29 de mayo de 2013- La Fortaleza - El gobernador Alejandro García Padilla marcó un hito en la historia de la protección de derechos humanos en Puerto Rico al convertir en ley medidas que prohíben el discrimen por orientación sexual o identidad de género y protegen a todos los ciudadanos del flagelo de la violencia de pareja.
“Esta Administración es una de diálogo y apertura para tomar decisiones informadas, desde la base. Yo no privilegio ningún sector en particular, los atiendo a todos por igual y hoy vemos el resultado de un proceso de diálogo y democracia”, indicó el mandatario acompañado de representantes de la Comunidad LGBTT, líderes religiosos, así como el presidente del Senado, Eduardo Bhatia y el presidente de la Cámara, Jaime Perelló.
En el acto también estuvieron presentes el representante Luis Vega Ramos y el senador Ramón Luis Nieves, principales defensores y co-autores de las medidas firmadas.
García Padilla destacó que el proyecto de la Cámara 488 viene a re-establecer la intención original de creadores de la Ley 54 al extender esta protección a todas personas maltratadas y abusadas por su pareja.
“Este proyecto reitera nuestro compromiso con la erradicación de todo tipo de violencia. ¡Venga de donde venga!”, enfatizó el gobernador.
Además, señaló, que con la firma del proyecto del Senado 238 se reafirma que la dignidad del ser humano es inviolable, al prohibir el discrimen por orientación sexual o identidad de género en el trabajo.
“Reiteramos que la política pública del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, es de repudio a todo tipo de discrimen”, apuntó el primer ejecutivo.
El proyecto del Senado 238 se convirtió en la Ley 22-2013, mientras el Proyecto de la Cámara 488 ahora es la Ley 23-2013.
El gobernador Alejandro García Padilla se unió a la jornada de 24 horas a favor de liberación de Oscar López Rivera y autorizó las siguientes expresiones:
“La excarcelación del puertorriqueño Oscar López Rivera, tras 32 años en prisión, es un asunto directamente relacionado con los principios básicos de justicia social, humanidad y compasión. Por ello, le he solicitado al Presidente de Estados Unidos de América, Honorable Barack Obama, que ejerza su poder constitucional y le conceda el perdón presidencial de forma que se logre su liberación y pronta reinserción a nuestra sociedad. La justicia exige su excarcelación”.
Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack is from South Africa and Oscar Olivera is from Bolivia; they come from different continents but they share one common story: they both challenged injustice and won.
In 1985, Khusta helped end racial apartheid by organizing a consumer boycott in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Fifteen years later, in 2000, Olivera played a key role in a resistance movement that stopped the privatization of water in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
These two struggles, years and continents apart, are a testimony of the power of strategic organizing and non-violent civil resistance.
This year, Khusta and Olivera met in Mexico at the School of Authentic Journalism. A group of scholars and professors from the school produced a video with their stories, which was recently released by Narco News TV.
Lawyer and human rights advocate Rumbidzai Dube, who helped produce the video, adds more detail about the two struggles:
Young and energetic, Khusta led an economic boycott of downtown white-owned businesses in Port Elizabeth to leverage black people’s demands for better treatment -humane treatment by the apartheid government of South Africa.In the dizzying heights of Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2000, Oscar Olivera together with others waged a popular resistance that came to be known as the Cochabamba Water Wars- a struggle against the privatisation of Bolivia’s water; including its rain water.
She concludes:
Both men mobilised, they rallied their people to take a stand, they stood their ground. They took a risk; their activities were daring, after all they were dealing with life and death matters. But what choice did they have? Was a life without water a choice? Was a life without freedom, dignity and justice a choice? And so they sacrificed; not only their time and energy but their lives; and they both won.
Journalist Arzu Geybulla also met Khusta and Olivera. She writes in her blog that both men are “inspirational just like their story.”
Mexican blog Hazme el Chingado Favor [es] posted a short commentary encouraging their readers to share the video:
Este video no es una comedia como las otras que hemos hecho, pero creemos tanto en su mensaje que estamos motivados para compartirlo con todo el mundo y quisieramos pedir su apoyo con su difusión. El tema del video se explica por si solo.
This video is not a comedy like the others we've done, but we believe in its message so much that we are motivated to share it with the world and would like to ask for your support in spreading it. The theme of the video is self-explanatory.
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