Puerto Rican Activist: We’re Showing How ‘Colonialism and Climate Change ... Violate Our Human Rights’

‘We are the perfect example of how colonialism and climate change have disproportionately affected low income communities of color’

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BESOSA: "We have birthed and intersectional collaboration with groups all over the united States and the world. Fighting outdated models of extractive economy in our own neighborhoods and ecosystems. The plan for Puerto Rico has been for centuries one of explication of labor and land, extraction of resources, impartation of food and corporate subsidies. We are the perfect example of how colonialism and climate change have disproportionately affected low income communities of color."

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