‘A People’s Cry of Indignation’: A Dispatch from Puerto Rico - by Molly Crabapple - New York Review of Books 🔗 ✍️ 🎨 ✊🏽 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

But the roots of the protest movement are deeper still. They go back to other, older struggles, including the 2010 student strike at the University of Puerto Rico, a sixty-two-day-long, bitterly fought battle against budget cuts that saw the emergence of the asambleas, public assemblies that Puerto Ricans are now using in cities across the island to break through isolation and hash out what should come next.