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<font size=3>Carlos Albert Torres' parole hearing will be during the week
of January 19th. This is 2 months earlier than what was originally
thought (originally it was March). We need to begin getting signed
petitions in. So far we have about 2000 petitions in. We want to
have 3-4000 to give to the parole board. Please try to collect
signatures using the attached letter. Get your friends and
companer@s to sign. If you can remember, please bring them to any
events and try to get signatures....<br><br>
You can mail them to the address below and we will get them to the
campaign. Thanks!<br><br>
<b>Carlos Alberto Torres<br>
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Born on September 19, 1952<br><br>
Address:<br>
88976-024<br>
FCI Pekin<br>
Federal Correctional Institution<br>
P.O. Box 5000<br>
Pekin, IL 61555<br><br>
Carlos Alberto Torres was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on September 19,
1952. Although he was raised in the United States, he was never
disconnected from Puerto Rico. Carlos also had a strong religious
upbringing; his father, Rev. José A. Torres, is pastor emeritus of the
First Congregational Church of Chicago. These influences led Carlos to
struggle for social justice through political and community
activism.<br><br>
Carlos engaged in struggles around housing, police brutality and
education. He was one of the founders of the Puerto Rican alternative
school now known as the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School and
participated in the Committee to Free the Five Puerto Rican
Nationalists.<br><br>
In 1980, Carlos was arrested along with 10 other compañer@s and was
convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges in 1981; he was
unfairly sentenced to 78 years in prison for his political ideas, not for
any violent actions. He is the step-son of ex-political prisoner
Alejandrina Torres. Carlos was not included in the 1999 Clinton clemency
offer. <br><br>
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522 Valencia Street<br>
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