Cancel The Debt Puerto Rico Owes To Parasite Bankers - Rally at Boson City Hall Plaza (Boson Workers) 2 Sept 2019



(Rally to Support Puerto Rico - Cancel the Debt! - Marchers form in Boson's Jamaica Espaina neighborhood - 2 Aug 2019) 
Boson Workers calls for the cancellation of the massive debts that Puerto Rico must pay for 'loans' worth millions that did not help average people and workers on the island. 

U.S. colonial domination has bled Puerto Rico to the point of collapse. A few years ago, with Puerto Rico mired in a deep recession, itself the result of decisions made in Washington, Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers swooped in to collect on a debt that now stands at $124 billion. To this end, in 2016 the Obama administration set up a financial oversight junta to impose brutal austerity measures—slashing wages, pensions and health care; privatizing education and gutting social services. The next year, the devastation caused by Maria intensified the misery, and emboldened the union-busting privatizers.

These attacks have been met with struggle, including strikes and May Day work stoppages. A popular chant today is: “Ricky renuncia y llévate a la junta!” (“Ricky resign, and take the board with you!”) Workers in the U.S. share a common enemy with the Puerto Rican people. The same imperialist rulers who lord it over Puerto Rico grind down workers at home. In the U.S., many Democrats are now calling for Rosselló to resign in order to defuse the protests and return to the business of colonial pillage as usual. It is in the interest of the American proletariat to take a side with its class brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico and demand: Cancel the debt!

We stand for the right of self-determination for Puerto Rico and favor independence. The feelings of Puerto Ricans on independence are mixed: they hate their second-class status as colonial subjects, but fear losing the ability to work in the U.S. and sinking even further into poverty. Therefore, we emphasize the right of independence.

See Also: Massive Rally in Puerto Rico Demands Governor's Resignation (1:03 min) 23 July 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9k0OWydVB8 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mass Senator E. Warren Performs "I'm an Indian, Too" - At Boson County Fair - 18 Sept 2019

Image
Boson County Fair had a treat when Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for president in 2020, took to the stage in a good-natured  song number poking fun at her cultural appropriation of Native American Indian identity to get a job at Harvard Law School as the "First Woman of Color" despite being a blonde blue-eyed European.  "I'm an Indian Too" is a song from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun , by Irving Berlin . It was originally performed by Ethel Merman . [1] It is sung by the main character Annie after Sitting Bull adopts her into the Sioux tribe It is typical of mid-20th-century views of Native Americans , and is sometimes considered racist and demeaning from a contemporary perspective, although others see it as a mildly satirical attack on racial stereotyping . Native Americans did protest outside the New York theatre, as well as movie theaters, holding picket signs stating: "Don't See "Annie Get Your Gun". As ...
Read more

UMass Boson Prof: 'The only solution for climate change is letting the human race become extinct'

Image
  A Boson academic has proposed a radical new way to solve climate change – letting humanity become extinct. Mortricia McCormack, a professor of continental philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Boson, has just released her new book The Anti-human Manifesto , which will officially be launched in Cambridge today (Wednesday, February 5 2020 ). The book argues that due to the damage done to other living creatures on Earth, we should start gradually phasing out reproduction. But rather than offering a bleak look at the future of humanity, it has generated discussion due to its joyful and optimistic tone, as it sets out a positive view for the future of Earth - without mankind. It also touches on several hot-button topics, from religion and veganism to the concept of identity politics, tying these into how the creation of a hierarchal world among humans has left us blind to the destruction we are causing to our habitat and other forms of life. ...
Read more

Jack Rabbits Overrun Half Moon Island - Reach Mainland Gardens in Quincy and Boson

Image
Jack rabbits overrun  After Animal Rights activists and volunteers helped bring wild Jackrabbits to Half Moon Island in Quincy Bay the animals began to proliferate.  Almost every island in Boston Harbor now has numbers of the hungry rabbits.  Nearby in Quincy and Boson the rabbits are eating there way through peoples gardens and even lawns.   . Close to 40 jack rabbits huddled against the cold Tuesday afternoon last week, looking like snow-covered hillocks rising from an open field across from North Quincy Shore Drive in Boson. Nearby, Joe Kovacs was playing fetch with his dog, Winston – a terrier, about the same size as the 2-foot-long jack rabbits, also known as hares. . “They’re just kind of cool,” 24-year-old Kovacs said as the white-furred animals sat, and occasionally scurried across the snow. “But I could see how that would be annoying if they were in your yard.” . These droves of hares have invaded a new...
Read more