National Boricua Human Rights Network

During the Thanksgiving Holidays, the Network sponsored a visit by Clarisa López, daughter of Oscar López Rivera. In addition to visiting her father, Clarisa was able to speak at a charla with the Latin@ Coalition, a group of students from NEIU, DePaul, Columbia College and UIC. After watching the short film on Oscar, “For Those [...]

In July 2009 Jonathan Lizardi, José E. López, and José Luis Rodríguez from the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago and Dan Berger from Philadelphia traveled to Puerto Rico to interview leading figures of the independence movement. Interviewed were Lolita Lebron, member of the Nationalist Party who served 25 years in prison for the March [...]