Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
WNYC, New York Public Radio
Underreported: Crackdown on Protests in Puerto Rico
17 minutes Posted May 5, 2011 at 7:27 am.
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Since last summer, there has been a sometimes violent standoff between students at the University of Puerto Rico and the government over an announced budget cut and an increase in tuition fees, but that may just be part of a wider pattern of First Amendment violations. Jennifer Turner, a Human Rights Researcher at the ACLU and Rosie Perez, who just returned from a fact-finding mission in Puerto Rico, describe how authorities have dealt with students, striking workers, journalists, and civilians in recent months.