https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Freeing-Oscar-Lopez-Rivera https://internationalviewpoint.org/Freeing-Oscar-Lopez-Rivera 2017-01-27T11:40:08Z text/html en Ed Morales United States (USA) Puerto Rico <p>The widespread jubilation over Oscar López Rivera's release shows that anticolonial struggle still resonates in Puerto Rico. The campaign to free Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar López Rivera, a political prisoner confined in a US federal penitentiary since 1981, has dominated various sectors of Puerto Rican activism for the last decade. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/34mujeresnycxoscar/" class="spip_out" rel="external">34 Mujeres Por Oscar</a> has been a fixture at Union Squre Park and other locations around New York for years, and when the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in 2015, posters of Oscar <a href="https://edmorales.net/2015/06/28/hard-times-silver-linings-and-intersections-in-san-juan/" class="spip_out" rel="external">festooned</a> with a rainbow-pride flag around San Juan were ubiquitous.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV504-January-2017-" rel="directory">IV504 - January 2017</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-United-States-USA-+" rel="tag">United States (USA)</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Puerto-Rico-+" rel="tag">Puerto Rico</a>