Frustrated by the lack of political and economic freedom, and enraged by the continuing repression on the island, Puerto Rico's pro-independence movement staged an armed rebellion in 1868. Known as the Grito de Lares (the "Cry of Lares"), the rebellion broke out on September 23, 1868. It was planned by a group led by Dr. Ramón Emeterio Betances and Segundo Ruiz Belvis, who on January 6, 1868, founded the Comité Revolucionario de Puerto Rico (Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico) from their exile in the Dominican Republic. Betances authored several proclamas, or statements, attacking the exploitation of the Puerto Ricans by the Spanish colonial system and called for immediate insurrection. The proclamas soon circulated throughout the island as local dissident groups began organizing. Secret cells of the Revolutionary Committee were established involving members from all sectors of society, including landowners, merchants, professionals, peasants, and slaves.
Although plans originally called for the insurrection to begin on September 29, their discovery by Spanish authorities forced the rebels to move the date up. They agreed to strike first at the town of Lares on September 23. On that day, some four to six hundred rebels gathered in the hacienda of Manuel Rojas, located in the vicinity of Pezuela, on the outskirts of Lares. Poorly trained and armed, the rebels reached the town by horse and foot around midnight. They looted local stores and offices owned by peninsulares and took over the city hall, proclaiming the new Republic of Puerto Rico. Spanish merchants and local government authorities, considered by the rebels to be enemies of the fatherland, were taken prisoner. The following day, September 24, the republic was proclaimed under the presidency of Francisco Ramírez. All slaves who had joined the uprising were declared free citizens.
The rebel forces then departed from Lares to take over the next town, San Sebastián del Pepino. The Spanish militia, however, surprised the group with strong resistance and caused the rebels to retreat back to Lares under the leadership of Manuel Rojas. Upon an order from Governor Julián Pavía, the Spanish militia quickly rounded up the rebels and brought the insurrection to an end. Some 475 rebels were imprisoned, Manuel Rojas among them.
On November 17, a military court imposed the death penalty for treason and sedition on all prisoners. Nevertheless, in an effort to ameliorate the tense atmosphere on the island, the incoming governor, José Laureano Sanz, dictated a general amnesty early in 1869 and all prisoners were released.
The first formal account of the Grito de Lares was written by a Spanish resident of Puerto Rico, José Pérez Moris, with collaboration from Luis Cueto. It was published in 1872 as Historia de la Insurrección de Lares and appears in this online collection. Its main purpose was to present a strong case for the conservative cause on the island by showing that separatist forces were strong in Puerto Rico and thus a serious threat to the established order.
Spirit of “El Grito de Lares” Still Lives in Puerto Rico
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People tell me "go outside, for your mental health, go outside, meet people, go outside." I go outside. I see an old person, a sick person, and a dying person. I get stuck in construction for thirty minutes. They have been repairing this road for two years. It is not repaired yet. It is not a freeway or a main artery. It is just a road. I pay too much for food, but the food isn't good. No one talks to me.
yeah it's pretty crazy that people think "jUsT gO oUtSiDe" is actually going to get you anywhere.
may as well tell poor people to just get better job
to be fair everything except the getting stuck in construction matches the pedestrian experience
for some people there is nothing outside unless you can drive to it
In my defense everything for several hundred miles in every direction is blasted marginal wasteland, desert, or monocrop agriculture hell. There are some municipal lawns where you can go look at the empty expanse of grass and get sunburned, and there are some fenced off artificial reservoirs you're not allowed to approach. There are some mountains, but I can't physically do anything with mountains except look at them from a distance.
I support Going Outside, but to sit in a forest alone, not to meet people
I almost twisted my ankle walking to the liquor store and they didn't even sell plain vodka. Literally easier for me to get a gun here than vodka. I should have stayed inside!
HEY HEY HEY DATE FOLLOWUP
COMRADES HOLY SHIT IT WENT SO WELL! They initially said they wanted to take things slow, and that smooching was off the table for a first date, but they asked me to walk them home and then gave me a kiss.
She's gonna meet up with me in the morning for food distribution work. We fucking clicked so goddamn hard, im on cloud 9 right now.
I'm back home and unwinding. Tonight was so fucking great, I'm not even tired. Gonna do some dishes and then relax, cause uh....WE'RE HANGING OUT IN THE MORNING!
I've been driving a lot recently and it's really hammered home that most people live in nowhere. Like, I grew up in a city where there were distinct neighborhoods, you could see guys playing bike polo near Alberta street, or go downtown and see the bookstores and the boutiques. You could go to the south of the city and see the anarchist permaculture projects and info shops and the massive parks.
But like, most people live in massive grids of houses and strip malls that are all kind of the same. The places are like, McDonald's, and it's exactly the same as every other McDonald's. There's no info shops, no permaculture gardens...
I drive through so much of it, and it makes me so uncomfortable and I just can't imagine living in it. And to traverse it all you need to drive, so everyone's in debt and killing the earth and like.
I'm genuinely just really angry about it
I WANT OUT I WANT OUT I WANT OUT I WANT OUT I WANT OUT I WANT OUT I WANT OUT I WANT OUT
Imagine growing up in a place like that. Everything in walking distance - if you're real unlucky, biking distance - is just a desert of nothing but other people's homes.
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Day drinking is way better because you can get rehydrated before going to sleep and not wake up feeling like shit.
As someone who still has a fairly favorable view of Contrapoints, I just saw that she still has 21k backers on Patreon (with a minimum membership of $2/month) and it baffles me. She has literally posted 2 videos in the past 24 months. It's pretty clear she's mostly checked out. What the hell are they paying for?
Edit: Thinking about it: I don't know if I could maintain my radicalism if I got 40k (at minimum) a month for doing fuckall.
we should all have the privilege of just deciding to take half a year off and still live comfortably.
only half a year?
I don't know if I could maintain any radicalism if I got 40k (at minimum) a month for doing fuckall.
Well it's either that or you'd go overdrive because you now have a ton more free time, energy, funds, and less stress
The local newspaper tells me it will soon get more expensive to be a "water user", whatever that means
New neoliberal idea:
Trans children insurance. You pay a monthly premium and if your children are trans then the insurance will pay for their transition. It combines the worst aspects of liberals, capitalism and performative caring about minorities. It also gives liberals an excuse to do "personal responsibility" to trans people which I don't think they've done quite yet.
so much money to be made
especially since trans people are only a fraction of the population.
Now the insurance company has a direct profit motive to keep trans people as discriminated against as possible to keep that fraction low
They'd probably do better to encourage transition for the first while to prove their product had value. The attempt to avoid payouts would come after almost all parents were buying insurance
This is only an option that trans accepting parents would buy which is very little
You offer another option which works like life insurance. If your child ends up being trans, goes on HRT for at least 1 year, and reaches certain hormone levels, we'll pay out a lump sum to the parents for their loss
You offer another option which works like life insurance. If your child ends up being trans, goes on HRT for at least 1 year, and reaches certain hormone levels, we'll pay out a lump sum to the parents for their loss
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People keep calling my cat-like in a variety of situations and I don't know if I want to lean into it or just let it happen
zoomers have such fried attention spans, in my day we enjoyed slow burn memes like this
In my day we loaded the demented cartoon movie then watched all of it and quoted it to each other
Yes — they want people not to speculate on specifics and respect the family's privacy
Instead of calling it "x/twitter", let's call it "xitter", and pronounce the "xi" as "shi" as it often is in various western languages.
I am sticking with my plan to pronounce all letter "X"s as "twitter" because its etwittertreem
Mcdonalds in Japan made an ad where there's a cute kid eating fries and now chuds are frothing at the mouth screaming about how the left wants to cancel mcdonalds or something, but literally no one but them cares about it lmao. Right wingers are fukcing nuts.
I saw this ad on tik tok and scrolled past in like 2 seconds because it's an ad. Must be a slow week for chuds.
lmao. I've seen the screeching and the ad but I absolutely could not parse what the devastating blow to the left was.
It'd be so cool if anything were remotely real anymore.
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Thanks to communism I find it nearly impossible to jerk off to this kids show about mutant turtles who live the sewer. Yes, I am a "thought leader".
Chuds saw a cartoon of a little girl and needed an excuse to obsess over it for a few days.