Realidades; 103; Puerto Rican Solidarity Day

You from the North American invasion of 1898 the British Congress of Tentayusurpa, the sovereignty of the Puerto Rican people. It is the United States who has the absolute control over most of the activities of the island.

It is the United States who exerts exclusive jurisdiction on all the references to the United States, external relations, defense, immigration and immigration, trade, external currency, transport, maritime and air service, radio and television, health, health, health, transportation, public health, health, food and pharmaceutical products, berages, resources, representation of the land and other disagreeable assets, organizations of the banks, and the associations of ISIS and Arabic and government.

We just saw a recital of the legal powers and jurisdictions in the United States has a Puerto Rico. On the basis of that political reality, many people consider Puerto Rico a colony of the U.S. 20,000 people of that conviction convened in Madison Square Garden last October for a day of solidarity. In a peaceful demonstration, they urged the U.S. to celebrate its bicentennial without colonies and demanded the release of alleged political prisoners now being held in federal front-to-ten sherrys. They recorded these proceedings and shared them with us. Compañeras y compañeros este acto es una hermosa muestra de solidaridad combativa.

Aquí nos juntamos en Franca camaradería y cohesiva hermandad, puertos riqueños y norteamericanos, afroamericanos, chicanos, asiáticos, indios, representantes de diversas comunidades continentales que por encima de fronteras nacionales, diferencias étnicas y del lenguaje alcanzamos la más elevada identidad a que aspira la especie humana la de haceres universales, el propósito específico del acto abona a su universalidad, el apoyo al

derecho a la independencia nacional de un pueblo grande o pequeño, tienen vergadura universal, en esta etapa del desarrollo histórico la única unidad posible entre los pueblos del mundo será la que se base en la absoluta garantía de la integridad territorial, la auto determinación y la independencia de todas las naciones, donde quiera que se vulneren esos principios básicos, elementales para la convivencia internacional, se quiebran el equilibrio y la paz de todo el planeta, por eso la comunidad mundial

ha proscrito el colonialismo en todas sus formas y manifestaciones, la terminación de las múltiples variantes de la dominación colonial es objetivo prioritario del mundo de hoy. The People's Republic of China and summing up their impression of the world's situation stated that countries want independence, nations want liberation, and the people want revolution. This is the irresistible trade of history. These words ring strong and beautiful in the ears of oppressed people throughout the world, and these words do indeed summarize the reasons why we are here today.

We are here to show our solidarity with that initiative. We are here as a concrete expression of our will to struggle against the barriers that divide our peoples and our struggles. We are here to say to the ruling class that we no longer will allow racism and national shamanism to divide us. We come as Black people, not as liberals tailing behind the motion of the Puerto Rican people rather we come as fellow revolutionaries and comrades in struggle. We place H. R. Brown, Jim Grant, John Chesamari, countless others alongside of Lolita Lebron, Vasco Goyazo, Rafael Miranda, Irvin Flores, and Andres Cedero. We place the Orangeburg massacre and the murder of the students at Jackson State alongside

the Bonsai massacre. We place George Jackson alongside Grasalio Torresola. It is clear that our solidarity with the Puerto Rican people is sealed in our blood, the sealed in our continuing contribution to the struggle against imperialism and all of its manifestations. We firmly support the demand for the unconditional independence of Puerto Rico. We support the right of the Puerto Rican people to determine their own destiny. We want independence, nations want liberation, and the people want revolution. Long live the struggle of the Puerto Rican people, independence of Puerto Rico, Cuba Puerto Rico, Independence of Rome! Because we are Puerto Rican, we are Cubans, we are Panameños, we are Dominican and we are here in a

United States house because we are all Latino. So we dedicate our right hand to our causa como la dignidad y libertad de Puerto Rico. Saludar, un amor de los corazones para poder disfrutar de los rimos que estás a los ojos y no voy a dedicar. Y aunque me encuentre muy lejos, nunca te

puedo olvidar. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right, Pecie.

All right. Now come on in the flat. Sit down and everything will be okay. If you stand like that, Karva will do it. All good. Remember we've all got the power, yet sitting there going태 up past our toe. all right, guys? ario? All right. What is that? What? What, Bataligo? What a madman, down there! Omen, omen! Not beautiful! Come on, sir, get lost! . .

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . If I fall behind, if I betray you, kill me, if they take me, I dance with me, then in time, come on. If I fall behind, if I betray you, kill me, if they take me, then in time, come on. If I fall behind, if I betray you, kill me, if they take me, then in time, come on.

If I betray you, kill me, if they take me, then in time, come on. If I betray you, kill me, if they take me, then in time, come on. Saludos. I am very honored to be able to participate in this event today and to join with all of you

in expressing solidarity with and support for the right of Puerto Rican people to be free and independent from U.S. colonialism. It was, after almost 200 years ago, that the 13 colonies fought for exactly the same rights of freedom and independence. These are the ideals upon which this country was founded, and the citizens of North America, all of us, have a very profound responsibility to see to it that our country makes a reality of these ideals for all people everywhere in the world. The struggles of the Indochinese people are bearing fruit. They have shown us, all of us, that although one might face what appears to be insurmountable odds, when a people are united, when a people are fighting for freedom and independence, they will win. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Welcome to Indian Country, and this is what we're here for to talk about independence.

You know, my grandfather's telling me that the Puerto Rican and the Chicano and all the peoples of the Western hemisphere, we share the same ancestors, and we must remember that. And we do, and I believe that, and if we share the same ancestors, then we share their same beliefs, and their beliefs as independence and freedom. Let me tell you this, the four sacred colors are red for the east, yellow for the south, black for the west, and white for the north, and also represents the four colors of man, red, yellow, black, and white. Mix those four colors, and you get the color brown, the color of our Mother Earth, and your color of you all.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation. It's like the ways of the sea, it is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the white man's God who walked and talked with him as friend with friend could not escape the common destiny. We may be brothers after all, we shall see. That was solidarity, I'm a member of St. John, this is reality.

Thank you very much.