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June 3, 2020

Puerto Rico Protesters Honor George Floyd, Denounce Island's Legacy of Racism
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In Puerto Rico, protesters marched outside the mansion of Governor Wanda
Vázquez in Old San Juan Tuesday, with chants for justice for George
Floyd and denouncing Puerto Rico's own legacy of racism. Protesters
ignored the island's coronavirus curfew and stayed on the streets into
the night. This is Shariana Ferrer-Núñez, a member of Puerto Rico's
Feminist Collective Under Construction.

Shariana Ferrer-Núñez: "We recognize that we must dismantle white
supremacy, we must dismantle a racialized system, we must eradicate
anti-Black violence."



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