Puerto rican activist group to start a chapter in central florida

Examiner Monday 23rd May, 2011

The National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights (NCPRR), founded in the South Bronx in 1981, is having a discussion May 21st on bringing a local chapter to the Central Florida area. For those who don't know what the NCPRR represents, on their website they claim they are a "mass membership, activist, grassroots organization dedicated to securing full equality and an end to discrimination against Puerto Ricans. It is a volunteer organization which does not solicit government funds." Basically the NCPRR is a group whose members fight for the rights of the Puerto Rican people in that community by organizing events that fight discrimination from the governent and other entities in the community. The major supporters of the outside activist group coming in are local well knownactivists Zoraida Ri...

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