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On Island and Off Boricuas Remember Filiberto and Demand Indepedence
11:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events| New York City| Puerto Rico · 1 Comment
25 Sep 2006
Thousands marched in Puerto Rico and hundreds marched in New York City on Saturday, September 23rd to remember and denounce the FBI killing of independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, who died a year ago to the date. The date also marked the 168th anniversary of El Grito de Lares when Puerto Ricans rebelled to demand independence from Spain in 1868. While hundreds in NYC marched from Times Square to the United Nations singing, dancing and chanting “La lucha sigue, Filiberto Vive” and “Todo boricua machetero”, in Lares, Puerto Rico the chants and message were the same.
“These terrorists, that Yankee empire that wants to instill fear in us, they should know better. We won’t surrender,” Rosa Meneses, president of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, told supporters massed in Revolution Plaza, in the western mountain town of Lares.
Remembering El Grito de Lares and Filiberto
12:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events| New York City| Puerto Rico| history · 1 Comment
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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