βI donβt have any blood on my hands,β Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera wrote in February.
βI havenβt victimized anyone. And Iβve devoted most of my life serving a just and noble cause and struggling to help make this world a better and more just one.β
For 30 years, Lopez Rivera has been imprisoned in the United States for his activities in support of freedom and independence for Puerto Rico, which is still claimed by the US.
Puerto Rico
A nearly two-month-long student strike that shut down all 11 campuses of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) ended in a decisive victory for the students.
The studentsβ inspiring unity, determination and creativity serve as a magnificent example of how to fight and win in the face of neoliberal attempts to balance budgets in this era of global austerity.
The strike began April 21 as a 48-hour stoppage at UPRβs main campus of Rio Piedras to protest US$100 million in budget cuts, a sharp increase in student fees and the administrationβs unwillingness to negotiate with student activists.
By May 18, students at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) had entered their fourth week of a strike and occupation at the Rio Pedras campus in San Juan. The students are appealing for solidarity after university administrators and the government escalated repression.
The strike and occupation began in mid-April and escalated after UPR President Jose Ramon de la Torre, Rio Piedrasβ campus rector Ana Guadalupe Quinones and the UPR Board of Trustees refused to meet with representatives of the students.
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