Puerto Rico: 500 Years of Colonial Bondage & Resistance

PRTHUMB Puerto Rico’s massive debt has been discussed at length in Congress and the media, all omitting the most important fact: the history of being a colonial subject for over 500 years, still owned and controlled by the United States.

Abby Martin talks to two professors of Latin American studies, Luis Barrios and Danny Shaw, about the long struggle of Puerto Rico to break the shackles of U.S. and Spanish colonialism—from indigenous resistance to the Young Lords in Harlem.

On this episode of The Empire Files, learn how the U.S. Empire obscures the island’s colonial status today, who really is responsible for the so-called “debt crisis,” and how it can all be solved.

Puerto Rico: Colonialism & Resistance

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NATURAL NEWS– During the week of December 17 – 19, 2007, Lakota Indian leaders traveled to Washington DC and withdrew from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. They did so in a fully honest, legal, and ethical manner.

“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,” long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy.

All were gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference. In other words, the Republic of Lakota is now inviting everyone within their country borders to join them and to live free and create a new government based on the laws of brotherhood.

Lakota leaders delivered a message to the United States State Department in December of 2007, announcing they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the United States.

The Lakota activists rightly describe treaties Native American’s signed with the United States as “worthless words on worthless paper,” because the United States never holds up their end of the treaty.

Continue reading about Lakota Indians Establish Their Own Country Within the United States.

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Puerto Rico: 500 Years of Colonial Bondage & Resistance

Lakota Indians Establish Their Own Country Within the US