April 4: 29 years of Struggle, Resistance and Success
April 4th Commemoration of the Capture of the Patriotas • Join NBHRN on Saturday April 4th, 2009, 6:30pm • Batey Urbano 2620 W. Division
$10 admission
Crime Against Humanity East Coast Tour
Check out the East Coast Crime Against Humanity shows this December!
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.
Clinton clemency flap a non-issue in P.R.
By: Ben Adler May 24, 2008 Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory scheduled to hold a closely watched Democratic presidential primary June 1, is unaccustomed to cutting such a high-profile role in presidential politics. Indeed, you have to look back roughly a decade to find the last time Puerto Rico played a starring role in mainland [...]
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 [...]
Not Enough Space in San Francisco Part 2
San Francisco Not Enough Space Exhibit during May 2006. See Part 1.
April 4th Concert with Orquesta Mapeyé
On Friday, April 4th, NBHRN celebrated the Centennial of Juan Antonio Corretjer with a concert by Orquesta Mapeyé, who along with the Boricua Hip-Hop star, SieteNueve, came directly from Puerto Rico to Chicago.
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 [...]