From: "K Flores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:24:38 -0700
From: Mirna C. - Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 12, 2007 7:40 PM From: "Puerto Rican Alliance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:39:04 -0700 From: Comite de Mujeres Patricia Marin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Grito de Lares Flyer (#1) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:18:01 -0600 What, When and Where?: Los Angeles, California Celebrate The Liberation Struggle for Puerto Rican independence and self-determination. Sunday, September 23, 2007: Requested Donation at the door : $10.00 50% of donations will be sent to our people in Peru. WHERE: Centro Del Accion Popular 1042 North Richmond Street Los Angeles, CA. 90033 **323-854-2060 Start Time: 11:00AM TO 4:00PM !!POTLUCK FOOD TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY!! No One will be turn away for lack of funds, Childcare availiable at the Event Speakers, Spoken Word, Youth Conscious Hip Hop an Open Forum, Aztec Ceremony and much more Hosted Puerto Rican Alliance Of Los Angeles, Boricua Nation, Boricua Human Rights Network Solidarity Sponsors: Union Del Barrio, September 23 Coalition, Bayan, Habi Arts, Anti-Racist Action, Jericho Los Angeles Network to free all Political Prisoners, Unity Mission To Free SF8, , IAC Asians For Mumia, Comite de Mujeres Patricia Marin and many more !!For more information and march route/ program details visit:!! [link deleted] Contact Person: Lawrence Reyes (310)460-8586 Puerto Rico is the oldest colony on the planet, first invaded by Spain in 1493, then in 1898 by the United States. After 109 years, it continues under U.S. colonial rule. Within those 500 plus years of invasion and occupation, the Puerto Rican people have been engaged in anti-imperialist/ anti-colonial resistance that continues to this day. The Significance of the September 23rd date September 23rd, 1868 is traditionally celebrated and commemorated as the birth of the Puerto Rican nation, when Puerto Ricans rose up against Spanish colonial rule in a revolt known as El Grito de Lares. By 1898, Puerto Rico had achieved a form of autonomous self-rule, which came to an end later that year with the United States invasion of the island during the Spanish- American War. Puerto Rico hasbeen under the political rule of the United States ever since andhas continued to struggle throughout that time for its independence and self-determination. Well aware of this date's significance to the independence movement, on September 23rd, 2005, U.S. FBI agents assassinated Filiberto Ojeda Rios. Comandante Filiberto, who founded el Ejercito Popular Boricua (the Puerto Rican People's Army) Los Macheteros, was a revered revolutionary leader of the Puerto Rican liberation struggle. The assassination of Filiberto on this date was a clear attempt to kill the spirit of the ongoing Puerto Rican liberation struggle. Why In Los Angeles ? We will forever Stand Firm On Our Feet To Liberate Our People In Puerto Rico and in the Americas which is today known as Latin America,we Stand Firm On Our Feet with our Present Liberation Leaders and those in the Past which Vision is still alive in our Hearts today, Zapata, Benito, Betances,Che,Bolivar,Don Pedro Abizu Campos,Lolita y Mariana Barcetti the maker of both the Cuba Flag/ Puerto Rican Flag and stated two Wings and just One Bird and Dylcia Pagan my former Teacher and Political Prisoner this only to just mention a few, Evo, Chavez, Marcos Y Castro, Don Rafael Cancel Miranda. We will be in action just like those In Puerto Rico, Cuba, New York, Boston In spite of their attempt to kill our spirit, the FBI assassination of Ojeda Rios served to rally additional support for the independence movement. Since his death, the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization voted unanimously on a resolution calling for the Decolonization of Puerto Rico. This resolution, in addition to several declarations made on the colonial situation of the island reiterates: "the Puerto Rican people constitute a Latin American and Caribbean nation that has its own unequivocal national identity." If picked up by the UN General Assembly the Puerto Rican status question will be addressed in September of 2008. This historical decision would put Puerto Rico's status issue on the UN agenda for the first time since 1953. The September 23rd march will rally national and international support so that the United Nations will make it a priority to resolve the colonial situation in Puerto Rico once and for all, through its natural right to be a free nation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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