Socialist International supports self-determination of Puerto Rico and the release of Oscar López Rivera
By InterNews Service Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=16135B9AD122B5C8D38636E88874DC44 San Juan, Jan. 25 (INS).- The World Council of the Socialist International, which just met in Costa Rica, adopted a resolution supporting the self-determination of Puerto Rico and the release of political prisoner Oscar López Rivera, according to today’s report from the Puerto Rican Independence Party [...]
Magna Carta
Fufi Santori January 10, 2012 http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog/1162512/ (Spanish translation follows English) Dear Luis: Pardon the familiarity, but I consider you a young Puerto Rican friend and a decent person. The fact that you are the governor of Puerto Rico, and that I differ with your ideas and beliefs, as well as the way in which you [...]
Oscar López Rivera: circumstances of an incarceration
By Noel Colón Martínez Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 http://www.claridadpuertorico.com/content.html?news=C86A262C00AB65CF505F1A5171FAABA2 The unjust incarceration of our dear friend and compañero Oscar López Rivera will have lasted for 31 years as of 2012. As with Don Pedro, he was accused of seditious conspiracy, which is a type of catchall where a lot of acts and circumstances are [...]
Bendición por Oscar López Rivera
Pedro Rafael Ortiz S. Sacerdote Diocesano Comunidad San Francisco Javier-Parcelas/Navarro Salmo 71 en la liturgia del día de Reyes: “Se postrarán ante ti, Señor, todos los reyes de la tierra”. Y continua, “que en sus días florezca la justicia y la paz abunde eternamente”. Me pidieron que viniera a bendecir esta obra, este mural que [...]
New Progressive Party Sen. Norma Burgos asks for release of Oscar López
By: CyberNews (Spanish translation follows English) January 9, 2012 http://www.noticel.com/mobile/detalle/116155/norma-burgos-pide-excarcelacion-de-oscar-lopez.html On Monday, Senator Norma Burgos submitted Resolution 2538, which asks the president of the United States, Barack Obama for the release of Oscar López, the longest held prisoner in the hemisphere. “Our president has in many instances recognized the right of self-determination of the Puerto [...]
Oscar, On Your Birthday
Juan Santiago Nieves (Attorney) January 5, 2012 http://www.elnuevodia.com/columna-oscarentucumpleanos-1159837.html (Spanish follow English) “And in spite of the fact that here the silence from outside is more painful than the solitude inside the cave, the song of a bird or the sound of a cicada always reaches me to awaken my faith and keep me going.” (Oscar [...]
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 [...]
Officials slam US report on Puerto Rico Police
(AP) SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s Justice Department has denounced a scathing U.S. federal report on the island’s police force even though the governor and other officials accepted the findings and pledged improvements. The territory’s attorneys attacked the federal findings in a court motion this week involving a police brutality suit brought by [...]
Rafael Cancel Miranda habla de Betances en Betances
por Millie Gil El nacionalista mayagüezano Rafael Cancel Miranda ofrecerá una charla sobre el Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances, el Grito de Lares y la relevancia para Puerto Rico del Padre de la Patria, en el Café Betances, en el número 100 de la calle del patricio en Mayagüez, el próximo viernes siete, a las 8 [...]
Puerto Rico – Macheteros Claim Evidence Of Police Bugging
Macheteros Claim Evidence Of Police Bugging FBI Interested In Puerto Rican Nationalist Group By EDMUND H. MAHONY and HILDA MUÑOZ, emahony@courant.com The Hartford Courant http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-machetero-fbi-0902-20110901,0,3620415.story 7:09 p.m. EDT, September 1, 2011 A high-profile Puerto Rican nationalist claims an apparent electronic tracking device he found attached to his car was placed there by federal authorities in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Demand for Oscar’s release stood out during Obama’s visit
By Cándida Cotto, Claridad Newspaper (registration required) Above the servile behavior of the politicians and some pro-statehood followers of the New Progressive Party (NPP) and the Popular Democratic Party (PDP) during the visit of the president of the United States Barack Obama, one indisputable fact that stood out was the consensus that exists among the [...]
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 [...]
Comité Pro-Derechos Humanos presentation to the UN
LA PAZ NO PUEDE SER IMPUESTA POR LA FUERZA DEL ESTADO Señor Presidente, señores delegados. Soy Eduardo Villanueva Muñoz, portavoz del Comité Pro Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico. Comparezco, como tantos años, a llamar la atención, no sólo de éste Comité, sino de la comunidad latina que vive y vota en Estados Unidos, de la [...]
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: [...]
(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 [...]
Viequenses demand Obama keep promises on health issues
13 June, 2011 Members of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques (CRDV) and the Vieques Women’s Alliance will participate in protest actions on occasion of President Obama’s visit to Puerto Rico on June 14. The group will display a banner with the message: President Obama – Keep Your Promise to Vieques: [...]
Balcon de la Dignidad
Colocado hoy, 1 de junio, en el Balcon de Nazario & Santiago/Balcon de la Dignidad! En preparación de la visita de Obama. Gracias al licenciado Juan Santiago Nieves.
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 [...]
Comité Pro Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico inicia nueva etapa en la campaña de excarcelación de Oscar
Comité Pro Derechos Humanos de Puerto Rico inicia nueva etapa en la campaña de excarcelación de Oscar López Rivera colocando pancartas en los puentes de las avenidas más transitadas en el país.
New Video-Last Week of 40,000 Letter Campaign for Oscar!
Please make sure to download the letter supporting Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera’s parole effort…