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Hear Berta Joubert-Ceci: Puerto Rico, an update from the archipelago

April 2, 2024 Sharon Black

“The Yankees want the cage, but not the birds.” – Pedro Albizu Campos Berta Joubert-Ceci, a convenor of the 2019 Puerto Rico International Tribunal of Colonial Crimes of the United States, will be touring U.S. […]

Puerto Ricans repudiate the Israeli genocide in Gaza

November 13, 2023 teleSUR

“We call to put the body on the street in solidarity with the Palestinians,” the Feminist Collective said. Nov. 12 — On Sunday, Puerto Ricans marched through the streets of San Juan to denounce the genocidal […]

Uprising in Puerto Rico in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle commemorated

November 8, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci

This past Monday, October 30, the Puerto Rican independence movement commemorated, like every year on this date, the Jayuya Insurrection of 1950 led by the Nationalist Party. Although the Grito de Lares of 1868 is […]

Puerto Rico before the UN in Geneva

November 6, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci

The fight for our sovereignty and independence, although increasingly uphill, is carried out every day from different scenarios: in agriculture, where young people try to rescue the land to ensure a future with food sovereignty; […]

Puerto Rican organizations testify before UN Decolonization Committee

June 28, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci

This past week, the UN Decolonization Committee held a hearing on what has been called the Puerto Rico case on Puerto Rico’s inalienable right to self-determination and independence. Since the UN passed Resolution 1514 (XV) […]

Repression in Puerto Rico

May 7, 2023 Struggle - La Lucha

This week the priorities of this government have been very clearly exposed: on the one hand, the unjustified arrest of three well-known leaders of the union and people’s struggle during the May 1st demonstrations; and […]

Día de Reyes en Puerto Rico

January 9, 2023 Berta Joubert-Ceci

Hay una campaña publicitaria sobre Puerto Rico donde se indica que tenemos las Navidades más largas del mundo, y en parte es así. Se celebran desde el último jueves de noviembre hasta mediados de enero. […]

Ana belen montes puerto rico political prisoner

Puerto Rican prisoner of conscience, Ana Belén Montes, to be released

January 5, 2023 Peoples Dispatch

Puerto Rican political prisoner Ana Belén Montes is set to be released from a federal prison in Texas on January 8, 2023. This upcoming release marks a victory for the movement to free Puerto Rican […]

‘Yankees want the cage but not the birds’

October 7, 2022 Yunus Soner

U.S. President Joseph Biden visited the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico on October 4 to examine the damage caused by hurricane Fiona. He promised all help to the island, which is a so-called “unincorporated organized […]

Puerto Rico in the grip of Hurricane Fiona, Pierluisi and Luma

October 3, 2022 Berta Joubert-Ceci

On Sunday, Sept. 18, just as the country remembered the fifth anniversary of the devastation of Hurricane Maria, another hurricane, Fiona, devastated the island. But these phenomena have no comparison. Maria was a category 5 […]