A government by the people and for the people?

by José M. López Sierra – Puerto Rico

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The following is Democracy Now’s report about the Puerto Rico May Day March turned violent. Click on the following link to watch its video: https://youtu.be/tvwGSbvQrwQ

The United States’ (US) colonial administrator for the US colony of Puerto Rico made it very clear that this government is by the 1% and for the 1%. Does anybody still doubt that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHGdhRBG1M&t=26s

That is why the US government does not want to comply with the United Nations’ Charter and its 36 resolutions asking it to immediately return Puerto Rico’s sovereignty to the Puerto Ricans. The US governments makes too much money exploiting Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans to give that up. If it has to commit a crime against humanity, so be it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otzBslJLbI0

Some Puerto Ricans are misguided as to what the real problem is. Some are fighting secondary struggles like school closures, the fiscal control board, loss of pensions, keeping public beaches public, toxic ashes, the privatization of essential services, joining the military as a last resort to unemployment, leaving one’s homeland to escape poverty, and the list has no end.

What Puerto Ricans must understand is that the primary problem is that Puerto Rico has been a US colony for the past 120 years. That is what has gotten us to where we are today.

Let’s make all those secondary struggles into one big struggle for Puerto Rico decolonization. Let’s make it 10 million strong with both the Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and in exile.

Let’s organize ourselves to engage in permanent resistance to force the US government to comply with international law.

The time to unite is now, because those who deny people their inalienable right to self-determination and independence don believe in LIBERTY AND IN JUSTICE FOR ALL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDbidSMgReM