<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font size="4"><b>WORCESTER
PROUDLY WELCOMES </b></font><b><font size="4">EX-PUERTO RICAN</font></b><br>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;"><b><font size="4">
POLITICAL PRISONERS</font></b><br></div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;"><i><font style="font-family: georgia,serif;" size="4"> Ricardo Jimenez, Alicia Rodriguez,
Adolfo Matos</font></i></div><br>
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<h3 style="margin-left: 80px;"><font size="4"> for a BENEFIT
PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION</font></h3>
<h3 style="margin-left: 80px;"><i> Marking the 30th Anniversary of
Incarceration ~ April 3, 2010</i><font size="4"><br></font></h3>
<h3 style="margin-left: 80px;"><font size="4"> <font size="6"> <span style="font-family: arial narrow,sans-serif;"> Crime Against
Humanity</span> </font><br></font></h3>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;"><font size="4"> A play about the
Puerto Rican political prisoners<br></font> <br></div><br>
<div style="margin-left: 120px;">
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><font size="4"> 7pm, Thursday, March
18, 2010</font><br></div><font size="4"> Atwood Hall, at Clark
University</font><br><br></div>
<div style="margin-left: 160px;"><font size="4"><b><font size="2">
Suggested Donation: $10.00; $5.00 (Youth)</font></b></font><br></div>
<div style="margin-left: 160px;"><font size="4"><b><font size="2">
Tickets: <font size="4">508/757.6833</font></font></b></font><br></div><br>
<div style="margin-left: 160px;"> <font size="4"><b><font size="2">Sponsors:<br>
National Boricua Human Rights Network - Worcester Chapter<br>
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Clark University</font></b></font><br></div></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><i><font size="2">A play
by poet and activist Michael Anthony Reyes Benavides and former Puerto
Rican Political Prisoner Luis Rosa, <br>directed by Michael Anthony
Reyes Benavides <br>A National Boricua Human Rights Network and Batey
Urbano Production </font></i></font><font size="4"><span></span></font><br></div><font size="4"><span></span></font></div><font size="4"><span><br></span></font><font size="4">Imagine 27 years of your life living in a space 6 feet by 9
feet. Imagine being confined in isolation with no human contact. Imagine
the shakedowns, the strip searches and the complete disregard for your
humanity. Crime Against Humanity is a play based on the real life
experiences of fourteen Puerto Rican political prisoners who spent more
than two decades in prisons for seditious conspiracy—<u>two of whom are
still incarcerated</u>. Crime Against Humanity brings us into the U.S.
prison system in a way no other play
has, focusing on the politically motivated use of isolation, selective
punishment, sensory deprivation and disproportionate sentences.<br><br>The
play confronts the physical and mental torture these prisoners endured
for more than 27 years. We gaze into their cell and experience the loss
of parents, the transition of children into adulthood and feel the
physical brutality and torture of a government out to make an example of
them. We see them as they refuse to be victimized and objectified,
confronting their hardships and adversities while maintaining their
dignity, and upholding their humanity.</font><br><br><br><font size="4"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://boricuahumanrights.org/">http://boricuahumanrights.org/</a><br></font>
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