Send a birthday greeting to Ricardo Palmera, the kidnapped Colombian rebel locked in a U.S. Supermax
BY Staff | United States | 7/29/10
The National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera is calling on supporters to send birthday cards to Ricardo Palmera, a Colombian revolutionary and prisoner of the U.S. Empire. July 30th, 2010, marks Professor Palmera’s 60th birthday, which he will celebrate alone in a Colorado Supermax prison.
BY Staff | United States | 7/19/10
The struggle to support Colombian revolutionary Ricardo Palmera and to oppose Facebook censorship continues, with a new campaign launched July 18.
BY Staff | United States | 3/24/10
The National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera is launching a petition campaign targeting U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The National Committee is demanding the U.S. government immediately release the Colombian revolutionary and stop violating Palmera’s human rights.
BY Staff | United States | 3/05/10
Tom Burke, spokesperson for the National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera, urgently requests, “Help and aid from Americans, Colombians, and the international community to stop a crime.”
BY Mick Kelly | United States | 12/16/09
Speaking with Fight Back! Dec. 15, a leader of the U.S.-based National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera, Tom Burke, slammed a Nov. 12 lawsuit filed in Florida Middle District Court against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
BY Staff | Colombus, GA | 11/20/09
The following flier will be distributed at the School of Americas Protest in Columbus Georgia on Nov. 21.
BY Staff | United States | 4/01/09
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call from the National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera.
BY National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera | United States | 9/11/08
Colombian revolutionary Ricardo Palmera is now imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado, as reported by the Spanish EFE news service in August.
BY Mick Kelly | Washington, D.C. | 4/21/08
In stunning defeat for the Bush administration, the attempt to frame Colombian rebel Ricardo Palmera on drug trafficking charges ended with a hung jury in Federal Court here, April 21.
BY Staff | Washington, D.C. | 4/15/08
Fight Back! interviews Kati Ketz, who attended the trial of Ricardo Palmera here, April 8.
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