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<!DOCTYPE html>
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We did it. SOAR is over — and we're still standing, hearts full. The Benito Bowl. Kiss n' Tell. Homenaje to Orlando Rivera '77. Everything that's coming next. ¡Pa'lante siempre!
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Puerto Rico Railroad & Transport Co.
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EST. 1891 — DESPIERTA BORICUA LINE — 2026
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🌟 SPECIAL EDITION — AFTER SOAR 🌟
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EL BOLETÍN
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THE DESPIERTA BORICUA RAILWAY GAZETTE
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<span style="color: #F1A896; font-weight: bold;">ROUTE:</span> PAST 🌿 PRESENT 🌺 FUTURE<br>
<span style="color: #F1A896; font-weight: bold;">DEPARTURE:</span> FEBRUARY–MARCH 2026 | VOLUME 4<br>
<span style="color: #F1A896; font-weight: bold;">DESTINATION:</span> ¡PA'LANTE SIEMPRE!
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<h2 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #FFF8E7; margin: 0; letter-spacing: 2px;">DE LA DIRECTIVA</h2>
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¡Wepa, familia!
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<span style="font-size: 48px; font-weight: bold; color: #2D6A4F; float: left; line-height: 0.8; margin: 5px 12px 0 0;">W</span>e did it. We actually did it. SOAR is over. We're standing, hearts full, feeling something that's hard to put into words but impossible to ignore. This one is for you. All of you.
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Despierta Boricua reached its fundraising goal. And while the campaign numbers matter — we're not going to pretend they don't — what moved us most wasn't the total. It was the <em>who</em>. Alumni we hadn't heard from in years. Parents. Friends of friends who found us through a share, a post, a text from someone who said "you have to see what these students are doing." You showed up, and that means everything.
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"Your support was more than financial. It was a vote of confidence in what we're building and in who we are."
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Pa'lante siempre,<br>
— La Directiva 2026 ✊🏽<br>
<em style="font-size: 14px;">(A.K.A. your hardworking, slightly caffeinated, always proud board)</em>
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Because of your generosity, we are moving forward with one of the most ambitious things we've ever attempted: <strong>closing the streets for Calle Corona.</strong>
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FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2026
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🎉 CALLE CORONA 🎉
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SanSe llegó al Norte
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We're bringing <em>Las Fiestas de la Calle San Sebastián</em> to New Haven. Blocking off High Street and Crown Street. Bomba. Salsa. Flea market. Food trucks. Live performances. Local vendors. Yale meets New Haven — the way it should be.
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This is about more than celebration. It's about <strong>inviting both communities together</strong> — letting our presence be known, and closing the gap between students at the university and those in New Haven.
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Puerto Rico's most beloved festival, brought to Connecticut. This one's for all of us. You made it possible.
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It's hard to fully describe the feeling — not just that we reached our goal, but that so many of you <em>chose</em> to believe in us. That matters in a way that numbers can't capture.
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🎬 THE SOAR VIDEO
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During the campaign, we released a video highlighting Despierta Boricua, the work we've been building, and why it matters. The response exceeded anything we expected. Engagement across our platforms surged, we surpassed <strong>1,000 followers</strong>, and alumni began reaching out directly — offering mentorship, collaboration, and support that extends far beyond donations. That was all you. Thank you.
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<h2 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #FFF8E7; margin: 0; letter-spacing: 2px;">LO QUE PASÓ — GATHER, GATHERED, AND GATHERINGS</h2>
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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8
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🐰 THE BENITO BOWL 🐰
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DB's Largest Event to Date
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<strong>📍 Marsh Hall, Yale Science Hill</strong> | <strong>⏰ 6:00 PM</strong> | <strong>👥 In partnership with YCC</strong>
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We were thrilled to have partnered with YCC to host the <strong>largest event Despierta Boricua has organized to date</strong>: a Super Bowl watch celebration that brought together <strong>over 400 people</strong>. The room was filled with music, dancing, and joy. With our instruments, we were the loudest ones in the room. Obvio.
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But this gathering was a cultural moment. A Spanish-language performance, rooted in Puerto Rican history and identity, took center stage on one of the most visible platforms in the country. It reminded us that success does not require erasure, that English is not the only language of value, and that Latino communities are creators of culture. <strong>America is a continent. A continent of proud Latinos who cannot be ignored.</strong>
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As DB co-president Antonio Padilla shared during the event: <em>celebration and awareness must coexist.</em> While we recognized this moment as a collective win, we also acknowledged the realities facing our communities, including fear surrounding immigration enforcement. Using this space to affirm dignity and solidarity was part of what made the evening meaningful. Culture, after all, is inseparable from the lives of the people who create it.
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<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; color: #FFF8E7; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">🎉 <strong>Daniel, Nina & Hector</strong> — Bad Bunny Trivia & Sapo Concho giveaway</p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; color: #FFF8E7; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">📷 <strong>The LUL Brothers</strong> — 100 disposable cameras (yes, 100)</p>
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<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; color: #FFF8E7; margin: 0 0 12px 0;">🍽️ <strong>Local New Haven restaurants</strong> — Sabor Nuestro, Cayeyena, El Coqui, Via Láctea</p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; color: #A8DADC; margin: 0;">DB was proud to coordinate with local Puerto Rican & Latino businesses to feed the room.</p>
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"Y todos ustedes, personas maravillosas, son los verdaderos MVPs — nunca lo olviden."
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ROUTE: ST. ANTHONY HALL
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Friday, February 13 | 10:00 PM | St. Anthony Hall
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A Valentine's Day party dedicated to <strong>Black and Brown queerness and femininity</strong> — and one of the largest parties we've had all year. For these communities, the dancefloor was more than a party; it became a space of expression, safety, and liberation.
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The dancefloor held everything: techno, house, freestyle, jersey club, reggaetón, dembow. Not the old story of these genres as background noise — but the new one, with the artists who are rewriting what that music means. Ivy Queen. Young Miko. Karol G. Ice Spice. Tokischa. Strong, queer, femme, unapologetic. The room felt it.
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St. Anthony Hall gave us the ballroom and the bar — and we came with the rest. The drinks menu was curated for the occasion: <strong>Hard Launch</strong> (alcoholic cranberry pineapple juice — making your entrance official), <strong>Soft Launch</strong> (non-alcoholic, same energy, different proof), and <strong>Strapped N' Ready</strong> (sangria — no further explanation needed).
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And of course, the glow sticks. Blue/Purple for single. Green for taken. And yellow for… complicated.
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"Se sorprenderían con cuántos salieron con el amarillo."
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<p style="font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; font-size: 10px; color: #A8DADC; margin: 0; letter-spacing: 2px;">— THE DANCEFLOOR DOESN'T LIE</p>
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The energy was high and the turnout brought new faces. This night only happened because four organizations showed up together: <strong>DB, MEChA, De Colores, and Blackout.</strong> Solidarity sometimes is a dancefloor on Valentine's night with glow sticks and sangria. 🎉
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SOAR may have officially closed. Our work has not. Here's what we've been up to — and who we've been building with:
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<h4 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; color: #2B2B2B; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">Teach-In on U.S. Imperialism</h4>
<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; color: #2B2D42; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0;">Our very own Nina Bautista shared Puerto Rican history with the broader La Casa community. This is the kind of knowledge-sharing that builds real solidarity — not performative, not transactional, but rooted in mutual respect and a shared understanding of where we come from.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; color: #2B2D42; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0;">Coming up this Friday. Come get coffee, meet people, and keep building what we started at the teach-in. La Casa Cultural.</p>
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<h4 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; color: #2B2B2B; margin: 0 0 8px 0;">Developing Partnership & Eventual Affiliation</h4>
<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; color: #2B2D42; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0;">We're deepening our relationship with Dwight Hall as we work toward expanding impact in New Haven — strengthening the bridge between campus organizing and local community engagement.</p>
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We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Orlando Rivera '77 for the space he fought to create for our community at Yale — a space that allows us to exist for one another, to organize, to learn, and to build together. Orlando did not simply help establish a physical location. He helped make possible a community rooted in care, dignity, and collective responsibility.
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He was an extraordinary human being, and his absence is deeply felt across generations. Quite simply, we would not be here without him.
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<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; color: #2B2D42; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0 0 12px 0;">In line with our commitment to memory and <em>homenaje</em>, we're collaborating with the curators of the Peabody Museum's Taíno exhibit for a curated walkthrough — alongside NISAY — followed by small-group conversation. We'll reflect on what indigeneity means in a Caribbean context, and on the personal paths many of us navigate in relation to Taíno identity today.</p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; color: #2B2D42; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0;">We begin with a screening of <em>We Are Still Here: The Taíno Lives</em> by Ermelinda Cortes, followed by a curator-led walkthrough and facilitated discussion. We conclude with a <strong>clay pottery studio session</strong> — ceramics as a shared Indigenous artistic tradition connecting us to the earth, community identity, and cultural continuity.</p>
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<h2 style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #FFF8E7; margin: 0; letter-spacing: 2px;">THE TRAIN KEEPS MOVING — ONE MORE THING</h2>
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Yale SOAR may have officially closed. Our work has not. And — purely hypothetically speaking — community support doesn't really operate on deadlines either.
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If you intended to donate but payday came late, or life simply got in the way — our page is still up. We're not <em>officially</em> asking (Yale policy and all that). But we're also not going to make it ugly.
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<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; color: #2B2D42; line-height: 1.8; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Can we explicitly ask for more donations? Legally… not quite.<br>Can we leave the page looking incredibly enticing? <strong>Absolutely.</strong></p>
<p style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; color: #888; margin: 0;">You're welcome to be the first to test whether it works. Let us know. 😉</p>
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