ATHEISTS SUE EDUCATION DEPT OVER RELIGION
From Patheos:
"Ateístas de Puerto Rico has just filed a federal lawsuit against the island’s
Department of Education and several government individuals, claiming that
several schools held Christian religious ceremonies this past March in which
converting students was part of the goal...In one case, non-religious students
were “required to assist [at] the basketball court where the religious service
was being held.” When they didn’t want to participate, their teacher told them
they had to..."
PUERTO RICAN COP INJURED IN DALLAS ATTACK
From AP:
"Ivan Saldana was among the Dallas police officers directing traffic down-
town during the protest when the shots rang out. By Saturday, Saldana was
up walking around his home, recovering from a shrapnel wound to his right
leg. "Everything happened so quickly, but at the same time, everything was
so slow," Saldana, 44, told The Dallas Morning News...Saldana began his po-
lice career with the Guaynabo Police Department in Puerto Rico, where he is
from..."
UPR FIRES WALKER AS PRESIDENT
From The San Juan Daily Star:
"The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Board of Governors fired President
Uroyoán Walker on Thursday, naming Dr. Celeste Freytes as interim presi-
dent of the institution. Walker was fi red after the board accepted the reco-
mmendations of an investigative subcommittee, which issued a vote of no-
confidence for Walker’s alleged favoritism in the irregular awarding of pre-
sidential scholarships last academic year..."
BERNABE CALLS FOR UNITY TO COMBAT CRISIS
From Caribbean Business:
"The gubernatorial candidate for the Working People’s Party (PPT by its Spa-
nish initials), Rafael Bernabe, on Sunday called for unity between workers and
community pharmacies in order to fight the crisis Puerto Rico is facing. Berna-
be said privatization policies “not only affect workers, but also small-business
people, including community pharmacies"...“Workers’ struggle for better em-
ployment conditions in [both] the public and private sectors is the same fight
and has the same enemy as small-business people do,” the candidate said dur-
ing his participation in a forum at the convention of the Puerto Rico Communi-
ty Pharmacies Association at the Ritz-Carlton, San Juan..."
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