Crime Against Humanity at Columbia College
These photos were taken during the Columbia College show on October 16, 2008. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Crime Against Humanity East Coast Tour
Check out the East Coast Crime Against Humanity shows this December!
Blood Dries Black
Michael Reyes’ newest poetical audio work, Blood Dries Black, commemorates the 2005 assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, clandestine leader of Los Macheteros, by the FBI in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico (Ojeda Ríos bled to death). Reyes relates this horrible event to other acts of violence and devastation in Latin America by the United States, painting a [...]
Crime Against Humanity • Film by CAN-TV
Crime Against Humanity sponsored by Public Square, filmed by CAN-TV.
Community Premiere of Crime Against Humanity
On April, 5, 2008, the Batey Urbano and the National Boricua Human Rights Network (NBHRN) debuted their play Crime Against Humanity to the Humboldt Park community. Over 40 persons attended that opening, with such notables attendees as Miguel Palacio of Association House, ex-political prisoner José Luis Rodríguez, Jan Susler of the People’s Law Office and [...]
Crime Against Humanity: April 2008
Imagine 27 years of your life living in a space 6 feet by 9 feet. Imagine being confined in isolation with no human contact. Imagine the shakedowns, the strip searches and the complete disregard for your humanity.
You want to just take Oscar with you
By Samuel Vega Crime Against Humanity actor Samuel Vega was recently able to visit Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The play is based on a series of extensive interviews with the Puerto Rican political prisoners excarcerated by President Clinton in 1999. What follows is a short reflection. I get to the prison. As [...]
Crimen contra la humanidad
Con risas, lágrimas y muchos aplausos, la comunidad boricua de Humboldt Park recibió el 7 de marzo otra presentación anticipada de seis de las escenas que componen “Crimen contra la Humanidad”, obra teatral coescrita por Michael Reyes Benavides, actor, poeta y activista de origen mexicano, y el ex prisionero político puertorriqueño Luis Rosa.
Crime Against Humanity Preview: March 3, 2008
These photos were taken on March 3, 2008. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Crime Against Humanity Preview a Success
January 2008, La Red Monday, December 10, International Human Rights Day, over 70 people delighted in previewing a four-scene preview of Crime Against Humanity a play about Puerto Rican political prisoners in general and featuring monologues taken from letters Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar López Rivera wrote to the playwright, who have served 27 and [...]