Repression / Grand Jury Resistance: - Jan 10 - City Hall, NYC
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Repression / Grand Jury Resistance: - Jan 10 - City Hall, NYC
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Hostos January 11 Grand Jury Resistance Campaign
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Jan 9, 2008
CONTACT: 646-233-2028
resistg...@gmail.com
FAMILIES, FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS OF SUBPOENAED PUERTO RICANS
TO CALL ON FEDERAL GRAND JURY TO STOP THE REPRESSION
On Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 11 am on the steps of
City Hall, Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito, State
Senator Jose Rivera, National Lawyers Guild Chairperson
Bob Boyle, and Father Luis Barrios, will join other
elected officials, community leaders, friends, family and
supporters of three Puerto Ricans subpoenaed by a Federal
Grand Jury to demand an end to the repression against them
and all Puerto Ricans. They will also call on all New
Yorkers concerned about civil and human rights to join
them at a rally in front of the Brooklyn Federal Court at
9:30 am on Friday, January 11, 2008.
The press conference will coincide with similar acts and
rallies in San Juan and Vieques in Puerto Rico,
Philadelphia, PA, Orlando, FL, Chicago IL, Cleveland OH,
Los Angeles, CA and Fitchburg, MA among several cities in
the United States. Christopher Torres, Tania Frontera and
Julio Antonio Pabon, Jr. have been ordered to appear
before the Grand Jury at the Brooklyn Federal Court on
January 11, 2008.
Puerto Rican activists in New York and Puerto Rico
maintain that the subpoenas are part of a larger,
systematic campaign to repress the independence movement
in Puerto Rico and instill fear and discord among its
allies and supporters. Its the latest chapter of a long
history of repression waged against Puerto Rican
activists.
WHAT: Elected officials, community leaders, family and
friends and supporters of subpoenaed Puerto Ricans demand
an end to the repression
WHEN: Thursday, January 10, 2008
11 am
WHERE: Steps of City Hall
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