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
15 Years of Giving Voice to Women and Transgender Prisoners in California
An interview with Diana Block, Pam Faden, and Dierdre Wilson –three members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, which is celebrating its 15th year with an event in SF on Friday Oct. 14: Silent Arts & Crafts Auction of donations by local artists begins at 6:30 pm; Program at 7 pm; $20 donation, no [...]
Former Political Prisoner Speaks
Puerto Rican Nationalist Carlos Alberto Torres to Lecture on His Incarceration, Political Prisoner Campaigns, and Puerto Rico Thursday, October 6, 2011 by INDY STAFF This week, the UCSB MultiCultural Center (MCC) presents Art as Activism: Political Prisoners, and Puerto Rican Independence, a talk by Puerto Rican independentista Carlos Alberto Torres. Torres will speak about his experiences [...]
Latino Organizations Tight-Lipped On Troy Davis
Author: Adriana Maestas When Troy Davis was executed over two weeks ago, some Latino activists and political observers noticed a deafening silence from the traditional Latino civil rights and legal advocacy organizations. Often, issues that impact the African American community have a similar ring in the Latino community, especially with respect to the criminal justice system. [...]
Obama: Cuba Must Reform Before US Eases Position
Obama: Cuba Must Reform Before US Eases Position Posted Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/09/28/obama-cuba-must-reform-before-us-eases-position/ U.S. President Barack Obama says he will always be prepared to change U.S. policy toward Cuba, but has not seen the steps from Havana that would justify lifting the longstanding U.S. embargo. President Obama made the comment Wednesday during an online [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Que Viva” Groundbreaking for New Housing
http://www.humboldtparkportal.org/news/3021 John McCarron Published: September 21, 2011 The great Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata battled for 10 years (1909-1919) to win liberty and land reform for his country’s poor … but he never did live to see his dream fully achieved. One got the impression, however, that the spirit of Zapata was alive and in good voice [...]
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 [...]
Unknown Boricua: Streaming
Unknown Boricua: Streaming from Juan Sanchez on Vimeo. Juan Sanchez presents a collection of audio clips, images, and transformative ideas of the “Nuyorican state of mind”. The streaming presents the diversity of experiences within the history of Puerto Rico and the United States through a flow of images, languages, and music.
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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.
Solidarity with Carlos Montes
On May 25, the Committee Against Repression held a press conference in Chicago to protest the political attack on Carlos Montes, a long-time Chicano activist and founder of the Brown Berets, a Chicano civil-rights organization. National Boricua Human Rights Network member Alejandro Molina spoke, saying “Under Obama’s administration, there have been more attacks on dissidents [...]
May 29, 2011 Events in the US and Puerto Rico
Across the US, the National Boricua Human Rights Network is sponsoring commemorations of May 29, 2011-the arrest of Oscar López Rivera, Puerto Rican Political Prisoner, Vietnam War veteran, decorated for his valor on the battlefield with the Bronze Star, who also distinguished himself by his ceaseless community work in Chicago’s Puerto Rican community and founded [...]
Freedom Walk Day 5; New Humboldt Park Walkers join Walk; Long Walkers mark Halfway Point
As they end Day 5, Freedom Walkers Michael Reyes Benavides and Matt McCanna reflect on Oscar’s incarceration, while in Humboldt Park, Chicago, Enrique Salgado Jr, has organized a small grouping to walk around the park for the next 4 days, twice a day, in the morning and evening. Ricky has also managed to document the [...]
Cleveland NBHRN in Solidarity with Irish Struggle
Thirty years ago, on May 29, 1981, Oscar López Rivera was arrested for his role in the Puerto Rican independence movement. That same summer, Irish Republican Army members Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, Patsy O’Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Tom McElwee, and Mickey Devine engaged in a hunger strike, refusing [...]
Machetero pleads not guilty; González Claudio awaits bail hearing in Rhode Island (El Nuevo Dia)
By José A. Delgado / Jdelgado@elnuevodia.com May 22, 2011 http://www.elnuevodia.com/sedeclaranoculpableelmachetero-972327.html WASHINGTON – Norberto González Claudio, linked to the clandestine independentista group The Macheteros and arrested a few days ago in Puerto Rico, will be held in a federal jail in Rhode Island awaiting a bail hearing, according to his family. On Friday in [...]
Plowshares Prisoner Helen Woodson to be released
The National Boricua Human Rights Network is urging all to donate to the fund for Helen Woodson, who is due to be released this year after spending 27 years in prison. Please visit The Nuclear Resister at http://bit.ly/g0fEYj to donate. In November of 1984, Helen was part of the Silo Pruning Hooks action. She went [...]
Raid on a Nation
Just days after FBI raids on peace activists in Minneapolis-St Paul and Chicago, demonstrations at FBI offices around the country began to protest this assault on the 1st Amendment.
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.
Mexican Independence Day Celebration
To celebrate Mexican Independence Day, the National Boricua Human Rights Network and Centro Sin Fronteras joined Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez contingent on Saturday, September 18 at the Mexican Independence Day Parade in Little Village.
FBI Raids Minneapolis Activists’ Homes, Targets Chicago and NYC
The warrant hyped potential documents indicating any contacts/facilitation with FARC, PFLP, and Hezbollah – what it called “FTOs” or “foreign terrorist organizations”. It mentioned seeking information on the alleged “facilitation of other individuals in the US to travel to Colombia, Palestine and any other foreign location ins upport of foreign terrorist organizations including but not limited to FARC, PFLP and Hezbollah”.