Type: Meetings - Convention
Network: Global
Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Location: HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
We are making a call to all Puerto Rican and other community leaders for the support in the release of the Puerto Rican political prisoners, Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar Lopez. Both are serving close to 30 years in prison under the charges of seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the Puerto Rican Independence movement. Due out in 2023 and 2024, their sentences are clearly disproportionate and have already served longer sentences than people convicted of murder, rape, robbery and other crimes. In 1999, President Clinton granted conditional pardon to 11 of their other compatriots after serving 16 and 20 years in prison as a result of a successful international campaign which included support from President Jimmy Carter, the late Coretta Scott King and Bishop Desmond Tutu. WE NEED TO BRING OUR COMPAÑEROS HOME!!!
The National Boricua Human Rights Network will be hosting an organizers' conference on December 12th in order to advance the national campaign for the release of the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners. We will have workshops discussing ways to further organize, re-energize and campaign for the release of the prisoners. At this event community leaders will have the opportunity to publicly announce their support by endorsing our petition to President Barack H. Obama. We hope you could be one of them.
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