Sponsored 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

The exhibit opening will be marked by a reception, free and open to the public, 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 poetry slam competition, 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.)

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

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: Activist Forum; African American Studies & Research Program; La Casa Cultural Latina (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; Urban League ofChampaign County; Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Radical Librarians and Books to Prisoners; Vietnam Veterans Against the War (Champaign-Urbana Chapter).