Every Monday after Fathers’ Day, the United Nations (UN) holds a hearing to discuss Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship with the United States (US) government. The most significant development at this year’s hearing was the Decolonization Committee’s (C-24) President’s comments before the hearing began. I was petitioner number 7.
The C-24 President said that he regrets having to publically make such an announcement, but he thought that it was appropriate. He felt disrespected by the UN, because he was told that this year’s hearing would be broadcast live, and then, at the last minute, it was rescinded. The logical question is, why hasn’t these hearings been broadcast live from the very beginning?
This committee is charged with eradicating the last remaining 17 colonies. One would think that the committee of C-24 would have been authorized by the United Nations (UN) to use everything at its disposal to get the work done!
The UN has its own radio and television stations. Isn’t it odd that, until we asked, that the committee hasn’t been broadcasting these hearings live on its own initiative? Isn’t it also remarkable that these annual hearings are not broadcast on Puerto Rico’s own government’s radio and TV stations? It is obvious that there is a strong interest to maintain Puerto Rico as a United States colony forever! The following is the chronology of events leading to the committee’s president’s comment.
Radio station InformacionAlDesnudo.com decided to feature on three consecutive Saturdays, June 6, 13, and 20th from 7 to 9 PM, the Monday, June 22, 2015 United Nations’ (UN) hearing concerning the decolonization of Puerto Rico. On the June 20th program, the entire Puerto Rican delegation petitioning the UN was invited to tell us what it will say at Monday’s hearing.
InformacionAlDesnudo.com decided that the logical culmination to our series would be to tell our listeners where to go to get the hearing live. When we searched for such a station, we realized that there was none. Still more incredible was the fact that not even the UN was going to broadcast its own hearing. And still even more incredible was the fact that Puerto Rico’s government-owned radio and TV station, WIPR would not be broadcasting it either! Isn’t democratic governments supposed to be of the people, by the people and for the people? Why aren’t the people of Puerto Rico not being informed firsthand about their own decolonization?
I wrote a certified letter to the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about it. I sent an email to the president of the UN’s Special Committee for Decolonization (C-24). The post office sent me confirmation that it was received by the UN. I still have not received a response from Ban- Ki-moon. I did, however, received 2 from the C-24.
The first email informed me that there is a cost to getting that live broadcasting, and that the Committee did not have the money to do it. I asked how much was it, to see if we could pay for it. The secretary thanked me for my offer, but informed me that the financing had to be done by a member state of the UN. I then thanked him for his time.
The morning session was not recorded. That was the session where I spoke. The afternoon session, however, was sloppily recorded. Click on this link to see it. http://webtv.un.org/search/4th-meeting-special-committee-on-the-situation-with-regard-to-the-implementation-of-the-declaration-on-the-granting-of-independence-to-colonial-countries-and-peoples/4314142267001?term=puerto Rico. All other events are professionally recorded. Our hearings are either blacked out or recorded like this!
The Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) will be presenting a bill in the colonial legislature to broadcast in the future the UN’s hearing on Puerto Rico decolonization. We totally support this proposal!
If we succeed in getting Puerto Rico’s colonial relationship out of the closet, the world will be able to discuss it. And that discussion is what will eventually lead us to our independence.
But before that happens, we must continue to protest tirelessly for that, because as we have said all along, those who have a 117 year old colony, without a doubt, don’t believe in justice for all!
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