Hands Off Wounded Knee! / Fuera de Wounded Knee!

np: Puerto Rican Socialist Party [Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno], 1973. Mimeograph to recto and verso in Spanish and English. 8 ½ x 11 in.

An extraordinary bilingual document of solidarity across the colonized lands of the so-called United States, this flier was produced by the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, in solidarity with the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the Oglala Dakota during the 1973 indigenous occupation of Wounded Knee.

Beginning on February 27, 1973, members of the AIM occupied Wounded Knee in protest of the corrupt administration of tribal president Richard Wilson and the oppressive and illegal practices of the United States government, and lasted for 73 days. In the aftermath, the murder rate in the Dakota nation would skyrocket - much of it attributed to Wilson and his militia, Guardians of the Oglala Nation (often referred to as GOONs). The murder rate would climb to three times the rate in Detroit, then considered the murder capital of the country - a statistic which, of course, ignored violence in occupied territories.

Printed and distributed by the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, this flyer is a document of solidarity across disenfranchised and oppressed peoples of the United States - from one occupied territory to another. Founded as the Movimiento Pro-Independencia (MPI) in 1959, the organization became the Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno in November 1971 and were a significant part of the growing socialist movement in 1970s Puerto Rico. The PSP suffered a period of decline throughout the 1980s and would formally disband in 1993.

Lines from folding into quarters and a small closed tear at bottom edge, not obstructing image or text. Overall, very good.