Date: Thursday, May 28, 2015
Time: 11:00am
Place: City Hall steps

 

 "One Voice for Oscar"May 30th Human Rights March Highlights Support to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoner as He Begins 34th Year of Imprisonment.

Under the slogan of "One Voice for Oscar', support continues to grow for the May 30th March and Rally for Oscar López Rivera, a 72-year old decorated Vietnam veteran who has spent the last 34 years imprisoned, without being charged with a violent crime, instead he was sentenced with seditious conspiracy (the same crime Mandela was given) for being part of the movement for Puerto Rican independence. The March and Rally, which will assemble at 11:00am at the corner of 125th and Adam Clayton Powell. Over 100 leaders and organizations from labor, faith, community based, governmental and activist groups in NYC have come together to urge President Obama to grant López-Rivera a pardon. Oscar López has become known throughout Latino communities in the US and in Latin America as the "Mandela of Latin America".

Contact Person: Ana M. López (646) 229-5133, Alejandro Molina (312) 296-7210, Maria Vives (914) 960-7591 and Fernando "Ponce" Láspina (646) 299-6507

Organization Name: May 30thCoalition for Oscar López Rivera
Web site address: www.freeoscarnycmay30.org

We are 13 days away from our march and rally. On almost no money, all volunteer labor, and supporters far and wide who have donated dollars and time to bring this event about we are here. 

 

 

Donate generously. This link works!

Mail checks to (and write May 30th Coalition in the memo):

I. There are over 100 organizations and groups participating. There will be a designated line-up for the marchers.  Please check with security or march leadership if you are not sure where your contingent will march.

 

II.  All organizations will have banners carrying their own name and message about Free Oscar March;

 1. For example:   "El Maestro dice presente pa' Oscar".

2.  "Boricuas of Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts want Oscar Lopez Free"

 

III.  All groups must provide marshals to the march.  If your group has more than 50 members, you must designate 5 marshals. Please contact Nepher Rodríguez at  

 

IV.  All groups and organizations marching must adhere to these guidelines.

 

V. All marchers will have a "A Day For Oscar" neon green wrist band.

 

VI.  Chants are in Spanish and English.

They will be distributed in the march. Each chant is repeated 5 times.  Chants will alternate from English to Spanish.  Help out with chants and volunteer to take turns to relieve members chanting.

 

VII.  If anyone becomes ill, please contact security team.

 

VIII. If anyone is creating a disruption, also inform security.

 

IX.  For outside cities, buses will leave you at 125th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd.

 

X. All solidarity messages can be submitted in writing to freeoscarnycmay30th.org, or nycoordinator.freeoscar@gmail.com

 

XI. REMEMBER THIS MARCH IS TO FREE OSCAR, PLEASE RESPECT THAT.

 

XII. After rally, we need to clean up.  All buses and vans must vacate designated parking area.

 

After the march, all outside cities are invited to eat dinner at 6pm at 800 East 156th Street, Bronx, NYC- Spanish Evangelical Church of the Bronx-Rev. Danilo Lachapel's Church

Human Rights March in Harlem- May 30th, 2015

 

Section 1: Lead Banner "ONE VOICE FOR OSCAR": Family, & High Profile and

 

Section 2: NYC Coordinador: (Sponsoring Organizations and endorsers. Hostos Students and Staff, too)

 

GATHER IN FRONT OF HARLEM STATE OFFICE BUILDING (125th Street, between Adam Clayton Powell Jr.  Blvd)

 

Section 3: Labor for Oscar:

 

GATHER on 125th Street and Malcolm X Blvd, NW CORNER and up the block 

 

Section 4: Churches for Oscar:

 

GATHER on 125 Street and Adam Clayton Powell, NE CORNER and up the block

 

Section 5: Veterans for Peace, Mumia and other Community Groups and  

 

Section 6: 23 Cities for Oscar:

 

GATHER on 126 Street and Adam Clayton Powell, NW CORNER and up 126th Street as needed

 

With this plan, people can find their colleagues and contingents; our lead contingents are front and center in front of the most visible part of the gathering area; we already support the plans which 32BJ, the Veterans, and the Mumia folks have made; and - most importantly - our security team can move folks in sections - from the lead contingents eastward, with labor following, then religious contingent, Veterans, Mumias, and other cities and the rest flowing out from their gathering points. Also security will be passing out wristbands and chants to marshals for distribution to groups in each section.

Harán manifestación el lunes frente al Capitolio de San Juan

Con ocasión del día de la recordación de los caídos en la guerra, veteranos de la guerra de Vietnam llevarán a cabo el lunes una manifestación en respaldo a la excarcelación del prisionero político puertorriqueño Oscar López Rivera.

El evento ha sido convocado para las 10:00 a.m. frente al Capitolio y tendrá como oradores al  senador del Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) y ex fiscal federal Miguel Pereira, al analista político y exfiscal federal Ignacio Rivera, y al exsecretario de Salud Enrique Vázquez Quintana.

La manifestación tendrá lugar a cuatro días de que López Rivera, de 72 años, cumpla 34 años en prisiones estadounidenses, tras ser convicto por sedición, debido a sus vínculos con las Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN).

Desde 2011, López Rivera, condecorado veterano de la guerra de Vietnam y encarcelado actualmente en la prisión de Terre Haute (Indiana), tiene pendiente en el Departamento de Justicia de Estados Unidos una solicitud de clemencia, la cual el presidente Barack Obama puede otorgar sin consultar a nadie.

SIGA LEYENDO.

Last Thursday, May 21, 2015, Carlos Cabrera, the host of the Puntos de Vista Show, invited Rev. Danilo Lachapel of the Spanish Evangelical Church in the Bronx, UCC, Prof. Ana López of the NYC Coordinator to Free Oscar López Rivera and Alejandro L. Molina of the May 30th Coalition to Free Oscar López Rivera onto his show to discuss the upcoming March and Rally for Oscar's freedom. Another show on Self-determination, Colonialism and the Diaspora will be shown on Thursday, May 28.