Word: boricua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Credit for the savage attack, the worst outbreak of political violence in Puerto Rico in two decades, was claimed by three terrorist groups that favor Puerto Rico's independence from the U.S.: the Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution, the Boricua Popular Army, and the Armed Forces of Popular Resistance. "We are not playing at war," they declared in a note left in a telephone booth. "We are prepared to take this struggle to its ultimate consequences." The murders, they said, were in retaliation for a police ambush that killed two young leftists in July...
...have had enough. American Indians at Harvard-Radcliffe Harvard-Radcliffe Black Student Association Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA La Organizacion Estudiantil Boricua de Harvard-Radcliffe Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Association Harvard-Radcliffe Carribean Club
...subcommittee, composed of members of the assembly, RAZA and La Organization Estudiantil Boricua, a campus Puerto Rican group, is also contacting political figures to encourage them to write letters to University deans advocating the establishment of Hispanic-oriented courses...
...Leonard and formal, direct input into the AA structure of this University, 3) the demand for a new AA plan, 4) development of the struggle for greater recruitment, admissions and financial aid programs, 5) self-determination of the Afro-Am. Studies Department and finally, 6) the creations of Chicano-Boricua, Native American, Asian American and Women's Studies...
...groups supporting Holcomb are Harvard-Radcliffe Afro, the February First Movement, La Organizacion Boricua de Harvard and the Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students...