The newly formed Orlando Chapter of the National Boricua Human Rights Network will be holding an official Press Conference open to the Public at which time we will present our platform on the release of Oscar López Rivera. NBHRN is a national organization, based in Chicago with chapters throughout the U.S. which defends Puerto Rican [...]
Illustrator Kike has unveiled a new website in support of freedom for Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera. Access it here: http://www.libertadparaoscar.org/index.php
View the video and interview with Miguel Morales of the National Boricua Human Rights Network at the 18th Annual Pancake Breakfast Commissary Fundraiser. The Pancake Breakfast took place Sunday, December 11, 2011.
By Cándida Cotto Published: Thursday, January 5, 2012 http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=AEAA8193B1C4551474375F5C0C417AD8 With the slogan “2012, the year of Oscar López Rivera’s release,” the Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico (CPDH, by its Spanish initials) called on the Puerto Rican people to intensify demands for the release of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera, who this year [...]
From December 23 – 26, 2011 the Vanguardia Artística Revolucionaria collective created a mural for Oscar López Rivera, the longest held political prisoner in the West. View the video by below (in Spanish).
We often hear the comment that Puerto Ricans are up for celebrating just about anything. There are celebrations upon celebrations. The celebration of Three Kings Day is part of our culture and traditions – so it is not just another festive moment in lieu of nothing better to celebrate. For Christians, it’s the day of [...]
December 25, 2011 from Juan Santiago In another grand heroic deed of the youth-students at the UPR, they started working on this mural on Friday December 23, 2011, working from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. They continued on Christmas Eve, Saturday the 24th of December at 9:00 a.m. They worked intensely that day. It was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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