Remembering El Grito de Lares and Filiberto
12:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|history|New York City|Puerto Rico
22 Sep 2006
September 23rd was celebrated since 1868 by many Puerto Ricans as el Grito de Lares, when Puerto Ricans rose up against Spanish colonial rule and declared Puerto Rico a free nation in charge of its own destiny. Last year the FBI decided to use this date against the very people that celebrated that date by killing Filiberto Ojeda Rios, leader of the Puerto Rican People’s Army, Los Macheteros.
Tomorrow there will be a march and rally to commemorate the original grito and to form a united grito in memory of Filiberto and to demand that Puerto Rico and its people be in charge of their island, once and for all.
The march and rally will be tomorrow at 1 pm in Times Square where the group will proceed to the United Nations.
Via / September 23.org
Image Via / BBC News
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1 Response to Remembering El Grito de Lares and Filiberto
The Gondolier
September 23rd, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Los poderes no pueden aguantar una voz que lucha contra contra sus robos que aun hoy continuan sin paro!
Makes me shake my head. Just as in the SW, promises given to us in 1898 have been repeatedly broken. In the Southwest and in Texas, in Fla, we were granted fundamental rights by the treaty accords to continue our practices, observe our laws and to retain our property. Spanish was recognized as a fundamental official language to be used in public discourse, in schools, in government and in offices. Spanish is equal to English and any other language in these regions, yet like so many other promises, they’ve been trying to break this one.
Filiberto was just one of the more determined people to call BS and confront the charade. He was one of the few to stand up for us. That’s what we need today, que no capitulemos como idiotas a los asaltos contra nuestra cultura y nuestro pueblo. Filiberto’s grito was just one of the warnings to us to stick together and stay vigilant for each other.