Puerto Rico News

Balcon de la Dignidad

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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

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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!

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Please make sure to download the letter supporting Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera’s parole effort…


Decided on living life to the fullest

There’s a saying that time spent is time lost, but I think that now, after all those years in prison, I want to live life to the fullest, appreciating every second of the day. I’ve learned to live life, participating in the struggle for our homeland, the cultural struggle.


Décima segunda conmemoración en México del Grito de Lares de Puerto Rico

El pasado 24 de septiembre del año en curso se celebró por décima segunda vez en México la gesta épica libertaria del Grito de Lares de Puerto Rico (23/ septiembre/ 1868). Esta vez en el salón Granma en la sede de la embajada de la República de Cuba en México, en la Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal.


Resolución sobre la contaminación de Vieques por la Marina estaunidense

ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO DE PUERTO RICO 16 ta    Asamblea,  1 ra Sesión Legislativa Ordinaria SENADO DE PUERTO RICO R. del S. 499 19 de junio de 2009 Presentada por el señor Rivera Schatz Referida a RESOLUCIÓN Para solicitar al Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América, Hon. Barack H. Obama, que reconozca los sacrificios de [...]


Vieques documents filed today in federal district court in Puerto Rico

Today, over 7,000 Viequenses who have filed a lawsuit against the U.S Navy for injury and harm to their health filed an Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss in federal district court in Puerto Rico.


We the Puerto Rican People

Puerto Rico has been a colony for 111 years: a humiliating colonial condition in the 21st Century. It is high time that this crime against our people is resolved, resolved and resolved.


Elma Beatriz Rosado Speaks Out on José Figueroa Sancha

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In the struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico, we have suffered mistreatment and unending abuse. It is the truth. But it is also true that we have had triumphs which we are proud of, because we have managed to maintain our identity, our culture, and above all, our dignity.


Alleged FBI pursuit of independentist

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…the incident took place last Tuesday when Cintrón Fiallo was running errands for his work as an investigator…four cars followed him…


Puerto Rico: Surveillance, Violence And Rebellion

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The ostentatious persecution of Cintrón Fiallo— effectuated by four vehicles that surveilled him for hours, from his home and across from his work— took place only a few days after the Boricua Popular Army–Macheteros announced they had penetrated the secret information systems of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


American Association of Jurists calls for release of Puerto Rican political prisoners

The degrading and inhumane treatment constitute violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention Against Torture, the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, and the Principles for the Protection of All Persons Under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment…


Memoria de un ayuno por la libertad

Carlos Alberto Torres lleva 28 años preso y Oscar López Rivera lleva 27 años preso. Avelino González Claudio fue arrestado y espera juicio próximamente. Todos han ido a la cárcel por su creencia en la independencia de Puerto Rico y por su lucha para que los puertorriqueños ejerzan verdaderamente el derecho a la autodeterminación.


Demonstration against the FBI in Ponce

Representantes de diversas organizaciones independentistas, socialistas y de los derechos humanos convocaron ayer, por medio de la Mesa de Solidaridad contra la represión federal, a la marcha…


Lolita Lebron convokes 100 Women for Puerto Rican Independence

In Puerto Rico, we women are fighting for our rights as workers, we are fighting for a healthy environment, for poor and marginalized communities, for the freedom of the political prisoners…


Transgenic Ballad: Biotechnology in Puerto Rico

Carmelo Ruiz Marrero spoke last year on his new book, “Transgenic Ballad”, which he presented at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.