[News] Puerto Rico: Police Assault Students and Professors Go on Strike

[Anti-Imperialist News]

<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/arroyo100211.html>Puerto 
Rico: Police Assault Students and Professors Go on Strike

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/arroyo100211.html
by Efren Arroyo

The Association of Puerto Rican University 
Professors (<http://www.appu.org/>APPU) on 
Wednesday called a 24-hour strike at the 
University of Puerto Rico (UPR), vowing that 
there will be no classes on Thursday.

The decision to strike was made as students held 
a protest on campus, after a fierce confrontation 
with riot police in front of the José M. Lázaro 
Library, during which several youth were arrested and others were wounded.

"The violence and brutality unleashed by the 
<http://www.google.com/search?q=upr+puerto+rico+police>Puerto 
Rico Police against the students who were drawing 
graffiti on the sidewalks of the Río Piedras 
campus, which was indiscriminately applied to 
students on the entire campus, highlights the 
daily tension that we experience at the 
University of Puerto Rico," said APPU President María Gisela Rosado.

The APPU and the Brotherhood of Exempt, 
Non-Teaching Employees 
(<http://192.220.12.8/>HEEND) marched down 
Wednesday afternoon to the office of Chancellor 
Ana Guadalupe, to set up a dialogue to put an end 
to violent conflicts between riot police and students.

Though it was initially announced that Guadalupe 
would not meet them, later she agreed to a 
meeting.  At this moment, the meeting is underway.

Both the HEEND and the APPU are demanding that 
the Puerto Rico Police leave the campus, though 
UPR President José Ramón de la Torre earlier made 
statements indicating that the police will remain on campus.

The strike began at 3 PM on Wednesday.

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The original article 
<http://wapa.tv/noticias/primeraplana/vuelve-a-complicarse-el-conflicto-en-la-upr/20110209154115>"Vuelve 
a complicarse el conflicto en la UPR" was 
published by WAPA.tv on 9 February 
2011.  Translation by <http://montages.blogspot.com/>Yoshie Furuhashi.
URL: 
<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/arroyo100211.html>mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/arroyo100211.html 





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