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Assistant Prof. @GonzagaU ; member of @DiasporaPIP ; collaborator @budpr ; Musician @AbrahamJenaro ¡Que viva la paz en Colombia y la independencia de Puerto Rico!

Spokane / Bogotá / San Juan

Joined January 2013

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I am excited to announce that our book “Challenging Neoliberalism and Colonialism in Puerto Rico” is being offered an advance contract with @lsupress . Co-edited by Mario Cancel Bigay and I, this edited volume has contributions from @mizmaritz , @asjirau , @JohnPaulBelk7 ,..1/2

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Jenaro Abraham

2 years

As we speak, Puerto Rico is undergoing its 14th power outage since the nation’s transmission services were privatized a year and a half ago. Those responsible for privatizing it are the same US empowered colonial elites that thrive off our vulnerability. Time to decolonize PR

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Now that Puerto Rico is trending, I’d like to share a few things: 1. Statehood will not decolonize Puerto Rico 2. Independence is the only solution to our economic and political woes, moving forward 3. We have been stolen from and demand reparations

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3 years

Remember this: Puerto Rico is not a colony because it lacks equal rights. It is a colony because there’s extractive, imperialist intent. Affording us equal rights via statehood will not do away with extractive institutions or imperialist intent. It will embolden both.

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To my friends in the US: Today marks Puerto Rico’s 125th year under US imperial rule by which we’ve been robbed of our ability to develop. The only moral path forward is granting us independence with reparations. For this, I ask you for your allyship. #FreePuertoRico

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3 years

Puerto Ricans would love to live in Puerto Rico…

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2 years

Do you want to know why you’ll never hear people say that they’re “Puerto Rican-American”? Because there’s nothing dignified about our relationship with the US. It’s time to decolonize Puerto Rico.

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3 years

Every island in the Caribbean that became independent of its colonizer is better off now than what it was under colonial rule. Puerto Rico will not be the exception.

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Hay que ser bien bruto para pensar que vivir en los EEUU y apoyar la independencia de Puerto Rico es una contradicción.

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1 year

This is what settler colonialism in Puerto Rico looks like.

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I live on the beach, pay 4% in taxes, and am just a 2.5 hour flight away from Miami. Why I moved to Puerto Rico (and how you can too):

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Puerto Rico está cambiando… Ya la gente no se come el cuento de que “no somos nada sin los EE.UU.” Un día seremos la esperanza de los pueblos marginados.

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Dato curioso sobre Puerto Rico A nadie le importa el 4 de julio… Es un día de playa, como lo es el “labor day” y el “presidents’ day”. Ni a los estadistas les importa…

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2 years

@prageru PragerU is on to something!

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4 years

@charliekirk11 “Riots are the voice of the unheard.”

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2 years

Independence for Puerto Rico is a means to resolving colonialism, but for me, it’s much more than that. It’s a political project where we can write our own history and chart a more just and equitable future for humanity. This can never be done through empire.

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Un mexicano pregunta: “Si estar asociado con los EEUU es tan bueno, ¿porqué hay 6 millones de puertorriqueños en los EEUU?” Sin saber mucho de Puerto Rico, señaló lo obvio: Los EEUU no nos ayuda. Me pregunto: ¿Cuándo se darán cuenta los estadistas/colonialistas de esto?

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3 years

Puerto Rico does not have a “status” issue. We are a colony. Our subordinate relationship to the US is analogous to classical colonialism but with the addition of some of the more abhorrent aspects of neocolonialism. Statehood does not challenge this relationship. It embraces it.

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1ra regla del trabajo comunitario: no vengan de paracaídas a una comunidad vulnerable para “ayudar” sin su permiso. Las comunidades desarrollan sus estrategias de lucha en situaciones súper delicadas donde las malas movidas pueden echar a perder años de esfuerzos. 1/2

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3 years

Independentistas: We need to talk less about Puerto Rican statehood and more about what independence is going to look like.

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1 year

It’s not uncommon for well intending Americans to ask why Puerto Rico’s politicians are so corrupt. Despite the complexities of our system, the answer is quite simple: The ethos of colonialism is that of pillage. Elite survival depends on their support of this pillage, but…1/2

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2 years

@prageru @thecjpearson And this is an argument against reparations, how?

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2 years

Puerto Rico is a victim of US imperialism. It is a colony in the most traditional sense. Its current woes with power outages and economic dependency are a direct result of its relationship with the US. It’s time to decolonize Puerto Rico. #Independence #Patrianueva

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1 year

Friendly reminder to all my friends in and outside of Puerto Rico: Colonialism and Slavery were never choices.

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10 months

¡Hay quorum! +4,000 en asistencia @PIPtwitteando 🇵🇷

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3 years

Independence represents Puerto Rico’s only shot at economic sustainability.

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6 months

A mi me parece chistoso la narrativa fotuta de que el MVC no leyó el reglamento… El MVC tiene algunos de los académicos, abogados, sindicalistas, maestros, y profesionales más importantes del país en sus filas… La desertificación no fue por falta de lectura…1/2

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1 year

¡Independencia para Puerto Rico! #PatriaNueva

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3 years

This is your daily reminder that colonialism in Puerto Rico is not a feeling or a choice. It’s not something to gauge support for, much less something people vote on. It’s imposed and it’s wrong.

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¡Hasta que la dignidad se haga costumbre! @PIPtwitteando #PatriaNueva

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Jenaro Abraham

2 years

There is a deep and growing desire in Puerto Rico to create a democratic society, free of the vestiges of colonialism. There is also an elite minority that pushes for colonial arrangements on the false premise that it is the “will of the people.”

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1 year

En una sola semana, hemos visto un incremento terrible de mensajes violentos (racistas, clasistas, macharranes, y amenazas) dirigidos a Independentistas y activistas de oposición en general en Puerto Rico. No se dejen amedrentar que vamos ganando.

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2 years

Only through independence may Puerto Rico rectify the historic and current injustices of colonialism.

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4 years

@TomiLahren Just to recap, Tomi hates immigrants but loves people getting sick.

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7 months

“Soy estadista, pero no PNP” Así dicen todos los penepés en Puerto Rico… 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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3 years

Last night, Puerto Rico’s hegemonic colonial parties passed a debt restructuring bill with much haste, legitimizing a series of unsustainable measures imposed by the US that will continue to hurt and displace our nation’s most vulnerable. 1/2

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3 years

For colonialists mocking the idea that Puerto Rico is experiencing a colonially induced land grab, remember this: Gentrifying trends are often accompanied by a massive population loss and a small group of wealthy people moving in. This is the replicable demographic trend.

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1 year

Los independentistas hemos ganado el debate sobre el futuro de Puerto Rico hace rato. Pero tener la razón no es ni será suficiente. Toca seguir retando la hegemonía cultural del coloniaje hasta superarla con otra visión de mundo. Lo bueno es que lo estamos logrando.

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3 years

The privatization of public entities in Puerto Rico has NEVER produced favorable economic results. It has instead undermined the state‘s operational capacities. Privatizing energy will perpetuate colonial extractivism in our inability to manage resources for our own benefit.

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3 years

In Puerto Rico, we must stop demonizing our pro-statehood friends, family, and aquaintances. We must move mountains to explain that statehood will not do away with the structures of colonization but rather fortify them. It’s not enough to be right. We must humbly convince.

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1 year

Never gets old

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2 years

@HillaryClinton @Lin_Manuel @Vegalteno No @HillaryClinton . Charity will not solve Puerto Rico’s problems. Decolonization will.

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Puerto Rico cannot prosper, or heal, as long as it remains a U.S. colony | Op-Ed

For Puerto Ricans to be able to adequately respond to natural and man-made disasters, the island-nation must be decolonized.

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Puerto Rico is ripe for social contention. People are hanging on by a thread, and are sick of being treated like they don’t belong on their own land.

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3 years

It’s high time for a general strike in Puerto Rico.

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2 years

Independence is frightening for colonial elites in Puerto Rico because they know what it means for their clientelistic networks that have kept them in power for so long. Statehood only cements them. If we want to deepen democracy, we can only do it through independence.

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3 years

This upcoming August 15th at 1pm, the PIP-Michigan invites you to rally for Puerto Rico’s decolonization @ Detroit’s Monument to Joe Lewis (the fist). “¡No a la estadidad. Si a la descolonización!” Stay tuned for details!

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It is with great joy and gratitude that I announce that I will be joining @GonzagaU ’s department of Political Science as an Assistant Professor of Latin American Politics this upcoming fall of 2022. I am truly blessed.

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2 years

To my friends living in the US, there are no good imperialist actors. Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States, along with its resulting underdev. and current woes. It’s time to decolonize Puerto Rico.

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Colonialism is not a development model.

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3 years

La privatización quebró a Puerto Rico. No hay nada que buscar con el contrato de LUMA.

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2 years

Puerto Rico’s vulnerability before #hurricanefiona is a direct consequence of US imperialism.

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1 year

Un poco de anoche…

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3 years

El independentista puertorriqueño en la diáspora debe enfocarse en explicar como nuestra lucha es hermana de las clases más marginadas de la sociedad. Somos racializados y explotados como Detroit, lacerados como Colombia, y ocupados como Palestina. Nuestra lucha es por la vida.

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2 years

We must stop thinking of colonialism in Puerto Rico or anywhere else in the world as a metaphor. It is an authoritarian political relationship between an oppressor and the oppressed. The only democratic thing to do in the face of it is abolish it. Buenos días…

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Si una mujer habla de forma asertiva, se le tilda de agressiva. Si habla con seguridad, es arrogante… Dios quiera que nunca hable con convicción, porque ya dirán que es fanática.

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La arrogancia siempre es mala consejera...

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2 years

One of the biggest problems with anti-corruption discourses in Puerto Rico is that they are predicated on the assumption that there’s a “right” way to govern the colony. I’ll have you know that there isn’t. Colonialism is inherently unethical. Independence is our only solution

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3 years

I’m flying into Puerto Rico in 12 hours! It’s been two years!

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4 years

@AnnCoulter New prediction: Ann Coulter gets the Klan’s unwavering support!

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1 month

Ya que el PNP sabe que puede perder, empezó con el fake news.

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2 years

¡Ya es oficial! ¡Soy Dr!

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3 years

Eventually, we must come to terms with the fact that the Puerto Rican diaspora needs to have a say in Puerto Rico’s decolonization. Telling us it’s exclusively up to people living in Puerto Rico fails to consider everyone effected by colonialism. 1/2

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Pero más chistoso aún es leer esta narrativa de “léete el reglamento” empujada por personas que no leen nada que exceda 280 caracteres… I’m talking to you estadistas/colonialistas… 2/2

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3 years

Statehood for Puerto Rico means that we would have the ability to negotiate our own colonial exploitation if we elect the “right people”. It does not end the extractive structures of the colonial model, but rather solidify them. I prefer to abolish colonialism altogether.

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3 years

Puerto Rico’s debt and dependency are tools for the powerful to gain and expand political leverage and control. We are a nothing more than an exploitable resource for the US. Independence is our only viable path forward as a nation.

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Quizás estoy sobrevalorando sus capacidades, pero lo que han demostrado los estadistas/colonialistas de Puerto Rico con sus ponencias en la ONU es que no piensan que el foro es importante. Enviaron a gente muy mediocre para repetir bazofia sobre Cuba, Nicaragua y Venezuela. 1/2

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Jenaro Abraham

8 months

Mira lo que me llegó!

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3 years

Why is it so hard for some Puerto Ricans to admit that the statehood movement is, by and large, a rightwing movement? Own it! Or if you want to change it, have those tough discussions that every other movement goes through. Don’t project.

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1 year

Ya tengo mi bandera de Lares!

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6 months

Puerto Ricans in the US need to start exercising their political power. If any US politician wants your vote, demand that they openly advocate for a formal decolonization process with reparations. The US has developed at our nation’s expense. It’s time to pay up!

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3 years

Today, we commemorate Puerto Rico’s Grito de Lares, our nation’s first independence bid. May it serve as a reminder that whether it be for abolition or for the attainment of civil rights, the independence movement has always been on the right side of history.

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3 years

Puerto Rico needs a truth commission before any decision on decolonization is made. Without accountability from the US and reparations, we will not be able to succeed as a state or an independent nation.

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When my father attempted to travel to Israel from Puerto Rico with hopes of migrating, he was denied entry. Despite practicing Reform Judaism, it was likely due to his political beliefs: he was someone who abhorred the violence exercised indiscriminately against Palestinians.

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2 years

After publishing an Op-Ed in the @seattletimes on Puerto Rico, #HurricaneFiona and decolonization, I received support from so many people. For that I am grateful. Independence for Puerto Rico is becoming a real possibility and part of the national discussion in the US! But…1/3

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The @cpipr ’s leaking of school closure plans brought Puerto Rico’s colonial government to backtrack and “clarify” what they were doing. What we should rescue from this is the following: We need more independent journalism. Support initiatives and others like it.

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La visita de @juandalmauPR a Seattle fue una experiencia inolvidable para la comunidad puertorriqueña. Expresaron todos sus ganas de seguir luchando por un Puerto Rico donde puedan regresar. En la diáspora, la nación cobra sentido.

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11 months

Si estás en Puerto Rico…

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While Puerto Rico and Palestine are not the same, our shared anti-imperialist outlook comes more from our shared aggressors rather than shared experiences. That said, the primary similarity that we share is that we are both losing our land.

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Genocide against Palestinians is more than just a death count, it’s severing their connection to the land. As a child, I remember a conversation my father had with a Zionist in Puerto Rico. When my father spoke of Palestinian suffering, the Zionist laughed. 1/2

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3 years

To my fellow doctoral candidates: Do you ever forget to eat? #phdlife #phdchat

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Jenaro Abraham

2 years

@prageru It is. It’s about as real as @prageru ’s commitment to white supremacy.

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3 years

The US annexation of territories as states was never a democratic endeavor. It was always an imperialist one, aimed at stealing land and displacing people. In this regard, Puerto Rico is not much different.

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When people ask me why I believe in Puerto Rico’s independence, it’s easy to default to talking about the structures, institutions, and cultures of US exploitation. But rarely am I ever moved to talk about the Puerto Rico I imagine. We should talk more about things like this.

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¡La Alianza Va! ¡Un saludo especial de @juandalmauPR desde Seattle!

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@RashidaTlaib That also means fuck Puerto Rican statehood! We need to end colonialism!

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US liberals, Understand this: Saying that Puerto Rico benefited from unrestricted travel to the US without analyzing our US imposed economic woes is analogous to saying that slavery was a good thing because black people benefited from being in the US instead of their homeland.

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Hoy, mi abuelita de 86 años, ante los sandeces que escuchaba de que la Alianza es “socialista”, me dijo: “¡Jesucristo lo fue también! Así que si lo fuera, no hay nada malo con eso.” Ya la gente no se come el cuento del cuco…

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Biden and Harris represent a lot of things to people in the US. However, in Puerto Rico, they represent colonial extraction and exploitation. They lead a political project that has robbed us for way too long. Only when Puerto Rico is free should they be allowed to visit.

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The small Puerto Rican pro statehood turnout at a Washington DC protest today says something important about how hollow their movement is. Its broad electorate is a phenomenon that says more about a latent fear of independence than it does about support for statehood.

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Feliz de llevar el mensaje de la independencia de Puerto Rico a Colombia. Que sigamos profundizando lazos de hermandad hasta que seamos todos libres.

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Los colonialistas que tienen a Puerto Rico secuestrado acabaron de cometer un grave error de cálculo. Podrán descalificar candidatos, pero ya anunciaron su eventual derrota. Van perdiendo.

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The attempt to caricaturize supporters of Puerto Rican sovereignty only works in small circles of the reactionary proto-fascist right. In Puerto Rican intellectual circles, no one takes you or your stances seriously. Tu ignorancia es atrevida y peligrosa.

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Puerto Rico should be a US state regardless of what a bunch of deranged accounts with animé profile pics think.

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There are new waves of diasporic Puerto Rican organizing that are fighting for the island’s independence. Historians, take note.

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@TomiLahren Undocumented immigrants can’t vote Tommy. It doesn’t work that way...

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¡No me para de sorprender la claridad con la cual @juandalmauPR describe nuestra situacion colonial, y en su proprción de soluciones para el futuro. ¡Seguimos construyendo #LaAlianza ! ¡Saludos desde Seattle!

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Puerto Rico no solo será libre, será modelo a seguir.

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In Puerto Rico, colonialist authorities have proposed another round school shutdowns - 82 to be exact. It’s high time we start organizing our anger and stop being polite. Those who dare participate in the dismantling of our nation need to be confronted. They must not sleep.

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Aquí en apoyo al Archivo y Biblioteca General de Puerto Rico

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@AnnCoulter He will not be missed.

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