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Latinx Queer justice advocate, writer, speaker & coach | 🗳 Former candidate for NYSAssembly | Now: @lambdalegal |🏳️‍🌈Board: @equalityny | he/they🇩🇴🇵🇷🌹

Sep 23, 2017, 84 tweets

IN PHOTOS: This is how #HurricaneMaria hit #PuertoRico uni.vi/nYqa100NIim

Yauco, Puerto Rico.

Cataño, Puerto Rico.

Salinas, Puerto Rico.

Salinas, Puerto Rico

Guayama, Puerto Rico

A highway, Puerto Rico

Isla de Palmeras, Puerto Rico

Guayama, Puerto Rico

Cataño, Puerto Rico

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Cataño, Puerto Rico

La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Cataño, Puerto Rico

Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

Cataño, Puerto Rico

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

Caguas, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Cars drowned in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Cataño, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Fajardo, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Walmart, Puerto Rico

Shopping mall, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Isla Verde, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Utuado, Puerto Rico #HurricaneMaria

Streets in Puerto Rico

Canóvanas, Puerto Rico

Guayama, Puerto Rico (CBS)

San Juan, Puerto Rico (CBS)

San Juan, Puerto Rico (CBS)

Cataño, Puerto Rico

Fajardo, Puerto Rico (CBS)

Humacao, Puerto Rico

Shelters in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Fajardo, Puerto Rico

If you are looking to help Puerto Rico, please support #MariaFund to assist most vulnerable families hit hardest
-> mariafund.org

Yauco, Puerto Rico

Here a full list of trusted organizations you can donate to help Puerto Rico, via an academic center @CentroPR centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/newsletter/cen…?amp=1

If you are a Puerto Rican in the diaspora looking for information of your town or how to donate /drop off locations diasporicans.com

THIS PHOTO: Children cleaning in their community in Caguas to open the path. A testament of our resilience & spirit. #PuertoRicoSeLevanta

Looking to help Puerto Rico? My friend @Hedmanuel & I created #UnidosPorelOeste to support towns in West coast: -> gofundme.com/UnidosPorElOes…

Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. (@nytimes)

Urb. Luchetti, Yauco, Puerto Rico

Guánica, Puerto Rico

Barranquitas, Puerto Rico (@loriarroyo2)

Barranquitas, Puerto Rico (@loriarroyo2)

Loiza, Puerto Rico

A home devastated by Maria in Puerto Rico

Toa Alta, Puerto Rico (@TheAtlantic)

Coamo, Puerto Rico (@TheAtlantic)

Dead animals, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico (@TheAtlantic)

Corozal, Puerto Rico (@TheAtlantic)

People in the highway try to get phone signal from an improvised antenna. Dorado, Puerto Rico (@TheAtlantic)

Cataño, Puerto Rico, US. (@TheAtlantic)

Corozal, Puerto Rico, US (@TheAtlantic)

People waiting for water and food. Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, US. (@TheAtlantic)

Carmen Marrero taking a rest after cleaning debris from her house. Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, US (@TheAtlantic)

Yamaris Morales looks at the damage to her neighborhood. Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, US. (@TheAtlantic)

Lizzy Alice (left) hugs her mother Maria Flores after traveling from San Juan as she couldn't reach her by phone. Coamo, Puerto Rico, US.

7-year-old Karlian Mercado resting on debris that remains from her house blown by Hurricane Maria. Coamo, Puerto Rico, US. (@TheAtlantic)

Family collects some belonging after their house was destroyed by Hurricane Maria. Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, US. (@TheAtlantic)

#UnidosporPuertoRico en la diaspora
Information of funds, drop-off locations, resources here-> diasporicans.com
#CongressActNow

Children. In America. Without water. #CongressActNow

Roughly 1.5 million in Puerto Rico without drinking water, via @ajplus.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States (via @villagevoice) bit.ly/2fjWJgR #CongressActNow

Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States. (@villagevoice) #CongressActNow

Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States. (@villagevoice) #CongressActNow

Road damage. San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States. (@villagevoice) #CongressActNow

Road damage. San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States. (@villagevoice) #CongressActNow

Morovis, Puerto Rico, United States. (@villagevoice) #CongressActNow

Morovis, Puerto Rico, United States. (@villagevoice)
#CongressActNow

Communities writing "We need water / food," in the streets so agencies can see their plea from the air. Puerto Rico, United States.

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