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Every time a report comes out about poverty, hunger, unemployment, crime and /or disease, the Bronx, especially the South Bronx is always leading in the main negative categories. A recent study about Hunger found the South Bronx to have an … Continue reading
Lolita Lebrón stayed faithful to her ideals to the end. An incredible example of courage, strength and love. (Photo Getty Images)
Lolita Lebrón, a Puerto Rican independence activist who spent 25 years in prison for participating in a gun attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954, died Sunday. She was 90.
Lebrón died at a hospital in San Juan of complications from respiratory disease, said Francisco Torres, president of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico.
“Lolita was the mother of the independence movement. This is an insurmountable loss,” said Maria de Lourdes Santiago, a member of the U.S. commonwealth’s Senate from the Puerto Rican Independence Party.
Lolita is an example of the courage, beauty, strength and love of the Puerto Rican woman. May she rest in peace.
A South Bronx Memorial service will be held for Lolita on Sunday August 8th, 2010 at 10:30 AM at La Resurrección United Methodist Church 790 Elton Avenue (corner of 158th St.). The service is open to all who want to attend.
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This column is dedicated to the same objectives as that of the great journalist H L Menken that is “to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable :
Who helped Obama sweep the Puerto Rican vote un New York city? Many independent progressive PUERTO Rican and Latino activists none of which belonged to the Bronx Democratic machine. Among those missing were then Bronx Boss Assemblyman Jose Rivera and Borough President Aldolfo Carrión, both who originally supported Hillary Clinton. Carrión did make some post primary appearances for OBAMA but locally he and Rivera did nothing to inspire the forces.
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NYC: One of the treasures of New York City is the Howard Jordan radio program on WBAI (99.5FM). This program is heard every Friday from 5 PM to 6 PM. Howard has been on for a number of years. This program is informative, exciting, controversial and a “must listen”. If you haven’t heard the program isn’t it time you tuned in on a Friday at 5 PM.
Howard and Mickey Melendez (Sundays) are among the few Latino program representatives we have at WBAI. They deserve our support 100%.
UNTIL NEXT TIME…..EL GALLO ALBOROTOSO
P.S. See you at the activity for Jose Chegui Torres on Feb 7, 2009 at Hostos Community College and at the Prayer Service at the resurrección UMC 158th & Elton @ 11 AM on the Next Day Sunday.