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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="center" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" z_index=""][vc_column][vc_column_text]Desde el 2017 la Junta de Control Fiscal impuesta por los Estados Unidos en Puerto Rico ha cortado el presupuesto de la Universidad de Puerto Rico de 872 a 560 millones de dólares. Una reducción de 36%. En ese mismo periodo la asignación de fondos a la policía aumentó de 734 a 927 millones, un aumento de 26%. (*fuente @km0pr )[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][button target="_blank" hover_type="default" text="LEER MÁS | READ MORE" link="https://agitarte.org/projects/upr-huelga-junta/"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

In Louisiana, Hurricane Ida made landfall west of New Orleans 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina. While much of the meager media attention related to Ida focused on New Orleans – which lost power and still is without some basic services, particularly in lower-income neighborhoods – the brunt of the damage occurred in the smaller, so-called “river parishes.” Read more for ways to support our comrades in South Louisiana. ...

We stand in solidarity with the people of Ayiti as they struggle to rebuild after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastated its southwestern region on August 14th. We are disgusted by the recent abuse of Haitian immigrants by US border patrol in Del Rio, TX, and call for the abolition of ICE and the entire prison industrial complex....

AgitArte stands in solidarity with the Palestinians fighting for the liberation of their land and people. We call for the end of Israeli occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and we condemn the Israeli settler colonial state (and all settler colonial states including the U.S.) and the U.S.’s active military financing of the ongoing Nakba in Palestine....

Following the dream of breaking the cycle of generational wealth, this Black working-class community of first-time homebuyers discovered that the City of New Orleans built the houses over a toxic landfill and never remediated the soil. The residents have contended all kinds of health issues and have the second-highest sustained rates of cancer in the entire state of Louisiana....

Elizam Escobar was an artist, painter, poet, and member of the FALN (Armed Forces for National Liberation). He was arrested with 10 other Puerto Rican freedom fighters in a van in Chicago, Illinois on April 4th, 1980. In this episode, we interview his lawyer, longtime friend and one of the leaders in the campaign to Free All Puerto Rican Political Prisoners, Jan Susler....

We call for the immediate release of political prisoner and prison abolition activist, Mumia Abu-Jamal! Mumia has tested positive for COVID-19 and was hospitalized on Saturday for chest pains, later diagnosed as congestive heart failure. He is currently being held in isolation at the prison infirmary – the very same one that neglected his serious health complications related to diabetes in 2014....