Posts Tagged ‘Puerto Rican women’
Accusations of Sexual Aggression Against Police Arresting Students in Puerto Rico
9:15 am By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico|Violence|Women · 4 Comments
31 Jan 2011
The Caribbean Peace & Justice Project, el Grito de las Excluidas y Excluidos de Puerto Rico (The Cry of the Excluded of Puerto Rico), and the Pro-Haitian/Dominican Childhood Committee issued a press release yesterday denouncing and demanding an investigation into inappropriate touching (or toqueteo/feeling up) of women by the riot police in Puerto Rico who have been arresting those UPR students engaged in civil disobedience.
A video on Indymedia Puerto Rico shows an officer, on two clear occasions, touching the breasts of a young woman he is arresting and restraining in a police van. No doubt the police and Gov. will defend the actions saying the officers were merely restraining the protester and that they may have had accidental contact. From my perspective it looks like the officer took an opportunity to “cop a feel” (pun intended) not once but twice.
As we think of what is happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Puerto Rico and globally really wherever young people are gathered, especially those that identify as women, we have to wonder and know that once incident caught on video likely represents countless more incidents not documented.
Quick Link: Sterilization in Puerto Rico
7:42 am By la Macha · Puerto Rico|Women · 2 Comments
18 Oct 2010I’ve been seeing this link all over my facebook feed–thought I’d pass it on here. It’s an incredibly important and devastating article about the sterilization program in Puerto Rico that the US funded and the Puerto Rican government supported.
Eugenics is defined as the study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding. Puerto Rico has the highest rate of female sterilization in the world. By 1965, thirty-five percent of Puerto Rican women ages 20-49 had been coerced into irreversible sterilization as part of a government campaign to control the growing number of the islands poor and working class population. This mass eugenics program was funded by the U.S. and fully supported by the Puerto Rican government from the 1930s through the late 1970s. Government propaganda made the procedure so common place that it became known simply as “la operacion.”
The original link comes with video testimonios of survivors.
NYC : ProLibertad Freedom Campaign Honor the contributions of Women to the Puerto Rican independence Movement: ¡QUE VIVA LA MUJER!
7:46 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · New York City|Puerto Rico · Comments Off
8 Mar 2010Friday March 19th, 2010
7pm
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church 521 W126th St. Basement
Between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway
Take the 1 train W125th St.Recipients of the Doña Adelfa Vera Award for 2010:
Lourdes Garcia, Activist/Healer/Artisan
Joyce Jones, Artist/Journalist/Activist
Gloria Quinoñes, Activist/ProLibertad Support
Amy Velez, Activist/ProLibertad SupporterKeynote Speakers:
Yasmin Hernandez, Artist/Activist
Normahiram Perez, Federacion de Maestros PuertorriqueñosPoetry Performance:
Prisionera
The Women of Bomba YoHandcrafts and Natural healing products:
Olga Ayala, Handcrafts (Hecho a Mano)
Lourdes Garcia, Botanicafe ProductsProceeds from the Night’s donations will go to the Point’s Program for Young Women
Suggested donation: $5 (no one will be turned away)
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED!www.ProLibertadWeb.com
ProLibertad@hotmail.com
Female Steralization in Puerto Rico
1:52 pm By Maegan La Mala · Puerto Rico|Women · 1 Comment
30 Oct 2008
In honor of the women of Puerto Rico and their daughters and grandaughters, mujeres like my abuela L.
Violence against women of color, especially Latina women, cannot be separated from a colonial context (despite what any Washington Post reporter may write). Specifically for Puerto Rican women, our bodies have been used as a battleground since the days the Spanish landed on Boriquen, to when the U.S. invaded in 1898, to today.
Pero today, in honor of Be Bold, Be Red, I want to specifically address the mass sterilization of women that took place in Puerto Rico.
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