Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 00:02:06 -0400

Subject: MASS DEMOSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF PUERTO RICAN

STUDENTS ON STRIKE:TUESDAY, MAY 18, AT 5:30PM 135 W
50th STREET, MANHATTAN

Sisters & Brothers:

The situation in Puerto Rico is at a critical level. In the past few days
university students have given excellent examples of combativity and
resistance. In the face of this the government has responded with
intolerance and police repression. The TPF has been mobilized into the
UPR Campus.

Yesterday, in an assembly convened at the Convention Center of

Puerto Rico, a broad majority of the student attending decided to
move forward with the strike process despite the attempts at
intimidation on the part of the university administration. During the
day today, Friday, May 14th, several cases of police brutality have been
reported. Early in the day the distribution of water at the Rio Piedras
campus has been cut off, dorms have been forcibly vacated and people
trying to simply provide water and food to the students protesting on
campus have been arrested.

In the face of this situation, scores of citizens alongside artists,

community leaders and parents have been arriving at the picket lines
to, on the one hand provide voices of alert to the country and on the
others to protect the students against this clear threat of great
repression.

This afternoon the workers in Puerto Rico announced a General Strike

for this coming Tuesday in solidarity with the student movement and
in decisive repudiation of the policy of confrontation of the country’s
colonial government. They have made a call to the people to come to
the entrance gates of the various campuses of the University of Puerto
Rico.

Those of us in New York will be responding to this call!!

This coming Tuesday, May 18, 2010, the Network in Support of

Workers in Puerto Rico, a coordinating body for diverse political,
tradeunion and community organizations in New York, is making AN
URGENT CALL to the New York Community and the Tri-State Area to
join and assume as our own the denunciation of the fascist attitude of
Puerto Rican government AND to express our solidarity with the
workers of Puerto Rico by making known the urgency of this situation
and by giving our support to UPR University students on the front lines
of this struggle.

This major picket will take place this coming Tuesday, May 18, 2010,
starting at 5:30 p.m. at the offices of the Puerto Rican Federal Affairs
Office (PRFAA) located at 135 West 50th Street, between 6th and 7th
Avenues in Manhattan.

... THIS TUESDAY MAY 18TH ALL OUT TO PROTEST @ THE

OFFICES OF PUERTO RICO’S COLONIAL GOVERNMENT IN NEW
YORK . . . FOR A PEOPLES UNIVERSITY FOR THE PEOPLE, FOR A
JUST COUNTRY!

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION – FRANK VELGARA