International Human Rights Day

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Interfaith Community to Call for Immigration Reform Across the Country Today

10 Dec 2009

MC_091509_vigil1 Across the U.S. today, International Human Rights Day, faith leaders are gathering in vigils to “Shine the Light” on the need for comprehensive immigration reform. From the press release:

Diverse faith communities in thirteen cities are holding Posadas and prayer vigils during the Days of Action, in an effort to illuminate the plight of immigrant families and spread a message of family unity and welcome during the holiday season.

“Across the nation we are highlighting the plight of immigrant families who are suffering from fear and separation during this season of family unity and hope,” said Alice Linsmeier. “We’ve heard children say that the best present they could get for Christmas would be having their mommy home with them without fear of separation.”

International Human Rights Day : Puerto Rican Political Prisonor Carlos Alberto Torres

4:33 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Justice|Puerto Rico · 3 Comments

10 Dec 2008

Many people are surprised that there are political prisoners in the United States. What? In the home of the brave and the land of the free? Yes, and the overwhelming majority of them are people of color who are incarcerated for the simple fact of wanting freedom and liberty for their community.

One of these political prisoners is Puerto Rican Carlos Alberto Torres. Carlos is scheduled to meet with the Federal Parole Board on Monday January 19, 2009.

Carlos Alberto Torres was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on September 19, 1952. His parents moved to New York, finally settling in Chicago. He studied in the University of Illinois in Carbondale and Chicago. He studied sociology at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Carlos Alberto was involved in the struggles to recruit more Latin@s to the University, against racism, and police abuse. Carlos was one of the founders of the Rafael Cancel Miranda Puerto Rican High School now known as the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School and participated in the Committee to Free the 5 Nationalists.

In 1976, Carlos was forced to go underground and was on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. He was captured along with other comrades and sentenced to 78 years on charges of seditious conspiracy, among other charges.

Although the Clinton Administration offered clemency to 12 Puerto Rican political prisoners in the fall of 1999, no leniency was granted to Carlos Torres, whom prosecutors described as a leader of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), an underground organization which fought for Puerto Rico’s independence in the 1970s and ’80s. His release date is 2024. He is currently in prison in Oxford, Wisconsin.

International Human Rights Day and Plan Mexico

8:33 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism|Justice|mexico|Politics · Comments Off

10 Dec 2008

Today is International Human Rights Day, and all my posts today will focus on the issue of human rights in Latin America and within the Latino community in the United States.

To kick things off, let’s look at Plan Mexico aka the Merida Initiative which would allow the U.S. intervention via so called “anti-drug” aid which really would, as shown in Colombia, serve to suppress and oppress grassroots movements, especially Indigenous movements.

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Posts Tagged ‘International Human Rights Day’

Interfaith Community to Call for Immigration Reform Across the Country Today

International Human Rights Day : Puerto Rican Political Prisonor Carlos Alberto Torres

International Human Rights Day and Plan Mexico

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