#occupypuertorico

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[stroderboyrah]

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[theqweens]

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[grimwomyn]

Family in struggle: the @NCPRR supports #occupywallstreet

From the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights (December 8, 2011)   The National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights (NCPRR), as the leading national progressive advocate for Puerto Ricans in the United States, joins in our enthusiastic support of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its growth in Puerto Rican barrios and other parts of the United States and Puerto Rico . The more than 4 million Puerto Ricans living stateside and those other close to 4 million living in Puerto Rico find themselves for the most part among the lower ranges of the lower 99 percent of the U.S. population and identify strongly with the Occupy Wall Street movement.   The Stateside Puerto Rican community is located at the lower rungs of the US economy and is among the most vulnerable of the 99 percent of the US population:   ■ Over 25 percent live in poverty ■ Over 58 percent have family incomes less than $50,000 a year ■ Over 258,000 are unemployed, representing an unemployment rate of 14 percent ■ Median annual personal earnings of Stateside Puerto Rican workers is only $25,000 ■ 23 percent of those 16 and over have not graduated from high school ■ Only 39 percent own their own homes   In Puerto Rico, a Commonwealth of the United States whose residents are US citizens, the economic situation is even more precarious:   ■ More than 44 percent of the Island's residents live under the official poverty line ■ The annual household income is only $19,800 ■ Over 210,000 are unemployed, representing an unemployment rate of 16 percent ■ Median annual personal earnings of Island Puerto Rican workers is only $14,400   The inequalities generated by an increasing globalized corporate power affect Puerto Rican disproportionately. At the same time, government has not effectively responded to the needs of our community given its defense of big corporate interests.   The National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights joins the Occupy Wall Street movement in calling for:   ■ Engaging in direct and transparent participatory democracy; ■ Exercising personal and collective responsibility; ■ Recognizing individuals' inherent privilege and the influence it has on all interactions; ■ Empowering one another against all forms of oppression; ■ Redefining how labor is valued; ■ The sanctity of individual privacy; ■ The belief that education is human right; and ■ Endeavoring to practice and support wide application of open source.   In addition, the NCPRR calls for: ■ Increased government regulation and decentralization of Wall Street and the corporate and business sectors ■ Investing more government resources in critical social programs like education and health, which we consider to be rights, in recognition of the growing income inequalities and poverty in the United States and Puerto Rico ■ Supporting an expanded public sector , nonprofit and private sector job creation throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and all of the US territories ■ Targeting significant parts of such social investments to historically discriminated communities of color ■ Drastically cutting an overblown and outmoded defense budget and industry ■ Fundamentally reforming the tax code to make it more progressive, increase tax rates of the wealthy and close loopholes for corporations and the richest 1 percent ■ Providing for a self-executing plebiscite and process on the political status of Puerto Rico that would include the full participation of Stateside Puerto Ricans   For further information, contact: National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights (NCPRR)

Website: http://www.puertoricanrights.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18109786705 Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/NCPRR

[oswarphotography]

#OccupyPuertoRico #Occupy #puertorico #igerspr (Taken with Instagram at #OccupyPuertoRico)

[laserbarrageinquirer]

Aquí sí que el movimiento puede ponerse feo. También es uno de los lugares muriéndose por un movimiento como este. Pero para que funcione la gente tiene que querer mejorar la isla. Si logran combatir la indolencia del típico Boricua, entonces sí podría funcionar el movimiento. No se puede dejar que los corruptos en control jodan la isla más de lo que está.