Pages tagged "Sovereignty"

The Importance of Diaspora Activism in Puerto Rico’s Sovereignty Movement

With the upcoming “Statehood: Yes/No” status plebiscite in Puerto Rico, pro-sovereignty advocates within the Puerto Rican diaspora have risen to support the massive and coordinated “NO to Statehood” campaign in Puerto Rico and in the United States. This major uptick in diaspora activism in support of defeating the YES option has led to some calls by other Puerto Ricans, namely statehooders, that such diaspora Puerto Rican activists have no place in opposing statehood for Puerto Rico.

 

 

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Mr. Farrow is Wrong about Puerto Rico

Mr. Jeffrey Farrow’s twelve tweets, of February 9, 2020 [Link] show a lack of an understanding of Puerto Rico and contains errors of fact. They are not coherent as to what he appears to suggest are solutions and misrepresent what we did through the entire week.

 

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Successful Week at United Nations' HQ in New York City

Dr. Julio Ortiz Luquis, BUDPR's International Relations Adviser, presented our organization's position on the colonial status of Puerto Rico before the UN's Special Committee on Decolonization on June 24, 2019. He joined more than 50 other petitioners in highlighting the continuing injustice of Washington's colonial treatment of Puerto Rico. Julio's speech capped a week in which two of our co-founders held meetings with various diplomatic missions in New York to garner support for our nation's self-determination and independence.

 

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