#ricanstruction

[bondvagabond]

Ponce 1937 #art by @vgbnd March 21st 1937 #LaMassacreDePonce #ThePonceMassacre On #PalmSunday of 1937 a protest March was organized by The Nationalist Party a pro-independence group in Puerto Rico #protesting the arrest of their leader #DonPedroAlbizuCampos on charges of #seditiousconspiracy and they were met by police who brutally shot into the crowd injuring 200 and killing 21 - 17 men, a woman and a child; the two policemen who were killed died from friendly fire. None of the protesters were armed and almost all the protesters who were shot were shot in the back by machine gun fire. The event came to be known as La Massacre De Ponce - The #PonceMassacre… #FreePuertoRico #lingerie berationDay #Bullets #Ricanstruction #vagabond (at Ponce, Puerto Rico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqKdDN1OzNU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dr-archeville]

Ricanstruction Is a Celebration of Puerto Rico That Understands the True Spirit of Superheroism

It’s been eight months since Hurricane Maria obliterated Puerto Rico’s electrical grid and left 1.3 million people without power. Although the island is still in a very precarious situation today, there is also hope and belief in the resilience of the people who call it home—two of the most prominent recurring themes featured all throughout Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico.

It’s been eight months since Hurricane Maria obliterated Puerto Rico’s electrical grid and left 1.3 million people without power.   Although the island is still in a very precarious situation today, there is also hope and belief in the resilience of the people who call it home — two of the most prominent recurring themes featured all throughout Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico.

The new anthology, edited by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, follows his original character La Borinqueña through dozens of short, one-shot adventures as she teams up with a number of DC’s classic heroes to explore, celebrate, and protect all that Puerto Rico has to offer.  Many of the stories are deeply personal and focus on the writers’ own connections to Puerto Rico, like Mayda Del Valle, Dominike Stanton, and Edgar Delgado’s “Mighty Maité.”  Others, like “Blackpower,” use superheroes like Static in order to provide commentary about the kinds of real world infrastructural challenges Puerto Rico still faces.

Though Ricanstruction is chock full of the kinds of superheroes that (in other comics) might attempt to use their abilities to magically “solve” the island’s problems, the stories are careful to emphasize that you need a different kind of strength in order to enact that sort of change in the real world.  For every story where La Borinqueña uses her superpowers to deal with misguided villains, Ricanstruction also includes small vignettes about the everyday kinds of courage and cooperation that are so crucial for communities to come back from the kinds of natural disasters that have affected Puerto Rico.

In choosing to emphasize the power community and collaboration over feats of physical strength, Ricanstruction reminds you superheroes are idealized embodiments of heroism that all people are capable of.  Puerto Rico has been shaken by storms in the past and it’s likely that it will face more in the future.  What Ricanstruction wants you to remember, though, is that so long as there’s hope — and a concerted, meaningful investment of the funds necessary to strengthen Puerto Rican’s infrastructure for the long term — the island’s going to be all right.

Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico is in stores now.  All proceeds from the anthology’s sales are being donated to a number of the organizations working to help rebuild Puerto Rico.

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[artbyeel]

STORE SIGNING!!! This Sunday May 27th I’ll join a handful of artists and writers in Metro Comics to celebrate the debut of the number 1 best selling anthology Ricanstruction! I’ll be joining local talent like @ciscoland_art and @rob_2507 from 2:00pm - 4:00pm to sign books and sell some merch, and even doing some sketches! Go by, say hi, get your books signed and support your local artists! :) Metro Comics is located on the ground floor in @sanpatricioplaza Hope to see you there!

[majikalconcepts]

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"Journey's Prelude [Nulife Remix] (produced by Frankie Feliciano)" by Ursula Rucker    

“As we journey thru our lives, in this fixed small world, we shall walk side by side, thru water, on air, over earth, and thru fire, thru fire, thru fire, we will speak to each other, in many languages, invoke urachus, share espirito, and gacun, teach our children, to love, to love, seek justice, fight for human peace, and believe in themselves, so that they may lift the earth, up high, with their strong little fleshy hands, in multi-hubris, lift the earth, to unfathomable heights, into a brand new day, thru music, thru knowledge, thru understanding, and tolerance, and, so much love, so much love, so much love, lift the earth, lift the earth, lift the earth”

[puertoricanflagsup]

@Regranned from @tainas_de_yagueca - Practice the Freedom Dream...Decolonize Puerto Rico 🇵🇷✊🏽!!! @culturestrike Art by @girasoulll #day69 #letusbefree #decolonizepuertorico #rebuildingborinkén #wearenotrealamericancitizens #ricanstruction #savepuertorico #injustice #wewontstoptalkingaboutpuertorico #unrighteousness #freepuertorico #moneyforwarcantfeedthepoor #unidossomosfuerte #unitedwearestrong #taíno #borinkén #boriquen #puertoricanlivesmatter #tainolivesmatter #arawaknation #caribbeansoul #taínasdeyagüecá - #regrann #prflagsup #puertoricanflagsup @puertoricanflagsup

[dr-archeville]

DC's Heroes Are Teaming Up With La Borinqueña to Benefit Puerto Rico

Though Puerto Rico might no longer dominate the headlines the way it did in the days and weeks after last year’s hurricane season left at least 1,000 people dead, there are still countless more people on the island who are still fighting to piece their lives back together. In the spirit of rebuilding, comics creator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez is partnering with DC Comics to bring his hero, La Borinqueña, together with members of the Justice League in Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico.

Though Puerto Rico might no longer dominate the headlines the way it did in the days and weeks after last year’s hurricane season left at least 1,000 people dead, there are still countless more people on the island who are still fighting to piece their lives back together.  In the spirit of rebuilding, comics creator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez is partnering with DC Comics to bring his hero, La Borinqueña, together with members of the Justice League in Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico.

The comics anthology will feature stories from comics giants like Gail Simone, Greg Pak, and Reggie Hudlin along with newcomers like Gabby Rivera and actors like Rosario Dawson and Rubén Blades.

Each of the more the 100 stories contained within Ricanstruction will highlight a different aspect of Puerto Rican culture and history and 100 percent of the proceeds from sales from the anthology are being donated to outreach groups working to provide basic necessities like food and closing to those still on the island.

Preorders for Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico are open today and the book hits comics stores nationwide on May 23.

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Want to learn more about La Borinqueña?  Here’s her official website.

[artbyeel]

I’ll be joining a group of Puerto Rican artists and writers who collaborated in the #Ricanstruction anthology today from 2:00 - 4:00pm in Metro Comics at San Patricio Plaza We will be signing copies of said anthology. The event is totally FREE OF CHARGE. I will have merch for sale. Hope to see you there 🙂

[analogousanalogannals]

Damn Chino XL hit that solar return?

Chino XL (Ft. Tech N9ne) – Hell Song

LL"Hell Song,“ the tenth track on RICANStruction “The Black Rosary” by Chino XL. The song features Tech N9ne and was produced by Wyldfyer.

At 50? Homie was swole. Somehow all that FDA approved shit got to him. The U.S. is an unsustainable plantation for melaninated people, and Puerto Ricans are more Afro-centric Latinos than Haitians, given their terrtitory being commandered by the States. Damn that U.S. lifestyle definitely sped up another legend's journey out this realm. Godspeed GOD.