Greece Emerges from Three-Year Austerity Program, Puerto Ricanstruction: Prisoners “Trafficked” from Puerto Rico to U.S. Private Prisons, Claim Human Rights Groups, How Children’s Books Can Help Save the Environment

By Worldview Staff
PUERTO RICO PROTEST
In this May 29, 2013 file photo, protester Providencia Trabal stands behind bars in a mock cell during a protest demanding the freedom of jailed pro-independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lopez was sentenced to 55 years after his conviction in 1981 on charges that included seditious conspiracy, use of force to commit robbery and interstate transportation of firearms as a member of the ultranationalist Armed Forces of National Liberation in a struggle for independence from the U.S. for the Caribbean island. He received an additional 15 years in 1988 after he was convicted of conspiring to escape from prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. Former President Bill Clinton offered in 1999 to release Lopez and 13 other Puerto Rican nationalists as part of what was at the time a politically sensitive clemency deal. Under the deal, Lopez would have had to serve 10 more years in prison. He rejected the offer because it did not include two comrades who have since been released Ricardo Arduengo / AP Photo
In this May 29, 2013 file photo, protester Providencia Trabal stands behind bars in a mock cell during a protest demanding the freedom of jailed pro-independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lopez was sentenced to 55 years after his conviction in 1981 on charges that included seditious conspiracy, use of force to commit robbery and interstate transportation of firearms as a member of the ultranationalist Armed Forces of National Liberation in a struggle for independence from the U.S. for the Caribbean island. He received an additional 15 years in 1988 after he was convicted of conspiring to escape from prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. Former President Bill Clinton offered in 1999 to release Lopez and 13 other Puerto Rican nationalists as part of what was at the time a politically sensitive clemency deal. Under the deal, Lopez would have had to serve 10 more years in prison. He rejected the offer because it did not include two comrades who have since been released Ricardo Arduengo / AP Photo
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PUERTO RICO PROTEST
In this May 29, 2013 file photo, protester Providencia Trabal stands behind bars in a mock cell during a protest demanding the freedom of jailed pro-independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lopez was sentenced to 55 years after his conviction in 1981 on charges that included seditious conspiracy, use of force to commit robbery and interstate transportation of firearms as a member of the ultranationalist Armed Forces of National Liberation in a struggle for independence from the U.S. for the Caribbean island. He received an additional 15 years in 1988 after he was convicted of conspiring to escape from prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. Former President Bill Clinton offered in 1999 to release Lopez and 13 other Puerto Rican nationalists as part of what was at the time a politically sensitive clemency deal. Under the deal, Lopez would have had to serve 10 more years in prison. He rejected the offer because it did not include two comrades who have since been released Ricardo Arduengo / AP Photo
In this May 29, 2013 file photo, protester Providencia Trabal stands behind bars in a mock cell during a protest demanding the freedom of jailed pro-independence activist Oscar Lopez Rivera in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lopez was sentenced to 55 years after his conviction in 1981 on charges that included seditious conspiracy, use of force to commit robbery and interstate transportation of firearms as a member of the ultranationalist Armed Forces of National Liberation in a struggle for independence from the U.S. for the Caribbean island. He received an additional 15 years in 1988 after he was convicted of conspiring to escape from prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. Former President Bill Clinton offered in 1999 to release Lopez and 13 other Puerto Rican nationalists as part of what was at the time a politically sensitive clemency deal. Under the deal, Lopez would have had to serve 10 more years in prison. He rejected the offer because it did not include two comrades who have since been released Ricardo Arduengo / AP Photo
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Greece Emerges from Three-Year Austerity Program, Puerto Ricanstruction: Prisoners “Trafficked” from Puerto Rico to U.S. Private Prisons, Claim Human Rights Groups, How Children’s Books Can Help Save the Environment

By Worldview Staff
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On Today’s Show:

  • Greece has completed its third and final bailout today. It marked the end of Greece’s three-year Eurozone emergency loan program worth €61.9 billion.
  • In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s unelected financial oversight board (PROMESA) passed austerity measures that introduced sweeping cutbacks for hundreds of institutions on the island. The fiscal plan included a policy that would offshore one-third of Puerto Rico’s prison population to private prisons in the U.S.
  • In his book Beasts at Bedtime, environmental scientist and father, Liam Heneghan, explains how many classic and contemporary children’s books can inspire the next generation to protect the environment.