Puerto Rican Activists Tell Brock Pierce:
We Don’t Want You or Statehood for PR
November 2, 2020 New York City . Members of the Puerto Rican community in New York today confronted longshot presidential candidate and bitcoin billionaire Brock Pierce at an event in Manhattan to oppose his support for Puerto Rican statehood and his bitcoin dreams for the island. Pierce did NOT come to Puerto Rico to save us. He moved to Puerto Rico to avoid paying taxes under local laws known as Act 20/22. He's been attracting like-minded bitcoiners and Wall St. vultures to the island in an effort to create a “Puertopia.” A Puerto Rico in their image. The disaster capitalists have been buying properties (and politicians) all over the island, displacing long-term Puerto Rican residents and gentrifying our island. Also, Pierce is an accused pedophile with ties to racist Steve Bannon, Jeffrey Epstein, and has even called Trump "a patriot". Puerto Rico will also be going to the polls on Tuesday, November 3rd. The ruling party (PNP) cynically placed a statehood question on