Showing posts with label Independence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Independence. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

General


Lets not forget that our military targeted Al-Jazeera. In Iraq we had another way in controlling the media. Promoting other media sources that differ from Al-Jazeera perspective. Nothing about that references to us a moral high ground for you. And by the way if the News Channel breaks the law by not sending an government message. They are to be closed down that is no different than any American media source. There is no freedom of the press in the United States. CNN/Fox News are these your freedom of the press sources? Please lady neither of these two main stream news sources are media. They are both political propaganda in support of our corporate one party system. You can't tell me that I am wrong in point this out hun. In fact President Barack Obama administration took on Fox News. Members of Barack Obama administration considered Fox News as the arm of the Repubican party. They described it as a political tool for the republican party. So do we really have have real news or real freedom of the news? You need to dig a little deeper before you hit replie. There is nothing humane in keeping thousands of troops across the globe. There is nothing humane about keeping troops in Puerto Rico, Japan, Germany, Honduras, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. Luckily for Lebanon they were able to repell the invadors that's when our former president Reagan pulled out the troops in that country. There is nothing humane at the extent in which we spend billions of dollars on the military industry. While millions starve we create machines of destruction and death. How many people just civilians have died in Iraq? You can't talk to me about human rights when you stopped counting the bodies of the dead in that country and others. That is savage and backward and there has been nothing more savage than the genocide of millions of muslims, including kids and women. To me human rights are a god given right, who are we to incarcerate and hold people indefentely at Guantanamo Bay (Cuba) prison? Without being able to speak to a lawyer or family members? These people are not animals but our empire treats human kind as such. HARRP is a weapon in which our military has been working on. We are not exporting terror to other countries nor are we invading other countries. In Puerto Rico our American planes flew and a heavy missile landed on Puerto Rico buildings. Utuado was the name of the little pueblo. Here your bombs sprung terror across my lands. Just as the Spaniards who came and slaughtered millions of Tainos. Today the technology of exporting terror is different but the cruel and savage methods are still the same. You can't talk to me about morality your bombings in Vieques polluted and destroyed life on the small island. You savaged the coral reefs which breed new life into our waters. Our people to this stay have a high cancer rate and your ammunition still lay cemented within the soil. You can still sense the victim (young security guards body)which died from your artillery shell. There is nothing morally right about war or those who choose to advocate for it. Title me with what you like discredite me as much as you would like. But you can't descredite the will for human kind to want to survive. It is this small will that can never be conquered.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Bangin on the Empire

The Honduras situation hasn't changed and in fact the United States Empire has strengthened the Latin American countries stance against imperialism. Every country in the continent of Latin America and the Caribbean are noticing the United States attacks on democracy. The United States diplomatic chess move on Honduras has failed and its imperial attempt in Afghanistan has failed. This so called "democracy" chess move is a disguise of the empire.




http://hondurasenlucha.blogspot.com/


Honduras: isolated, de factos prepare for vote
Submitted by WW4 Report on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 22:59. Guatemalan foreign minister Haroldo Rodas announced Nov. 21 that Guatemala was not going to recognize the general elections to be held in Honduras Nov. 29 under the de facto regime installed after the June 28 removal of President Manuel Zelaya. He added that Guatemala would not send observers to the elections. Spain is also planning not to send observers because it "cannot support" elections under these conditions, foreign ministry sources told the Spanish wire service EFE Nov. 21.

Many Latin American governments have rejected the plan to proceed with the elections, although it is supported by the US. The presidents of two of the nations with the largest economies—Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner—confirmed on Nov. 18 that their governments would not recognize the elections if they are held under the coup regime. Ecuador has the same position, according to Foreign Minister Fander Falconí. Organization of American States (OAS) general secretary José Miguel Insulza has said that that organization can't send observers because the representatives of Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela indicated at a special meeting at the beginning of November that their governments wouldn't recognize the elections.

Despite the boycott, a delegation of 250 election observers has been put together. It will include two former center-right Latin American presidents: Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico (2000-2006) and Alejandro Toledo of Peru (2001-2006). The main Guatemalan business group, the Committee of Commercial, Industrial and Financial Associations (CACIF), has agreed to participate. (Vos el Soberano, Honduras, Nov. 21 from EFE; ADN.es, Spain, Nov. 21 from EFE; Radio YVKE Mundial, Venezuela, Nov. 22; Reuters, Nov. 18)

On Nov. 20 Esdras Amado López, director of the Cholusat Sur Canal 36 television station, said his channel was "off the air because its signal has been interrupted with a signal from a parallel transmitter" playing "pornographic films and some westerns." "[T]errorists paid by the government of [de facto president Roberto] Micheletti" are responsible, according to López. He wrote National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) head Miguel Angel Rodas asking for his "immediate attention to an extremely delicate matter taking place in the moment during which Honduras is getting ready to be present at an electoral process in which freedom of the press is an important bastion for legitimizing the process."

Canal 36 and Radio Globo are the two largest broadcast media that have opposed the coup. The de facto government shut down both of them temporarily in the first days of the coup. (EFE, Nov. 20; Vos el Soberano, Nov. 20; Honduras Coup 2009 blog, Nov. 20)

On the weekend of Nov. 21 the Committee of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees in Honduras (COFADEH), one of the country's leading human rights organizations, warned of a deterioration in the human rights situation as the elections approached. COFADEH reported that there was an unusual deployment of soldiers, police agents and paramilitary groups in the country and that the military had acquired new equipment, including an armored car, a powerful water cannon and a chemical that would enable the authorities to identify anyone hit by the water for 48 hours. The group called for the international community to stay on alert about the situation. (Vos el Soberano, Nov. 22 from Defensoresenlinea.com; Prensa Latina, Nov. 22)



http://ww4report.com/node/7999

The recent developments show Mexico former president Vicente Fox supporting the Honduras coup. This should be condemned immediately and the people of Mexico should hold massive solidarity protest with the people of Honduras. In 2006 a leftist running president election was stolen by the corrupt Mexican government. The leftist candidate has publicly suggested that his country is being controlled by a mafia. The Mexican people should hold massive protest based on election fraud in their own home country and in solidarity with Honduras. They both have something deeply in common when it comes down to democracy.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Mass Work Stoppage Set to Protest Puerto Rico's Layoffs, Union-Busting


Mass Work Stoppage Set to Protest Puerto Rico's Layoffs, Union-Busting
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Share this on Twitter - Mass Work Stoppage Set to Protest Puerto Rico's Layoffs, Union-Busting Thu Oct 15, 2009 at 07:52:34 AM PDT
More than 200,000 people are expected to march in a mass rally tomorrow in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of a one-day work stoppage to protest Gov.
http://blog.aflcio.org/...

As Foreclosures Hit All-Time High, Wall Street on Pace to Hand Out Record $140B in Employee Bonuses

http://www.democracynow.org/

Democracy Now covers the report on Puerto Rico mass protest.

More than 200,000 people are expected to march in a mass rally tomorrow in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as part of a one-day work stoppage to protest Gov.
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/10/14/mass-work-stoppage-set-to-protest-puerto-ricos-layoffs-union-busting/

As Foreclosures Hit All-Time High, Wall Street on Pace to Hand Out Record $140B in Employee Bonuses

http://www.democracynow.org/

Democracy Now covers the report on Puerto Rico mass protest.


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EmeterioBetances's diary :: :: NCPRR NYC CHAPTER SPONSORED EVENT

Thursday October 15, 2009

TIME

5:00 PM

LOCATION

Puerto Rican Federal Affairs Administration

135 W 50Th St.

New York City

The Puerto Rican Government has since January fired 25,000 public sector workers in the Island Nation. Their response to the fiscal crisis IS NOT an acceptable solution to an already severely under served people by their Government. In addition to the firings, the Government has announced that they will break all labor agreements with Unions ... Read Morerepresenting public sector workers. The impoverished Island Nation, a Colony of the United States since 1898 was already facing over 15% unemployment at the beggining of the year.

The response of the people of Puerto Rico to this crisis has been peacefull rallies and demonstrations. The Puerto Rican Government's response to to the people has been to ignore the the opposition to the administration policies.

On Thursday, October 15th Puerto Rico's social Justice movement and Organized Labor have called for a 1 Day General Strike. The NATIONAL CONGRESS for PUERTO RICAN RIGHTS, Labor Council Latin American Advancement LCLAA, The Network of Support for Puerto Rican Workers, The Puerto Rican Community and supporters of Social Justice will rally in support of the people of Puerto Rico in N.Y.C.

-NCPRR NYC CHAPTER SPONSORED EVENT

ACLU reported on the current situation in Puerto Rico following the protest that may lead to massive unrest. The story describes the use of civil disobedience proclaimed as an act of terrorism by Gov. Fortuno. No link is available.

ACLU rips officials for citing 'terrorism' in general strike - Puerto Rico Daily Sun - 08/10/09

Front Page Photo - Puerto Rico Daily Sun by Humberto Trias: More than 1,000 activists participated in a march organized by the Popular Democratic Party in Old San Jaun on Wednesday to protest the Fortuño administration's public policy of reducing the size of the government through layoffs. The protesters, headed by 20 government employees who received their dismissal letters, walked from Plaza Colón to La Fortaleza carrying signs saying "Give me back my job" and "We want to work."

Front Page Headline: Mitigation plan ready - Daco, retail associations say there will be food, gas during strike

BY EVA LLORENS VELEZ - DaiIy Sun staff - ellorens@prdailysun.net

The Fortuño administration is trying to scare public workers into not participating in the Oct. 15 general strike with its threats that protesters will be charged with engaging in acts of terrorism if they prevent the flow of goods and passengers at airports and seaports, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director William Ramírez said Wednesday.

According to Ramírez, such actions do not qualify as "terrorism."

"Calling individuals who are exercising their right to protest terrorists is dangerous in a democracy, and I am very worried about the turn of events. These are public servants," Ramírez said. "[Officials) are sowing fear because no one wants to be labeled a terrorist."

Earlier this week, Justice Secretary Antonio Sagardía and Police Superintendent José Figueroa Sancha warned organizers of the Oct. 15 general work stoppage that they could be charged with engaging in terrorism if they block access to ports or the airport, because they would be interfering with interstate commerce. In a radio interview Wednesday, Gov. Fortuño also described such actions as terrorism.




Live Radio Broadcaste on the current events in Puerto Rico protest.
http://www.radioisla1320.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=91
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Thanks To Lrios for the Videos:


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/15/793515/-Puerto-Ricos-National-Strike-todayLrios's diary :: ::

The video below explains a bit of what is happening today in Puerto Rico, the head of government belongs to the only pro-US Statehood party of the island, the Partido Nuevo Progresista (New Progressive Party) which is not progressive, do not be mistaken by the name, but a latin american conservative right wing party (like Uribe's party in Colombia or today´s PRI in Mexico) that wishes to annexate Puerto Rico as a US state.
Fortuño, who is a US-republican sympathizer calls himself a 'republican' even though there is no republican party registered in Puerto Rico's general elections; many now see him as the 'Michelleti of the caribbean' (Michelleti is Hondura's post-coup president) for being a ruthless egomaniac who despises the latin american left and labor unions. Fortuño's government has already tear-gassed students and threatened to arrest demonstrators.
Fortuño won the elections after former head of government, Anibal Acevedo (which last year went to the United Nations to denounce the unresolved issue of Puerto Rico's status and self determination and also to support a sovereign option for the island-nation) signed a 7% sales tax which enraged many people, Puerto Rico's first ever sales tax.
One of the labor unions, among many others, who are joining today the national strike, the international SEIU created this video.




Friday, August 21, 2009

Brigadner General Antonio Valero de Bernabe The Puerto Rican Liberator




This is a great article written by two Dons who have written about a history that has never been taught to the Puerto Rican population in the United States.
Brigadier General Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Emeterio Betances, Pedro Albizu Campos, Filiberto Ojeda Rios will never be forgotten. There sacrifice has made our people struggle and our real history will be revealed. America and those who impose an undemocratic theocratic system in Puerto Rico will never bend the will of Puerto Rico. Never. This article reflects a historic figure, a grand Liberator of Latin America.


By: Jorge Gerardo Muñiz Ortiz and Daniel Prieto

Brigadier General Antonio Valero de Bernabé was born in the city of Fajardo in the Eastern part of the island of Puerto Rico on October 26, 1790. He is also known as the Liberator from Puerto Rico because he joined Don Simón Bolívar in his struggles to gain independence of Latin American countries from Spanish rule.

Spain to study military science and graduated in 1807 as a junior officer. He served in the Spanish Army and helped defeat Napoleon’s army at the Siege of Zaragoza in 1808, which granted him a promotion to the rank of colonel. Valero’s view towards the monarchy in Spain was so disdainful, due to the King’s policies towards the colonies in Latin America that he resigned from his commission with the army and fled to Mexico. In Mexico, Valero joined the Mexican Revolutionary Army and was named Chief of Staff and successfully helped in achieving Mexico’s independence from Spain. This led to the proclamation of Agustin de Iturbide, Valero’s leader during the resurrection, as the Emperor of Mexico. However, due to the fact that Valero despised the idea of monarchies, he

fled Mexico after revolting against Iturbide. Valero was captured and sent to a prison in Cuba, where he escaped with the help of a group of men who believed in Don Simón Bolívar’s pursuit of Latin American independence and Pan Americanism.
Brigadier General Antonio Valero de Bernabé learned of Don Simón Bolívar’s struggle for independence and unification of Latin America and decided to join him in his battles. Valero traveled to the small island of Saint Thomas in the Caribbean, where, it has been historically documented, many Puerto Ricans had established a base for their fight for the island’s independence from Spain (it has been documented that independence proponents Ramón Emeterio Betances and Eugenio María de Hostos would later be exiled to St. Thomas. They also believed in the unification of antillian nations into a confederacy). Valero travelled to Venezuela where he met General Francisco de Paula Santander (4th President of the Republic of the New Granada and 2nd Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia). After gaining Don Simón Bolívar’s confidence Valero would be appointed various positions including Military Chief of the Department of Panama, Governor of Puerto Cabello, Chief of Staff of Colombia, Minister of War and Maritime of Venezuela. Valero’s dream, which was not realized, was to liberate Puerto Rico from

Spain and become part of the United Provinces of New Granada as a separate state called Boriquén.
Valero served as honor guard during Don Simón Bolívar’s funeral and in 1853 was honored by Venezuela with “The Bust of the Liberator of Venezuela”. Valero would also be awarded with “The Medal of the Liberators of Mexico”, “The Bust of the Liberator of Peru”, and the “Medal del Callao”. Valero died in the capital city Bogotá, Colombia on June 7, 1863 and was buried there.
A quote from Don Simón Bolívar about Brigadier General Antonio Valero de Bernabé:
“Al llegar a Lima a principios de 1825, se presenta al Libertador. Bolívar ese mismo día le escribe a Santander: ‘Hoy ha llegado el General Valero con su hermoso batallón. No he hecho más que verlo, pero me parece un excelente oficial, por

lo que he oído de él y por su fisonomía. Le he dado el mando de la división que sitia al Callao a las órdenes del General Sálom’. Valero, siempre con el deseo de liberar a Cuba y Puerto Rico le presenta el plan a Bolívar. Este le responde las mismas razones que Santander le ofreció, pero le comenta que tiene el deseo de la liberación de las islas antillanas. Sabemos que Antonio Valero era un hombre apuesto, gentil con el sexo opuesto, fuerte de carácter y excelente ventrílocuo. Este don en que en una época era considerado como sobrenatural,

lo utilizaba con humor. Cuentan sus amigos que en el campo de batalla era ‘un león desencadenado’”.
English Translation: “At the time of his arrival at the beginning of 1825, [Valero] presents himself to the Liberator. That same day, Bolívar writes Santander: ‘Today General Valero has arrived with his beautiful battalion. I’ve seen him, and appears to be an excellent official, based on what I’ve heard about him and by his features. I have given him command of the divison based in Callao under the orders of General Sálom’. Valero, always with the wishes of liberating Cuba and Puerto Rico presents his plan to Bolívar. Bolívar responds with the same reasons that Santander gave him, but tells him about his wishes for the libration of the Antillean islands. We know that Antonio Valereo was a handsome man, gentile with the opposite sex, strong of character and excellent ventriloquist. This talent, which during my time was considered supernatural, he used is with humor. His friends say that on the battlefield Valero was an ‘unchained lion’”.


Link:
http://www.phiota.org/PhiotaSum09.pdf
Footnote:
1. Retrieved from the World Wide Web on June 25, 2009: http://lainformacion.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1683&Itemid=28



El Che Speech on Don Pedro Albizu Campos