1:23 pm By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico| history · 1 Comment
23 Sep 2008Today marks three years since Rican liberation leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios was murdered by the FBI. It was no coincidence that the FBI chose September 23 as the date of his execution. September 23, 1868 the date that Don Emeterio Betances issued the Grito de Lares, the Independence of Puerto Rico.
Today, activists y amantes de la libertad, call for a day of solidarity with Puerto Rico, a colony hidden behind the name of a commonwealth. A country and a people that are pandered to for votes when needed by presidential wannabes when the island’s very status doesn’t allow for the U.S. citizens by birth to vote for the person under whose laws they must live.
7:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Justice| New York City| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
10 Jul 2008
Via a personal email : We are calling on all members of the HOSTOS GRAND JURY RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN and supporters to make generous donations to cover costs. The grand jury cases have become more complicated requiring hiring of additional legal help to engage in researching, typing and payment of court fees. The legal
team is requesting donations to cover these costs and we need donations to cover the travel expenses of family members from Puerto Rico to New York.
It is imperative that family members be present in these proceedings.
Your donations can be sent directly to the leading legal team: Remember to write on the memo of the check that your donations are for the grand jury resisters legal and travel expenses of the families.
On the letter, write
attention: Grand Jury Resisters
Sent your donations (any amount) to:
Martin R Stolar
Attorney for Tania Frontera
351 Broadway, 4th floor
New York, NY 10013
(212) 219-1919
Susan V. Tipograph
Attorney for Christopher Torres
350 Broadway, Suite 700
New York, NY 10013
(212) 431-5360
resistgrandjury@gmail.com
10:21 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Events| New York City| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
11 Feb 2008There is a call for Ricans and supporters of the Rican independence movement to protest the arrest of Avelino Gonzalez Claudio.
The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
Contact us at ProLibertad {AT} Hotmail.com or at the ProLibertad
Hotline: 718-601-4751. Visit our website: http://www.myspace.com/ProLibertadPicket at 26 Federal Plaza
Jacob Javits fed bldg, either B’way btw. Worth St. & Duane St. nr.
Thomas, or at Lafayette & Worth during construction. TRAINS J, M, Z
to Chambers; 4,5 to Brooklyn Bridge; R to City Hall; #1 to Franklin;
A/C to Chambers; 2,3 to Chambers; N, Q to Canal]Monday February 11th, 2008 at 5pm
FREE AVELINO GONZALEZ CLAUDIO
Bring your flags and your noise makers
The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign denounces this LATEST ATTACK on the
Puerto Rican Independence MovementSince the assassination of Filiberto Ojeda Rios in 2005, the FBI in
Puerto Rico has harassed and assaulted various pro-Puerto Rican
Independence activists in their witch hunt against Los Macheteros; a
clandestine revolutionary independence organization Filiberto Ojeda Rios led.In the past few months, LUIS FRATICELLI, the director of the FBI in
Puerto Rico, has intensified these acts of repression by issuing
Grand Jury subpoenas to three young Puerto Rican Activists in New
York and Puerto Rico.This past Thursday February 7th, the FBI in Puerto Rico arrested
Avelino Gonzalez Claudio, anti-colonial combatant and Machetero, for
his participation in the Wells Fargo Incident in the 1980sThe ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is calling on all supporters of
Puerto Rican Independence to join us as we picket this latest attack
on the Puerto Rican Independence movementNO MORE PUERTO RICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS
FBI OUT OF PUERTO RICO
Via / Personal email
10:08 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Justice| New York City| Puerto Rico · Comments Off
13 Feb 2006 On Friday, February 10, the FBI conducted raids across Puerto Rico in the name of “stopping domestic terrorism”. Besides raiding the homes and businesses of Puerto Ricans without notifying the allegedly self-governing leadership on the island, the Feds also used force against media covering the investigation against Puerto Ricans in favor of independence for the United States colony of Puerto Rico. No arrests were made but at least five homes and businesses were raided. The FBI is said to be investigating members of the Macheteros, also known as The People’s Boricua Army. In September of last year the FBI shot and killed Machetero leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios in a similar raid.
The Puerto Rican community in New York City is outraged at the use of violence against the Rican independence movement and will be holding a rally in front of 26 Federal Plaza today at 4 p.m.
Via / New York Sun
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