Over 30 activists from 5 different cities met in Cleveland last weekend to chart the next stage in tHE campaign to free Oscar López Rivera. Network representatives from Philadelphia, New England, San Francisco, Chicago and Cleveland met at Dennison Avenue United Church of Christ over a full agenda, which included an update on the events in Puerto Rico, a legal update from Oscar’s lawyer, the upcoming elections in the swing states of PA, OH, and FL and the role Puerto Ricans and Latinos will play in them.
The upcoming April 4th commemoration in Chicago, the national May 29th commemorations (the day that Oscar was arrested in 1981) and the introduction of two new educational pieces, a curriculum for HS and university students as well as a slideshow, were reviewed by the body. A national coordinating committee was established and the next meeting was set for the end of March.