Comments on: Puerto Rico: The Battle Over Public Lands

By: Gentrification and the fight for one’s home « Sawt Al Niswa صوت النسوة

Gentrification and the fight for one’s home « Sawt Al Niswa صوت النسوة — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:24:44 +0000

[...] http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/08/11/puerto-rico-the-battle-over-public-lands/ [...]

By: Doris I Mattos

Doris I Mattos — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:22:22 +0000

Siguiendo este asunto,durante el día de ayer(4/21/10)me entero por la radio que al Dr. Siguiendo este asunto al Dr Ibarra el donador de los terrenos originales se le nego participar de la conferencia del GobiernoOGP. En la misma se hizo el anuncio de los nuevos terrenos,sustituyendo los del Dr.Ibarra. A la verdad que es otro atropello de este Gobierno contra las personas que hacen una gran diferencia en nuestro país cansados de tanta injusticia

By: carlos mclean

carlos mclean — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:25:01 +0000

ramon please don’t forget that you are now considered. Part of U S i am a irishman come to this country to be a part and to creat jobs or people but the powers to be are not letting me i am sad for puerto rico because one of my very close friends in viet-nam was from here and had great respect for each other. Don’t be so bitter just try and help your country with pease and the so called law.

By: carlos mclean

carlos mclean — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:20:17 +0000

one more thing when i was in china the police there were military like in there ways i think that is so bad to be control;ed by the government for there own means. I see puerto rico going down the tubes

By: carlos mclean

carlos mclean — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:44:30 +0000

i am so sad for the people every where. People have to live but being in a country in illegal ways is against the law and i guess people just say i sit on the land so it mine.It is not that way in any country so why do they think they have the right to do it here in puerto rico. One bib thing i have seen since i moved here (and i am a puerto rican at heart and irishman) the police do not do there job and the police on beaches just ride around looking at girls and will not investagate someone being stolen from. I seen this first hand. Also i have respect for police but no more because i was at crash boat beach a few police were having fun diving on tax dollars. I made a comment i feel safe and the one police man said these are the ones you have to be afraid of. That kind of makes me scared now of police in puerto rico. I am a retired police man also and that is no way to speak to people. Now i think police are more corrupt than the normal person. I see police watch people throw trash out when there is trach can with-in 10 ft and police watching them and not doing a dare thing about it. If it was me i would getting a heavy fine and treated like a terrorist. This country needs to learn alot and i am most likley shutting down my business here and leaving. I did come to make a few jobs but if i am treated like that by police i am afraid they will steal from me and get away with it. This country needs to reorganize and start treating people like people who bring alot of money into here. I am sure alot agree with me

By: Global Voices Online » Puerto Rico: Connected to the National Strike (update)

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:35:06 +0000

[...] Rico, please see previous posts “A Crisis with Many Names”, “Such is Life”, “The Battle over Public Lands,” and “Ready for the National Strike”. The people at the nonprofit Center for the New [...]

By: Global Voices in Italiano » Oggi Portorico si ferma per lo sciopero generale, e l’informazione scorre online

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:03:08 +0000

[...] mesi è cresciuto il disaccordo tra il governo e diversi gruppi della società civile [sp]: gli ordini di sfratto [in] in comunità socialmente ed economicamente disagiate, le brutalità della polizia, e lo [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Puerto Rico: Ready for the National Strike

Global Voices Online » Puerto Rico: Ready for the National Strike — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:05:27 +0000

[...] the last months hostility has grown between the government and different civil society groups: eviction orders in socially and economically disadvantaged communities, police brutality, and the dismantlement of [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Puerto Rico: “Such is Life”

Global Voices Online » Puerto Rico: “Such is Life” — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:46:25 +0000

[...] Puerto Rico.” There is also a pending eviction order to remove 200 families from the Villas del Sol community in Toa Baja. The government dismantled the innovative collective land ownership project [...]

By: La vida es como una caja de chocolates… « El Mundo de Luis Daniel Beltrán

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:55:36 +0000

[...] estado a la expectativa de cualquier intento gubernamental de desalojarlos, como puede leerse en este resumen (en inglés) (vean también la traducción al español). (Y a muchos de nosotros, esos intentos de [...]

By: This Land is My Land?

This Land is My Land? — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:51:00 +0000

[...] by displacing hundreds of families from public lands. Firuzeh Shokooh-Valle has published an excellent piece in Global Voices, that offers some insights on what has transpired. The lead paragraph reads: [...]

By: Ramon

Ramon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:56:51 +0000

You failed to mention that this people are not Puerto Rican, this people are Illegal from Santo Domingo. If we don’t stand up and do something we will end up like Guam were the Philipinos run the land. The land in puerto Rico belongs to the Puerto Rican and the Puearto Rican only. this Dominican come to the mainland and said they are Puerto Rican and people and immigration believe them because they know very little and have the wrong idea about Puerto Rican. I live in Tijuana Mexico and when I cross the border the costume agent give me a hard time because they expect Puerto Rican to be black and I’m not. My sister came to visit me in Tijuana and we were crossing the border to San Diego and the border agent did not believe she was Puerto Rican because she has light hair and is light skin.

By: Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:33:13 +0000

Gracias Sofía. Realmente la cita es parte de un post muy largo y profundo sobre el Fideicomiso. Tal vez así sola está fuera de contexto. Te invito a que leas el artículo completo. Gracias, nuevamente.

By: Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:27:49 +0000

Gracias Carla por tu colaboración tan valiosa y por dirigir un proyecto tan importante como Prensa Comunitaria. Seguimos.

By: Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:26:36 +0000

Hi Lorraine, thanks for your feedback and your ideas. This story has many, many angles that surely will be discussed by bloggers in Puerto Rico. I will be paying attention!