a lot of their numerous squad, so to handle most of whom were shot, especially with new with

we went to bed and 2017 and woke up and it was 19 o 3. no bower, no light, no water. no cell phone. i mean, is just like i was working,

you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones you had. you need immediate mission any ah hospital or without power doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell faults. so it's like here on your own, what do you need to know? ah, with also brain, with people who had to wreak we left wet rica where so you and we also love puerto rico

with the response to maria was really like a poster child of the relationship between, you know, puerto rico and, and the united states for the situation and maria was not just created by maria, but what it, maria, blaze bear the reality. it strips it down to the bare bones and you can really see that colonialism still exists and a few places and 40 go as one of them. when

ah, our actions are aimed at getting people say yes, it is possible to resist and break the colonized mentality that these guys can't be beat or that there's nothing we can do to change the situation in that sense of input in the 19 seventy's when once they got, i was in his early twenties, he chose to fight for the independence of his homeland. although many boy deacons were angered by a lack of political latanya. only a small percentage advocated full independence from the united states. even

fewer chose wines, passed of paramilitary operations and robbing banks. last one i did was 33 years ago. most of the time my role was as the protection against the police coming so i, i was ready to engage and gunfire if it had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. and also on i had thought that through with

with the island of point article was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8 in 1898. it became a u. s. com. yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people of a population greater than 21 of the 50 u. s. states but close to half a 1000000 poverty point. the vehicle is a u. s. territory powerless to challenge actions of the united states government that effective people residents have no vote in congress

or in presidential elections. we had a subscription to time magazine and there was an issue which the cover story was on prep schools in the us. and i read in and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 indoor basketball court that, that maybe not made it really as a wow with i had like a shark skin suit, which i thought was so cool. and the 1st time i walk in the dining all maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. and as soon as i going to the child hall take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes, hey,

you know, that's the 1st time i'd heard that word, let alone addressed in me. but i went up and slapped him in the face. you know as hard as i could you. so why? and he was so shocked that he didn't do anything. and i went into the, to the court room to hang up my coat and then go into the dining room. and, and i said, holy, what have i gotten myself with senior year and, and over my, my professor for american history. mr. len james, he said, said, how would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam?

i said yeah, sure. and he said, want to do paper on the spanish american war and i didn't, i came to harvard to warn the library to the bottles a library to read the congressional record. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side there with those referring to us for practically as monkeys in like of the brown races and this and that are going away . and then you had guys like go william jennings, bryan and the anti imperialist saying this betrays all over the united states, is about, we know we fought the colonies, revolver, independence, what are we? we're going to become a empire now with for over 400 years point dot eco suffered as a spanish calling but in 189,

the southern spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy with many hope that this was a step towards independence. it turned out to be a dead end with just months after winter, he goes to 1st election and the united states invaded the island within 10 weeks, hopes of independence were dashed as the island was annexed by the u. s. with . and then in 1917, that jones act made point duncan's us citizens with like, okay, you're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for even if we were offered the citizenship to happen, we would prefer are wrong with

you guys in line for a robin the statue applies to robin. i don't know if you're supposed to and all i see a lot of people doing it, so i am 0. okay. who's next? i do know that that's not john harvard now did it. no, because he was dead by the time they did that. so some, some young man posed a year is not right. and he wasn't just the founder because he was one of of all one of the. so that's why they say this is the statue of the 3 lies. okay. about the year i was my dorm room window on the top floor there.

ah. as i looked down that morning, it was just starting to be light. it was a mist still on the yard which added to this kind of surreal quality. and there was a ring of policeman setting up an outer perimeter. i mean, they all had these elements on with visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here that way when i push it to my planet and then you could hear the screaming and everything else and then started seeing the guys, students who were in the building being evicted, one by one, i was they grab you by and just pulled it on. and as they brought you down the stairs and

kicking you and hating you until you got to the bathroom. so you in the paddy wagon filled a paddy wagon drove it out and then brought the next one in. i think it was a 2nd on someone who was apparently in turn and stuff. that was what basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that and we could change things peacefully. understanding that these guys had to be fought and a different way for me. that was the beginning of my radicalization. a municipal policeman. i mean it was a little to crowd ban with people inside the building. november 22nd 2022 outraged orthodox christians confronted ukrainian security service offices, looking entrances and exits to key. if the oldest monastery it were looking for,

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ah 50 years earlier, another poor doughty can student matriculate at harvard battle, i'll be so campbells in 1921. he graduates from harvard law school with the highest grade point average in his class. and the only one who was privileged lines of pottery glass produced and was not recognized as such because in his blackboard readings or not, i am. mm hm. ah after harvard, i'll be so campus returned to 4 door recall where he witnesses the u. s. controlled

sugar cartel, extracting higher profits from plantation workers than any other place in the world . ah, in 1934, i'll be so campus organizes sugar cane cutters, or much at their doors to strike against us sugar companies. they are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers prevail and the wages are double to a $1.50 a day. ah, emboldened i'll be. so. campos forms the cadets of the republic who taken oath to fight for point oregon and dependence on palm sunday. 1937, they plan a peaceful march. at the last minute, the colonial governor revokes their permit to assemble and they are surrounded by

200 police. some armed with thompson machines. ah, on prison, the police begin fire marchers and bystanders attempt to plead a flag. there is the 1st to be still a 7 year old girl picks up the flag and she is immediately shoveled. ah, a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood. viva! like a bully! abala has seen us. long live the republic down with the murders. ah! for 235 were wounded. 19 killed

including the 7 year old girl ah ah, $20000.00 mourners attend the funeral ceremonies with none of the police are held accountable. ah, i didn't know any of that. when i was grown up. but now i was like this. what did i know? and i, it wasn't until years later that i began to have a different historical perspective on, on quite daunted ego. and you know, that gag law that made flying the puerto rican flag by itself illegal and

punishable by prison. you know, we couldn't speak in favor of independence, we'd be thrown into prison. with in 1948 la, 53, lay the la garza known as the gag order, makes it a crime to display a puerto rican flag. speaking out for independence or seeing a patriotic puerto rican song can lead to 10 years in prison. ah, in 1950 nationalists across the island read the staging coordinated attacks on police station, the governor's mansion and the u. s. federal court house. the national guard responds with heavy artillery mortars grenades and p 47 bombers. this is the 1st time us fighter planes i talk going with

in the aftermath, 2000, puerto ricans are rounded up and arrested. in retaliation to nationalists form a plan. ah, outside blair house, the president temporary washington home. extreme fanatics of the puerto rican nationalist party tried to force their way in guns blazing to assassinate the president of the united states. assassin, oscar garzo and 2 other guards are wounded. as the plot is foiled. washington's emergency hospital, a 24 hour guard watches over garzo, who despite

a chest wound recovers to face trial for murder. they have tried to kill me and i knew that they tried it. i knew who they were. there are a bunch of fanatics. there was an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalists rose up like a bunch of and the government squashed them. in fact, it was the u. s. government policy, the governor's policy, to push these guys into a corner and get them to a point where it's either give up or go down fighting and so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course, they responded and for crushed and crushing away that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put know i, when the invaders, you know,

put down all the freedom fighters cut their heads off and put them on a pike. so everybody else knows it, don't mess with us because this is what's waiting for you. i was approached by somebody i trusted very much and said listeners saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. and are, you know, we think you're a good candidate what id say? i said yes. in 1954, 4 point or he can living in new york decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. communicating from prison. i'll be so campus

presents them with a mission to bring the fight for independence to the american public. the group purchases new sunday dress advise one way, tickets to washington dc. then they enter the u. s. capital building. now congress is in session. lead time on leads them and reciting the lord's prayer . then she stands up and shouts from the gallery to leave up like the equally would a long live freeport. equal wire in the house of representatives and the police and crowds rushing to the capitol, shoveled and wild. i'm a border we can put out a grantville miranda. it's photograph moments after he and a fellow terrorist andres. good are all at joined with little bron and barring more than 20 shops at the court house for 5 congress. when our wounded in the murderous attack, ah still grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry,

menacing crowd. ah, a new man! that plank for freedom from night and that i would like it happened today. i wake it kind it may not good with the we're not the government. i'd say that they put a recall immediately. i think i'm the year nobody didn't come here for the wrapper. freedom from wayne because all the other ways have been tried and i think company a pretty good feeling, not please contact the only company anyway is indicate that you heard somebody of you fired and i asked that i came here yesterday said me not to laugh

at them, i'll just wait and i'm sorry. who for most americans there's no context to learn this like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics for pottery gun abandoned, so you know, when we've done such good for them, how good they do that. the criminal investigation reveals that knowledge delivered on fired her weapon into the ceiling, harming no one capital police find a note in her handbag. my life i give for the freedom of my country. the united states is betraying the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country. ah mm. fully medical all, heather rios was born in puerto rico in the 19th thirty's. as a child,

he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north american sugar monopolies. he witnessed the slaughter of the bon sir massacre. ah, he saw the death of colonialism globally, but experienced it lingering on tenaciously at home. in his twenties, already an accomplished jazz musician, he gave up his career as a trumpet player and began to fight for independence. it was clear to feel that though heather, that the u. s, was not going to change of its own accord. blue c o l l e y c o, sorry, as of wherever it that's in the open meal. so, you know, at the end i thought that meant there is convincing me in the game that will be in

the vice god only so that we won't bother you. they're going on my battle bigger than the 3 a lot. the well look as applica handles either. there the other with 3, let me hello, a. in the fall of $969.00, dozens of bombs began exploding in puerto rico and u. s. based hotels, casinos and department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's and woe worth were all hit. there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. really bad. go ahead. i called these actions farm propaganda. ah, ah, nice to come to the russian state will never be tied up. i'm phoning north lansky

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ah, in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? i selection whole community. i you going the right way, where are you being led somewhere direct. what is true, what is faith in the world corrupted. you need to descend. ready ah, to join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. ah, ah 1972. when i 1st met feeling better, and we sat down on a bench like this, and i had the 1st conversation with land that i was to follow for many years. and

that path changed my life, hulu, in 1976, philly, bad at all here that. and once they got and banded together with others, fighting for independence and formed, lost much of those are the came cutters. in the context was that vietnam had one in the cuban revolution at that time was like a beacon to a lot of latin america did. the tide of history is on the side of anti colonialism . we should be able to, to prevail a .