End Colonial Control, Independence Now!
Resist U.S. military occupation, imperialism and
the legacy of the Treaty of Paris
Campaign events
ENGLISH/INGLÉS
The Resist US-Led War Movement, Juventud Unida por la Independencia, Prutehi Guåhan, BAYAN Philippines, Diaspora Pa'lante Collective, Ho'opae Pono Peace Project and Madres Contra la Guerra are coming together to expose the historical legacy of the Treaty of Paris in cementing US imperialism, colonialism, and militarism in Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Hawai'i highlighting how this past directly shapes the current impacts of US colonialism, militarization, and intervention on the people of these nations and the heroic resistance of its people past and present. The Treaty of Paris and its lasting impacts must be rejected as tools of colonialism and US-led war. The peace-loving peoples of the world must unite with the people of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i, Cuba, and all nations fighting for liberation against US imperialism to expose and oppose the legacy of the Treaty of Paris and fight to bring about just and lasting peace and the end of US imperialism. Join the launch event on Nov 8, 2pm Hawai'i, 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern, 8pm San Juan. Nov 9 8am Philippines, 10am Guam, 11am Sydney. Register: bit.ly/endcolonialcontrol |
ESPAÑOL/ SPANISH
El Movimiento de Resistencia contra la Guerra liderada por Estados Unidos, Juventud Unida por la Independencia, Prutehi Guåhan, BAYAN Filipinas, Colectivo Diaspora Pa'lante, Ho'opae Pono Peace Project y Madres Contra la Guerra se unen para exponer el legado histórico del Tratado de París en la consolidación del imperialismo, el colonialismo y el militarismo estadounidenses en Puerto Rico, Cuba, Filipinas, Guam y Hawái, destacando cómo este pasado moldea directamente los impactos actuales del colonialismo, la militarización y la intervención estadounidenses sobre los pueblos de estas naciones y la heroica resistencia de sus pueblos en el pasado y en el presente. El Tratado de París y sus efectos duraderos deben ser rechazados como herramientas del colonialismo y guerra liderada por Estados Unidos. Los pueblos amantes de la paz de todo el mundo deben unirse a los pueblos de Filipinas, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawái, Cuba y todas las naciones que luchan por su liberación contra el imperialismo estadounidense para denunciar y oponer al legado del Tratado de París y luchar por una paz justa y duradera y el fin del imperialismo estadounidense. Únase al evento de lanzamiento el 8 de noviembre, a las 2 p. m. en Hawái, 4 p. m. en la costa oeste, 7 p. m. en la costa este y 8 p. m. en San Juan. El 9 de noviembre a las 8 a. m. en Filipinas, 10 a. m. en Guam y 11 a. m. en Sídney. Regístrese en: bit.ly/endcolonialcontrol |
What is the legacy of the treaty of paris (1898)
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¿Cuál es el legado del Tratado de París (1898)? |
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The 1898 Treaty of Paris signed over colonial control of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guahan, and the Philippines from Spain to the US. Additionally, the US Congress passed a joint resolution in the same year to fully annex Hawai'i, which already was under US military occupation and de facto colonial control since the overthrow of the Hawai'ian monarchy. This marked the birth of the US as a global empire, and it was through the plunder and militarization of these lands that it began to grow into the number one terrorist superpower that it remains today.
The US strategically used its new colonial control to enrich itself through the theft of natural resources and the peoples' labor and to position its military in strategic locations for its imperialist agenda. Yet, while each of these countries faced severe violence enacted on their people, environmental destruction, and plunder of their resources, they have never ceased their resistance to US imperialism. The Treaty of Paris and the level of US control over our lives, land and livelihood needs to be ended! We must expose it as the tool colonialism and US-led war that it is. The peace-loving peoples of the world can act now in unity with the people of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i, Cuba, and all nations fighting for liberation against US imperialism to expose and oppose the legacy of the Treaty of Paris and fight to bring about just and lasting peace and the true independence of their nations and peoples to break this history of control and occupation. |
El Tratado de París de 1898 transfirió el control colonial de Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guahan y Filipinas de España a los Estados Unidos. Además, el Congreso de los Estados Unidos aprobó una resolución conjunta ese mismo año para anexionar completamente Hawái, que ya estaba bajo ocupación militar estadounidense y control colonial de facto desde el derrocamiento de la monarquía hawaiana. Esto marcó el nacimiento de los Estados Unidos como imperio global, y fue a través del saqueo y la militarización de estas tierras que comenzó a convertirse en la superpotencia terrorista número uno que sigue siendo hoy en día.
Estados Unidos utilizó estratégicamente su nuevo control colonial para enriquecerse mediante el robo de recursos naturales y la mano de obra de los pueblos, y para posicionar a su ejército en lugares estratégicos para su agenda imperialista. Sin embargo, aunque cada uno de estos países se enfrentó a una violencia severa contra su población, a la destrucción del medio ambiente y al saqueo de sus recursos, nunca han cesado en su resistencia al imperialismo estadounidense. ¡Hay que poner fin al legado Tratado de París y al nivel de control que ejerce Estados Unidos sobre nuestras vidas, nuestras tierras y nuestros medios de subsistencia! Debemos denunciarlo como lo que es: una herramienta del colonialismo y de la guerra liderada por Estados Unidos. Los pueblos amantes de la paz de todo el mundo pueden actuar ahora en unidad con los pueblos de Filipinas, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawái, Cuba y todas las naciones que luchan por su liberación contra el imperialismo estadounidense para denunciar y oponerse al legado del Tratado de París y luchar por una paz justa y duradera y la verdadera independencia de sus naciones y pueblos, con el fin de romper con esta historia de control y ocupación. |
Mobilize for the Campaign |
MOviliza para la campaña |
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Mobilize on December 10th to mark the 1898 signing of the Treaty of Paris, expose its legacy in exploiting and oppressing the people to build up US imperialism, and oppose the current entity of US imperialism and US-led war today. Stay tuned for an action toolkit to plan mobilizations, education and actions in different parts of the world, especially in Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and Hawai'i.
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Movilízate el 10 de diciembre para conmemorar la firma del Tratado de París en 1898, denunciar su legado de explotación y opresión de los pueblos para construir el imperialismo estadounidense, y oponerte a la entidad actual del imperialismo estadounidense y a la guerra liderada por Estados Unidos en la actualidad. Mantente atento al kit de herramientas de acción para planificar movilizaciones, actividades educativas y acciones en diferentes partes del mundo, especialmente en Puerto Rico, Cuba, Filipinas, Guam y Hawái.
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Education and outreach Resources
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Shared history of colonization and resistance
While each of these countries faced many years of imperialist plunder and exploitation even before the Treaty of Paris, 1898 marked a new offensive of oppression on the peoples now living under US colonialism. This has involved the gutting of the economy, currency devaluation, and intentional underdevelopment of health, infrastructure, education, and other public services. The export-oriented and import-dependent economies have led to widespread unemployment while harsh labor conditions on agricultural plantations, mines, and domestic work in settler-owned homes and colonial government buildings have resulted in very precarious livelihood and forced labor migration. Resource plunder has deprived the people of their food and water sovereignty while pollution and other environmental degradations have led to widespread disease, malnourishment, and other health defects. Extensive military bases, exercises, and live-fire tests on the lands and waters of these countries results in destruction of the environment, desecration of sacred indigenous land, systematic violence against women, economic shackling to the US military-industrial complex, and ultimately the placing of whole communities in the crosshairs of a US-led world war. Additionally, military propaganda campaigns directly target youth from these nations to instill reactionary US nationalism or other feelings of false benevolence towards the US to recruit people, especially youth, to fight in US wars of aggression and quash their revolutionary patriotic history.
Yet while each of these countries faced severe violence enacted on their people, environmental destruction, and plunder of their resources, they have never ceased their resistance to US imperialism. The Filipino people, having won their own victory against Spanish colonialism before the US invaded, fought against every US-puppet regime that has ruled the archipelago, successfully ejected all official US military bases from the country during the 1990s, and continue to wage a people's war for full national liberation. The Puerto Rican people, since the 1868 Grito de Lares rebellion against Spain, has fought against all forms of US colonialism, both on the archipelago and on the North American continent, successfully ejected the US Navy from Vieques in 2003, and continue to resist the brutal economic austerity measures of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). The people of Guam and the Northern Marianas continue to fight against the US military presence, such as the Aegis missile system, and the end of joint military exercises on their territory. The Hawai'ian people have never ceased their fight for independence against the US invaders since the united resistance under Queen Liliuokalani, rejecting so-called "statehood" while waging campaigns to end the lease of US military bases on the archipelago and ending the Rim of the Pacific military exercises. The people of Cuba achieved victory in the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and have defended their socialist construction against all attempts of US intervention, from the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion until the US blockade of today, and have even offered liberation fighters in solidarity with the anti-colonial wars of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. Each of these nations have bravely fought and sacrificed for the liberation of their land and people and to eject the US war machine from their homelands.
The Treaty of Paris must be rejected as the tool of colonialism and US-led war that it is. US imperialism is on its decline, yet the US war machine lashes out in its death throws, stoking the flames of another possible world war while imperialist-backed proxy wars spread to enact US interests across the world. The peace-loving peoples of the world must unite with the people of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i, Cuba, and all nations fighting for liberation against US imperialism to expose and oppose the legacy of the Treaty of Paris and fight to bring about just and lasting peace and the end of US imperialism.
Yet while each of these countries faced severe violence enacted on their people, environmental destruction, and plunder of their resources, they have never ceased their resistance to US imperialism. The Filipino people, having won their own victory against Spanish colonialism before the US invaded, fought against every US-puppet regime that has ruled the archipelago, successfully ejected all official US military bases from the country during the 1990s, and continue to wage a people's war for full national liberation. The Puerto Rican people, since the 1868 Grito de Lares rebellion against Spain, has fought against all forms of US colonialism, both on the archipelago and on the North American continent, successfully ejected the US Navy from Vieques in 2003, and continue to resist the brutal economic austerity measures of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). The people of Guam and the Northern Marianas continue to fight against the US military presence, such as the Aegis missile system, and the end of joint military exercises on their territory. The Hawai'ian people have never ceased their fight for independence against the US invaders since the united resistance under Queen Liliuokalani, rejecting so-called "statehood" while waging campaigns to end the lease of US military bases on the archipelago and ending the Rim of the Pacific military exercises. The people of Cuba achieved victory in the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and have defended their socialist construction against all attempts of US intervention, from the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion until the US blockade of today, and have even offered liberation fighters in solidarity with the anti-colonial wars of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. Each of these nations have bravely fought and sacrificed for the liberation of their land and people and to eject the US war machine from their homelands.
The Treaty of Paris must be rejected as the tool of colonialism and US-led war that it is. US imperialism is on its decline, yet the US war machine lashes out in its death throws, stoking the flames of another possible world war while imperialist-backed proxy wars spread to enact US interests across the world. The peace-loving peoples of the world must unite with the people of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i, Cuba, and all nations fighting for liberation against US imperialism to expose and oppose the legacy of the Treaty of Paris and fight to bring about just and lasting peace and the end of US imperialism.
Outreach resources
Organizers
Resist US-Led War Movement
Prutehi Guahan
Juventúd Unida por la Independencia
Hoopae Pono Peace Project
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
Diaspora Pa'lante Collective
Madres Contra la Guerra
Prutehi Guahan
Juventúd Unida por la Independencia
Hoopae Pono Peace Project
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan
Diaspora Pa'lante Collective
Madres Contra la Guerra
Endorsers
Veterans for Peace
About Face
Colectiva Estudiantil Combativa
Justice for VIeques
Juventúd Unida por la Independencia, DMV
About Face
Colectiva Estudiantil Combativa
Justice for VIeques
Juventúd Unida por la Independencia, DMV