RICANS TO DRAMATIZE INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLE
The Puerto Rican Movimiento Pro Independencia is conducting a series of meetings throughout Puerto Rico to dramatize the struggle for the island's independence.
The actions began September 12, the birthday of Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rico's martyrized independence leader, and will close September 23 with a mass meeting at Lares where the "Call of Lares" was ‘issued. = . . . A major. theme of the scheduled meetings, rallies, marches, picket lines and other demonstrations is .opposition to compulsory military service : ‘under the flag of the imperialist United States.
Another “theme is opposition to a plebiscite to. settle the. ‘island's future.
The period from September 12 to September 23 was set aside by the delegates at the Tricontinental Conference in Havana last January as international days in support of the Puerto Rican independence struggle. a, ee The ‘final mass meeting: in Lares will be held at ‘the Plaza Ce la Revolucion. It-will be addressed by leaders. of the..MPI. General Secretary Juan Mari Bras is Scheduled to give the main speech.