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color="#000000"><b>Protest the political assassination of Puerto Rican
patriot Filiberto Ojeda Ríos by FBI agents!<br>
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</b></font><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><i>Thursday,
September 29, 12 noon, JFK Federal Building, Boston Government
Center.</i></font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times" color="#000000">On
Friday September 23, 243 FBI agents invaded a rural community in the
municipality of Hormigueros Puerto Rico in order to murder Filiberto
Ojeda Ríos, leader of the Puerto Rican clandestine pro independence
organization Los Macheteros.<br>
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Filiberto had been sought by the FBI for 15 years in connection with
activities of the Macheteros. Many people in Puerto Rico have
come to respect and admire Filiberto and the Macheteros for their
unyielding commitment to free our country from U.S. domination.
The heroic feats of the Macheteros include the destruction in 1983 of
14 U.S. F16 war planes warehoused at the American Muñiz Base, meant
to be used in the murder of thousands of Salvadoran peasants and
indigenous people during the U.S. criminal war against El Salvador.
That action earned the Macheteros the respect of many Puerto Ricans
across the political spectrum, as our people have never been content
with the use of our territory for U.S. acts of aggression against
other people around the world.<br>
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It was clear that the intent of the FBI was to murder Filiberto rather
than detain him. His wife, who witnessed their actions on
approaching his home, indicated that they were already firing their
arms when they arrived. The FBI sealed off the entire community
where Filiberto lived, depriving the rest of our people of any access
to him or any of the residents there. Once his isolation was
secured, he was shot by a sniper on the shoulder, and deprived of
medical attention so THAT he would bleed to death. For twenty
hours they kept area residents who wanted to help him at bay, and
didn't transfer him to a hospital until they'd made certain that he
was dead.<br>
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The assassination of Filiberto is part of a pattern of brutality on
the part of the U.S. government against those who fight for the right
of Puerto Ricans to be free of foreign domination. It is a
pattern of butchery and criminality that has claimed the lives of
heroes like Don Pedro Albizu Campos, Angel Rodriguez Cristobal,
Elías Beauchamp, Hiran Rosado, Pinto Gandía, and too many others.
Not surprisingly, their cowardly actions mirror their criminal siege
of Native Americans in Wounded Knee, their murderous sieges against
the Move community in Philadelphia, their war crimes against the
people of Iraq, not to mention the atrocities they commit against the
Palestinians via their ethnic cleansing, land-stealing, "Israeli"
proxy settler state. But what else can one expect from a rogue
settler government and nation that has been murdering for the sake of
plunder since they encountered the Native people they stole this very
territory from, and the Africans they brought here as
slaves?</font></blockquote>
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their arrogance and racism, the American repressive forces chose
September 23 as the day they would murder Filiberto because that is
the anniversary of El Grito de Lares, our first uprising in pursuit of
National independence. They intended to mock our long history of
struggle and turn that date into a reminder of what happens to those
who seek to rid us of our occupiers. Judging by the thousands of
Puerto Ricans who poured out into our nation's streets to express
their rage at our thug invaders and admiration for Filiberto, it's
safe to say they miscalculated, and instead galvanized the next
generation of resisters.<br>
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<b>U.S. out of Puerto Rico! Filiberto live on because our struggle
continues!</b></font></blockquote>
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