#boriken

[lena-rosey]

Mainstream news is barely covering this, but Borikén (puerto rico by its colonial name) was hard hit by hurricane Fiona yesterday.

As my friends reach out despite widespread power outages, they’re sharing that flooding is happening where water didn’t even reach during Maria.

Grass roots organizations need our support right now, but for those of us showing solidarity from overseas it can be hard to find the right places to donate. During Maria in 2017 literally thousands died, not just as a result to unequal exposure to the natural disasters of climate crisis and instability, but even more so due to the US government’s colonialism and negligence and the incompetency and corruption of the Puerto Rican government.

DO NOT give money to the government or organizations closely working with it unless you want aid materials to rot in a shipping container. Or to buy people KitKat bars. Here are some alternatives I and my close friends trust:

Taller Salud

https://www.tallersalud.com

Comedores Sociales de Puerto Rico

https://www.comedoressocialespr.org/aportar

Pro-Techos

https://protechos.org/es/donate/

Brigada Solidaria del Oeste

https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/co-conspirators/brigada-solidaria-del-oeste/?doing_wp_cron=1663304559.420053958892822265625O

La Code, Parceleras AfroCaribeñas

https://www.parcelerasafrocaribenas.org/donate

Proyecto Agroecológico Campesino

https://instagram.com/proyectoagroecologicocampesino?igshid=YzA2ZDJiZGQ=

El Hangar en Santurce

https://instagram.com/elhangarensanturce?

igshid=YzA2ZDJiZGQ=

Finally here is La Colmena Cimarrona, an Agro ecological farm working towards food sovereignty and collective land ownership in Vieques. They need some resources and financial support after the hurricane, so feel free to pitch in to their work, which will address both short term relief and long term survival strategies. https://www.hasercambio.org/colmena-cimarrona/

Hope this helps some of you direct your support. Y Fuerza Borikén

#boriken #puerto rico #hurricane fiona #mutual aid #decolonize #decolonisation #climate emergency #grassroots #signal boost #decolonization

[bloodyke]

(aqui esta el articulo en español de CPIPR)

(link to english articule from washington post)

[image ID: the first image is a picture of a road on one of puerto ricos forrested mountains with the headline "Más personas muerten en Puerto Rico mientras el sistema de salud se desmorona." The subheading reading "Pese a las vacunas y a la disponibilidad de medicamentos para el COVID-19, en 2022 murieron 35,400 personas en el Isla, la mayor cifra de los últimos 20 años."

the second image is an overhead shot of various graves located in Puerto Rico, with the headline reading "More people are dying in Puerto Rico as its healthcare system crumbles." The subheading reads "Islanders died of chronic conditions and COVID-19 in 2022 at numbers that surpassed even Hurricane Maria's toll." : end ID]

Excerpt from The Washington Post Article:

AGUAS BUENAS, Puerto Rico — In a purple house along a narrow road in Puerto Rico’s Central Mountain Range, Margarita Gómez Falcón’s breathing suddenly grew labored one March evening. She called an ambulance and began a grim two-hour wait for paramedics to arrive.

Health services across this self-governing island have been deteriorating for years, contributing to a surge in deaths that reached historic proportions in 2022, an investigation by The Washington Post and Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism has found.

[....]

The case of Gómez Falcón, 67, underscores the many ways a faltering medical system has contributed to elevated death rates.

[...]

Aguas Buenas, a small, working-class town in the central highlands, had one working ambulance for its 25,000 people when Gómez Falcón called for help, so dispatchers sent a private one that had trouble finding her home in the town’s winding back roads.

[...]

Puerto Rico, with a population of 3.3 million people, experienced more than 35,400 deaths last year. That’s nearly 3,300 more than researchers would ordinarily expect based on historic patterns, according to a statistical analysis by The Post and Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI).

This “excess mortality” — a term scientists use to describe unusually high death counts from natural disasters, disease outbreaks or other factors — resulted in part from a covid spike early last year that killed more than 2,300 people, health data shows.

[...]

The recent jump in mortality is the latest warning sign that years of natural disasters and financial crises have taken a deadly toll.

[...]

“It’s been nearly six years since Maria, and nothing has been resolved,” said Nereida Meléndez‚ a community activist in Aguas Buenas. “Here there are bridges that no one has done anything for. There are damaged highways no one has done anything to fix. Here one says, ‘What about that money they sent us? Where is it? What are they doing with it?’”

[...]

Puerto Rico’s public health system was once the envy of the Caribbean. Then-Gov. Pedro Rosselló privatized it in the 1990s, in what became known as “La Reforma.” Most government-owned hospitals were sold in an effort to control costs and streamline operations. But the opposite took place: By 2006, Puerto Rico’s economy tanked and public debt ballooned[.]

Puerto Rico's healthcare system is crumbling (alongside many other public utilities - one notable such example is the powergrid, as many of you have probably heard about recently due to the massive wave of protests against LUMA the current private company in charge of maintaining it) due to lack of resources and support. This is a crisis that has been building for decades due to many factors, such as the installment of an unelected board of overseers who have control of the puerto rican economy due to the enactment of. PROMESA in 2016, the enactment of ACT 60, a bill that incentivizes wealthy mainland U.S. citizens to move to Puerto Rico due to the increased tax breaks they will recieve that include a 100% tax exemption from Puerto Rico income taxes on: dividends, interest, short-term and long-term capital gains, and an exemption from the local and state property taxes equal to 75%, the withholding of emercency aid and support after natural disasters (the most notable example being the absolutely horrendus response to Hurricane Maria, that ended with the then Governor, Ricky Rosselló, resigning from his position after his sexist, racist, and homophic Telegram messages that included disparaging remarks about the victims of Hurricane Maria were leaked.)

This also includes the contiuned privitization of all aspects of puerto rican life, including the attempt to privatize the public beaches, lakes, canals, and parks in 2020, and the attempt to privatize the Taíno Caguana Ceremonial Indigenous Heritage Center in April 2023, though these are only two of many many many examples.

#zenith.txt #puerto rico #boriken #boricua #puertorico #puertorriqueños #im not sure how to end this post other than support puerto rican independence NOW

[ggguatagggata]

This Virgen del Carmen (Oyá) santo has been passed down in my family for over 100 years every charm is a miracle that got granted. We thought it got lost with time but she was found hidden in her own altar in my madrina’s garage.

She’s so unsettling and amazing at the same time Im obsessed with her

#boriken #santeria

[kamikozen]

the sweet life of naomi

#Boriken #nami kami #life lately

[succulent-momma]

DO NOT DONATE TO THE CORRUPT PR GOVERMENT OR THEIR SUPPOSED CHARITIES

I REPEAT

DO NOT DONATE TO THE CORRUPT PR GOVERMENT OR THEIR SUPPOSED CHARITIES

THEY WILL TAKE THE MONEY AND MAKE A PARADE OUT OF GIVING USELESS HELP AND THEN PUT THE REST OF THE MONEY IN THEIR POCKET

THEY LET THEIR OWN PEOPLE DIE AFTER MARIA. THEY WILL DO IT AGAIN

DONATE TO LOCAL CHARITIES AND GROUPS

THEY WILL ACTUALLY REACH THE COMMUNITIES IN NEED

BELOW IS A LINK WITH SOME OF THE GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ACTIVELY HELPING US

PLEASE REBLOG THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT

IF YOU ARE GOING TO HELP MAKE SURE YOUR HELP ACTUALLY REACHES THE PEOPLE

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NO DONEN AL GOBIERNO CORRUPTO DE PUERTO RICO O A SUS SUPUESTAS AYUDAS

REPITO

NO DONEN AL GOBIERNO CORRUPTO DE PUERTO RICO O A SUS SUPUESTAS AYUDAS

VAN A ROBARSE EL DINERO DESPUES DE HACER UN SHOW DE QUE SUPUESTAMENTE NOS ESTAN AYUDANDO. SE LO VAN A ROBAR.

NOS DEJARON MORIR EN MARIA, LO VAN A HACER OTRA VEZ

DONA A GRUPOS LOCALES

LA AYUDA VA A LLEGAR A LAS COMUNIDADES MAS NECESITADAS

AQUI UN ENLACE CON UNA LISTA DE GRUPOS QUE ESTAN AYUDANDO

POR FAVOR REBLOG ESTO ES SUPER IMPORTANTE, SI VA A AYUDAR ASEGURESE QUE SU DINERO LLEGUE A LOS QUE LO NECESITAN

#puerto rico #hurricane fiona #donations #send help #puertorico #boricua #boriken #mi isla bella como me duele #tener que escribir esto #el gobierno nos dejo morir en maria #maria #hurricane #Instagram #pierluisi mamabicho

[dovesndecay]

[source link]

#puerto rico #boriken #original post

[surroundedbyuncertainty777]

I may be replaceable, but baby, I’m one of a kind🫧🌓✨

#me #half wig #t4t #boriken #catracho #dominican #queer representation #girl mode #non binary #alternative #alt enby #face piercings #tattoed hottie #genderfluid #genderqueer #elder emo #metalhead #drag #not a girl

[lacangri21]

The Three Races of Puerto Rico in Old San Juan ❤️🤍🖤

#positive #boriken #art #indigenous #indigena #taino #photos #native american

[notfromcold]

Been trying to learn more about the Indigenous people of Boriken (Puerto Rico). There’s been a lot of research showing that the Indigenous people of Boriken were not all killed during and immediately after the Spanish invasion.

My grandmother was from Boriken but she moved to Minnesota in the late 1940s after marrying a US Navy pilot. She left Boriken behind. She didn’t teach her children Spanish, though by the time her grandchildren were born, she tried to teach us some. She taught me one Indigenous word: coqui. It means little tree frog. She said that was the word for them because that’s what they sound like when they call in the trees at night.

I don’t know if I have Indigenous heritage. My grandmother always said her parents came from Spain, but genealogical research that a distant relative did and posted on the internet (thank you, thank you, distant relative) shows that’s completely untrue. I don’t blame her for that little, protective untruth. She was the only Boricua she knew in Minnesota -- the loneliness and racism must have been crushing. Her US Navy pilot, the man who swept her off her feet in San Juan, used to sing that awful song from Westside Story to her ... “I want to be in America.” I never met the man but I get furious when I think of him doing that.

I’ve thought about doing DNA testing, but what would that even matter or show at the end of the day? Plus, the genocide of the Indigenous people means that many, many men were killed. So most of what has been passed down is mitochondrial DNA. That means that I could have Indigenous ancestors, but unless they are related to me through a maternal line, their DNA may not live on in me. 

And then there are the privacy issues inherent in DNA testing. What am I going to say? Sorry to any relatives who might be wanted for crimes.... I was dealing with some identity issues....

The distant relative who put together so much family history on the internet was able to find ancestors who came over from Europe. They also found ancestors in little towns in Boriken, people born in those towns who showed up on censuses but whose parents are a mystery to us. Who were those people? I don’t know. I barely know who my grandma was given her need to shield us from the heritage that marked us as “other.” She passed away when I was 14. We fought when I was a kid over my desire to be vegetarian. And I think she figured out that I was queer and didn’t really approve. But I do miss her.

What I do know is that the legacy of Boricua resistance lives on in me. Learning about the Young Lords and the Rainbow Coalition has been a constant source of inspiration for me.

Obviously, this doesn’t even go into the long history of African peoples in Boriken due to the trans Atlantic slave trade. I can’t claim that history as mine, either, but it is tied inextricably to the history of Boriken.

#boriken #boricua #genocide cw #taino #colonialism cw #fuck christopher columbus #slavery cw

[purpvisi8n]

#puerto rico #boriken #Caribbean #nature #photography #fyp

[7a-7ey]

Desgrafitiar 🫧🎨✨ 1/2 ✅

Social healing one street art at a time. 💗🕊️

#puerto rico #san juan #old san juan #street art #desgrafiteo #grafitti #graffiti removal #graffitirescue #street artist #huracán María #2019 #2024 #proibido olvidar #desgrafitiar #san juan puerto rico #borinquen #boriken #protectPuertoRico

[hjcoolartnerd]

Say hello to My first country Human Borikén. Older daughter of Spain, given as a Girlfriend to The USA, she took her two brothers with her away from her father. She dislikes her father, but then again he gave her away. She is happy with the USA but dislikes his siblings Partners one of them is Dating the Russia Twins and the other one is Dating México.

The flag represented is the original and The true flag of Puerto Rico, the one that is not being used to identify our country.

#hj coolart #myart #oc #boriken #country humans #country humans boriken

[ggguatagggata]

Pa Carola 🌬️🪸

#kiss kiss 💋 #coral #boriken

[manuelcrespoale]

¡DISPONIBLE YA EN AMAZON el libro de historia "Pasado caribeño: Ensayos de historia sobre Boriquén y el Caribe" (Primera edición revisada, 2022).

Paperback:

Hardcover:

#book #manuel a. crespo rodríguez #hatillo #puerto rico #amazon #libro #pasado #caribeño #boriken #caribe #historia #history

[mistercotte]

Current mood... ¡Nos vemos en La Isla! 🛸🏝🏴‍☠️❤️‍🔥 . . . . #cottetattoo #traditionaltattoo #classictattoo #tallship #anchor #legtattoo #isladelencanto #boriken #hastaabajo #algarete (at Sena Tattoo) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChYAfTmvWHT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#cottetattoo #traditionaltattoo #classictattoo #tallship #anchor #legtattoo #isladelencanto #boriken #hastaabajo #algarete

[puertoricanflagsup]

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#taino #taina #native #indeginous #prflagsup #puertoricanflagsup #boricua #boriken #puertorico #art #boricuaart