Sentences with phrase «rican nationalist»

This is how Puerto Rican nationalist Ramon Emeterio Betances calls for the independence of the Caribbean and the...

She staunchly defended the decision of the Puerto Rican Day Parade this year to honor Oscar Lopez, a former member of a Puerto Rican nationalist group that conducted a campaign of bombing and terror in the 1970s.

The National Puerto Rican Day Parade announced today that it will give Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar López Rivera — convicted in 1981 in connection with a wave of deadly bombings, including one that killed four at the Wall Street - are Fraunces Tavern — its first - ever «National Freedom Hero» designation at the 60th annual parade in June.

He cited what he said were far - left positions such as her campaign to free Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist and member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, serving a 75 - year federal sentence for «seditious conspiracy.»

The Puerto Rican nationalist became a free man last week after nearly four decades in custody for his ties to an extremist group.

The convicted felon was a leader of the Puerto Rican nationalist group Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, or FALN, which claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and»80s.

A Nevada Senate candidate disinvited NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito from her fundraiser after learning the speaker supported clemency for the jailed leader of a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill cited the bloodshed caused by the Puerto Rican nationalist group once run by Oscar López Rivera, who will be hailed at the June 11 march by the organizers of the annual celebration.

the shirt read, referring to a 72 - year - old Puerto Rican nationalist jailed for his role in 28 Chicago - area bombings carried out by the militant independence group FALN in the 1970s.

Rivera 74, had his 70 - year sentence commuted by outgoing President Barack Obama in January after serving nearly 36 years in prison following his conviction of conspiracy and sedition charges for his ties to the Puerto Rican nationalist group, FALN, which was responsible for more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and 80s — including the 1982 blast at NYPD headquarters that left an officer maimed and a 1975 attacked that killed four at Fraunces Tavern in the Financial District.

Lopez Rivera's Puerto Rican nationalist group — the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional or FALN — claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings across the US in the 1970s and 1980s.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito lavished praise Wednesday on a Puerto Rican nationalist who spent 11 years in prison for a 1954 shooting in Congress that left five US legislators...

At around 4:30 pm, reporters chased after Mark - Viverito as she was leaving City Hall and attempted to ask her questions about the maneuver and about the decision of Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera's to decline an official honor in the Puerto Rican Day Parade — an honor she had helped arrange and fiercely defended..

Trying to put an end to a controversy, Mayor Bill de Blasio says Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera will no longer be officially honored at the Puerto Rican Day parade.

Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera is stepping aside as an official honoree of next weekend's Puerto Rican Day Parade.

They have been at odds over the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee's decision to honor Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera, the one - time leader of a violent group behind more than 100 bombings across the U.S., including one that killed four people in Lower Manhattan in 1975.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will march in Manhattan on Saturday to demand the liberation of Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican nationalist currently held in federal prison for conspiracy.

A Nevada Senate candidate disinvited City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito from her fundraiser after learning the speaker supported clemency for the jailed leader of a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group, it was reported Wednesday.

López Rivera served 35 years in prison for conspiracy to overthrow the US government as a leader of the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group.

Oscar Lopez Rivera, an ex-member of a Puerto Rican nationalist group linked to deadly bombings in the 1970s and 1980s, received a hero's welcome from tens of thousands today at the Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC — though organizers had abandoned plans to honor him as a «National Freedom Hero» due to a barrage of criticism.

She'd been imprisoned three times for seditious acts, the final time in 1954, for her involvement in a plot that culminated in an attack on Congress by four Puerto Rican nationalists.

She giddily snapped pictures of the man many Puerto Rican nationalists hail as a freedom fighter.

In 1979, four Puerto Rican nationalists imprisoned for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives and a 1950 attempt on the life of President Harry S. Truman were freed from prison after being granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter.

Not exact matches

Alinsky was a regular lecturer there, along with other community theorists and practitioners: Richard Hauser, Milton Kotler (usually accompanied by Pastor Leopold Bemhard, then at First Lutheran in Columbus, Ohio), SDS neighborhood organizers, SCLC clergy from many cities, SNCC organizers, Maulana Ron Karenga of black nationalist work in California, Ivan Illich of Puerto Rican New York and Cuernavaca, Mexico.

De Blasio told reporters for the first time today that the Puerto Rican Day Parade committee should never have extended its first - ever «National Freedom Hero» designation to militant nationalist Oscar López Rivera.

The Puerto Rico - based artists have studied the ephemeral nature of collective drawing with monumental sticks of chalk at the Biennial de Lima, Peru (Chalk [Lima], 1998 — 2002); the imprints of colonial, nationalist, and military violence on the diverse populations and landscapes of Vieques, Puerto Rico (Land Mark (Foot Prints), 2001 — 2002; Land Mark, 2003; Returning a Sound, 2004; Under Discussion, 2006 and Half Mast / Full Mast, 2011); and the resonance of playing, warping and combining music from various moments in history (Clamor, 2006; Wake Up, 2007; Sediments Sentiments - Figures of Speech, 2008; Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, 2008; Raptor's Rapture, 2012; Apotomē, 2013; 3, 2013); as well as the entanglement between biophysics, semiotics and actuality (Growth, 2004; Puerto Rican Light - Cueva Vientos, 2015).