I love Puerto Rico. I have friends there. I used to visit as much as I could before this neuro disease got stronger but I'll be back soon.
Puerto Rico is awesome and the people are AMAZING. They should already be a state and they want to be. But the fact that they are not doesn't mean that we should forget them.
Please make this issue more known by boosting. Also, if you do not know much about Puerto Rico I urge you to look it up or better yet, travel there. If my health was better my wife and I would have already moved there but because our country refuses to let them in but abuses them in many ways we cannot due to my health.
"I come from the oldest colony in the world. We understand that it is not easy living under these colonial conditions. We have lived and survived through genocide. Our struggle is the same. We have the same enemy: the Yankee Empire, because the Zionists receive funding from the United States to commit this genocide.
"I am here talking about our country with Palestinians. They [tell me], 'I did not know that about Puerto Rico. That sounds like Palestine.' And that is true. The bombs they [Israel] have been using here were [tested] in Vieques. The weapons they have been using were probably [tested] in Vieques. There is a direct connection with our struggle."
"There have been 5230 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand over the week to Sunday, and 20 further deaths attributed to the virus." "It comes just weeks after Covid cases spiked to their highest level in 18 months"
The CDC recommends people 65 and over get a Spring redundant dose of that year's Fall #COVID vaccine.
[Translated: ] Less than two weeks ago, Salud confirmed to El Nuevo Día that, among the infections of this respiratory virus, a new variant called KP.2 predominated...
...currently, 184 people are hospitalized for COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, including 23 pediatric cases...
Today in Labor History March 21, 1937: Palm Sunday, cops killed 19 unarmed men, women and children marching in a protest in Ponce, Puerto Rico. They injured another 200 civilians. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party organized the march to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1873 and to protest the imprisonment of the party’s leaders by the U.S. The police used Thompson submachine guns, rifles and pistols, shooting marchers in the back, during the Ponce Massacre. A commission placed the blame for the massacre on the U.S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Blanton Winship. However, no one, including Winship, nor any of the shooters, were ever prosecuted or punished.
Today in Labor History February 15, 1898: The battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor, Cuba. 274 crew members died. Some US Navy officers believed that the explosion was caused by a fire in the coal bunker, not by a Spanish mine. However, spurred on by propaganda in the Yellow Press, the U.S. used the incident to justify declaring war on Spain. 385 U.S. soldiers and nearly 800 Spanish soldiers died in the Spanish-American war. And the U.S. gained Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines as de facto colonies from Spain. The war also precipitated U.S. involvement in the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War. Up to 6,000 Americans and 12,000-20,000 Filipinos died in that war. However, as many as 1 million Filipino civilians died from famine and disease during the genocidal U.S. occupation.