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The Diaspora Pa’lante Collective is an organization of Boricuas and allies from across the US and Puerto Rico committed to fighting for the complete liberation of Borikén by any means necessary.
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BY MARISOL LEBRÓNSARAH MOLINARIISABEL GUZZARDO TAMARGO This summer’s water crisis in Puerto Rico is the latest example of the slow violence of the Puerto Rican debt crisis, exacerbated by patterns of remilitarization in the archipelago. This summer, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans are experiencing widespread service interruptions, inconsistent flow, low-pressure, and a lack of access to clean and safe potable water. The search for water oases or cistern trucks has become a daily household task for many, as more than 150,000 residents across seven municipalities face the imposition of strict water rationing periods. This latest water emergency is partially the result […]
Millions across the United States are gathering to celebrate a world-historic event: the birth of a settler colony which stands today as a mighty global empire. From its inception, this fledgling colony emerged onto the world stage as a prison house of nations: genocidal conquest and the dispossession of the continent’s original peoples secured the land base necessary for a new society to be erected atop the ashes of the old. This process of permanent war to repress the capacity of indigenous nations to reclaim their historic territory and national sovereignty remains a foundational pillar of U.S. dominance in the 21st century. Before long, the United States of America surpassed the empires of Europe to become the world’s preeminent military-industrial superpower, enabled not by the superiority of its values and principles, but by a global campaign of pillage, piracy, and plunder financed by the fruits of enslaved African labor harvested over the course of nearly three centuries.
Newark, New Jersey, is home to more than 30,000 Puerto Ricans who live alongside Black, Portuguese, Haitian, Brazilian, and other Latin American communities. Puerto Ricans arrived in Newark in the 1950s, and today Newark remains home to many immigrants who have been similarly displaced by colonization. In Newark, these communities have struggled together for decades, fighting against city systems that have often failed us. In the face of antiblackness and police violence, Newark has stood together and radically transformed the city. That unity is called on yet again, at a critical moment of performative governance, the growing threat of gentrification, […]