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The People of Vieques, Puerto Rico vs. the United States Navy

On April 19, 1999, two F-18 jets mistook the navy’s red-and-white checked observation post on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico for a target, and dropped 500 pound bombs on it. Vieques resident David...

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Puerto Rico: The Crisis Is About Colonialism, Not Debt

Tourists are fascinated by the heavy blue cobblestones that pave the streets of Old San Juan. Why they are there is as good an explanation as any for Puerto Rico’s current crisis. In the days of...

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She Works Like a Man; If a Woman’s Word

Linda Backiel is a criminal defense attorney practicing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. | more… Source

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A Duel of Dreams

This article will be released in full online October 21, 2019. Naomi Klein’s The Battle for Paradise (Haymarket, 2018) describes a duel of dreams for post-Hurricane Mar’a Puerto Rico. On the one hand,...

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And then, I think about war

A new poem by Linda Backiel. | more…

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Say, Gaza

A new poem by Linda Backiel. | more…

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