Puerto Rico
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Expressing the sounds of her beloved Puerto Rico, hundreds of people singing plenas and chanting about her valiant character accompanied independence fighter Lolita Lebrón to her final resting place in the Old San Juan Cemetery. She was buried close to her dear Maestro, Don Pedro Albizu Campos. As she had requested, the burial took place just over 24 hours after her death....
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There are no vacations yet for the students who won a two-month strike at
the University of Puerto Rico. Instead, they have continued organizing and
demanding that the administration fulfills the agreement....
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Jubilantly chanting, “Victory, victory, victory for history!” and “Eleven campuses, one UPR!” students at the University of Puerto Rico on the 58th day of their strike emerged from a final negotiating session with the Board of Trustees having won an agreement. It still has to be ratified at an assembly of the students as a whole....
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Thousands of Puerto Rican students, sons and daughters of the working class and
some already workers themselves, anticipated May Day actions by defiantly
challenging the University of Puerto Rico’s board of administrators and
the island government in mid-April when they called a student strike to defend
affordable public higher education on the island....
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Puerto Ricans have resisted U.S. culture and the imposition of English-only
in schools, and over the years have formed liberation organizations such as the
Nationalist Party, the FALN and the Macheteros. Now the movement and its allies
are calling for the FBI and the U.S. Navy to get out of Puerto Rico. International solidarity is needed....
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Last Friday, September 23, 2005, while the pro-independence movement in Puerto Rico was commemorating the 137th anniversary of El Grito de Lares, the day the first Republic of Puerto Rico was proclaimed in 1868, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, respected and legendary leader of the liberation movement was being assassinated by FBI sharpshooters just a few miles away in the western coast of the island. ...
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The International Action Center, an organization with over 15 centers throughout the United States, denounces the Bush Administration's announcement that the FBI has issued an arrest warrant for ANTONIO CAMACHO NEGRON a Puerto Rican pro-independence leader and former political prisoner....
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Vieques is an island municipality of Puerto Rico, separated from it by 6-8 miles of sea. It measures 21 by 4 miles, with an area of 33,000 sq. acres. Population: 9,400 inhabitants who live in the narrow, middle strip of land sandwiched between two U.S. large Naval facilities. ...
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