Holiday Writing & Commissary Initiative
Write to the patriots! The National Boricua Human Rights Network is initiating a holiday letter and card writing campaign to Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Oscar López Rivera and Avelino & Norberto González Claudio (Addresses below). As part of our annual commissary campaign, the Network has sold pasteles for Thanksgiving, raising over $1000 and is hosting [...]
December 22 Ateneo to dedicate flag-raising to Oscar López Rivera
On December 22, the Puerto Rican Ateneo will dedicate its solemn act of raising the Puerto Rican flag to Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The activity will take place, as it does every year, at noon in front of the historical headquarters in Old San Juan. The family, including his brother José López, [...]
Annual Pancake & Waffle Breakfast and Artisans Holiday Bazaar
To Benefit the Campaign to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Holiday Commissary Sunday, December 11, 2011 9:30am -12:30 pm Casa Puertorriqueña, 1237 N. California For more info contact Michelle at michellem@boricuahumanrights.org
Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Speaks at Evergreen State College
Sat, 10/08/2011 – 3:04pm — Anonymous Puerto Rican history, the struggle for independence! Carlos Torres, 30 years served as political prisoner in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican history, the struggle for independence! Carlos Torres, 30 years served as political prisoner in Puerto Rico. Saturday, October 15 · 2pm, The Evergreen State College, Seminar 2 E1105 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178171868929590 Carlos Alberto [...]
Final Victory for Francisco Torres and the San Francisco 8
“It took over 4 1/2 years to win this case!” said Cisco Torres. Judge Philip Moscone signed and filed an order dismissing charges against Francisco Torres late Thursday, August 18th. Cisco was the last former Black Panther member facing charges in this 1971 case about the killing of a SF Police Sergeant. In 1973 several [...]
Honrarán a los Presos Políticos – El Nuevo Día
Elnuevodia.com This video shares a clip about the gathering in solidarity with Puerto Rico, September 12th and 13th,2011 in Cuba. This gathering represents solidarity in the call for justice for the Puerto Rican political prisoners and the Cuban 5. As the speakers share, commemorating the 143rd anniversary of el Grito de Lares was symbolic and [...]
National Meeting Reignites Campaign to Bring Oscar Home
On August 6, community activists and supporters of the campaign to release Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera, gathered at the Iglesia Cristo y San Ambrosio in Philadelphia for the National Boricua Human Rights Network National Meeting. Attendees journeyed from various East Coast and Midwest cities with the goal of developing an action plan [...]
Conference on Political Prisoners at Hostos College 1993
State Assemblyman Jose Rivera (than a City Councilman) leads a conference on the campaign to free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners at Hostos College on March 13, 1993.
¡Gritando por la libertad!
Celebrating the Grito de Lares-September 23, 1868 Continuing the Campaign to Free Oscar López Rivera Featuring music by: • Buya! • Nuestro Tambo • DJ Xavier Plaza multikulti 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave. Friday, September 23, 2011 9pm-3am Donation accepted Download the flyer and forward to your friends here!
NBHRN & Centro Sin Fronteras welcome Cuba Caravan to Paseo Boricua
A crowd of 50 enthusiastic well-wishers and supporters greeted Father Luis Barrios and the 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba last Sunday, July 10 at the Adalberto United Methodist Church. Pastor and activist Emma Lozano began the event with a service and powerful service linking the Cuba Caravan to the struggle to free the [...]
Rally at Puerto Rico’s Capitol remember UPR strike (PR Daily Sun)
By Rafael Díaz Torres Special to Daily Sun “Prohibido olvidar” (You are not allowed to forget) is the title of a popular tropical song that has served as a “motto” to those sectors that continually resist the fiscal policies of the current government administration in Puerto Rico. A group of university students made sure that [...]
Norberto González Claudio isolated in jail for “safety”!
Norberto Gonzalez Claudio, the 66-year-old Puerto Rican nationalist was held in isolation from other inmates for several weeks, after complaining to supporters about his treatment as he awaits trial in a 1983 robbery because of “safety” concerns, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday. Norberto Gonzalez Claudio, who was captured in May in Puerto Rico, 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 [...]
WBAI interviews Ricardo Jiménez
During WBAI’s 6-hour LGBT Pride Special today (Sun., June 26), at around 2 PM Eastern time, on WBAI (99.5 FM in NYC or streaming live on http://www.wbai.org), OutFM will replay part 2 of the interview recorded in April by Out-FM producer John Riley and Health Action producer Bob Lederer with openly gay Puerto Rican political [...]
N.Y. Friends of Puerto Rico at the United Nations report on UN hearings
After a successful round of hearings at the United Nation Decolonization Committee and reception on Monday, June 20, this is to commend all who contributed to this year’s success through work, presence in the activities or both. The resolution adopted at the hearings, sponsored by five countries, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, once again [...]
Overwhelming Support for UCC Resolution urging freedom for Oscar and Avelino
A resolution calling for the release of Oscar López Rivera and Avelino González Claudio was overwhelmingly adopted at the UCC General Synod in Tampa on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 (see http://www.ucc.org/news/resolution-calling-for.html; Norberto González Claudio was not mentioned because the January 1 deadline for submitting resolutions was several months before his May 10, 2011 arrest took [...]
Oscar exhibits at “Inside Out” show in Vermont
During the month of May, Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera participated in an art exhibition sponsored by Vermont Action for Political Prisoners (VAPP), to raise money for prisoner artists and their prisoner support funds. The exhibition, titled, “Inside Out” debuted at the Through the Music Gallery. The art exhibit was also featured in [...]
Oscar López Rivera Message to Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School 2011 graduating class
For me it’s a privilege and honor to be able to share this moment with you, albeit via the written word. i would like to congratulate the graduating students and wish you much success with your goals and future. I would also like to exhort you not to allow anyone or anything to stop you [...]
Obama visit to Puerto Rico (various) June 14, 2011
Obama in Old San Juan By MARITZA STANCHICH Published: June 14, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/opinion/15Stanchich.html?_r=1&ref=contributors San Juan, P.R. A MONTH of steady rain has brightened the cobblestones of Old San Juan. Now they are as blue as the crabs hawked alongside the coastal roads of this Caribbean territory of the United States. Public employees must have been [...]
Sen. Norma Burgos asks Obama for release of Oscar López
By: Manuel Ernesto Rivera June 14, 2011 http://www.noticel.com/noticia/105995/norma-burgos-pide-libertad-de-oscar-lopez.html Spanish translation follows English Senator Norma Burgos supposedly asked the president of the United States to release independentista prisoner Oscar López, who has been in prison for more than 30 years on a sentence for the theft of a Wells Fargo truck in 1983. [translator’s note: [...]
A visit on Father’s Day: “And grandpa, why can’t I be over there with you?”
The visit from my children, grandchildren and wife should have been a beautiful time to share, a beautiful time of family sharing. And it sort of was… My girlfriend, wife, lover and compañera (the young woman I prefer) and some of my children came from the Borinquen Nation to visit their husband, father and grandfather [...]
(Mexico) Comité Amigos Puerto Rico to denounce US invasion of Puerto Rico
On July 25, the Comité Amigos Puerto Rico will participate in a demonstration denouncing the US invasion on the same date in 1898. Below are the posters for the mobilization and the poster demanding freedom for Oscar, Avelino and Norberto.
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 [...]
National Lawyers Guild Int’l Committee Presentation to the UN
By Jan Susler National Lawyers Guild International Committee Presentation to the United Nations Decolonization Committee Hearings on Puerto Rico June 20, 2011 The National Lawyers Guild was founded in 1937 as an alternative to the American Bar Association, which did not admit people of color. The National Lawyers Guild is the oldest and largest public [...]