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Puerto Rican Evacuees And Their Allies Remembered Hurricane Maria In East Williamsburg

East Williamsburg’s Moore Street Retail Market filled up with members of Bushwick’s Puerto Rican community last Thursday. There were paintings representing how the storm devastated Puerto Ricans, wreaths with the red, white and blue flag and the anti-imperialist black and white Puerto Rican flag. 6:15 AM, precisely a year ago that day, Hurricane Maria had […]

Puerto Rican Evacuees And Their Allies Remembered Hurricane Maria In East Williamsburg

Puerto Rican Evacuees And Their Allies Remembered Hurricane Maria In East Williamsburg

East Williamsburg’s Moore Street Retail Market filled up with members of Bushwick’s Puerto Rican community last Thursday. There were paintings representing how the storm devastated Puerto Ricans, wreaths with the red, white and blue flag and the anti-imperialist black and white Puerto Rican flag. 6:15 AM, precisely a year ago that day, Hurricane Maria had […]

Puerto Rican Evacuees And Their Allies Remembered Hurricane Maria In East Williamsburg

Andrew Karpan

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East Williamsburg’s Moore Street Retail Market filled up with members of Bushwick’s Puerto Rican community last Thursday. There were paintings representing how the storm devastated Puerto Ricans, wreaths with the red, white and blue flag and the anti-imperialist black and white Puerto Rican flag.

6:15 AM, precisely a year ago that day, Hurricane Maria had made landfall on Puerto Rico. In the year since, nearly three thousand died and thousands more were forced to…

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