Academic Policy Forum
"Civil Rights & Equality: Puerto Rico's
Relationship within the Federal Union"
Fordham Law School
March 26, 2009
Upcoming Event
July 27, 2010
New York, NY
Celebrating the Life, Work, and Legacy
of Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa
For more details: Barbosa Celebration_July27_NYC
www.CitizenEquality.org
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Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa
Framed Portrait for Silent Auction
to Benefit CPREA
for more details: Silent Auction_Barbosa Portrait
Welcome to the Center for Puerto Rico Equality & Advancement (CPREA), the Center is committed to pursuing a bold, innovative course of policy analysis, education, and action aimed at empowering the people of Puerto Rico to attain their full rights – and discharge their full responsibilities – as citizens of the United States of America.
The Center affirms that the end of the island’s current disenfranchised, dysfunctional territorial status is in the best interests of both the people of Puerto Rico and our fellow citizens on the mainland U.S. The Center also rejects the options of separate sovereignty or independence as inconsistent with the political, economic, and social evolution of the people of Puerto Rico.
As the people of Puerto Rico themselves have declared in the preamble to the island’s 1952 Constitution, “we consider as determining factors in our life our citizenship of the United States of America and our aspiration to continually enrich our democratic heritage in the individual and collective enjoyment of its rights and privileges; our loyalty to the principles of the
Federal Constitution; and the coexistence in Puerto Rico of the two great cultures of the American hemisphere.”
We invite you to join us in this exciting endeavor to help Puerto Rico and its 4 million U.S. citizens realize the full promise and potential of their beautiful island, not as second-class stepchildren, but as full and equal brothers and sisters in the family, that is the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Rafael Rodríguez
President and Founder
