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A group of Philadelphia organizers is using the nation’s 250th anniversary as an opportunity to revisit July Fourth, 1976: the day tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of North Philadelphia, demanding a bicentennial “sin colonias,” without colonies.
The march, which was organized by the July 4th Coalition, came to be known as the Sin Colonias protest. Members of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, women’s rights advocates, Black liberation groups, Vietnam War veterans and student groups marched down Lehigh Avenue to Fairmount Park, calling for Puerto Rican self-determination, economic justice and equality…