[News] Puerto Rico: Violence Continues as Students Engage in Civil Disobedience
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Puerto Rico: Violence Continues as Students Engage in Civil Disobedience
Posted By César Santiago On 28 January 2011 @ 14:39 pm
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Mother supports her son. Photo by Jesús Vázquez,
of Desde Adentro. Republished from Rojo
Gallito/Desde Adentro under a CC License.*
<http://globalvoicesonline.org../specialcoverage/puerto-rico-student-strike-2010/>
*This post is part of
<http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/28/puerto-rico-violence-continues-as-students-engage-in-civil-disobedience/specialcoverage/puerto-rico-student-strike-2010/>Global
Voices' special coverage of the student strike [1].
On January 20th, students from the University of
Puerto Rico (UPR) started staging almost daily
acts of civil disobedience at the Río Piedras
campus as part of their strike against the $800
dollar annual fee imposed by the administration.
The Police has already arrested at least 100
students and assaulted journalists who have been covering the protests.
Students also participated in a sit-in on
Thursday January 27 in front of and nearby the
Capitolio, the building that houses the
Legislature, in the capital San Juan. Students
were petitioning senators and representatives to
approve legislation that would give funds to the
UPR in order to avoid the imposition of the
special tuition fee. Regular and special police
forces used tear gas and rubber bullets against
students and journalists. The situation turned
into chaos and protesters ran into a nearby park
where tensions mounted. Here is a video and images of the day:
<http://globalvoicesonline.org/?attachment_id=190189>
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[2]
Arrest during protest in fron of the Legislature.
Photo by Aura Colón Solá from Rojo Gallito/Desde
Adentro and republished under a CC License.*
<http://globalvoicesonline.org/?attachment_id=190192>
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[3]
Students protest in front of the Legislature.
Photo by Ricardo Alcaraz from Diálogo and republished under a CC License.*
<http://globalvoicesonline.org/?attachment_id=190212>
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[4]
Students protest in front of the Legislature.
Photo by Aura Colón Solá from Rojo Gallito/Desde
Adentro republished under a CC License.*
The site <http://pr.indymedia.org>Indymediapr.org
[5] [es] documented with video and photos
<http://pr.indymedia.org/news/2011/01/47053.php>day
2 [6] [es] of the acts of civil disobedience and
the clashes with police and arrests.
The online magazine <http://qiibo.com>Qiibo [7]
[es] informed
that<http://qiibo.com/2011/01/20/policias-vs-periodistas-round-1/>
the police impeded the press from properly documenting these arrests [8]:
La OPC denunció que el fotoperiodista de EL NUEVO
DIA, Xavier Araújo, integrantes de la Fuerza de
Choque le patearon su cámara, en momentos en
donde se arrestaron a cerca de 44 manifestantes
en los predios de la Universidad.
The OPC (Overseas Press Club) denounced that
members of the Tactical Operations Division
kicked the camera of El NUEVO DIA’s photographer,
Xavier Araújo, when around 44 protesters were
being arrested close to the University.
Law professor Érika Fontánez Torres analyzed the
validity of using civil disobedience
<http://poderyambiente.blogspot.com/2011/01/proposito-de-la-desobediencia-civil.html>in
her blog
<http://poderyambiente.blogspot.com/2011/01/proposito-de-la-desobediencia-civil.html>Poder,
Espacio y Ambiente [9] [es] in which she
discusses an essay by German sociologist
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas>Jürgen
Habermas [10] that justifies civil disobedience under certain circumstances:
es preciso reconocer la desobediencia civil
como parte componente de la cultura política de
una comunidad democrática. Cuando fracasa la
Constitución representativa ante retos (
) los
ciudadanos que no disponen de oportunidades
privilegiadas de ejercer influencia, han de
ejercer las funciones inmediatas del soberano y
deben recurrir a la desobediencia civil con la
intención de dar un impulso a las necesarias correcciones e innovaciones.
it is important to recognize civil disobedience
as a component of the political culture of a
democratic community. When the representative
Constitution fails the challenges (
) citizens
who do not have the privileged opportunities to
exert influence, must exert the immediate
functions of the sovereign and resort to civil
disobedience with the intention to impulse the
necessary corrections and innovations.
<http://www.youtube.com/user/EditoresDialogo>Diálogo
Digital [11] [es] captured images of the
impressive police presence at the University of
Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus, where SWAT teams
and mounted police joined campus police, private
security guards, regular officers, and the Tactical Operations Division.
As the number of student arrests during the last
week neared the one-hundred mark, including those
of student leader Xiomara Caro and the founder of
the student radio station
<http://radiohuelga.com/wordpress/>Radio Huelga
[12] [es] Ricardo Olivera, protesters all the way
across the Atlantic Ocean were able to reach
Puerto Rican pro-statehood and Republican
Governor Luis Fortuño, as he prepared to speak at
the University of Valladolid's Law School in Spain.
The group responsible for the protest in Spain
explained their motivations via press release,
<http://rojogallito.blogspot.com/2011/01/brincan-el-charco-las-protestas.html>as
reported by the student blog
<http://rojogallito.blogspot.com/2011/01/brincan-el-charco-las-protestas.html>Desde
Adentro [13] [es]:
Hemos asistido con la intención de dejar en
evidencia ante la comunidad internacional y en
especial ante los compañeros estudiantes de
mencionada universidad que el distinguido
conferenciante, es el encargado de la destrucción
de la Universidad pública puertorriqueña, de la
represión y abuso contra los estudiantes en la
UPR, del descalabro socio-político de la sociedad
puertorriqueña, la destrucción ambiental y el
aumento en la criminalidad en Puerto Rico.
We've come here with the intention of providing
evidence to the international community and
especially to our fellow students of the
aforementioned university, that the distinguished
speaker is in charge of the destruction of Puerto
Rico's public university, of the repression and
abuse against students at the UPR, of the
socio-political disaster of Puerto Rican society,
the destruction of our environment, and the rise of crime in Puerto Rico.
The President of the UPR, José Ramón de la Torre,
has
<http://www.primerahora.com/sobre51milestudiantesmatriculadosenlaupr-467712.html>announced
[14] [es] that 94% (54,000) of the students in
the 11 campuses of the system have already
registered for this semester, which means that
they have already complied with the annual $800 fee.
*Post co-authored with
<http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/alfredo-richner/>Alfredo Richner [15].
*Photos from
<http://rojogallito.blogspot.com/>Rojo
Gallito/Desde Adentro [16] and
<http://www.dialogodigital.com/>Diálogo [17]
republished
under<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/>
CC License NC-ND 3.0 [18].
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URLs in this post:
[1]
<http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/28/puerto-rico-violence-continues-as-students-engage-in-civil-disobedience/specialcoverage/puerto-rico-student-strike-2010/>Global
Voices' special coverage of the student strike:
<http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/28/puerto-rico-violence-continues-as-students-engage-in-civil-disobedience/specialcoverage/puerto-rico-student-strike-2010/>http://globalvoicesonline.org../specialcoverage/puerto-rico-student-strike-2010/
[2] Image: http://globalvoicesonline.org/?attachment_id=190189
[3] Image: http://globalvoicesonline.org/?attachment_id=190192
[4] Image: http://globalvoicesonline.org/?attachment_id=190212
[5] Indymediapr.org: http://pr.indymedia.org
[6] day 2: http://pr.indymedia.org/news/2011/01/47053.php
[7] Qiibo: http://qiibo.com
[8] the police impeded the press from properly
documenting these arrests:
http://qiibo.com/2011/01/20/policias-vs-periodistas-round-1/
[9] in her blog Poder, Espacio y Ambiente:
http://poderyambiente.blogspot.com/2011/01/proposito-de-la-desobediencia-civil.html
[10] Jürgen Habermas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas
[11] Diálogo Digital: http://www.youtube.com/user/EditoresDialogo
[12] Radio Huelga: http://radiohuelga.com/wordpress/
[13] as reported by the student blog Desde
Adentro:
http://rojogallito.blogspot.com/2011/01/brincan-el-charco-las-protestas.html
[14] announced:
http://www.primerahora.com/sobre51milestudiantesmatriculadosenlaupr-467712.html
[15] Alfredo Richner: http://globalvoicesonline.org/author/alfredo-richner/
[16] Rojo Gallito/Desde Adentro: http://rojogallito.blogspot.com/
[17] Diálogo: http://www.dialogodigital.com/
[18] CC License NC-ND 3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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