Militant/Hilda Cuzco

From left: Luis Rosa, Justine Zepernick, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Jessica Cardona and Jorge Arcay. Zepernick, Cardona, and Arcay are Kutztown University students.

PHILADELPHIA—Rafael Cancel Miranda, a Puerto Rican independence fighter who spent 27 years in U.S. prisons, was the featured speaker at an October 29 meeting here attended by about 80 people. The gathering was dedicated to the memory of Puerto Rican independence fighter Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, a leader of the Macheteros group who was killed by FBI agents September 23 in Puerto Rico. Luis Rosa, a former political prisoner, and Pam Afrika, representing the MOVE organization, also spoke.

—ELLEN BERMAN

A similar meeting featuring Cancel Miranda will be held November 18 in New York: 7 pm at Local 1199 Martin Luther King Labor Center at 310 W. 43 St.