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Statement of solidarity with Oscar Lopez Rivera and the Puerto Rican Parade By the New Afrikan People’s Organization & the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

The New Afrikan People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement stand in solidarity with the decision to honor former Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar LopezRivera at this year’s annual Puerto Rican Day Parade. For 60 years, the parade has been collective expression of pride and resilience for a nation unjustly held as a colony by the united states for 119 years. Initially created by and for those Puerto Ricans forced to abandon their homeland in the hopes of attaining refuge from the same state sanctioned violence and debt slavery New Afrikans escaped in the South, the parade was a vibrant display of dignity for a people who took to 5th avenue year after year to reaffirm their Puerto Rican nationhood. For 119 years the united states government has enacted a terror campaign on the Puerto Rican people, using them as lab rats for pharmaceutical experiments, cannon fodder for imperialist wars, murdering them for expressing their desire to be free and sterilizing their women against their will. Imposing American citizenship on a people who never asked for it, under the Jones Act of 1917, condemned Puerto Ricans to the role of perpetual second class citizens. Today, the country is crippled by a Wall Street-backed economic debt crisis that seeks to not only blame the Puerto Rican people for the collapse of their economy, but aims to make them give up their land and resources to american hedge funders and banks as a payment strategy developed by the corporate-backed Fiscal Control Board empowered to rule over the island. For 36 years, Oscar Lopez Rivera was held captive by the United States for his involvement in the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. As a member of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) he joined his comrades in a global wave of anti-colonial struggle to liberate not only Puerto Rico, but the captive nations of the global south and those residing inside the united states. Serving time alongside our captive New Afrikan prisoners, Oscar Lopez Rivera demonstrated the mutual respect and solidarity that always existed between our two nations, a bond born out of struggle and blood, under the empire of the united states. As corporations such as Goya, AT&T, JetBlue, and the New York Yankees join the NYPD, Dept. of Corrections and New York Fire Department in pulling​ their support of the parade in protest to the honoring of Oscar Lopez Rivera, we call on all those New Afrikans committed to the liberation of all oppressed people to join the parade on June 11th and stand with Oscar and the people of Puerto Rico in an act of solidarity and a united call to free ALL political prisoners. From the bowels of the empire to the streets of occupied Puerto Rico we say: Free The Land! Free The Land! Free The Land! By any means necessary!

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You guys, Oscar López has received Obama's pardon, and people are saying he doesn't deserve it???? This man was never accused of actually killing people. He fought for the freedom of his patria, for the freedom of Puerto Rico, and because he was in the same group as some people who took it to an extreme and killed people, he suffered the consequences. 35 years in prison. 12 of which were spent in solitary. Can you imagine passing 13 years without talking to human beings? And for a crime you were never accused of? I'm not saying he didn't kill people. He might've done it, and maybe he didn't, but if there is no evidence against him, if there is no evidence that tells us that he killed people, why is he the longest-incarcerated FALN member? Give the man a break, coño. He deserves his freedom. Nosotros, como boricuas, lo recibimos con brazos abiertos.

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Barack Obama conmuta sentencia de Oscar López

El prisionero político pasó 35 años en cárceles norteamericanas

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, anunció esta tarde que conmutó la sentencia del prisionero político puertorriqueño Oscar López Rivera, efectivo el 17 de mayo de 2017.

La orden de liberación del último revolucionario boricua de la Guerra Fría en cárceles estadounidenses se dio esta tarde, junto a un alto número de conmutaciones e indultos anunciados por la Casa Blanca.

El prisionero 87651-024 – quien durante los últimos años ha estado encarcelado en la prisión de Terre Haute (Indiana) y ha cumplido 35 años en prisión-, quedaría en libertad en cuatro meses.

Terre Haute está a unas tres horas y media de Chicago, donde López Rivera fue arrestado hace 35 años y siete meses.

Fue convicto de conspiración sediciosa por sus vínculos con el grupo clandestino Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), que reclamó la autoría de decenas de atentados en EE.UU. que causaron seis muertos.

A López Rivera se le detuvo el 29 de mayo de 1981 en la localidad de Glennview, un suburbio de Chicago, al no detenerse en una intersección. Se le ocupó una pistola. Hasta entonces llevaba cinco años en la clandestinidad.

López Rivera siempre negó haber tenido sangre en sus manos y nunca fue convicto por hacer daño a nadie. “Si las agencias federales tuviesen una huella digital mía asociándome con cualquier cosa en que haya habido muertos, estuviera sentenciado a cárcel de por vida”, mantuvo en la más reciente entrevista con El Nuevo Día, el pasado 1 de diciembre.

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Ain’t No Way I Just Found Oscar Lore From A Few Months Ago

AND THE FACT IT’S STILL CANON

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Oscar And Hide Yayay

Messy Ass Photo + Hide’s Still Missing Arms Bc I Forogt To Draw Them, Whoops

Edit: I Drew Hide’s Arms