09/12/2011
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"the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board has effectively become a supra-political entity governing the people of Puerto Rico in a naked colonial mode."
"It is unbelievable that in the 21st century the United States of America rather than expanding full democratic rights to all of its citizens has chosen to curtail them."
"Puerto Rico is right now the quintessential 'canary in the mine,' not only because of its island condition and geographical location in the path of possible more frequent and stronger extreme weather ..."
"Let's end the governance aberration known as PROMESA by collaboratively enabling processes that guarantee equity and justice not only in energy decisions but all aspects of Puerto Rican life."