About
COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR DEMOCRATIC SELF-DETERMINATION IN PUERTO RICO:
Hosting a principled discussion on status resolution for
America’s last large and populous territory
Posting a discourse on Puerto Rican self-determination in the public commons
Mission Statement:
- Restore sound historical and constitutional principles to federal law and policy governing territorial status resolution
- Promote informed self-determination for 4 million Puerto Ricans in territory granted U.S. citizenship by Congress since 1917
- Accountability for truthful content in political status debate at federal and local levels
- Ensure that U.S. national political party platforms adopted with democratic participation from Puerto Rico are implemented
- Prevent discrimination and denial of equal rights under federal laws currently adopted without consent of governed in territory
- Educate public on legal and political nature of “commonwealth” system of territorial government, statehood and nationhood
Four venues appear under the Public Commons heading for contributions selected from attributed and unattributed sources by CCPRD blog site managers for posting:
Public Commons: General Postings on Status Resolution
Truth or Consequences: Keeping the Status Debate Honest
Constitutional and Historical Materials: American Law and Territorial Status Resoltuion
Identity Politics: Ethnic, Culture and Langauge Issues
Corporate Interests & Influence: Vested Interests and Denial of Self-Determination
LEARNING FROM HISTORY:
“Committees of Correspondence were formed throughout the colonies as a means of coordinating action against Gr. Britain. Many were formed by the legislatures of the respective colonies, others by extra-governmental associations such as the Sons of Liberty in the various colonies. In any case, the members of these organizations represented the leading men of each colony. It took some time, and finally an act as dramatic as the Boston Port Bill, to coordinate the colonies in action against Gr. Britain.”