Puerto Rico

Grist
View In: Puerto RicoComposting could be the solution.

FAIR
View In: Puerto Rico“What Puerto Ricans want and deserve is respect. They deserve a voice in the decisions that are made about their economy and their future.” The post ‘Puerto Rico Has Become a Microcosm for the Worst Kind of Capitalist Ideas’ appeared first on FAIR.

Democracy Now!
View In: Puerto RicoDemocracy Now! co-host Juan González says people are showing resilience in the face of Hurricane Fiona in his native Puerto Rico, where the power grid crashed across the entire island due to the storm. Many who learned from 2017’s Hurricane Maria are dipping into their personal water reserves and usin...

Yale Universities Climate Connections
View In: Puerto RicoThe island endures its worst hurricane encounter since Maria in 2017. The post Puerto Rico crippled by flash flooding and power failures as Fiona heads toward Bermuda appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

Popular Resistance
View In: Puerto RicoDespite the harsh reality that Puerto Rico is neither free, nor associated, nor a state, July 25 marks the day of the creation of the constitution of the “Free Associated State,” or commonwealth, of Puerto Rico. I write this article with the purpose of revealing some details about the Anglo-Saxon-supremacis...

Multipolarista
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July 25 is the date of the US invasion of Puerto Rico, and also the day of the creation of the “commonwealth.” Racism keeps it in a state of colonial impotence, based on court cases from the era of slavery.

The post Puerto Rico: between colonialism, racism and slavery on July 25 appeared first on Multipolarista.