[Peace-discuss] RE: Co-Sponsorship? Info on Puerto Rican Prisoners' Exhibit

[Phil Stinard]

Carol,

Julio and I give a big YES to co-sponsoring this event.  We met one of the 
former prisoners (Lolita Lebron) in Vieques a few years ago.  Here are links 
to biographical information on Oscar Lopez Rivera 
(http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/oscar-lopez-rivera.html) and Carlos 
Alberto Torres 
(http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/carlos-alberto-torres.html).  An AP 
story on Lopez Rivera is at http://www.worldfreeinternet.net/news/nws128.htm

--Phil and Julio

>Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:47:13 -0700 (PDT)
>From: carol inskeep <carolinskeep at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Co-Sponsorship? Info on Puerto Rican
>	Prisoners'	Exhibit
>To: Discuss Peace <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
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>We were approached to co-sponsor this exhibit, which opens on May 7.  Ann 
>Bishop is a professor at the library school who has worked closely with the 
>Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago.
>
>Ann Bishop <bishop at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> wrote:I'm writing to see if your 
>organizations would like to co-sponsor the
>upcoming "not enough space" exhibit, to be held at the UI library during
>the month of may.
>
>the exhibit of their ceramics and paintings, as well as a replica of their
>cells and info about their lives, commemorates the 25th anniversary of
>the imprisonment of political prisoners: oscar lopez rivera and carlos
>alberto torres. it opened in chicago this weekend and will tour 10 cities
>in the u.s. and puerto rico, as well as other countries. it is presented
>by the national boricua human rights network, and sponsored by the puerto
>rican cultural center in chicago. we're very excited that UI will be the
>first stop on the exhibit's tour.
>
>for more information about the exhibit, see the events calendar at:
>http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/cii/
>
>your organization would be listed as a co-sponsor of the exhibit--we
>will print banners, posters, etc., in the next few days. we will also
>acknowledge sponsors on the UI exhibit program.
>
>i am happy to accept volunteer help (such as distributing fliers and
>setting out a jar and exhibit postcards to collect donations, posting the
>announcement on your website and mailing list) as your sponsoring
>contribution. in-kind and direct support (printing your own fliers to
>distribute and providing any small financial contribution - even $10 is
>wonderful) will be a great help in covering basic costs for this
>all-volunteer effort.
>
>we hope to have a press release for the champaign exhibit prepared in the
>next day or two for you to circulate.
>
>current sponsors include: ui library, the community informatics initiative
>at the graduate school of library and information science, el centro por
>los trabajadores, the center for latin american and caribbean studies,
>latino/latina studies, and vietnam veterans against the war
>(champaign-urbana chapter), ui office of public engagement, sisternet,
>urban league, illinois disciples foundation, and others..
>
>we will hold the open public reception for the exhibit on saturday,
>may 7, from 2-3 p.m. at the university ymca. the reception will include
>refreshments, as well as welcoming remarks from champaign-urbana and
>chicago sponsors of the exhibit and a performance by 2
>award winning latino youth poets from the prisoners' neighborhood in
>chicago.
>
>thanks!
>
>peace, ann
>
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>Graduate School of Library and Information Science (217) 244-3302 (F)
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign abishop at uiuc.edu
>203 LIS Building (MC-493)
>501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820
>
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