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After months of planning/ organizing, the date is almost here. Hope to see you tomorrow at El Grito 2007!
Yaz

El GRITO 2007
Sunday, September 23rd
TODOS SOMOS MACHETERO!

El GRITO 2007
Sunday, September 23rd
TODOS SOMOS MACHETERO!

March and Rally for a free Puerto Rico!

12 PM Gather at Times Square (Broadway between 41st and 42nd Streets)
1PM: March towards United Nations
2-5 PM: Rally Program at the United Nations- Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (47th St. and 1st Ave.)

Featuring:

-Former Political Prisoners/ Prisoners of War: Dylcia Pagan and Antonio Camacho Negron!

-Ally speakers from the Palestinian, New African, Venezuelan, Chilean, Dominican communities and others!

-Hip Hop performances by protest pack Rebel Diaz and the radical rhymes and rebel rhythms of X-Vandals!

-Bomba performance by Afro-boricua ensemble Alma Moyo!

-Direct from Puerto Rico, music by Nueva Trova musician Fernandito Ferrer!

-Poetry by Prisionera, Jesus "Papoleto" Melendez and Frank Perez!

-Children's activity table, all little ones are welcome!

Puerto Rico is the oldest colony on the planet. The history of its colonization goes back 500 years, to the arrival of Columbus in 1493, and its continuance under Spanish rule for 400 years. September 23rd 1868 is traditionally celebrated and commemorated as the birth of the Puerto Rican nation, when Puerto Ricans rose up against Spanish colonial rule in a revolt known as El Grito de Lares. By 1898 Puerto Rico had achieved a form of autonomous self-rule that came to an abrupt end that same year, when the united states invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. Puerto Rico has been under the colonial rule of the united states ever since and has continued to struggle throughout that time for its independence and self-determination. On September 23rd of 2005, the united states government, sent the FBI to Puerto Rico to assassinate Filiberto Ojeda Rios, leader of the Puerto Rican People's Army, Los Macheteros. It was a bold attempt by the united states government to kill the Puerto Rican liberation struggle, which Filiberto embodied. Although they accomplished their mission to assassinate Filiberto, they failed in their mission to kill our spirit. The Puerto Rican liberation struggle and the legacy of Filiberto live on!

¡Filiberto Vive!
La Lucha Sigue!
¡Que viva Puerto Rico libre!
¡Todo Boricua Machetero!
www.september23.org