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🐰Bad Bunny en Washington DC: "LUMA va a tener que irse pal carajo".
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You mean Puerto Ricans got U.S. citizenship in 1917 and started serving in World War I… in 1917?
Wow! Coincidences are fun!
Today marks 107 years since the people of Puerto Rico became US citizens!
Here's just one amazing story among so many:
Rafael Hernández Marín was a Puerto Rican musician and WWI vet who served after becoming a US citizen in 1917
The regiment he joined—the Harlem Hellfighters!
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Statehood for Puerto Rico is not, and will never be, a progressive choice, but rather a colonialist choice based on ideals of American exceptionalism, and low societal self-esteem of not believing that we can govern and take care of ourselves.
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Rep.
@JodyHice
(R-GA) just said to
@GovPierluisi
at Congressional Hearing: You always come here to ask for money or ask for statehood. I oppose statehood, and I'm not alone here in opposing statehood for Puerto Rico... We are not even close to have a conversation about statehood.
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Today at the
@UN
Special Committee on Decolonization,
@rafasemueve
shared our testimony on the consequences of U.S. colonial rule over Puerto Rico and the need for the international community to take action.
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It's disgusting that
@ACLUDelaware
is celebrating an education nonprofit's hiring of Julia Keleher, who decimated Puerto Rico's education system and went to prison for fraud.
Is that how little the
@ACLU
cares about Puerto Rican children?
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This may be a glib post, but it's also a real warning.
Statehood would absolutely mean thousands and thousands more Americans moving to Puerto Rico for sun, sand, and cheaper real estate.
That would supercharge the ongoing gentrification and displacement of our people!
If Puerto Rico became a state, how quickly would San Juan become the most "it" city in America?
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These pro-statehood clowns do not represent Puerto Ricans. They are using and being used by the Democratic Party—which has never backed statehood—in exchange for 30 seconds of TV time and a few crumbs of political power.
Puerto Rico will never be a state. We will be free!
Al ritmo de “Despacito” - en inglés y en español- la delegación demócrata de PR entrega sus votos al ticket Kamala/Walz
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In New York City today with other diaspora activists and Puerto Rican leaders protesting the vulture funds and other colonialists who exploit Puerto Rico and profit off our people!
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How much longer will we wait until all of us start demanding Puerto Rico’s independence?
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Puerto Rico montándola frente a La Casa Blanca en los Guashintones. 🇵🇷🎶Plena Boricua y grupo de jóvenes líderes activistas de PR, incluyendo a
@kristianbob
, se manifiestan en la capital federal pidiéndole al Presidente Biden (y
@GSierraZorita
) que atiendan el problema colonial.
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Benito’s refusal to speak a language other than his own is a highly political move. Not only does he unabashedly and unapologetically speak in Spanish, but he does so in that ever-maligned Caribbean Spanish, full of so many skipped consonants, Spanglish that it borders on Creole.
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The Puerto Rican independence movement is now an electoral force on the island, and political sovereignty is increasingly supported by a growing number of Puerto Ricans.
Whether you’re a PR voter or a boricua in the diaspora, join the movement and support a free Puerto Rico!
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This is one of the most important political charts you'll see this year.
According to a new poll, *among voters ages 18-44*, pro-independence candidate
@juandalmauPR
and his alliance with
@VictoriaPorPR
have a MAJOR advantage in the 2024 Puerto Rico governor's race.
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*Stares in Puerto Rican*
Think for one moment. In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward—except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
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25 personas en la Gran Marcha por la Estadidad en Washington DC, ésto a la altura del Museo Nacional de Historia y Cultura Afroamericana con el Monumento a Washington.
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🧵- Today marks the anniversary of one of the most shameful and violent episodes in the history of U.S. colonial rule over Puerto Rico: the Ponce massacre. 1/6
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Ahora los estadistas quieren la estadity sin tribunal federal, sin FBI, y sin federicos!
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Shameful comments. Puerto Rico's colonial status cannot be a model for anyone—neither Palestinians nor Puerto Ricans. Whether in Israel or the U.S., politicians who think this way reveal their imperialist worldview and their desire to keep nations under political subjugation.
Israeli minister Amihay Eliyahu (Jewish Power) says the West Bank should become Israel's Puerto Rico, with civic rights but no voting rights for Palestinians. In his view, despite this model's "democratic deficit" it is justified given Israel is "a Jewish state under attack".
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We're not watching the U.S. presidential debate between two imperialist colonizers. But all of the commentary seems to confirm that their performance is an excellent argument for Puerto Rican independence.
Surely we can rule and govern ourselves better than either of them can:
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Today is the National Puerto Rican Day parade in New York City.
If you wave our flag today or any day: defend it! Get involved in the struggle for Puerto Rico’s decolonization.
Only independence guarantees the survival of our unique identity, culture, and nationhood!
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A historic alliance announced today with
@juandalmauPR
and
@RLSenadora
at the top of the ticket!
While the alliance includes and welcomes those with other views on PR's status, the leading role of two pro-independence figures underscores the growth in support for sovereignty!
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Remember: if Puerto Rico became a state, it would lose its sports sovereignty and ability to field representatives in every sort of international event or competition.
A proud history of athletic and cultural glory for our people down the drain.
We must support independence!
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Listen and learn about the reality of Puerto Ricans being displaced by American tax cheats, crypto colonizers, and others who use their wealth and privilege to treat our island as a playground.
We don't reject them because they're foreigners, but because they harm our people!
Yesterday, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said it is ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobic’ to criticize outside investors buying property in Puerto Rico.
Here’s what he didn’t say:
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🚨 Puerto Ricans are again on the streets of Old San Juan, in front of the Governor's Mansion, protesting against the incompetence and corruption of the private electric utility
@lumaenergypr
, a U.S. and Canadian company, that hasn't been able to improve the electric grid of PR.
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BUDPR leaders,
@Pwr4PuertoRico
coalition members, and Senator
@RiveraLassen
met with U.S. Congressman
@RoKhanna
this morning to discuss Puerto Rico’s decolonization and other issues affecting our people.
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Scotland knows it, everyone knows it, even the United States of America:
#Independence
is normal!
Puerto Rico, is our turn! 🇵🇷💚🙌🏾
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Would Puerto Rican athletes be happy playing for the U.S. if PR became a state? Here's what they said in 2017:
“Hell no.” —
@kikehndez
“Never felt that way.” —
@ac13alex
“I was never called American. I’ve always been called Puerto Rican.” —
@hecsantiago53
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Oh look: it's the U.S. government deciding that American bondholders, including vulture funds, can continue to profit from their bad investments in Puerto Rico.
This could mean drastically increased electricity rates on the island for an already terrible service.
Colonialism!
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"Will we survive as a people, or will colonialism wipe us out until being Puerto Rican is some kind of distant memory?"
Watch part of our speech to the
@UN
Special Committee on Decolonization, delivered by
@rafasemueve
, demanding action from the UN and advocating for freedom!
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This is about more than tourism. Billionaires want to build entire communities in Puerto Rico—much of it on environmentally protected land—to accelerate settler colonialism.
We the political and economic tools of independence to resist these neocolonizers and protect our people!
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Four years ago hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans hit the streets for a massive protest that forced corrupt pro-statehood governor Ricky Rosselló to resign from office. It was a joyous day of national unity and of asserting our power and dignity as a people!
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The tide is turning in Puerto Rican politics.
For the first time ever, a major election survey has shown a pro-independence candidate
@juandalmauPR
) in second place—in some scenarios, within the margin of error of leading the race!
Decolonization + sovereignty are the future!
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The St. Louis Board of Aldermen has passed a resolution denouncing Act 22, which attracts wealthy colonizers to PR, leading to the displacement of our people.
This resolution was introduced by boricua
@VDanielaV
and supported by allies like BUDPR collaborator
@AngelFl01185777
!
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They did it in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María—and they’re still doing it. Now they’re trying to do it in Hawai'i too.
We must continue to resist this new breed of colonizers!
#LahainaIsNotForSale
#PuertoRicoIsNotForSale
"Lahaina is not for sale." Maui resident Tiare Lawrence talks to
@KatyTurNBC
about real estate investors reaching out to residents after the destructive fires on Maui.
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How is Puerto Rico twice as poor as the poorest state in the United States... but has one of the top-10 most expensive cities in the U.S.?
Because colonialism simultaneously leads to poverty, high cost of living, and massive inequality.
Only independence can lead to prosperity!
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Casa Pueblo
@casapuebloorg
, Puerto Rican NGO leading the path to energy resilience & independence in Puerto Rico, just sent out a letter to
@SpeakerPelosi
demanding less dependency and more power & tools for local organizations to achieve self-sufficiency.
@NydiaVelazquez
@AOC
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Sixty-nine years ago today, four Puerto Rican patriots attacked the U.S. Capitol. They were willing to die to denounce the moral outrage of colonialism which continues to this day. While we now carry on their struggle through peaceful means, we honor their courage and memory.
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Lolita Lebrón, a Puerto Rican freedom fighter and a hero to generations of Puerto Ricans!
Let's never forget that
#PuertoRico
is an invaded and occupied nation by the
#UnitedStates
. If USA denounces colonialism & imperialism in
#Ukraine
and
#Taiwan
, it should do so back home!
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Our representative
@rafasemueve
, a young leader in the Puerto Rican independence movement, is at the
@UN
today ready to reaffirm Puerto Rico’s right to self-determination, denounce U.S. colonial rule over PR, and urge the international community to take action.
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Colonialism in Puerto Rico means that a far-right Trumper like Justin Peterson smiles and makes MAGA jokes while he wields unlimited and unchecked power over Puerto Rico as part of the unelected, U.S.-installed Financial Control Board.
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This powerful and disturbing reporting from
@washingtonpost
and
@cpipr
serves as a reminder:
The socioeconomic collapse that some have predicted would happen in an independent Puerto Rico has instead happened with Puerto Rico ruled by the United States.
Colonialism is deadly!
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Today we honor Ramón Emeterio Betances, who fought for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain and was one of the primary organizers of 1868's Grito de Lares.
Nearly 200 years after his birth, the struggle for Puerto Rico's liberation continues. ¡Viva Betances y viva PR libre!
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Some defenders of colonialism and annexation in Puerto Rico like to claim there is no Puerto Rican diaspora.
But Puerto Rico is our nation and our homeland—not the United States! And we will continue to fight for it from any corner of the planet where we happen to live.
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🎨 Viral Art from Pansy Arts
The People of Puerto Rico strongly denounce the arrival of more
@lumaenergypr
colonizers with white savior complex who are paid way more than the local people who are better prepared, and that just come here to drink, party & be in Bumble.
#GoBackHome
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❌ “Make Puerto Rico a state!”
✅ “We recognize that Puerto Rico was invaded, occupied, and colonized by the USA."
✅ "Pro-independence supporters were persecuted, imprisoned, and killed."
✅ "As an occupied nation, the only progressive path for Puerto Rico is independence."
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A shocking, but not surprising sentence in
@AlexCKaufman
’s reporting on the latest major power outages in Puerto Rico.
The American-Canadian private company that runs Puerto Rico’s power grid would rather let our people die of heat stroke to protect their profits.
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Puerto Ricans have been fighting for our freedom, first from Spain and now from the United States, for hundreds of years.
Today we honor the patriots of the 1868 Grito de Lares, one of the most important revolts for independence in our history.
We will finish what they started!
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🚨 In the streets of Washington DC today demanding the cancelation of LUMA's contract!
#LUMAGoHome
👋🏾✈️
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American colonialism hurts Puerto Rico in every possible way—including in the very minds and souls of our people.
We won’t undo that psychological damage by joining our colonizers. We need to free ourselves mentally and politically.
Independence now!
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Puerto Rican superstar
@sanbenito
, who was featured in
@TIME
's first-ever Spanish language cover, keeps speaking the truth about the failure of our colonial relationship with the United States!
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And free Puerto Rico!
Kehlani during her recent Tiny Desk concert:
“Free Palestine. Free Congo. Free Sudan. Free Yemen. Free Hawai’i. Free Guam. Beyond a ceasefire, we need an end to the occupation. It’s deeper than this.”
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As an invaded and occupied nation, our only progressive path forward towards decolonization is sovereignty and independence. Annexation would assimilate and absorbed us into another culture very different to ours. Ask Native Hawaiians, that became a minority in their own land!
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🇵🇷 Las Lolitas en la Parada Puertorrriqueña de Nueva York
De Nueva York a San Juan,
Que VIVA Puerto Rico Libre!
#PuertoRico
para los
#Puertorrrique
ños
#QueSeVayanEllos
#GoBackHome
👊🏾
🎥-
@riverasaniel
@NRDems
@NatResources
@RepRaulGrijalva
@NydiaVelazquez
@AOC
@LeaderHoyer
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La lucha sigue, en Puerto Rico y la Diáspora! Hasta La Libertad Siempre! 🇵🇷✊🏾
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Another day, another way that Puerto Ricans suffer while wealthy American investors profit. All under the auspices of the U.S.-imposed Junta and in the context of ongoing U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. Who benefits from this relationship again?
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Did you know the original version of Puerto Rico's national anthem is a pro-independence battle cry?
The "official" lyrics were changed by colonialist leaders, but they can't erase them from our spirit.
Here's a whole auditorium belting it out at the
@casapuebloorg
concert!
Así comenzó ahora el Concierto de Casa Pueblo, en el Teatro de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Hay esperanza.🇵🇷
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Thank you
@RepRoKhanna
for a powerful floor speech on the United States' responsibility to decolonize Puerto Rico!
It's been a privilege to meet with Rep. Khanna on several occasions to speak about Puerto Rico and on the need for action to end the colonial status.
The U.S. has kept Puerto Rico as a territory for more than 125 years. Over 3 million people have been denied full political rights.
Colonialism was wrong in India during my grandfather’s lifetime. And it is wrong in Puerto Rico in 2024.
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Since Puerto Rico's political status is in vogue (as it should always be), an important reminder that the biggest artist in the world at this moment, our own
#BadBunny
@sanbenito
🐰👁, doesn't support statehood, and he has clearly hinted as supporting independence for Puerto Rico!
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Como nos recordó hoy
@juandalmauPR
: "Donde late el corazón de un puertorriqueño: ¡ahí está Puerto Rico!"
Excelente visita del líder independentista Juan Dalmau a nuestra diáspora en Seattle, WA. ¡Seguimos educando, conectando y organizándonos para luchar por la descolonización!
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Bad Bunny has been saying for years that he is against Puerto Rican statehood, and he repeated it yet again in a new interview—accusing the pro-statehood party of using statehood to trick voters into supporting them.
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Boricuas and friends in Seattle:
We're excited to partner with
@SeattleULaw
to host Puerto Rican lawyer, politician, and pro-independence leader Juan Dalmau on April 9.
This event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow!
RSVP at
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Puerto Rico is a possession. It is property. It is not a part of the United States. That's not us saying it: it's the United Supreme Court. It's the law of the land.
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Hoy es un día nefasto en nuestra historia: la invasión de EE.UU en 1898, la constitución del ELA colonial en 1952 y los asesinatos del Cerro Maravilla en 1978. ¡Pero seguimos resistiendo hasta que
#VivaPuertoRicoLibre
!
#FreePuertoRico
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Remember: statehood would not eliminate the Jones Act, which also applies to every state.
Only independence would free us from this burden!
Read the study:
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Pro-statehood leaders are stuck in the past: fearmongering about communism and arguing that Puerto Rico should serve as a strategic outpost for America's global misadventures.
They can keep worshipping imperialist Uncle Sam; we'll keep demanding sovereignty for Puerto Rico!
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✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
¡Así es,
@angelmanuelsoto
! ¡Resistir el coloniaje es un superpoder inigualable de los boricuas!
¿Cuál es el superpoder del puertorriqueño? 🤔 Entrevistamos al director boricua
@angelmanuelsoto
para la nueva película
#BlueBeetleMovie
🪲y nos expresa cuál es el superpoder del boricua. 🇵🇷
💙 La película estrena este jueves en las salas de cine de
#PuertoRico
.
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Ruth Santiago, environmental lawyer and member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, protesting Puerto Rico's private electric utility
@lumaenergypr
during a closed meeting with President Biden and
@GovPierluisi
, who supports LUMA!
#LUMAGoHome
@GSierraZorita
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Today is a good day to remind everyone that our nation
#PuertoRico
was invaded, occupied, and colonized by the
#UnitedStates
. It has been 124+ years of US colonialism and counting. We deserve a real, serious, democratic, & inclusive decolonization process now!
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It's so important to see headlines like this one from
@GeopoliticaEcon
@BenjaminNorton
that identify the biggest reason for Puerto Rico's economic struggles: U.S. colonialism.
Colonies can never be prosperous because they are designed to be exploited!
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Colonialism leads to displacement—to people being disconnected from their homeland.
As Hawaii’s case shows, statehood does mot prevent this problem. In fact, it can supercharge it.
Only independence will let Puerto Ricans build a future in our land, for our people!
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Los BUDdies junto a nuestro colaborador estrella de Puerto Rico, el gran
@kristianbob
en los Guashintones.
Los haters dirán que estamos luchando por la independencia de Puerto Rico desde la "estadidad". Pues sí, y no hay nada malo con eso. La lucha es en todas las trincheras!
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"
#PuertoRico
is a classic colony and this organization must get more involved in the liberation of our people. Through decolonization colonies become independent. Those who favor absorption into the oppressing country are for colonization, not against it. 🧵
@AOC
@RepAOC
@NRDems
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The United States is not our country.
Not just because we know in our hearts that we are Puerto Ricans.
But because it is a legal and political fact that Puerto Rico is not PART of the United States—it is a nation OWNED by the United States.
@BUDPR
@juandalmauPR
Why do you call people who just moved to another jurisdiction within their country "diaspora"?
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Puerto Rican statehood has no support in Congress. Democrats don’t take meaningful action on it, and Republicans hate the idea so much that they’re openly opposing it on the campaign trail to attract voters.
It’s time to demand our freedom from people who don’t want us!
'I would never do anything to give Democrats any additional Senate seats.'
@RonDeSantis
won't push for Puerto Rico statehood
Reporting by
@AGGancarski
#FlaPol
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Another pro-statehood politician guilty of corruption.
It's no coincidence that dozens of elected officials from Puerto Rico's statehood party (PNP) have ended up in jail for unethical behavior.
What's more immoral than loving, supporting, and wanting to join your colonizer?
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If the United States invaded a nation tomorrow, most moral Americans would demand that the U.S. free it, not keep it.
That same principle of basic political justice demands freedom for Puerto Rico, which was invaded and has been colonized by the U.S. for the past 125 years.
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Boricuas and friends in Chicago! Join us Friday October 6 at La Bruquena in Humboldt Park for food, drinks, and music with our guest
@juandalmauPR
.
Come meet the leader of the PR Independence Party, connect with the Puerto Rican community, and support our organizing + advocacy!
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Global megastar
@sanbenito
has weighed in on Puerto Rico's political situation and urged his fans to vote in the island's elections this November against the pro-statehood and pro-colony parties that have brought PR to political and economic ruin.
(Headline from
@elnuevodia
)
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🚨 Fuera LUMA DC Protest 🚨
When: Sept 30 8:30am
Where: Longworth HOB
Come join us as we welcome Governor Pierluisi and LUMA President Stensby arrive to the Congress Hearing at Longworth HOB.
Bring your signs, PR flags, and music instruments! We will have pleneros!
#LUMAGoHome
👊🏾
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American colonialism continues to leave a toxic legacy, not just in Vieques, but in all of Puerto Rico.
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Bochornosa actuación de representantes estadistas—que van a la ONU a decir que son más Americanos que nadie pero necesitan intérpretes porque no dominan el inglés—diciendo sus disparates sobre “Cuba y Venezuela” ante los embajadores de esos países y llevándose un regaño.
El representante del PNP José Enrique Meléndez, al indicar que le cuestionan en Puerto Rico su asistencia a las audiencias del Comité de Descolonización, se refirió a Cuba como “un país hostil” a Estados Unidos, lo que motivó la intervención del representante de Cuba.
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Outrageous: While Puerto Rican children suffer through 100 degree heat in classrooms, pro-statehood governor Pedro Pierluisi vetoed a bill that would've put air conditioning in schools and the U.S.-appointed fiscal board spends millions on consultants.
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🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨
BUDPR and the Puerto Rican Student Association at The George Washington University in Washington DC Present: A Dialogue with Juan Dalmau, Leader & Secretary General of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.
Nov 17 5:30-7PM
Networking 7-8PM
More details to come!
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"Puerto Rico is the great unfinished business of American democracy after 126 years." —
@juandalmauPR
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We hope boricuas everywhere are enjoying time with their families today. But let’s remember that Thanksgiving is a national day of mourning for Native Americans, and an opportunity for all of us to reflect on the impact of colonialism—in centuries past and in Puerto Rico today.
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Pudimos también constatar que la gran mayoría de los políticos del
@pnp_pr
que convocaron a la marcha desde el Capitolio federal hasta el Monumento de la II Guerra Mundial, no marcharon, y tomaron Uber del Capitolio al sitio final.
@KerenRiquelme51
@JoseAponte51
@Carmelorios
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Today we celebrate Puerto Rico’s flag. Not too long ago, owning one could be used as evidence that you were a pro-independence subversive and get you jailed.
Now we wave it proudly, as a symbol of our national identity and resistance to U.S. colonialism!
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