Resistance and Struggle. An evening commemorating the 1980 arrest and incarceration of 15 Puerto Rican political prisoners.
The evening includes reflections from ex-political prisoner Alicia Rodriguez, Grand Jury resister Tania Frontera, coordinator of the Puerto Rican Human Rights Committee Eduardo Villanueva and cultural performances [...]
Crime Against Humanity sponsored by Public Square, filmed by CAN-TV.
The Puerto Rico chapter of the American Association of Jurists will present to the United Nations (U.N.) in June a complaint against the Government of the United States for what they understand to be the execution of Machetero leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Tuesday May 27, 2008
Associated Press
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The Boricua Popular Army The Macheteros warned today that the FBI is preparing for arrests, kidnappings and even acts to “provoke the death” of independentistas and people’s activists.
In a communiqué mailed to the Associated Press, The Macheteros indicated that the supposed “great onslaught of the FBI” comes in the [...]
In the face of dangers posed by the constant detonations in the ex bombing range - an area mined with all types of explosives, including uranium projectiles - the federal and Puerto Rican agencies have allied with the Navy in its desire to eliminate the bombs by bombing us, clean our environment by expelling contaminants into the air and protect our health by increasing the level of military toxics in our geography.
