BY staff | United States | 7/23/20
In response to the call for birthday greetings for political prisoner Simon Trinidad, The National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera received a video message from freed Puerto Rican political prisoner, Oscar Lopez Rivera.
BY Joe Iosbaker | Chicago, IL | 5/19/17
Rasmea Odeh embraces former political prisoner, Oscar Lopez Rivera, at a rally in Chicago, on May 18. Lopez spent 35 years in a U.S. prison.
BY staff | San Juan, Puerto Rico | 1/31/09
Demanding a halt to the repression of activists working for the independence of Puerto Rico, about 1000 people rallied at the Federal Courthouse here, Jan. 10.
BY staff | Puerto Rico | 12/01/05
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was killed by the FBI on Sept. 23 - a Puerto Rican national holiday commemorating el Grito de Lares (the revolt against Spanish rule in 1868) - at the age of 72.
BY Maria Camargo | Chicago, IL | 10/01/99
Ricardo Jimenez was the first newly freed Independista to speak to the 300 strong rally, welcoming home the patriots who were jailed for fighting against the U.S. colonization of Puerto Rico.
