FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2008

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ELECTED OFFICIALS, FAMILIES, FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS
OF SUBPOENAED PUERTO RICANS TO CALL ON FEDERAL GRAND JURY TO STOP THE REPRESSION

A Press Conference has been called in front of City Hall on Wednesday June 25, 2008 at 1:00pm by community leaders, friends, family and supporters of 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 picket in front of the Brooklyn Federal Court at 1:30pm on Friday, June 27, 2008.

The press conference will coincide with similar acts and rallies in Puerto Rico and other cities in the United States. TANIA FRONTERA, a graphic designer and CHRISTOPHER TORRES, social worker have been ordered to appear before the Grand Jury at the Brooklyn Federal Court investigating the Puerto Rican independence movement. "Motion to quash" the subpoena will be argued at the Brooklyn Federal Court on June 27th by their lawyers.

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. It's the latest chapter of a long history of repression waged against Puerto Rican community.

WHAT: Elected officials, community leaders, family and friends and supporters of subpoenaed Puerto Ricans demand an end to the repression

WHEN: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 1:00pm

WHERE: CITY HALL OF NEW YORK (Steps of City Hall)

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