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4:30 AM. Barrio Obrero, San Juan. They came with 20+ vehicles. Masked. No judicial warrants. 15 of our people taken. Vanished to a detention center 2,000 miles away. If you live in New York but your family is from Santurce, you need to read this. This is NOT new. Since January, ICE has been raiding Barrio Obrero over and over because they know exactly who lives there: Dominican, Haitian, Borikua working class. The most Caribbean barrio in Puerto Rico. There are 90,000 immigrants in PR. More than half are Dominican. They are the ones who stayed after Maria when the gringos left. They clean, they build, they work our kitchens. They pay taxes. And now they can’t even walk to the panaderia without fear. They are disappearing people from an island that HAS NO ICE DETENTION CENTER. That means your cousin, your neighbor gets taken in Obrero and wakes up in Texas, no lawyer, no family, no phone call. This is why we say BORIKUA POWER. Because if we don’t protect our own Caribbean family, who will? The governor who invited ICE in? HOW WE ORGANIZE: IF YOU SEE ICE: Film. From a distance. Say the time, location, badge numbers. DO NOT interfere physically. Post it and tag @official_borikuapower KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: No judicial warrant signed by a judge = NO ENTRY into your home. You have the right to remain silent. DEFEND BARRIO OBRERO: This barrio resisted gentrification for 100 years. Don’t let them use ICE to empty it now. Puerto Rico is Caribbean. Dominican is not an outsider. To be Borikua is to stand with our Caribbean people. Period. FUERA ICE DE PUERTO RICO. FUERA ICE DE BARRIO OBRERO. 🇵🇷🇩🇴🇭🇹 SHARE THIS. Someone in SJ needs to see it right now. SAVE IT so you know what to do. Follow for updates from the island they don’t show on the news. #BorikuaPower #FueraICE #BarrioObrero #Santurce #SanJuanPuertoRico
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OCTOBER 25, 1977 - THE DAY BORIKUAS SEIZED LIBERTY. 🇵🇷 On this day, 30 fearless Borikuas did what the empire said was impossible. They seized the Statue of Liberty and hung the Puerto Rican flag where the world could see it. Why? To demand the freedom of our political prisoners and to tell America: YOU CANNOT PRETEND WE DON’T EXIST. They called Lady Liberty a hypocrite. How can you preach liberty while you hold Puerto Rico as a colony? They blindfolded her with our flag because true liberty in America is blind to Borikua. This wasn’t a protest. This was a SEIZURE. This was Borikua Power taking the symbol of false freedom and making it tell the truth. They teach you American history in school. They never taught you THIS history. Why do you think that is? We didn’t ask for Liberty. We SEIZED it. And we will again. QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE. Pa’lante Borikua Power! ✊🏿🇵🇷 Tag someone who needs to know this hidden history. #BorikuaPower #October25 #StatueOfLibertyTakeover #PuertoRicoLibre #BoricuaHistory
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“I’MA CALL ICE ON YOU” IS NOT A JOKE. IT’S A HATE CRIME. Let’s be clear. When someone looks at a Brown person and says “I’ma call ICE on you”, they’re not talking about immigration law. They’re using race as a weapon. They see brown skin, hear an accent, hear Spanish, and they use the threat of family separation, cages, and deportation to intimidate, to silence, to control. That’s textbook hate crime: 1. It’s a threat, not a joke 2. It targets race, national origin, ethnicity 3. The intent is to intimidate 4. It leverages a system of terror 5. It’s motivated by bias If you threaten a Jewish person with a swastika, it’s a hate crime. If you threaten a Black person with a noose, it’s a hate crime. If you threaten a Brown person with ICE because they are Brown, it should be classified the SAME. Stop calling it “immigration talk.” Call it what it is: A RACIAL THREAT. If you’ve had this said to you, you are not alone. We see you. We stand with you. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽🪶 “A threat that uses race as a weapon is not immigration talk, it’s a hate crime.” — Elvis Katari Have you or someone you know had this threat used on you? Drop your story below. Let’s document how real this is. 👇🏽 SHARE THIS. Someone needs to see it today. #ElvisKatari #BorikuaPower #HateCrime #ICEThreat #BrownAndProud
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Let’s settle this once and for all. BORIKUA IS A RACE. Indigenous means NATIVE TO THE LAND. Taíno = Native to Borikén. Period. Go check a U.S. Government form. U.S. Census. Job application. Under RACE it says: White, Black, Asian, and AMERICAN INDIAN / ALASKA NATIVE. Under U.S. Law — Indigenous IS a race. They told you Puerto Rican is not a race. They lied to erase us. We are not Hispanic. We are not a color. We are a RACE. A Borikua race. If you’re Borikua, you’re Indigenous. You’re Native. And you’re a race of people. Agree or disagree? Let’s debate in the comments. ⬇️ Follow @katari_elvis for the history they never taught you in school. #Borikua #Taino #Indigenous #BorikuaIsARace #PuertoRico
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PROTECT BORIKUA CHILDREN AT ALL COSTS. This isn’t just art. This is a warning. Look at their faces. They are not just looking into the distance, they are looking at their future. And their future is being sold. Their beaches are being privatized. Their schools are being closed. Their language is being erased. Their land is being bought by people who don’t even know their names. They ask us to leave our island to survive, then call us gentrifiers when we thrive in the diaspora. But who is protecting the children who STAYED? An empire that doesn’t feed its children, educate its children, house its children has no future. It has no right to call itself anything. So this is the line in the sand. Protect their innocence. Protect their education. Protect their right to stay in Borikén and NOT be a stranger in their own home. Protect their right to be Borikua. 100%, unapologetically, forever. Because if we don’t protect Borikua children, we don’t protect Borikén. Period. What does PROTECTING our children mean to YOU? Tell me in the comments. I want to read every single one. 👇🏽 Share this with someone who needs to see it. Follow @katari_elvis We protect the future. #ProtectBorikuaChildren #BorikuaPower #Borikua #PuertoRico #Borinquen
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“A LOT OF PEOPLE LIVE IN PUERTO RICO, BUT DON’T LIVE FOR PUERTO RICO.” I said what I said. Let it cook. Living ON the island doesn’t automatically mean you’re fighting FOR the island. And living OFF the island doesn’t mean you’re less Borikua. I’ve met people in Borikén who will sell out our land, our beaches, our people to the highest gringo bidder just to make a dollar. And I’ve met Borikuas in New York, Philly, Orlando who haven’t been home in 10 years but wake up every single day fighting for liberation, for our language, for our flag. So the question is not WHERE do you live. The question is WHO do you live FOR? Do you live for the colonizer? Or do you live for Puerto Rico? Some of y’all live IN Puerto Rico but your heart, your wallet, your loyalty lives in Washington. I live in diaspora but my SOUL lives in Borikén. Always has. Always will. If this triggered you, ask yourself why. Do you agree or disagree? Let’s debate in the comments respectfully. 👇🏽 TAG SOMEONE WHO LIVES FOR PUERTO RICO EVERY DAY. Follow @katari_elvis for the quotes they don’t want you to hear. #PuertoRico #Borikua #Borinquen #ElVisKatari #BorikuaPower
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READ THIS TWICE. 👇🏽 To all Puerto Ricans that can’t speak Spanish, it’s ok... Our Ancestors didn’t speak Spanish either. LET THAT COOK. 🍲🔥 Before 1493 we spoke TAÍNO. Spanish was forced on us. English was forced on us. The language was COLONIZED, not our identity. They made you feel less Borikua because you can’t roll your R’s? They made you feel like a “gringo” because you were born in New York, Chicago, Orlando? Nah. You are not less Puerto Rican because you speak English. You are Puerto Rican because you carry the blood, the struggle, the resistance, the sazón, the spirit of a people they COULD NOT KILL. Your abuela’s abuela didn’t speak Spanish either. She spoke the language of the land, the rivers, the coquí. So stop letting people gatekeep YOUR flag. 🇵🇷 If this hit you in your chest, I know why. You been waiting for someone to say it. TAG A BORIKUA WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS. Let them know they are ENOUGH. Follow @katari_elvis for the history they don’t teach us in school. #PuertoRican #Borikua #BorikuaPower #Nuyorican #Diaspora
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TODAY IS GO PURPLE DAY. 💜 OCTOBER 15TH. We wear purple for the ones who didn’t make it out. We wear purple for the ones who DID. We wear purple for the ones still figuring out how to leave. Domestic Violence is NOT love. Control is NOT love. Jealousy is NOT love. Real love doesn’t leave bruises on your body or your spirit. Real love is what you see in this second picture. Safe. Soft. Respected. We stand with every survivor, especially our Borikua sisters. As Borikua men, we have to be the example. We protect, we don’t harm. PERIOD. If you are going through it, you are NOT alone. We see you. We believe you. DROP 💜 IN THE COMMENTS FOR EVERY SURVIVOR. #GoPurpleDay #DomesticViolenceAwareness #DVAM #October15 #WearPurple
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I said what I said…idgaf WHO you are. 🖕🏾👮🏾‍♂️ #fypage #explorepage #honest #truth #f12
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This LIVE is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. Good. Domestic Violence is the silent epidemic in our Borikua community. We talk about police brutality, gentrification, colonialism but we don’t talk about the war happening INSIDE our homes. Too many of our sisters are suffering in silence. Too many of our brothers were never taught how to heal, so they hurt. As Chairman & Chairwoman of BORIKUA POWER, @katari_elvis & @luz_phoenix_katari are going LIVE for REAL TALK. No sugar-coating. Real issues. Real solutions. This is not about blame. This is about BREAKING GENERATIONAL CYCLES. If you’ve ever experienced it, witnessed it, or want to be part of the solution TUNE IN. Bring your questions. Bring your story. Let’s build solutions TOGETHER. 💜 WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU WANT US TO ANSWER LIVE? DROP THEM BELOW #BorikuaPower #DomesticViolenceAwareness #BreakTheCycle #Borikua #PuertoRico
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So happy to finally do something together with these beautiful souls! Godbless you guys! Keep up da amazing work! Love you guys! #bettertogether #makeadifference #bethechange #puertorico #godswork
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Today is not Columbus Day. Today is a survival story. Before there was Puerto Rico, there was BORÍKUA. The First Nation of the Caribbean. They taught you we were extinct so you would never look for us in the mirror. But look. We are still here. In your blood, in your spirit, in your resistance. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to my Taino people who never disappeared. We are not Hispanic. We are INDIGENOUS. Drop 🇵🇷 if you still carry the Taino bloodline. — Borikua Power ✊🏽 #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Borikua #Taino #TainoPride #Boricua
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