En Puerto Rico, más de 40 años después del asesinato de una mujer negra por la policía, la lucha contra el racismo antinegro y la brutalidad policiaca sigue siendo urgente.
Faced with an onslaught of disasters and the injustices of colonialism, Puerto Rican communities have bet on their own survival. Their mutual aid efforts testify to both the power of grassroots organizing and the scale of state neglect.
Successive administrations in Puerto Rico have relied on the state of emergency and executive orders, eroding democracy and exacerbating structural inequality.
The summer uprising of 2019 in Puerto Rico was a repudiation of politics as usual and revealed that Partido Popular Democrático and Partido Nuevo Progresista dominance of the island’s political system is no longer assured.
Citizen-led solar initiatives in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria remedied immediate local challenges and forged increased resilience using sustainable power, serving as an important example in clean energy development.