…over 130 community leaders and students came out to brainstorm and plan the campaign for 2010
…The ten year anniversary will thus be marked by celebration of the historic accomplishment of their release, and by a redoubling of our efforts to bring Oscar and Carlos Alberto home.
Tania Frontera and Christopher Torres’ grand jury subpoenas have not been dropped. The government finally did respond to the defendant’s motion…
On April 4, 2009, the National Boricua Human Rights Network (NBHRN) held its annual activity to commemorate the capture of the Puerto Rican political prisoners – which took place on April 4, 1980.
David was not the first Viequense to die at the hands of the military; however, his death was the “drop that overflowed the cup” of more than sixty years of military occupation of three fourths of Vieques’ land…
In almost three decades of incarceration, Bashir, a devout Muslim, applied his religious and political principles to the struggle against injustice and racism behind the walls…
A 72 hour fast to demand the release of three Puerto Rican political prisoners will be
the next step of the Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico, in the campaign for the
freedom of prisoners Oscar López Rivera, Carlos Alberto Torres and Avelino González
Claudio.
“They are prisoners for their struggle for the (political) freedom of [...]
On April 4, over 200 people crowded into Casa Puertorriqueña for the National Boricua Human Rights Network’s (NBHRN) annual fundraiser, entitled “Legacies of Corretjer: Narratives of Resistance and Struggle.”
Qwusu Yaki Yakubu (aka James Sayles) was an extraordinary human being. He died on March 28, 2008, at age 60 after spending almost 40 years in prison. Yaki was a revolutionary, a nationalist and an internationalist in the spirit of Malcolm X. He was an activist and theoretician, and a writer and editor of several [...]
On April, 5, 2008, the Batey Urbano and the National Boricua Human Rights Network (NBHRN) debuted their play Crime Against Humanity to the Humboldt Park community. Over 40 persons attended that opening, with such notables attendees as Miguel Palacio of Association House, ex-political prisoner José Luis Rodríguez, Jan Susler of the People’s Law Office [...]
