Neither Here Nor There: Nuyorican Literature, Home, and the
... In literature written by Puerto Ricans, and other diasporic, displaced and marginalized peoples in the United States, there is a recurring nostalgia for a “home” that is the island, and “a past golden age that never was, a nostalgia that elides exclusion, power relations, and difference,”17 what Pir ...
... In literature written by Puerto Ricans, and other diasporic, displaced and marginalized peoples in the United States, there is a recurring nostalgia for a “home” that is the island, and “a past golden age that never was, a nostalgia that elides exclusion, power relations, and difference,”17 what Pir ...
Who is Oscar Lopez Rivera? - Anarchist Black Cross Federation
... criminals and petitioned for their cases to be handed over to an international court that would determine their status. The U.S. Government, however, did not recognize their request. On September 11, 1999, President Bill Clinton extended an offer of clemency to 16 of the Puerto Rican political priso ...
... criminals and petitioned for their cases to be handed over to an international court that would determine their status. The U.S. Government, however, did not recognize their request. On September 11, 1999, President Bill Clinton extended an offer of clemency to 16 of the Puerto Rican political priso ...
Puerto Rico`s Gag Law By: Tony “The Marine” Santiago
... movements in the island. The Senate at the time was controlled by the PPD and presided by Luis Muñoz Marín. The Bill, also known as the ''Ley de la Mordaza'' (Gag Law), received the approval of the legislature on May 21, 1948. It made it illegal to display a Puerto Rican flag, to sing a patriotic tu ...
... movements in the island. The Senate at the time was controlled by the PPD and presided by Luis Muñoz Marín. The Bill, also known as the ''Ley de la Mordaza'' (Gag Law), received the approval of the legislature on May 21, 1948. It made it illegal to display a Puerto Rican flag, to sing a patriotic tu ...
San Juan Nationalist revolt
The San Juan Nationalist revolt was one of many uprisings against United States Government rule which occurred in Puerto Rico on October 30, 1950 during the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party revolts. Amongst the uprising's main objectives were an attack on La Fortaleza (the Governor's mansion in San Juan), and the U.S. Federal Court House Building in Old San Juan.