The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign http://www.prolibertadweb.com ProLibertad@xxxxxxxxxxx Bronx 718-601-4751 Manhattan 212-927-9065 New Jersey 201-435-3244 _______________________________________________________________________________ The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is calling on all our allies and supporters to join us in wishing Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera a HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND HAPPY THREE KINGS!! On January 6th, 2006, Oscar will be turning 63 years old!! We encourage all freedom-loving people to write to Oscar and let him know that people are thinking of him. Oscar Lopez Rivera #87651-024 U.S. Penitentiary P.O. Box 12015 Terre Haute, IN 47801 Oscar Lopez Rivera was born in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico on January 6, 1943. At the age of 12, he moved to Chicago with his family. He was a well-respected community activist and a prominent independence leader for many years prior to his arrest. Oscar was one of the founders of the Rafael Cancel Miranda High School, now known as the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School and the Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center. He was a community organizer for the Northwest Community Organization (NCO), ASSPA, ASPIRA and the 1st Congregational Church of Chicago. He helped to found FREE, (a half-way house for convicted drug addicts) and ALAS (an educational program for Latino prisoners at Stateville Prison in Illinois). He was active in various community struggles, mainly in the area of health care, employment and police brutality. He also participated in the development of the Committee to Free the Five Puerto Rican Nationalists. In 1975, he was forced underground, along with other comrades. He was captured on May 29, 1981, after 5 years of being persecuted by the FBI as one of the most feared fugitives from US "justice". Oscar, who has a daughter named Clarissa, is currently serving a 55-year sentence for seditious conspiracy and other charges. He was convicted of conspiracy to escape along with Jaime Delgado, (a veteran independence leader), Dora Garcia, (a prominent community activist) and Kojo Bomani-Sababu, a New Afrikan political prisoner. Oscar was one of 12 Puerto Rican political prisoners offered some form of leniency by the Clinton Administration in the fall of 1999. According to the Chicago Sun Times, he "declined the president's offer, which still would have him left with 10 years to serve on conspiracy to escape charges. Now he faces at least 20 more years in prison. His sister, Zenaida Lopez, said he turned the offer down because he would be on parole. 'Accepting what they are offering him is like prison outside of prison,' she said. Zenaida Lopez said her brother 'was in total agreement' with the decision of the 11 others to take the conditional clemency." Oscar is presently in prison in Terre Haute, Indiana and his release date is 7/27/2027. _______________________________________________________________________________ Vieques Political Prisoner Jose Velez Acosta is scheduled to be released on Jan. 27th, 2006 from prison. We encourage people to write to Jose as well and to wish him a happy and speedy reintegration back into society. Jose Velez Acosta #23883-069 Jose Velez Acosta has family in Puerto Rico and the Bronx. He has three daughters who live with their mother in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was sentenced to 33 months in jail. He will be released on 1/27/2006. José A. Vélez Acosta #23883-069 FCC United States Penitentiary P.O. Box 1033 Coleman, Florida 33521-1033 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help the victims of the Pakistan/India earthquake rebuild their lives. http://us.click.yahoo.com/it0YpD/leGMAA/E2hLAA/xYTolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/