Abstract
This chapter recounts and examines a failed act of dissent staged in 2014 in a Walgreens construction site in Puerto Rico. However, rather than focus on the causes for its failure, it looks to the event as a harbinger for hope. In doing so, an argument is made to consider events of dissent not as occasions for large-scale movement building but as unique opportunities for both protesters and onlookers to be moved and remain “pumped with the revolution.”
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Macha Colón y Los Okapis are an indie pop group based in Puerto Rico. Their debut CD Un Tanquecito de Amor was released in 2015. A video of the band performing “Yo siempre estoy pompeá con la revolución” can be streamed here: MujerSatanica, “Macha Colón y los Okapi- ‘…yo siempre estoy pompeá con la revolución…’”, YouTube, October 8, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0TUi4p8Cwk.
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Rebollo Gil, G. (2018). Regarding the Future. In: Writing Puerto Rico. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92976-7_9
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