Hosted by the Community Informatics Initiative, Graduate School of Library and Information Science (UIUC)

Opens May 7, 2005 and continues throughout the month

Main Library (1st Floor)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL

The opening reception will be held from 2:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 7 at the University YMCA at 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign. Alberto (Che) Guevara and Janeida Rivera, winners in Chicago's 2005 citywide poetry slam, will perform. From 3:00-5:00 p.m., everyone is invited to walk one block to the Main Library to view the exhibit. (Parking is available at streetside meters. In addition, there may be some vacant numbered spots at the back of the YMCA parking lot - but do not park in #5 or you will get towed.)

Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public.

Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the imprisonment of political prisoners: Oscar Lopez Rivera and Carlos Alberto Torres.

http://www.boricuahumanrights.org/prisoners/art_exhibition.html

The exhibit is the result of a national effort that will tour 10 cities in the continental Unites States and Puerto Rico and will countries like Mexico, Venezuela and Canada. It is presented by the National Boricua Human Rights Network, sponsored by the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, and partially supported by a grant from The Crossroads Foundation.

Local Co-sponsors: Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE); Activist Forum; African American Studies & Research Program (UIUC); La Casa Cultural Latina (UIUC); Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society (UIUC); Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (UIUC); El Centro por los Trabajadores; Critical Research Collaborative (UIUC); University Library (UIUC); Illinois Disciples Foundation; Latina/o Studies Program (UIUC); The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement (UIUC); Parkland College Community Education; SisterNet; Sociedad de Estudiantes Puertorriquenos (UIUC);Uni High School Activism Club; Urban League of Champaign County; Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Radical Librarians and Books to Prisoners; Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Champaign-Urbana Chapter

Donations: Checks should be made out to Prairienet/UI (and identified as for exhibit) and mailed to Prairienet, 510 East Daniel, Champaign, Illinois 61820.

For further information: contact Ann Bishop, Local Organizing Committee (217.244.3299; abishop@uiuc.edu); Alejandro Luis Molina, National Boricua Human Rights Network Coordinating Committee (alejandro@prcc-chgo.org); or Jorge Felix, Curator (773.486.8345; FelixJorge@msn.com)