“Auschwitz made clear the importance of banning dangerous pesticides”.
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Activists in Puerto Rico are in a perpetual Brexit kind of situation.
If they want voters on the mainland to pay attention, they need to unite behind either STATEHOOD or INDEPENDENCE – pick one and stick with it – and make a big noise about that one word and nothing else for a long time. If they can’t be bothered, we’ve got other things to worry about.
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They did unite behind independence, once. This is what it got them:
The Río Piedras massacre occurred on October 24, 1935, at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. Local police officers confronted and opened fire on supporters of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Four Nationalist Party members were killed, and one police officer was wounded during the shooting.
In 1931, the U.S.-appointed Governor of Puerto Rico, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. named Dr. Carlos E. Chardón as Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico. He was the first Puerto Rican to have th...
The Ponce massacre was an event that took place on Palm Sunday, 21 March 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, when a peaceful civilian march turned into a police shooting in which 19 civilians and two policemen were killed, and more than 200 civilians wounded. Most of the dead were reportedly shot in their backs. The march had been organized by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party to commemorate the abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico by the governing Spanish National Assembly in 1873, and to prot An inv...
The Puerto Rican independence movement took new measures after the Free Associate State was authorized. On October 30, 1950, with the new autonomist Commonwealth status about to go into effect, multiple Nationalist uprisings occurred, in an effort to focus world attention on the Movement's dissatisfaction with the new commonwealth status.
They catalyzed roughly a dozen skirmishes throughout Puerto Rico including Peñuelas, the Jayuya Uprising, the Utuado Uprising, the San Juan Nationalist revolt...
Since then, the FBI has been working hard to ensure that Puerto Ricans aren’t united on anything. It’s standard operating procedure.
https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/puerto-rican-groups
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Also, water is wet and the sky is blue…
Sometimes something good comes out of Big Think, but too far often it’s not that great.
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This always has me conflicted. When I optimistically think I’ll be able to retire some day, PR is high on my list of places to go.
But then I see all the tax dodging gringos that are trying to take over and I don’t want to be part of that problem.
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