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After 30 Years in Prison, Carlos Alberto Torres, Puerto Rican Political Prisoner, Will Be Freed |
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By Marjorie Cohn
Counterpunch (July 26, 2010)
Today,
Puerto Rican political prisoner  will walk out of
prison after 30 years behind bars. He was convicted of seditious
conspiracy - conspiring to use force against the lawful authority of the
United States over Puerto Rico. Torres was punished for being a member
of an armed clandestine organization called the FALN (Armed Forces of
National Liberation), which had taken responsibility for bombings that
resulted in no deaths or injuries. He was not accused of taking part in
these bombings, only of being a member of the FALN.
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REMEMBER EL GRITO DE LARES on September 23rd! |
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 Remember El Grito de Lares in your community!
Boricuas plan events across the United States.
Tell us-puertoricans about your event.
September 23rd, 1868 was the birth of the Puerto Rican nation. Islanders launched an armed rebellion to end
Spanish colonial rule. Nearly 1,000 revolutionaries --escaped African
slaves, jibaros from the countryside, and middle and upper class
creoles-- reached the mountain town of Lares with shouts of "Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" “Long
Live Free Puerto Rico!.” Although Spain
crushed the insurrection, it expressed the people’s desire for freedom and marked the beginning of the Puerto Rican nation.
El Grito de Lares flag
continues to symbolize national independence.
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UN Decolonization Committee Urges United States to Expedite Puerto Rico's Self-Determination |
 Draft Resolution Calls on United States to Expedite Island’s Self-Determination - June 21, 2010
The Special Committee on Decolonization approved a draft resolution calling on the Government of the United States to expedite a process that would allow the Puerto Rican people to exercise fully their right to self-determination and independence, and for the General Assembly formally to consider the situation concerning Puerto Rico, which the world body had not formally taken up since the Territory’s removal from the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories in 1953.
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Puerto Rico: Operations Calculated to Restrict Civil Rights |
 Jesús Dávila
translated by Jan Susler
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, July 1, 2010 (NCM) – A calculated police operation,
according to sworn testimony this morning by one of the agents, left
yesterday afternoon in front of the Capitol dozens of demonstrators
injured and journalists attacked, and served as a framework so that
behind closed doors the legislature could annul the university
students’ constitutional rights of assembly and freedom of speech.
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Univ. of Puerto Rico Students Declare Victory in 2-Month Strike |
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 Students at the University of Puerto Rico have declared victory in
their two-month strike against massive budget cuts at their school. The
students and the university’s Board of Regents have signed an agreement
that includes an extension of tuition waivers, the cancellation of a
fee that would have drastically raised education costs, and a
commitment not to arbitrarily punish strike participants. The students
also say the University of Puerto Rico has agreed to reject a series of
initiatives that would have increased privatization of the school. The
students will hold a general assembly on Monday to seek campus-wide
approval for the agreement.
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Obama “Open” to Puerto Rican Statehood? |
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 May 29, 2010 by Howard Portnoy
As long as Barack Obama sits in the Oval Office, Puerto Ricans living in the island commonwealth and here, in the U.S., had been steel themselves to the idea that Obama is determined that Puerto Rico will become the fifty-first state. Whether Puerto Ricans want to change seems to be quite beside the point.
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Arizona bill targeting ethnic studies signed into law |
 Gov.
Jan Brewer signs bill that bans schools from teaching classes
designed for students of particular ethnic group. School districts
may appeal the law, which becomes effective Dec. 31.
By Nicole Santa Cruz, Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2010
A
bill that aims to ban ethnic studies in Arizona schools was signed into
law by Gov. Jan Brewer, cheering critics who called such
classes divisive and alarming others who said it's yet another law
targeting Latinos in the state.
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Puerto Rican government issues birth certificate extension |
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 The government of Puerto Rico has extended the validity of current birth certificates until Sept. 30, giving more time to apply for and receive new certificates. New birth certificates will begin being issued July 1 as planned. After the Sept. 30 deadline, all previous birth
certificates will be invalid.
An online application can be completed in English or Spanish, and
applicants will be required to upload necessary identification
documents, such as a copy of a driver's license or U.S. passport.
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