7:17 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Iraq War|Puerto Rico · 2 Comments
1 Apr 2008Those are the words of a grieving Puerto Rican mother at her son’s funeral, as she pulls the U.S. flag off her son’s coffin, and replaces it with a Puerto Rican flag. Part of this report includes looking at how the U.S. military targets young island Puerto Ricans for recruitment, despite the fact that they cannot vote for a president who can end this war. Are young people of color the canon fodder for this war?
Shout out to Tato Torres for forwarding this video.
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