Introduction Movements Eras Organizations Index Contributions
About Organizations
Black Panther Party Black Liberation Army American Indian Movement FALN Weather Underground Earth Liberation Front Animal Liberation Front MOVE Republic of New Afrika Symbionese Liberation Army Los Macheteros United Freedom Front May 19th Communist Organization Young Lords George Jackson Brigade Students for a Democratic Society Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Industrial Workers of the World Communist Party USA Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Brown Berets Socialist Workers Party African People's Socialist Party Nation of Islam
About FALN
First FALN Bombing Wave Fraunces Tavern Bombing The Mainland Bombing Campaign Cook County Building Bombing William Morales Explosion & Escape Evanston Arrests Seditious-Conspiracy Convictions Oscar López Rivera’s Imprisonment Clinton Clemency Controversy Continuing Political-Prisoner Campaigns
CONTINUING POLITICAL-PRISONER CAMPAIGNS
Continuing Political-Prisoner Campaigns

From the 1980s through the 2010s, the FALN cases sat at the center of Puerto Rican independence and prisoner-support organizing. Campaigns for the release of Oscar López Rivera, Carlos Alberto Torres, Haydée Beltrán, and others framed them as political prisoners of a colonial relationship and became a rare point of unity across Puerto Rican politics.

The 1999 clemencies, the 2010 release of Carlos Alberto Torres, and the 2017 commutation of Oscar López Rivera were treated as major victories by that movement. The FALN prisoners' decades of incarceration — and the organizing around them — remain a defining chapter in the modern history of the Puerto Rican independence struggle.