Archives for the ‘Features’ Category

Legacies of Corretjer • Film by CAN-TV

By miguel • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Features, Political Prisoners, Video

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 • Film by CAN-TV

By miguel • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Crime Against Humanity, Features, Political Prisoners, Video

Crime Against Humanity sponsored by Public Square, filmed by CAN-TV.



You want to just take Oscar with you

By miguel • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Crime Against Humanity, Features, La Red, Political Prisoners

By Samuel Vega
Crime Against Humanity actor Samuel Vega was recently able to visit Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The play is based on a series of extensive interviews with the Puerto Rican political prisoners excarcerated by President Clinton in 1999. What follows is a short reflection.
I get to the prison. As I walk [...]



Crimen contra la humanidad

By miguel • Mar 22nd, 2008 • Category: Crime Against Humanity, Features

Con risas, lágrimas y muchos aplausos, la comunidad boricua de Humboldt Park recibió el 7 de marzo otra presentación anticipada de seis de las escenas que componen “Crimen contra la Humanidad”, obra teatral coescrita por Michael Reyes Benavides, actor, poeta y activista de origen mexicano, y el ex prisionero político puertorriqueño Luis Rosa.