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Regrann from @boricua_spirit - We as a people must unite so change can happen for our people here and abroad..United we must stand or else we all fall... Individually, we are one drop, together, we are an ocean!!!! As we speak..we are seen as wounded animals..are we mi gente? Go follow @nuestra_patriapr if you dare..he speaks truth with no filter.. @nuestra_patriapr - Great victory of the young lords! The city ignored the community so the community fought back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But for weeks, sanitation service in East Harlem continued to be poor. Frustrated, the Young Lords took the bags of garbage and built five-foot-tall barricades across Third Avenue, halting traffic. Then the group’s members set the garbage on fire, which brought out police and firefighters (though not sanitation workers). As a result, the garbage service improved, though it was never what it was in wealthier neighborhoods. #nationalistparty #nationalist #jayuyauprising #quevivapuertoricolibre #puertoricanindependence #puertoricanactivist #boricua #nuyorican #boriken #indigenous #puertoricanpride #boricuadiaspora #PuertoRicanDiaspora #diaspora #pedroalbizucampos #lares #oscarlopezrivera #elgritodelares #independence #waragainstallPuertoRicans #puertoricanflag #puertorico #puertorican #IntentonadeYauco #yauco #money #currency #GarbageOffensive #eastharlem #harlem #PrFlagsUp #puertoricanflagsup @puertoricanflagsup https://www.instagram.com/p/BoFiIxOh6_V/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q50piaaef6zm

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Today in history: On October 30, 1950 - the Jayuya Uprising or el Grito de Jayuya in Puerto Rico. Led by Blanca Canales (pictured below) and other Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalists, armed uprisings were launched in the town of Jayuya and other towns throughout Puerto Rico against U.S. colonial rule. The revolutionaries carried out daring armed confrontations with U.S.-trained police and the National Guard. Armed with weapons she had stored, Canales and the revolutionaries attacked and occupied strategic points in the town then raised the Puerto Rican Flag (which was outlawed at the time), and declared Puerto Rico an independent republic. The Puerto Rican nationalists held Jayuya for three days until it was attacked by U.S military planes, artillery, mortar fire, grenades, U.S. infantry troops, and the Puerto Rican National Guard. Canales was arrested and accused of killing a police officer, wounding three others, and burning down the post office. Sentenced to life in prison, she served 17 years then was given full pardon in 1967. Canales continued to be an active independence advocate until she died in 1996 in her hometown of Jayuya. #PuertoRico #JayuyaUprising #TainoLibrary https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Q0G03ptRG/?igshid=1xorh2y6kgrz0