On the 47th Anniversary of the Oct. 27th, 1974 Madison Square Garden Solidarity with Puerto Rico event.

AN AFTERNOON TERTULIA:
Decolonizing Solidarity: Black and Puerto Rican History in Action

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A Vermont AFL-CIO Resolution on support for the Self Determination Act submitted by Nydia Velázquez and AOC and  is currently in discussion in US Congress.

Whereas: Puerto Rico was first colonized by Spain in 1493, and then ceded to the United States for war indemnities it incurred during the SpanishAmerican War;

Whereas: Puerto Ricans constitute a distinct people with their own history, culture, and have struggled to express their “Inalienable Right” to self-determination and governance under both Spanish and US occupation;

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Background

The people of Puerto Rico are not merely United States citizens living in Puerto Rico with five million in the United States as a result of migration. Puerto Ricans are a Latin American nation whose territory is an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea with the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba to the west and the Eastern Caribbean mainly English-speaking countries as its neighbors on the east. It is a nation whose vernacular is Spanish, whose national identity has been forged during more than five hundred years, whose people share a common history and culture and who have historically struggled for independence.