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While students and others in Puerto Rico are being assaulted in Puerto Rico over $800 and really much more, Puerto Rico’s Gov. thought a feast in NYC would be a great idea. Except the large Rican population here has other plans.

This came in my various inboxes and via Facebook:

Time Wednesday, March 23 · 4:30pm – 7:00pm

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Location THE NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB
180 CENTRAL PARK SOUTH (59th St. & 7th Ave. – R train to 57th St)
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Long before Wisconsin’s right-wing republican governor, Scott Walker,
there was Luis Fortuño, the right-wing, conservative, republican
governor of the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico where over 50% of its 4
million people live below the poverty line.
Under his reign of terror, Fortuño and his party-controlled
legislature and courts have/are:

• Systematically eliminated collective bargaining rights for workers
• Fired up to 30,000 public sector workers
• Privatized or attempted to privatize numerous public agencies and
services
• Attempted to privatize public education including the University
of Puerto Rico and have outlawed the independent teacher’s union
• Imposed a financial hardship on thousands of students struggling
to gain a higher education
• Militarized public college campuses and have used police and shock
troops to violently end peaceful demonstrations while also sexually
assaulting female students
• Been condemned by the ACLU and amnesty international for
repeatedly violating the human, civil and constitutional rights of
thousands of workers, students and journalists and their supporters
• Privatized huge swaths of valuable and ecologically sensitive
public lands and sold them off to private developers
• In the wake of the Japanese nuclear disaster, are attempting to
build an expensive, unnecessary, and extremely hazardous gas pipeline
through the heart of the island which will destroy thousands of acres
of sensitive woodland and imperil the lives of untold numbers of
residents along the pipeline

Gov. Fortuño has the complete and unequivocal support of the tea
party, the conservative PAC (where he spoke recently) and the racist
John Birch society (where he also spoke). The Wall Street Journal in
an op-ed headlined “Puerto Rico’s governor channels Ronald Reagan:
Move Over, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. You’ve got a tax-cutting,
pro-growth competitor who may be even bolder than you. His name is
Luis Fortuño and he is the governor of Puerto Rico, a place that, if
you can believe it, is in worse shape than the garden state.”

Let’s show Fortuño that we all condemn his administration’s attack on
the good people of Puerto Rico and we stand in solidarity with those
fighting for justice in all its forms!