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Hola Familia
As many of you know several literary works - including "El Entierro de Cortijo/Cortijo's Wake" by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and Aura by Carlos Fuentes - have been banned in Puerto Rico by the conservative right party currently in power. This is an act of devolution that sets our society back by hundreds of years and its an action usually associated with intolerant and totalitarian governments.
This is why El Puerto Rican Embassy is calling for all Puerto Rican/Nuyorican artists, writers and educators to join us on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at 2 p.m. in front of Rev. Pedro Pietri's mural on 104th Street for a Cultural Act that will be photographed and videotaped in order to support writers and artists in Puerto Rico and show solidarity with this new struggle they are now facing.
Below I have included an Embassy press release and I have also attached a more creative version I've designed to reference official documents that have been censored before releasing them to the general public.
I ask that you forward this message to all you think may be interested in joining us.
Gracias y saludos!
Adal Maldonado
Artistic Director/Resident Dissident
El Puerto Rican Embassy
2 comments:
¡Por Dios! What, who, why is the wherefore for banning any book? How do they have such power? Banned from where: Schools? Libraries? the whole island? Censorship of any kind is intolerable. This reminds me of being approached by a Socialist Party Worker who told me that I should sign a petition to stop the Ku Klux Clan from having a rally or a march or something (this was many years ago). I said no way! Being a black Puerto Riqueño I have no love for the KKK, but I don't believe banning them is a good idea. Why? Because we ban them then who's to say we on the progressive side of issues won't also be censored. Actually this has already happened en masse. When the G7 had their meetings protest was so harshly controlled, cordoned-off and censored that all I could think was we are one executive order form a totalitarian state.
Check out an AP story posted here:
http://www.us-puertoricans.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=673&Itemid=102
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