Doctoral Fellow NYU ๐ง๐ฝโ๐ป| Fmr: Adj Lecturer ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ซ
@ColumbiaGSAPP
โก๏ธReally just a Puerto Rican kid from East Harlem tryna grow while the simulation glitches
This Sunday against the Raiders, various people within the Vikings organization will be supporting Israel on their feet.
Kicker Greg Josephโs cleats and sneakers that will be worn by the Wilfs and team CEO Andrew Miller.
Custom designed by
@stadiumck
.
Protests against VP Kamala Harris in Puerto Rico ๐ต๐ทare underway
US flags ๐บ๐ธ were removed & replaced with flags of Palestine ๐ต๐ธ , Haiti ๐ญ๐น ,& the Black Puerto Rican resistance flag
Protesters demand an end to U.S. intervention in all 3 countries
More info below
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@JSALPP
What do you call "Decolonization" where the colonizer keeps control over the land, natural resources , never pays reparations & continues to extract colonial debt from the "former" colony?
Final comment on
#HR8393
by
@AOC
"Yo si soy Boricua, pa' que tu lo sepas"
She is immediately instructed to provide a translation for the House
What a symbolic & hilarious moment
#MyBloombergStory
My friends & I (17/18 yrs old) were walking into Riverside Park, next to Columbia University. We heard someone scream: "HEY!"
I didn't turn around. "HEY" isn't my name. One of my less street smart friends did. THANK GOD.
It was a cop w his gun drawn at us.
My friends and I were stopped & frisked at gunpoint thanks to Mike Bloomberg's racist policing policies.
He led a campaign of terror to ensure POC knew we could be jumped by police any time.
The rights of an entire generation were violated.
His record is his record.
PERIOD.
I wish I could transfer to u the terror of raising teenage boys in NYC city when Bloomberg was bragging abt xeroxing the description of minority boys & throwing them against walls. In the later years it overlapped with black live matter. They were being hunted. Death was possible
Never gonna not think it's wild to hear the US talk about sovereignty for any country while occupying Puerto Rico est. 1898
About self-determination for any country while it denies it for Puerto Rico
Saying imperialism is bad while controlling PR through an unelected US junta
If white academics can legitimately write "Minorities" as one of their "areas of expertise" can people of color write "White People" as one of theirs?๐ค
I've completed field work in the Hamptons and numerous Upper East Side yoga studios.
Dominican immigrants reached Puerto Rico by boat today...searching a better life
Puerto Ricans on the beach told them "Don't run! Sit here with us!" so they wouldn't be caught
Meanwhile
A US tourist (or settler) physically caught a Dominican & handed him over to Border Patrol
Puerto Rico ๐ต๐ท protests US ๐บ๐ธsupported genocide in Palestine ๐ต๐ธ
Protesters demand US stop arming Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ & end apartheid
๐ธ
@cafe_con_miel_
in Old San Juan
East Harlem has *NO* public library rn (due to construction) & that was BEFORE this round of proposed cuts
Meanwhile NYC has plenty of money to pay for police raids on colleges in Harlem (CUNY & Columbia)
๐ฃ๏ธ Listen to teens talk about how crucial libraries are to their wellbeingโand then help save libraries from millions in cuts.
#NoCutsToLibraries
Sign your name now:
THE US SUPREME COURT JUST DENIED PUERTO RICAN JOURNALISTS THE RIGHT TO KNOW HOW THE US APPOINTED COLONIAL JUNTA THAT RULES PUERTO RICO ACTUALLY GOVERNS PUERTO RICO
@realDonaldTrump
Hearing Trump insult and threaten to not return the calls of US governors (begging for federal help to fight
#COVID19
) because they aren't appreciative of him?
While people are dying?
Gives me painful flashbacks to how Trump treated Puerto Ricans during Hurricane Maria
Mike Bloomberg's legacy is one of terrorizing communities of color, displacing working-class people from
#NYC
& enriching himself while in office. I will be dammed if anyone is going to tell me that MIKE is the lesser evil.
I'm not choosing which racist oligarch I prefer in 2020
On this day in 1954
4 Puerto Rico Independence fighters led by Lolita Lebron, shot up the US Capitol in an act of anti-colonial violence
*not white supremacist angst like 1/6
The US told the world it had no colonies
Today the vast majority of Puerto Ricans know that was a lie
๐จ Protesters trying to shut down the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico are met with large police resistance.
US tourists continue streaming in from the
#COVID19
epicenter causing a huge spike in PR.
As a colony Puerto Rico cannot (legally) stop the US from entering.
Thank you for the
#MyBloombergStory
idea
@BenjaminPDixon
Almost cried at the end of writing it. There was no reason so many POC had to go through that as children in
#NYC
I am filled w anger each time I hear a Bloomberg ad (That's like 15X a day now) I hope the U.S. hears us.
Puerto Rico 's ๐ต๐ท elected govt runs in Spanish, legislature, political debate etc
@AOC
said 1 phrase in Spanish on the US ๐บ๐ธ House floor (denoting her pride to be Puerto Rican) in a debate on
#PRStatusAct
#HR8393
& was immediately instructed to provide English translation
Farmworkers in Oregon this week used N95 masks and their cell phone flashlights to pick cucumbers in the midst of devastating wildfires. Under what conditions must someone be living to go to work in these horrific and dangerous conditions?! ๐ก
#WhereIsOSHA
@StevePasquale
Care about Puerto Rico? (Care* not realized its value as a pawn in your search for Blue votes)
-Demand the US pay PR reparations for 122 years of colonial rule
-Demand the US cancel all of the debt PR is being stripped & sold for
-Demand PR have the right to self-determination
#JamelFloyd
was just killed at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn
#NYC
Stop asking if protests are peaceful while the state kills us.
Rest in Power
Armed man storming Michigan State Capitol (Left)
Unarmed man arrested for demanding food for children in Puerto Rico (Right)
Aside form the automatic weapons...and the arrest....can you spot the difference?
#FreeGiovanni
#ComidaPaLosPobres
#COVID19
The good news is? All those POC that Bloomberg had Stopped and Frisked? (Those that are still with us)
Are older...wiser...and will fight tooth and nail to make sure Bloomberg NEVER sees the presidency.
And there are a lot of us...
Someone just yelled "Merry Christmas" outside ๐ฃ๏ธ
So I screamed "Merry Christmas" out my window ๐ฃ๏ธ
Then someone screamed "SHUT THE FUCK UP" from downstairs ๐ฃ๏ธ
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Protest against Cuban government is US โnewsโ before it even takes place
Historic protests against the US colonial junta imposing deadly austerity on Puerto Rico ?
*Absolute crickets* from US press
In San Juan, Puerto Rico there are statues of every US president that made an official visit to the island since it became a colonial possession in 1898.
๐๐๐This is what they looked like this morning ๐๐๐
6 security guards just took me out my seat at Madison Square Garden for chanting "fire Dolan"
Masculinity and privilege can be so fragile.
I am a life long Knicks fan.
My father is a life long Knicks fan.
Knicks fans deserve better.
Remember when the US convinced ppl that Puerto Rico โs economy would crash, weโd have mass migration & widespread blackouts if Puerto Rico became independent ?
All those things are happening now as a US colony
This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea. This is a bad idea.
Washington DC is the disenfranchised capital city of the nation that has colonized Puerto Rico for 122+ years
These are very different status conversations.
In school I was taught that Puerto Rico was "protectorate" of the United States.
That the US controlled Puerto Rico to (Protect it)
I still have family members that believe this.
Please don't teach children lies.
Completamente inundadas las calles en Villas de Lavadero, en Hormigueros, por las lluvias de la tormenta
#Isaias
en Puerto Rico.
(Vรญdeo: Rubildo Lรณpez)
Hangin. Chillin. Enjoying a nice night. Same way white kids in the suburbs do in their backyards at night. Only we didn't have back yards. NYC was our backyard.
I asked the officer WHY he'd stopped us.
Cop told us: "You guys fit the description."
On 4/21/1965, Pedro Albizu Campos died
He fought for statehood (not to be a US state) but for Puerto Rico to gain independence
Campos was jailed for 26yrs & suffered radiation poisoning for trying to end the US occupation
The prison, "La Princesa," now hosts the PR Tourism Co.
THIS IS A LIE
Puerto Rico NEVER received 91 BILLION dollars to rebuild after Maria.
You hate Puerto Ricans today as much as you did when you were banning them from your apartments in NYC.
....the crazed and incompetent Mayor of San Juan have done such a poor job of bringing the Island back to health. 91 Billion Dollars to Puerto Rico, and now the Dems want to give them more, taking dollars away from our Farmers and so many others. Disgraceful!
After threatening to shoot us? The cop randomly decided to let us go. It confused the hell out of us. An officer drew a gun at our backs without even saying "police." If we'd ran? He could have killed us! Once he stopped us? He could have killed us! The cop had a gun; we did not.
But my parents knew we were lucky. So lucky this was our only time being stopped and risked. Our darker-skinned friends were stopped far more frequently. I had friends who had been stopped and frisked 13 times by the time they were 15.
Puerto Rico's government is corrupt.
So is the US.
Do you know what Trump's kids do for that public paycheck?
How much that family has made off the office?
Difference between US & Puerto Rico?
Our island revolted against that corruption this summer & will again this week
Sometimes the privatization of the beaches means they are closed off to Puerto Rico โs people
Sometimes itโs employing architecture that makes Boricuas feel like they are criminals for enjoying their motherland โฆ
Sometimes you canโt help but feel like Lilo in Hawaiโi
It wasn't till I was in my mid 20's that I admitted to my parents that I was stopped and frisked. I worried that they, as part of an older generation of POC, would have thought that we were the ones who did something wrong.
People in the US calling for Puerto Rico to " become a state like Hawaii "
Please
Please
Please
Look up the history of violence and displacement that process caused for Hawaiians (and still does)
Our fault for being in a park late at night, for not getting our hands up fast enough, for how we dressed, for how we addressed the officer, etc. etc. etc.
When I finally told my parents about getting stopped and frisked? I will never forget the fear and anger in their faces.