From Standing Rock To Vieques, Puerto Rico: The Cost Of U.S. Colonialism

With

- Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto, former mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico

- Jenni Monet, independent investigative journalist

- Myrna Pagán, Vieques, P.R. activist and defender

The event organizers provided this description of the panel:

Colonized peoples within the United States are standing up for environmental justice and self-determination. The nation of Puerto Rico, has been occupied by U.S. settlers for 123 years since the Spanish American War — and withstood 60 years of bombing and associated contamination by the US Navy in the island-municipality of Vieques. Native communities at Standing Rock have refused to be disregarded in opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. This session is a collaborative effort between Power 4 Puerto Rico, Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora, and Center for Popular Democracy, organizations working in solidarity to promote justice for colonized people.

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