The Successful Campaign to Release The FALN Political Prisoners ...

Why did President Clinton sanction the release of these Puerto. Rican political prisoners in 1999 who, nineteen years earlier, the U.S. media, government,.

Abstract · From Freedo m Fighters to Patriots • Margaret Power · them as freedom fighters to the 1990s projection of them as national heroes and patriots.

From Freedom Fighters to Patriots: The Successful Campaign to ...

... The Successful Campaign to Release The FALN Political Prisoners, 1980-1999 ... campaign, political prisoners, solidarity movements, pro-independence politics ...

Puerto Rican Political Prisoners - Scholars Archive

FALN had also demanded the release of the prison- ers. The governor of Puerto ... Nilda Pimental, director of the Campaign to Free the Political Prisoners,.

Solidarity with the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, 1980 to Today

During the 1980s close to twenty members of the pro Independence organization the Furnas Armadas de Liberation Nacional (FALN) were arrested in the United ...

The National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political ...

One of the primary focuses of the organization, in addition to building awareness and solidarity with the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, was to make people ...

FALN | Puerto Rican Separatist Group, Terrorist Attacks - Britannica

FALN, separatist organization in Puerto Rico that has used violence in its campaign for Puerto Rican independence from the United States.

Margaret Power Archives - Puerto Rican Cultural Center

From Freedom Fighters to Patriots: The Successful Campaign to Release The FALN Political Prisoners,. Margaret Power · From Freedom Fighters to Patriots: The ...

A case study on the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN)

political prisoner as a result of an international campaign from Puerto Rican and Mexican communities in Puerto Rico and the United. States; see Mary Jordan ...

H. Rept. 106-488 - THE FALN AND MACHETEROS CLEMENCY

... campaign to free al [sic] Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. The organizing work done around the Parole Board could also be part of a multi-prong ...

Violent Campaign for Puerto Rican Independence Shatters Families ...

FALN, as the group was known, was a Puerto Rican separatist group that bombed U.S. civilian targets to draw attention to its quest for the ...

Jose Lopez

Jose, along with others, has waged an international campaign to free the Puerto Rican political prisoners ever since their incarceration in the late 70s. He ...

Last but Not Least: The Fight to Release Oscar López Rivera | NACLA

Classified as a terrorist organization by the FBI, the FALN carried out more than 100 bombings between 1974 and 1983 in its campaign to end U.S. ...

In Solidarity: Palestine in the Puerto Rican Political Imaginary

“From Freedom Fighters to Patriots: The Successful Campaign to Release the FALN Political Prisoners, 1980–1999.” CENTRO: Journal of the ...

Margaret Power | Illinois Institute of Technology

“From Freedom Fighters to Patriots: The Successful Campaign to Release the FALN Political Prisoners, 1980-1999,” Centro Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 2013 ...

Law, Media and Political Dissent: The Case of the FALN

President Jimmy Carter released these political prisoners in September of 1979. ... a good case for the prisoner's request to being treated as prisoners ofwar.

Oscar López Rivera and the Cabanillas

... political prisoners, for every decade since 1898 has seen independentistas in prison. ... The campaign for their release and the efforts to ...

TERRORISM ON TRIAL: JUSTICE AND THE FALN - Chicago Tribune

But the FALN members want to tell America something else, too. They've done enough time and want out of prison. Eighteen months ago, lawyers ...

CLEMENCY FOR TERRORISTS: - Intelligence Resource Program

The Sentences Imposed Upon the FALN and Macheteros Prisoners Were Fair. The President and his spokesmen represented that the sixteen offered clemency had served ...

Puerto Rican Revolutionary Organizations - Scholars Archive

(FALN) and the Boricua-Macheteros Popular Army (Ma- cheteros) are two ... political prisoners" (Kihss). The political prisoners were. Nationalist Party ...