News Articles and Reports on Grand Jury Subpoenas, Puerto Rican Teachers Union and Puerto Rican Self-Determination
FBI Investigation of Pro Independence-Puerto Ricans (Latin Week NY, July 2, 2008)
Decidirán sobre audiencias en caso de activistas boricuas (El Diario/La Prensa, 29 de Junio, 2008)
Supporters Of Subpoenaed Puerto Ricans To Call On Federal Grand Jury To Stop The Repression (Release, June 24, 2008)
Federal Grand Juries Subpoenas as a Means of Intimidating the Rican Freedom Movement (VivirLatino, June 23, 2008)
Puerto Rican journalists win appeal in brutality case (La Prensa, June 19, 2008)
US revives grand jury probe of Puerto Rican independence activists (World War 4 Report, June 18, 2008)
Puerto Rican independence fighters denounce colonial rule (The Militant, June 13, 2008)
Report On SEIU Puerto Rican Convention And Puerto Rican Teachers Protest (Bay Area Indymedia, June 12, 2008)
Committee on Decolonization today called [for] a process to Expedite Self-Determination for Puerto Ricans (June 10, 2008)
Punta de lanza ante la ONU (El Nuevo Dia, 3 de Junio, 2008)
Puerto Rican Independence:
Propelling the Agenda Forward In Spite of Political Repression (Ocasio Rivera, June 2, 2008)
Protest set as Puerto Rico activist subpoened (Workers World, May 28, 2008)
SEIU Urged: End Attacks Against Puerto Rico Teachers (Press Release, May 23, 2008)
The Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (FMPR)
¡El Magisterio Se Dió a Respetar! (Publicación de la Secretaría de Educación Sindical - FMPR, Abril 2008)
Background Articles on Puerto Rican Teachers Union (February 2008)
Protests hit repression of Puerto Rican independence activists (Fight Back! Newspaper, February 1, 2008)
FBI Witch Hunt Stokes Puerto Rican Independence Movement (AlterNet, January 31, 2008)
Puerto Rican Independence Movement under Attack in New York and San Juan (Monthly Review, January 28, 2008)
Constructing an enemy (El Diario/La Prensa, January 17, 2008)
FBI launches new attack on Puerto Rican movement (Workers World, January 17, 2008)
El pueblo es uno, no tres ni cuatro (Claridad, 17 de Jenero, 2008)
Before and After the Subpoenas (Special to Virtual Boricua, January 15, 2008)
Grand jury testimony in Macheteros probe postponed (World War 4 Report, January 14, 2008)
Defend Puerto Rican independentistas! (PSL, January 14, 2008)
El Gran Jurado es un instrumento jurídico de control social (El Diario/La Prensa, 13 de Jenero, 2008)
Posponen comparecencias de independentistas boricuas (El Diario/La Prensa, 12 de Jenero, 2008)
Unitaria protesta contra el gran jurado federal (IndyMedia PR, 11 de Jenero, 2008)
Pro-independence Puerto Ricans subpoenaed by NYC grand jury (Newsday, January 11, 2007)
Independentistas denuncian presión (El Diario/La Prensa, 11 de Jenero, 2008)
3 Summoned to Federal Court For Suspected Ties To P.R. Independence Movement (Brooklyn Eagle, January 11, 2007)
Incógnita por citaciones al Gran Jurado (El Diario/La Prensa, 10 de Jenero, 2008)
Grupos independentistas anuncian manifestación (El Vocero, 9 de Jenero, 2008)
Habla con el jefe del FBI (El Nuevo Día, 9 de Jenero, 2008)
FBI on fishy fishing expedition (New York Daily News, January 9, 2008)
National protests against against subpoena of Puerto Rican activists (World War 4 Report, January 9, 2008)
Anuncian protestas contra el FBI en seis estados (El Diario/La Prensa, 8 de Jenero, 2008)
Statement on Grand Jury Harassment of the Puerto Rican People (Latin America Solidarity Coalition, January 7, 2008)
Call on Federal Grand Jury to Stop the Repression (Press Release, January 7, 2008)
Puerto Rico Leader: FBI Probe Political (The Associated Press, January 4, 2008)
On the Grand Jury Subpoenas (Gerena-Rochet, January 2, 2007)
New York: grand jury probes Puerto Rican activists (World War 4 Report, December 31, 2007)
Citan 3 jóvenes independentistas a Gran Jurado NY (El Vocero, 31 de Diciembre, 2007)
Protestas contra gran jurado (El Diario/La Prensa, 31 de Diciembre, 2007)
Federal Grand Jury Target Puerto Rican Independistas in New York (NYC Independent Media Center, December 30, 2007)
Independentistas listos ante ofensiva del Dpto. de Justicia (El Diario/La Prensa, 28 de Diciembre, 2007)
denuncian que se producirán arrestos de Independendistas (El Diario/La Prensa, 27 de Diciembre, 2007)
Puerto Rico Bearing Her Chains (New York Latino Journal, December 22, 2007)
Colonial Capitalism: Crisis and Response in Puerto Rico (NACLA Report on the Americas, November/December, 2007)
Statements on the Report by the "President’s Task Force on Puerto Rico’s Status” (December 2007)
Report By The
President’s Task Force
On Puerto Rico’s Status (December 2007)
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
FBI Files on Puerto Ricans
El Gran Jurado Federal (Red Betances, 18 de junio de 2003)
How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement: Grand Juries (Beat the Heat; AK Press, 2003)
Fuerzas Armadas de
Liberacion Nacional (FALN) |
Stop FBI Harassment of the Puerto Rican Community
On April 16, 2008 in various parts of Puerto Rico, the FBI once again harassed and tried to intimidate the Puerto Rican independence activists. Two of the harassed are Miguel Viqueira, a marine biologist and Tania Delgado Soto, a young Puerto Rican lawyer. Both are members of the "Nueva Escuela" (The New School).
The New School identified those intervened as Miguel Viqueira and Tania Delgado Soto. "When Miguel was preparing to leave for work, several agents, armed and with bullet proof vests bearing the FBI initials, surrounded him and with a hostile and provocative attitude began to threaten him," said a press release.
"Although Miguel told them he had nothing to say to them and tried to close the door of his car to leave, they did not allow him to do so and continued insulting and threatening him. After a while they left without showing any judicial order for the intervention," the New School reported.
As for Delgado Soto, who is an employee of Cooperative Development, two men and a woman from the FBI in a white van stopped her.
"When she refused to accede to their demand that she cooperate, and when she insisted on calling her lawyers, they left," the organization added.
Héctor Pesquera, co-chair of the National Hostos Independence Movement (MINH), confirmed both interventions.
From his perspective, the FBI "is harassing the independence movement in its zeal to keep sending the message that they rule, and that this is a colony."
Edgardo Delgado Bras, Tania's father, said his 29 year old daughter called him to tell him what happened.
"This is a pattern; it's not isolated, to intimidate those of us who believe in independence," said Delgado Bras, also an attorney.
The FBI spokesperson specified that they intervened with people in Yauco, Peñuelas, Bayamón, Guaynabo and San Juan. No one was arrested.
The following persons will address the press:
1. Dylcia Pagan- ex-political prisoner and fighter for Puerto Rican Independence
2. Spokesperson for the Hostos Grand Jury Resistance Campaign
3. Spokesperson for ProLibertad
4. Spokesperson of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
5. Spokesperson for the PIP |
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If approached by agents of law enforcement.
You Are Only Required to Identify Yourself
You have the right to remain silent. You should do so.
Tell them " I am exercising my right not to speak with you without my attorney being present". Give them your lawyer’s number. If you do not have one, ask them for their information to give to a lawyer
If approached, consult with an attorney before meeting, speaking on the phone, writing or in any way answering any questions.
Anything you say can be used against you. Their reports will reflect "their version" of conversations or statements allegedly made by you.
Lying to a law enforcement agent “is a crime.”
Do not appear before anyone for questioning, consent to any searches of your home or private property, surrender any evidence or in any way let yourself be involved in any aspect of any investigation without a court order and with your attorney.
If there is any "legitimate" reason, law enforcement agents can obtain a court order. Do not consent to anything without it.
Federal agents are harassing people by visiting them in their place of employment. They are using this method to "invite" people out to "just" talk over coffee.
Federal agents are lying to people they approach by telling them they just want to talk, attempting to engage them in conversation and then serving them with a subpoena.
Do not let yourself be intimidated.
How to Handle Encounters with Law Enforcement: Grand Juries (Beat the Heat; AK Press, 2003) |
GRAN JURY SUBPOENAS THREE YOUNG PUERTO RICAN PRO -INDEPENDENCE ADVOCATES
PRO-INDEPENDENCE , SOCIALISTS, STUDENTS AND PEACE ACTIVISTS ORGANIZATIONS UNITE TO CONFRONT THE COMMING WAVE OF REPRESSION.
The FBI continues its attacks against the people, especially against the Puerto Rican pro independence movement in Puerto Rico and in the U.S. In mid December of 2007, three young activists who participated in the struggle to get the U.S. Navy to leave Vieques, defendors of Puerto Rican culture in the U.S. and pro independence activists were subpoenaed to appear before a Gran Jury.
Colonial authorities subpoenaed Christopher Torres, Tania Frontera and Julio Antonio Pabon to appear before a Gran Jury in New York City on January 11, 2008
The undersigned organizations alert the people of Puerto Rico on the new wave of FBI persecution against the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. We will never forget the assasinassation of Filiberto Ojeda Rios which demonstrated the lengths to which te FBI is ready to go. The FBI heightens its abuse when community, workers, enviromental and political struggles are more visible and penetrating. The people demand social justice and respect for their dignity and freedom.
Pro Independence activists are organizing a series of public activities to demonstrat the rejection by Puerto Ricans of this persecution. We repudiate the presence of the U.S. Federal Gran Jury, the FBI as a mechanism to destroy the independence movement and all the other causes we are involved in.
We will continue forward in our struggle for Puerto Rican independence and demand the respect that as a nation we deserve!
January 10, 2008
5:00 PM --9:00 PM
Picket in front of the U.S. Federal Court House in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
No a la presencia federal en Puerto Rico! No colaboracion con el Gran Jurado! Repudiamos los ataques y atropellos del FBI!
NO to U.S. Federal presence in Puerto Rico! Non colaboration with the Gran Jury. We repudiate the attacks and the repression.
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS:
COMITE DE DERECHOS HUMANOS DE PUERTO RICO
CONSEJO DE ESTUDIANTES DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES DE la UPR en RIO PIEDRAS
CONSEJO DE ESTUDIANTES DE UPR RIO PIEDRAS
COORDINADORA CARIBE/NA y LATINOAMERICANA
COORDINADORA CONTINENTAL BOLIVARIANA
COORDINADORA NACIONAL VIGILAS FILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS
FEDERACION UNIVERSITARIA PRO INDEPENDENCIA
FRENTE SOCIALISTA
GRITO DE LOS EXCLUIDOS
LA NUEVA ESCUELA
MOVIMIENTO INDEPENDENTISTA NACIONAL HOSTOSIANO
MOVIMIENTO SOCIALISTA DE TRABAJADORES
ORGANIZACION SOCIALISTA INTERNACIONAL
PARTIDO INDEPENDENTISTA PUERTORRIQUE/NO
PARTIDO REVOLUCIONARIO DE LOS TRABAJADORES-MACHETEROS
UNION DE JUVENTUDES SOCIALISTAS |
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