Puerto Rican Day parade boycotts continue
They’re marching all right in the opposite direction.
None of the boycotters of the Puerto Rican Day Parade are buy canada goose jacket cheap rushing back now that convicted terrorist leader Oscar https://www.baertakreation.de Lpez Rivera says he canada goose uk outlet won’t accept its cheap canada goose first „National Freedom canada goose outlet canadian goose jacket parka Hero” award but will still participate.
Also skipping the event are Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Sen. Chuck Schumer both of whom marched in the past but scheduled other events for parade buy canada goose jacket day, June 11, according to aides.
Lpez Rivera led the Puerto Rican nationalist group Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacin Nacional, cheap Canada Goose or FALN, which claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in the 1970s and ’80s, including one at Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan in canada goose outlet store 1975 that killed four and injured dozens.
He spent 35 years in federal prison before President Obama commuted his sentence just before leaving canada goose outlet uk sale office in January.
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade tapped Lpez Rivera as a special honoree in this year’s march, planning to confer its first ever „National Freedom Hero” award on him.
But politicians and major sponsors including Coca Cola, Goya Foods and the Yankees bailed out following official canada goose outlet a backlash, leaving Mayor canada goose de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito, who both repeatedly defended Lpez Rivera’s inclusion, as the biggest names in the parade.
Lpez Rivera decided not to accept the honor and said in an canada goose store op ed published Thursday that „it should go for activists and elected canada goose outlet in usa officials who fight for justice and a fair society,” as well as the parade Canada Goose online sponsors who backed out but are canada goose outlet still contributing to the parade’s scholarship fund.
GOP canada goose outlet shop mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis slammed de Blasio and Mark Viverito Friday, charging that the former terrorist leader had more backbone than the pols supporting him.
„This terrorist has shockingly shown more integrity in doing what is right for the parade than our own canada goose black friday sale city leadership who cheap canada goose refuse to denounce canada goose outlet reviews him canada goose outlet online and instead waited until he declined the award,” she canada goose outlet jackets said.
In another slap at the parade, East Harlem’s 116th Street Abrazo Fraternal Puerto Rican Festival being held June 10, the day before the parade is dedicating its event to the NYPD, FDNY and the armed forces.
