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DESCRIPTION:Puerto Rico, Colonization, Privatization, and Human Rights \nPuerto Rico 
 has been a colony of the United States since 1898. The first free trade 
 zone was set up in Puerto Rico during the 1950’s and it was called 
 “Bootstrap”. It set up tax free zones for US multi-nationals and the US 
 has also pushed privatization of the Puerto Rican economy in energy, 
 healthcare, and other services.\n The result has been deprivation and 
 forced exile of the majority of the people in Puerto Rico. Today the US 
 government has taken direct control of Puerto Rico like the bankrupt cities 
 in Detroit and Flint, and this is being used to attack the working class. 
 This forum will look at the present situation and also what US workers can 
 do about this.\nThe following list is some of the speakers:\nKatherine 
 Adames Rodriques is a pro-independent socialist from Puerto Rico who moved 
 to the Bay Area last year. She has been a member of the Organización 
 Socialista Internacional, the Puerto Rico Network of Solidarity with 
 Palestine, and the Committee Against Homophobia and Discrimination. As a 
 militant teacher, she was very active in the Puerto Rico Federation of 
 Teachers, whose organizing efforts she supported and with which she 
 mobilized against the government's attack on public education and its 
 neoliberal policies.\nRoberto Pastrana Pagés is a nonprofit worker and a 
 member of SEIU Local 1021. In 2014, he moved from Puerto Rico, where he had 
 been a member of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) 
 organizations on the islands, such as Puerto Rico para Todas, and the 
 Committee against Homophobia and Discrimination at the University of Puerto 
 Rico. A militant pro-independence socialist, Roberto was part of the 
 Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and the Federación Universitaria Pro 
 Independencia (FUPI). He was part of the push for LGBT rights and worked 
 for visibility and solidarity within the working class.\nSponsored by 
 United Public Workers for Action\nhttp://www.upwa.info\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/19/18787705.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Puerto Rico, a US Colony
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. Next to baseball 
 stadium. Walk the one mile from Market on Second or on the Embarcadero to 
 801 Second Street or take public transportation as follows: \nT or N train 
 from Embarcadero Station to Second and King Station; \n30 or 45 bus from 
 Market and Fifth Streets (Powell Station) to end of line at Townsend 
 between Fourth and Third, then walk one block to Second Street; \n47 bus 
 which starts at North Point at Fisherman’s Wharf,  travels on Van Ness, 
 11th St, Bryant and ends at Cal Train Station at 4th and Townsend, then 
 walk on Townsend 2 blocks to Second Street; \n10 bus which runs from 24th 
 and Potrero, on Rhode Island to 26th St, on Cesar Chavez St  to Dakota, 
 Wisconsin, Connecticut, DeHaro, Rhode Island at 16th St, on Townsend to 
 Second Street.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/19/18787705.php
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