Center for Puerto Rico Equality & Advancement

‘Advancing Statehood Through Policy Analysis and Academic Endeavor’

Home     About Us     History     Leadership     Resources     Links     Events & News     Gallery     Contribute     Contact Us     Site Map      

 

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

 

 

 

 

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