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    Vol.62/No.40           November 9, 1998 
 
 
Actions Will Demand: Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Now  

BY ERNIE MAILHOT
MIAMI - In Florida the Orlando chapter of the Committee to Free the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners is working with various groups to organize two November actions demanding freedom for the 15 Puerto Rican political activists being held in U.S. jails.

The first of these demonstrations will be a picket line outside the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami on November 14. This is the prison where Puerto Rican independence fighter Antonio Camacho is being held. Besides the Orlando committee, groups who will be participating in the Miami picket line include the Miami Coalition to End the U.S. Embargo of Cuba, the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the Socialist Workers Party, activists from the Alliance of Workers of the Cuban Community, and others.

A week later, November 21, a second Florida action will be held in the Orlando area to protest the imprisonment of Juan Segarra Palmer, who is being held in the nearby city of Coleman. Activists from the Miami area will be traveling up to Orlando for this activity.

Other protests are taking place that week across the United States at prisons where the Puerto Rican independence fighters are incarcerated (see listing on page 11). December 10 is planned as a day of protests nationwide.  
 
 
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