New website for Oscar Lopez Rivera!
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
NBHRN 18th Annual Pancake Breakfast
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.
2012, the year for Oscar López Rivera’s release
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 [...]
Video of OLR mural in Puerto Rico
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).
Why We Celebrate Three Kings Day by Oscar López Rivera
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 [...]
UPR Students create Holiday Mural as present for Oscar López Rivera
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
CALL TO A SEASON OF PRAYER FOR OSCAR LÓPEZ RIVERA
The National Boricua Human Rights Network, the Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience Project, and the Comité Pro-Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Committee) of Puerto Rico join in initiating this Call to a Season of Prayer, which is also co-sponsored by La Capilla del Barrio, the Council for Hispanic Ministries of the Reformed Church in America, Denison Avenue [...]