SAMPLE S472 LETTER

Dear Senator ________________________:

Senate Bill S 472, a bill supposed to end the colonial status of Puerto Rico, is in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. At some point, Senator, you will be asked to vote on it.

I ask that you call for the release of 15 Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, who were sentenced between 35 and 98 years, and who have been imprisoned between 15 and 18 years, for fighting to end that very colonialism in Puerto Rico. International law, specifically the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 stipulates that any genuine de-colonization process must contain as a pre-condition the release of all political prisoners.

In the past, the US has consistently denied that the relationship between the US and Puerto Rico was a colonial one, and therefore they claimed the prisoners were not political prisoners, but criminals. Finally the US has publically admitted that the colonial relationship between the US and Puerto Rico must end. It would be a mockery of the bill and the US political system to say that colonialism should be ended in Puerto Rico without freeing those who fought to end it.

As a resident of New York (and a Puerto Rican), I ask that you represent me by contacting Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., immediately and ask him to recommend commutation of the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners' sentences. I thank you for your attention:


Signed:__________________________        Address: _____________________________

Print Name:_______________________                         _____________________________

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Date:____________________________