First Published: Granma, November 8, 1970.
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NEW YORK, November 1 (PL).– More than 4000 young people picketed the UN building in this city today calling for the independence of Puerto Rico and the release of communist militant Angela Davis.
The demonstration, in which members of the Movement for Puerto Rican Independence (MPI) and the Black Panther Party participated, ended in a ceremony in tribute to the initiation of the nationalist revolution of Puerto Rico in 1950, headed by the late Pedro Albizu Campos.
Speaking at the ceremony, lawyer William Kunstler, known for his defense of “the Chicago Seven,” said, “The struggle for the release of Angela Davis and the struggle for the independence of Puerto Rico are part of the same movement.”
Independent and Black Panthers paid tribute to the revolutionaries who, between October 30 and November 2, 1950, established the Free Republic of Jayuya (Puerto Rico) – both those who were killed and those who are still imprisoned in U.S. jails.
This afternoon, the MPI will distribute clothing among Puerto Rican families residing in Brooklyn. A demonstration is scheduled for East Harlem’s El Barrio tomorrow.