President Barack Obama would receive a resolution from the City Council urging the unconditional release from federal prison of Oscar López Rivera under a committee recommendation made Monday.

HOLYOKE -- A Puerto Rican activist will speak in the city Monday regarding the Puerto Rican independence movement and identity outside of the island. José López is a Puerto Rican activist based in Chicago and the brother of Oscar López Rivera.

When President Barack Obama visits Havana next week, his will be the first and only visit to the island by a sitting U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge came here during the roaring twenties, just a year before the stock market crash in 1929.

The United States is preparing to rule over Puerto Rico through a “Financial Control Board.” U.S. Congressman Jeffrey D. Duncan – Chairman of the House Committee on the Western Hemisphere – is demanding this Financial Control Board right now, immediately, “for the good of the Puerto Rican people.”