Recordando a Stonewall, ¡Unámonos contra el terror policial!

Mensaje del Partido de Socialismo Unido

Abrazando el significado auténtico del “espíritu de Stonewall”, el año pasado en la ciudad de Nueva York, la Coalición ‘Reclaim Pride’ (Recobrando el Orgullo Gay) organizó una enorme marcha, militante, multinacional, multi género y multigeneracional dirigida por jóvenes que reclamaban la esencia rebelde del levantamiento de 1969 fuera del Stonewall  Inn en el vecindario de Greenwich Village.

Al demostrar el alto nivel de conciencia política que existe dentro de las comunidades LGBTQ2S y sus organizaciones, las demandas de los manifestantes de Reclaim Pride reflejaron no sólo cuestiones de preocupación inmediata para esas mismas comunidades, en particular, la violencia continua contra las personas trans, especialmente las mujeres trans de  color, sino también las políticas imperialistas militaristas de los Estados Unidos, como los intentos en curso de derrocar al gobierno pro-socialista democráticamente elegido de Venezuela.

Y ahora, un año después, ese mismo alto nivel de conciencia es visible en las magníficas movilizaciones masivas de jóvenes contra el racismo y sus aliados en todos los rincones de este país y, en manifestaciones dramáticas de solidaridad internacional en todo el mundo.

Los activistas LGBTQ2S están trabajando fuertemente para organizar muchas de estas acciones antirracistas y anti policía.  Los ajustes necesarios por la pandemia de coronavirus han hecho que la organización del Orgullo Gay sea más difícil, pero el movimiento no se desalienta.  En San Diego, por ejemplo, que tiene una gran marcha del Orgullo Gay cada mes de julio, la marcha misma ha sido cancelada para proteger a la comunidad del contagio. Pero, en un acto significativo de solidaridad con el levantamiento liderado por el pueblo negro contra la violencia policial, los organizadores locales del Orgullo han anunciado la prohibición de la participación de “fuerzas de seguridad del estado” en todas las actividades del Orgullo.

¡Solidaridad!  Como debería ser ahora, el enfoque de las personas revolucionarias decentes en todo el mundo es evitar que la policía asesina racista de los Estados Unidos asesine a personas de color.  Pero esa lucha también plantea cuestiones básicas de injusticia racial y de clase: la necesidad de educación gratuita de grados primarios a universidad para todos;  atención médica de calidad gratuita, cuya falta ha sido expuesta por el alto nivel de muertes por COVID-19 entre las personas negras y marrones;  vivienda digna y el derecho a trabajos bien remunerados para todos.  Merecen la atención especial de todos los que buscan un mundo justo el llamado a la compensación por la esclavitud y el reconocimiento del estatus colonial “settlers” de los Estados Unidos en tierras indígenas.

El movimiento de liberación LGBTQ2S y el movimiento de liberación Negra son aliados naturales.  Ambos nacieron de la misma furia.  Ambos comenzaron como una rebelión contra la brutalidad policial continua en una comunidad oprimida.

En un voto de 6-3, la Corte Suprema acaba de dictaminar que las personas LGBTQ2S están cubiertas por las protecciones de los Derechos Civiles contra el despido.  Esta es una gran victoria y no es casualidad que dos jueces de derecha rompieran con Trump sobre este tema en este momento.  Es por la rebelión liderada por el pueblo negro.  ¡La lucha de los más oprimidos eleva las luchas de toda la clase trabajadora!

El Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido saluda la creciente unidad entre las comunidades LGBTQ2S y el movimiento Black Lives Matter.  El objetivo de abolir las injusticias económicas, políticas y sociales que afectan al mundo capitalista sólo puede superarse si se continúan construyendo estos puentes inspiradores de solidaridad y lucha.

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New York June 22: Stand with Maria Ressa against Duterte’s tyranny

Monday, June 22, 2020 at 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT

Philippine Consulate in New York – 556 5th Ave.

The conviction of Philippine Journalist and Human Rights Activist Maria Ressa is an attack on free speech and the human right to protest against the anti-people actions of the Duterte administration. Join us as we advocate for Maria Ressa, press freedom, and condemn the Duterte administration.

#HoldTheLine #StandWithRessa #DefendPressFreedom #JunkTerrorBill #OustDuterteNow

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Take action: Endorse and join the 1 July mobilization against Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all organizations in support of Palestinian liberation to endorse the call to action by Samidoun Network in occupied Palestine and in the diaspora, originally released in Arabic, against the prospect of Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank, and to mobilize internationally on Wednesday, 1 July, the day the Israeli state threatens to escalate its ongoing project of colonialism, dispossession and ethnic cleansing.

Samidoun organizers, affiliates, and partners are helping to build demonstrations in Ramallah, New York City, and Madrid, with other events soon to be announced in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and elsewhere.

And organizations including Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition and the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel have also released calls to action, which Samidoun endorses, and for which it encourages broad support.

To endorse the international appeal from Palestinians under Israeli occupation, or to inform us of your local event so we can help promote it, please complete our online form, message us on Facebook, or e-mail us at samidoun@samidoun.net.

Read the full statement and call to action below:

A call to the struggling Palestinian people throughout occupied Palestine and to the masses of our people struggling in exile and diaspora…

A call to Palestinians, Arabs and the people of the world….

Israel, the Zionist project fully supported by the United States of America and the reactionary forces in the region, is continuing upon the path of attempting to liquidate the Palestinian cause and Palestinian rights. It aims to impose its racist colonial regime through armed force, through repressive systems, prisons and detention center, and by spreading systematic destruction targeting the Palestinian people. Israel not only denies the national rights of the Palestinian people but also violates the most basic and natural rights of people and the land.

Our struggling Palestinian people, along with the Arab nation, the peoples of the region, and the progressive forces and liberation movements around the world, are aware of the true face of the racist, Zionist colonial entity and its expansionist nature and aims, now more than ever. They also see with full clarity how the occupation continues to implement its ongoing crimes and daily attacks against the Palestinian people. These crimes and violations do not subside for one hour, from killing, siege, mass arrests, home demolitions and the confiscation of Palestinian land through annexation and displacement projects. These daily crimes committed by the occupation forces take place in full sight and sound of the world, with no accountability, meaningful response or even a minimal international legal response.

The policies of the Zionist state and of the Trump administration standing together with Netanyahu and Gantz are the natural continuation of the ongoing history of each successive Israeli government and leadership from before the establishment of the Zionist state on our Palestinian homeland in 1948 until the present day. This right-wing alliance and the deeply, fundamentally racist structures propping it up are convinced that it may impose its will by force upon the Palestinian people because of the state of disintegration, weakness and disorganization on the Palestinian and Arab internal fronts. They target the homes and the very existence of the Palestinian people with impunity, from demolishing our homes in the Negev, Qalansuwa, Jerusalem and throughout the West Bank, to continuing the devastating siege upon our people in the struggling Gaza Strip, to denying our right to return and self-determination throughout the entire land of Palestine.

Today, the Zionist right-wing alliance prepares to plunder all of the Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, creating a system of ghettos, cantons, strangulation and impoverishment, what it calls “facts on the ground” that target, first and foremost, the rights and interests of the Palestinian popular classes throughout all of occupied Palestine.

On the other hand, these Israeli policies are also acting to accelerate the resounding fall of all of the projects of surrender and illusion, the path of negotiations that began with the 1991 Madrid conference and the disastrous and devastating Oslo accords that destroyed the Palestinian people’s institutions and organizations. This current dragged the Palestinian national movement into a state of defeat, internal conflict and disintegration, confiscating the role of the Palestine Liberation Organization and emptying it of its popular and democratic role.

Today, the peoples of the world, and friendly and hostile forces alike, look toward the Palestinian response, not only to this latest Zionist crime but to this entire stage of destruction. Their eyes point to the critical importance of a popular Palestinian and Arab response to the annexation project and the imposition of the so-called “Israeli laws and sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.”

Accordingly, we call upon all national and Islamic forces, popular organizations inside Palestine and in exile and diaspora, as well as our labor unions, women’s organizations and student movement to participate widely and lead the popular march that will begin on 1 July 2020 in the city of Ramallah, as we march on the path of a unified Palestinian people and a unified Palestinian struggle, standing for the rights and dignity of our people – always and only, the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people.

We call upon the Palestinian people throughout occupied Palestine, everywhere in exile and diaspora, and all those who stand for justice in Palestine – all of the national forces, youth groups, civil society institutions and popular movements – to organize direct actions and popular mobilizations in the refugee camps, cities and villages and to formulate plans for joint action and mass organization. Together, we can mobilize the power and potential of the Palestinian people, the Arab people and the international movement for justice to confront the schemes of the occupier and its collaborators. The time has come to take a qualitative step to protect the Palestinian people and rebuild the foundations of the national liberation movement.

Our Palestinian people everywhere and the national liberation movement march on the path to liberation and return.

With loyalty to the martyrs and the struggling prisoners’ movement, the leadership of the Palestinian struggle.

Down with the occupation! The annexation, colonization and settlement projects will be defeated. Victory is with the Palestinian people and the Palestinian cause!

6 June 2020

Source: Samidoun.net

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County workers picket anti-union politician

By a Local 1994 steward and bargaining committee member

Takoma Park, Md. — Bus drivers, librarians, nurses, clerical workers, teachers, sanitation workers — workers of all vocations — picketed the home of Montgomery County Councilmember Hans Reimer on May 16 in response to his “No” vote on the union contract that was successfully negotiated between United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1994 and County Executive Marc Elrich.

Our picket line was extremely well organized. We wore work uniforms and the number of walking pickets was limited ahead of time to the number that could socially distance safely.

Despite monies soon due the county under the multitrillion-dollar federal bailout, a majority of the term-limited council used the virus crisis as a political excuse to vote “No.” Ambitious and posturing for future campaigns for higher office, council members hope to garner financial support from the high number of millionaires in the county.

All members of the council are Democrats. As a particularly two-faced example, Reimer was chosen for the picket line, which wrapped around the long sidewalks of his corner property. Blowing their horns, dozens of cars driven by union members and their families circled the block in addition to the walking pickets.

Our signs and chants let the neighborhood know that all of Reimer’s speeches about how much he respects and appreciates county workers are nothing but cheap talk.

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New York June 28: Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality

Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Foley Square

On Sunday, June 28th, at 1pm, the Reclaim Pride Coalition will be in the streets of Manhattan for our second annual Queer Liberation March — the Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality. Marchers will gather at 12:45pm at Foley Square on Centre St and step off at 1pm sharp.

Marchers are asked to wear face masks to protect against COVID-19 and to maintain safe distancing. Reclaim Pride will provide masks, hand sanitizer and water to those who need them. And Reclaim Pride will livestream the March online at @queermarch on FB and Twitter/Periscope and via Youtube live on reclaimpridenyc.org for those who can’t attend in person. This March, like all current protest Marches, does not have a City/NYPD permit.

Horrified by the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Layleen Polanco, Rayshard Brooks and untold numbers of others, mourning the endless violent deaths of Black trans women and men like Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells and Riah Milton, and inspired by the historic, Black-led protest movement that has taken to the streets here in NYC and across the world, Reclaim Pride supports demands for immediate defunding, dismantling, disarming and reimagining of police forces.

We join with abolitionists such as Mariambe Kaba and others in several cities in demanding a fifty percent reduction in the NYPD budget with a fifty percent reduction in the police force. Those funds must be dedicated to services including housing, healthcare, education and reparative and restorative justice for Black and Brown communities. We must prioritize reparations for those who’ve been oppressed and murdered for hundreds of years.

While all Black people are at constant risk of police brutality and murder, we as queer and trans activists recognize that Black Trans, Gender Non-Conforming, and Non Binary people, especially Black Trans Women, are faced with the intersection of vicious state and societal racism, transphobia, misogyny, and classism. This must stop now.
For our complete statement of purpose, go here: https://reclaimpridenyc.org/

The March will be wheelchair accessible, and the livestream will have accommodations for deaf and hearing impaired viewers. For other questions about accessibility, contact access@reclaimpridenyc.org.

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Brooklyn July 1: Day of rage against Israeli annexation, racism and repression

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 4:00 PM EDT

72nd St and 5th Ave, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY

On July 1, the day the occupying state of Israel threatens to launch its formal annexation of the West Bank, the Palestinian movement in the metropolitan New York City area will join calls by Palestinians, under Israeli occupation (samidoun.net/2020/06/1-july-call-to-action-to-confront-israeli-annexation-struggle-for-a-free-palestine) and across the diaspora (al-awda.org/al-awda-prrc-urges-action-to-confront-israeli-annexation-join-the-day-of-rage-july-1), for a day of rage, while building its solidarity with the Black uprising against racism and repression in the United States.

Endorsed by:
Bard Students for Justice in Palestine
Community Movement Builders
Cooperation Jackson
Existence Is Resistance
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Labor for Palestine
Students for Justice in Palestine at John Jay College
Students for Justice in Palestine at College of Staten Island

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Socialism and dignity: We don’t need their cops

When the Pilgrims invaded the Wampanoag nation in the 1620s, they didn’t find any police or jails. Such cruelty wasn’t necessary.

That’s because there were no rich or poor in Wampanoag society. A community of equals doesn’t need armed thugs with badges. Billionaires and banksters didn’t require protection since these parasites didn’t exist.

Three people are killed by police on every average day in the United States. Almost 5 million people are jailed every year, many of whom can’t afford bail.

More than 10 million people are arrested annually by police armed with guns, clubs and mace. Almost any of these arrests can result in death or serious injury. Many do. All are humiliating.

The capitalist U.S. is a violent police state. The wealthy and powerful spend around $200 billion a year to have over 800,000 cops on the street and keep 2.3 million people in prisons. Every cent of this money is stolen from the working class, both employed and unemployed.

Cops push drugs

Violence is promoted by the capitalist state that pours drugs into poor communities. The “French Connection” that flooded New York City with heroin was a CIA connection. Drug-dealing gangsters who beat up striking French workers and communists worked in tandem with U.S. spy agencies.

Corrupt cops were also essential. Nearly 100 pounds of “French Connection” heroin were checked out of the New York Police Department’s evidence locker on Jan. 4, 1972, never to be found again. 

Drugs help suppress communities from organizing for jobs, housing and health care. That’s why CIA-owned Air America, with 20,000 employees, drenched the U.S. with dope during the Vietnam War.

“The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia” by Alfred McCoy exposed these crimes. The CIA tried to stop the book from being published.

One of the reasons the ruling class sought to destroy the Black Panther Party, assassinating dozens of its members, was because the Panthers fought against drugs.

The Reagan administration created the crack epidemic to fund the contra terrorists who were trying to overthrow the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Crack served as an excuse to incarcerate hundreds of thousands of more people. Joe Biden was responsible for many of the laws that filled the prisons. 

Banks make vast profits by laundering drug and crime money that’s estimated by the United Nations to be as much as $2 trillion a year.  

Tear down the walls!

Poor people in Paris started the French Revolution by tearing down a hated prison called the Bastille on July 14, 1789.

The U.S. has thousands of bastilles. Every one of them should be torn down, including the immigration concentration camps where children are kept in cages.

Many of these U.S. bastilles are labeled “correctional institutions.” “Correction” was the term used by the slave masters to describe their torture of enslaved Africans.

Louisiana’s Angola State Prison is on the site of a former plantation that had the same name. It was called Angola because that’s where many of its enslaved African workers came from. 

Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 endured over 40 years in solitary confinement there. His comrade, Herman Wallace, spent 42 years in the “hole.” Wallace was released three days before he died of liver cancer.

Prisons are concentration camps for the poor. Ruchell Cinque Magee has been imprisoned in California for 57 years. That’s twice as long as Nelson Mandela was kept behind bars in apartheid South Africa.

Magee is being held because he joined Jonathan Jackson in trying to free Jonathan’s brother, Black Panther Party Field Marshal George Jackson. Jonathan Jackson was killed at the Marin County courthouse on Aug. 7, 1970, along with William Christmas and James McClain.

This attempted jailbreak was as righteous as the attack on Harper’s Ferry for which John Brown, John Edwin Cook, John Anthony Copeland Jr., Edwin Coppock, Shields Green, Albert Hazlett and Aaron Dwight Stevens were executed. 

California Gov. Ronald Reagan tried to railroad Dr. Angela Davis to the gas chamber for Jonathan Jackson’s courageous deed, since he was one of her bodyguards.

We need to return Brother Ruchell and all the prisoners home to their families.

Community control now!

Every real revolution frees prisoners and fires the police of the old regime. Karl Marx gave this description of the world’s first working-class government, the 1871 Paris Commune:

“No more corpses at the morgue, no nocturnal burglaries, scarcely any robberies; in fact, for the first time since the days [of the revolution] of February 1848, the streets of Paris were safe, and that without any police of any kind.”   

There are calls across the country to defund the police. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is suggesting a mere $100 million to $150 million cut in the city’s $1.86 billion police budget.  New York City’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, is proposing an even smaller percentage cut to the $6 billion that its police department spends.

These shell games won’t stop killings by police. A genuine demand for defunding the police is offered by the December 12th Movement in New York City.

D12 member Iman Essiet stated, “It is time to redirect the millions of dollars budgeted to the police to community-based organizations and social agencies which are equipped to address issues such as drug abuse, domestic violence, children’s behavior in schools, mental health, homelessness, unemployment and poverty.”

The police have to be disarmed. Their guns, clubs, mace, rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray have to be outlawed. So do their patrol wagons in which Freddie Gray was killed via a “rough ride” by Baltimore cops.

Almost none of the police in the socialist People’s Republic of China have guns.

The Black Panther Party raised the demand for community control of the police. The National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and its executive director, Frank Edgar Chapman Jr., are demanding this today.

The NAARPR wants an “elected Civilian Police Accountability Council that holds police officers accountable for crimes such as assault, murder, torture and racial profiling.” Such a council could fire racist, sexist and homophobic cops.

The struggle for community control is a stepping stone to abolishing the police. A movement of millions in the streets can stop the killer cops.

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Puerto Rican organizations: Decolonization can’t wait!

Message to the UN from Puerto Rican Independence Organizations

Honorable Keisha Aniya McGuire
President, U.N. Decolonization Committee
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador
Permanent Mission of Grenada to the U.N.

Today, June 14, 2020, on behalf of the organizations of the National Liberation Movement of Puerto Rico and signatories of this declaration, we respectfully communicate to the honorable members of the U.N. Decolonization Committee the urgency with which the colonial case of Puerto Rico must be addressed as Puerto Rico remains under the imperialist rule of the United States.

Ever since the military invasion of Puerto Rico on July 25, 1898, the strategies of colonial rule have been implemented in accordance with the political-economic-strategic needs of the imperial power elites in Washington and to the detriment of the collective social welfare of the Puerto Rican nation.

Our country has historically been subjected to the most repressive strategies and techniques of manipulation and social control, among which include:

a) A direct military government.
b) Imposition of the English language in the education system.
c) Persecution, jail and murders of men and women who confront and resist colonialism.
d) Imposition of an economic model akin to looting by the imperial power in Washington.
e) Compulsory military service so that our young people die in unjust U.S. wars.
f) Imposition of massive sterilization of Puerto Rican women.
g) Promotion of the mass exodus of our people.
h) Abuse and plunder of our natural resources.
i) Militarization of our national territory.
j) Exploitation of our land and seas by using radioactive uranium pumps that have claimed the lives of hundreds of Puerto Ricans because of their carcinogenic effects.
k) Imposition of a dictatorial board (called the fiscal control board) which imposes measures contrary to the well-being of our people and deteriorates rights achieved by our working class.

In this historic moment, the collapse of the imperialist colonial economic model is self-evident — a failed model sustained by excessive public indebtedness benefitting the interests of financial vultures — leading to disastrous economic outcomes and without a national economic development plan for production; an economy based mainly on the importation of goods from the imperialist power, tax exemptions for large foreign corporations and capital, promotion of mass emigration of our population, dismantling of the country’s public educational system, privatization of the health care system and the dismantling of civil and labor rights, all causing both impoverishment and hunger in the population.

Against all that abuse and domination, our people have heroically struggled and resisted for the past 122 years. In confronting and fighting colonialism, we see its impact on the lives of our people, which is exponentially worsened when we confront forces of nature such as hurricanes, earthquakes and pandemics, while lacking the political and sovereign power to open our borders to international solidarity for effective disaster response.

Additionally, the parasitic and corrupt elites in control of the colonial government apparatus dedicate themselves to the looting of public funds and the material infrastructure of the country. Furthermore, our people have been subjected to the designs of a dictatorial Junta that constitutes the de facto government serving finance capital and imposed by forces of the imperial power stemming from Washington.

Against all this repression, the Puerto Rican people continue to fight and resist. In the summer of 2019, we wrote a glorious page in both national and international history, shaking off a puppet and corrupt governor who was forced to resign through the actions of a militant and indignant people. However, the unfinished agenda that raises the need to break the empire-colony relationship remains. The time has come to allow space for that new Puerto Rico, bidding to be born, to see the light and to flourish.

In the process of struggle and resistance, our people are discovering their capacity to bring about change, their right to have control over their own destiny, their possibilities of building the foundations of a diversified national economy, their proper and most efficient use of our land, their collective intellect, their human capital potential, and all with a wise policy of respect for the environment and its natural limits.

The organizations of the Puerto Rican National Liberation movement work from different theaters to establish a new country — we know how to create a representative power block that arises from all the collective outrage, and we will mobilize the forces of the people to confront and defeat the oppressor by all necessary means. An important component in our process of decolonization and national liberation is the support from the international community. It is important that this Decolonization Committee and the U.N. General Assembly remain vigilant, listening to our complaints and enforcing the statutes that declare colonialism an international crime and a crime against humanity.

Due to the aforementioned, we request that the U.N. Decolonization Committee conduct its 2020 hearing on the colonial case of Puerto Rico in whatever manner is deemed appropriate so that our claims are heard on behalf of our Nation.

Signatory Organizations in Puerto Rico

Comité de Solidaridad con Cuba de Puerto Rico
Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico
Jornada Se Acabaron las Promesas
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
Partido Revolucionario de l@s Trabajador@s Puertorriqueñ@s – PRTP-Macheteros
Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano
Movimiento Ñin Negrón

Signatory organizations in the diaspora
Frente Independentista Boricua and it’s members:

Comités de la Resistencia Boricua
El Grito
Friends of Puerto Rico Initiative
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño de NY
Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico (Juntas NY y NJ)
(PRTP-Macheteros)
Puerto Ricans in Minnesota
Puerto Rico Me Llama
Unión Patriótica Boricua (Florida Central)
Virtual Boricua

Source: ElFrentePR.org

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Organizaciones puertorriqueñas: ¡la descolonización no puede esperar!

Mensaje a la ONU de Organizaciones Independentistas Puertorriqueñas 

Honorable Si. Keisha Aniya McGuire
Presidenta, Comité de Descolonización de la ONU
Embajadora Extraordinaria y Plenipotenciaria
Misión Permanente de Granada en la ONU 

Hoy 14 de junio del 2020, a nombre de las organizaciones del Movimiento de Liberación Nacional de Puerto Rico, firmantes de esta declaración, le comunicamos respetuosamente al honorable Comité de Descolonización de la ONU, que es urgente que se atienda el caso colonial de Puerto Rico, que permanece bajo el dominio imperialista de los Estados Unidos.

A partir de la invasión militar del 25 de julio de 1898, las estrategias de dominio colonial se han ido articulando de acuerdo con las necesidades político-económicas-estratégicas de las elites del poder imperial en Washington, en perjuicio del bienestar social colectivo de nuestra nación puertorriqueña.

Nuestro país, históricamente ha sido sometido a las más diversas estrategias y técnicas de manipulación y control social, entre las cuales podemos mencionar:

a) Gobierno militar directo.
b) Imposición del idioma inglés en el sistema de enseñanza.
c) Persecución, cárcel y asesinatos de hombres y mujeres que se enfrentan y resisten al colonialismo.
d) Imposición de un modelo económico de saqueo, al servicio de los intereses del poder imperial en Washington.
e) Servicio militar obligatorio para que nuestros jóvenes mueran en guerras ajenas.
f) Imposición de esterilización masiva de mujeres puertorriqueñas.
g) Fomento del éxodo masivo de nuestra gente.
h) Abuso y saqueo de nuestros recursos naturales.
i) Militarización de nuestro territorio nacional.
j) Uso de nuestros suelos y mares para practicas con artefactos y bombas de uranio radiactivo que cobro la vida de cientos de puertorriqueños/as por sus efectos cancerígenos.
k) Imposición de una junta dictatorial (llamada de control fiscal) la cual impone medidas contrarias al bienestar de nuestro pueblo y deroga derechos alcanzados por nuestra clase trabajadora.

En el presente momento histórico se hace evidente el colapso del modelo económico colonial, sustentado en el endeudamiento público desmedido, sometido a los intereses del capital financiero; sin un plan de desarrollo económico nacional de producción, basado principalmente en la importación de bienes, exenciones contributivas al gran capital extranjero, fomento de la emigración masiva de la población, así como el desmantelamiento acelerado del sistema educativo del país, la privatización del sistema de salud, el desmantelamiento de derechos civiles y laborales, generando un empobrecimiento acelerado y hambre en la población.

Contra todo ese andamiaje de abuso y dominación, nuestro pueblo ha luchado heroicamente durante los pasados 122 años. Al enfrentar y luchar contra el colonialismo vemos su impacto en la vida de nuestra gente, que se dramatiza exponencialmente cuando confrontamos fuerzas de la naturaleza como huracanes, terremotos y pandemias, sin poderes políticos para abrir nuestras fronteras a la solidaridad internacional, sin poder para decidir quienes entran y salen de nuestro territorio, sin control político-jurídico-económico efectivo.

Las elites parasitarias y corruptas en control del aparato de gobierno colonial se dedican al saqueo de fondos públicos y la infraestructura material del país. Sometido nuestro pueblo, además, a los designios de una Junta dictatorial que constituye el gobierno de facto del capital financiero, impuesto por fuerza del poder imperial de Washington.

El pueblo boricua está en pie de lucha y resiste. En el verano de 2019 escribió una gloriosa página en la historia nacional, al sacudirse de un gobernador títere y corrupto, obligado a renunciar por medio de la acción del pueblo militante e indignado. Quedando sin embargo la agenda inconclusa que plantea la necesidad de romper la relación imperio-colonia, para dar espacio a que ese nuevo Puerto Rico, que puja por nacer, vea la luz.

En el proceso de lucha y resistencia nuestro pueblo se va encontrando con su propia capacidad de producir cambios, de su derecho a tener control sobre su destino, de sus posibilidades de construir las bases de una economía nacional diversificada, uso adecuado de sus tierras, la inteligencia colectiva, el potencial de sus recursos humanos y naturales, con una sabia política de respeto a los limites ambientales y naturales.

Las organizaciones del movimiento de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueño que trabajamos desde diferentes frentes para construir un nuevo país, sabremos articular un bloque de poder que surja de toda la indignación colectiva y las fuerzas del pueblo para enfrentarles y derrotarlos en todos los terrenos, por todos los medios necesarios.

Un componente importante en nuestro proceso de descolonización y liberación nacional es el apoyo de la comunidad internacional. Es importante que este Comité de Descolonización y la Asamblea General de la ONU se mantengan vigilantes, escuchando nuestras denuncias de pueblo, expresándose, haciendo valer los estatutos que declaran el colonialismo como delito internacional y crimen contra la humanidad.

Por lo antes expresado le solicitamos al Comité de Descolonización de la ONU a que este año 2020, continúen efectuando las vistas sobre el caso colonial de Puerto Rico, sean estas virtuales, presenciales o de la manera que estimen pertinentes para que se escuche los reclamos libertarios de nuestra Nación. 

Organizaciones firmantes en Puerto Rico

Comité de Solidaridad con Cuba de Puerto Rico
Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico
Jornada Se Acabaron las Promesas
Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano
Movimiento Ñin Negrón.
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño
Partido Revolucionario de l@s Trabajador@s Puertorriqueñ@s – PRTP-Macheteros

Organizaciones firmantes en la Diáspora

Frente Independentista Boricua y sus miembros:
Comités de la Resistencia Boricua
El Grito
Friends of Puerto Rico Initiative
Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño de NY
Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico (Juntas NY y NJ)
(PRTP-Macheteros)
Puerto Ricans in Minnesota
Puerto Rico Me Llama
Unión Patriótica Boricua (Florida Central)
Virtual Boricua

Fuente: ElFrentePR.org

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Juneteenth, Reparations, Capitalism & Fighting Police Terror – Webinar June 21

Sunday, June 21

Live Video by Struggle – La Lucha

Join Struggle La Lucha and Socialist Unity Party for a special Month of June webinars.
Our speakers are coming from the picket lines, marches and the struggle – essential workers from workplaces to the street. Expect exciting reports, analysis and plenty of time for questions and discussion.

JUNETEENTH
Reparations, Capitalism & Fighting Police Terror

Sunday JUNE 21    12 noon West    2 pm Central    3 pm East

Special Speakers:

CLARENCE THOMAS will speak about the Friday West Coast longshore worker port shutdown on Juneteenth.  He is a retired leader of ILWU Local 10 and a convenor of the Million Worker March.  ILWU Local 10’s stunning action on Friday shows the way for workers fighting to end white supremacy.

GLORIA VERDIEU will speak on reparations, capitalism and socialism.  She is a writer for Struggle – La Lucha, is with Socialist Unity Party in Texas and San Diego, and an organizer in the fight to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier and all political prisoners.

REBECKA JACKSON recently traveled to Minneapolis and will give a first hand report on the struggle to abolish police and state repression.  She resides in Los Angeles and is an artist and organizer for Socialist Unity Party. Jackson was a victim of police violence.

JASMINE JOHNSON will report on the inspiring Soweto Uprising.  She recently graduated from  high school and is with the Los Angeles Socialist Unity Party.  Johnson recently spoke on ‘What is socialism and why we need it.’
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