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with we went to bed in 2017 and woke up and it was 19 o 3. no power. light. no water. no cell phone. i mean it's just like nothing was working. you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones that you had. you

knew immediate mission, 80. 0, hospital or without power? doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell faults. ah, so once like your on your own, what do you need to know? ah, with we were also praying for the people who had to wreak we left wet. where so you and we also love puerto rico

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

our actions where we are aimed at getting people say yes, it is possible to resist and break the colonized mentality that these guys can't be beat on that there's nothing we can do to change the situation. what 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 point, the ricans were angered by a lack of political autonomy. only a small percentage advocated full independence from the united states. even fewer chose wines,

path 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 was ready to engage in gun fire. it had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. and also on i had thought that through with with with the island of point

article was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. in 1898. it became a west calling with 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 us states might close to half a 1000000 poverty point. the vehicle is a u. s. territory powerless to challenge actions of the united states government that affected 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 the prep schools in the us. and i read it and, and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 indoor basketball court that they hadn't made that made it for those who. wow. with i had like a shark skin suit which i thought was so cool. with 1st time i walk in the dining hall, maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. and as soon as i walk into the child hall and take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes you know,

it's the 1st time i'd heard that word, let alone addressed me. when i went up and slapped him in the face, you know as hard as i could just. wow. and he was so shocked that he didn't do anything. and i went into the, to the coat room, to hang up my coat and then go into the dining room and united holy, what have i gotten myself with senior year and, and over my and 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 a paper on the spanish american war. and i didn't,

i came to our door in the library to the vowels. 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, listen 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 and brenda's widow. we were going to become an empire now with for over 400 years point dot eco suffered as a spanish colony but in 1897, spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy with many hoped that this was

a step towards independence. but it turned out to be a dead end. just months after went the recalls the 1st election, the united states invaded with within 10 weeks. hopes of independence were dashed, as the island was annexed by the u. s. and then, a $917.00. that jones actually made point though he can us citizens with like okay, you're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for even if we were offered citizenship with happened, we would prefer are wrong with

that with you guys in line for a robin, the statue applies to rob it, i don't know you're supposed to and all i see a lot of people doing it. so i am there you go. okay. who's next? i do know that that's not john harvard. no, they didn't know 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.

as i looked down that morning, i was just starting to be light. it was a mist still on, on the yard which added to this kind of surreal quality. and there was a ring of policemen, setting up an outer perimeter. i mean, they all had these helmets on with visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here. when i, when you get here, the screaming and everything else and then started seeing the guys students who were in the building being evicted, one by one side. i was just pulled down. and as they brought you down the stairs and kicking you and hating you until you got to the battery where i saw you in the body wagon filled up

anyway and drove it out. and then brought the next one in, which was apparently injured. and that was what basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that we could change things peacefully. understanding that these guys had to be fought in a different way for me. that was the beginning of my radicalization. policemen, i mean, it was a little the crowd man, group of people in the building the joggers archipelago, coma the chico san diego garcia, the largest island in the archipelago is now the location of a very large u. s. military base. you get given med, give out to the u. s. government to make

a military base and just deported all of the juggle send people from their country so they can return back on the island. no, but we are fighting. that's why i'm real fighting for the right. so i, we do not consider that the right to self determination actually applies to the trickle. since i don't the question of self determination, the legal advice we've received is actually the trickle. since we're not and all not a people for me, it's done to move on and see what we can do. a full the tumbler said committee to return back home knowledge to support from the united nation. i commission african united nish. i don't care about chug. christian people ah, 50 years earlier, another puerto rican 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 of those privileged minds of puerto rico has produced and was not recognized as such because in ohio's blackboard, rangel not i am, ah, ah, after harvard, i'll be so campus returned to fort 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 pain cutters, or much at their doors to strike against us sugar companies. they are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the striker's 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 take an oath to fight for point oregon independence 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, she ah and

perform. the police begin firing. marchers and bystanders attempts to plead a flag. there is the 1st to be 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 bull bleaker abala has seen us long lived the republic down with the murders. ah, for $235.00 were 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 for i didn't know any of that. when i was growing up. 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 port ego. and you know that gag law that made flying the puerto rican flag by itself illegal and punishable by prison. you know, you couldn't speak in favor vendor financial be thrown into prison. with in 1948 la, 53 lay the lamar 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 them staging. coordinated attacks on police station, the governor's mansion and the u. s. federal court. the national guard responds with heavy artillery mortars grenades and p 47 bombs. this is the 1st time us fighter planes attack on with in the aftermath, 2000,

puerto ricans are rounded up and arrested in retaliation to nationalist form, a plan ah, outside blair house, the president, temporarily. 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 cardozo 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. i have tried to kill me, though i knew that they tried it. i knew who they were, they are a bunch of fanatics. they wanted 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 us government policy, the governors policy to push these guys into a corner and get them to a point where it's either give up or slow down fighting and so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course, they responded and foot crushed and crushing away that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put know, an invaders, you know, put down all the freedom fighters, cut their heads off and put them on a pike. so everybody else knows that don't mess with us because this is which

waiting for you i was approached by somebody i trusted very much and you 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 he had say. i said yes. in 1954, 4.3 kids 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 dressed advise one way, tickets to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building. now,

congress is in session. you can have it on leads them and reciting the lord's prayer . then she stands up and shouts from the gallery to leave up. wait legally, what a long live freeport? equal wire in the house of representatives and the police and crowds rushing to the capitol, which doubled and wild. i'm a border, we can put out a grantville miranda. it's photographed moments after he and a fellow terrorist andres go. darrell had joined with little a bron and boring more than 20 shops at the court house for 5 congress when our wounded and murderous are dying. ah still grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowd. ah! a new man that's paying for freedom from my country and that i would like what happened today?

awake it kind of it may not good with the we're not the government and i think that they put a weak immediately upon booking here. nobody didn't gotten here for the rapper freedom from wayne because all the other ways have been tried and i think on feel pretty good feeling not please contact the only company. anyway. it is the gate and i think you heard somebody of your fire and i asked that i came here yesterday. said me not to laugh at them. i'll just wait. i'm sorry. who for most americans there's no context to now this like these guys are totally insane. you know,

these fanatics for pottery gun abandoned, so 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 hm. philly. medical all, heather rios was born in puerto rico in the 1930 s as a child. he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north american sugar monopolies. he witnessed the slaughter of the bonsa 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 a header that the u. s. was not going to change of its own accord with c o l, l c o, sorry, because of wherever it that's in the open meal. so, you know, at the end i thought that meant there is competency me in the game that one will be alone buys called on. he's out, they got, we won't bother you. they're going up my, that bigger than the 3. a lot of will look as applica handle 0 there. the other with 3, let me a in the fall of 969,

dozens of bombs began exploding in puerto rico and u. s. based hotels, casinos, and department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's and will work for all hit there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. fully methyl here that call these actions harm propaganda. a only one main thing is important for naziism, internationally speaking to that is that nations that's allowed to do anything, all the mazda races, and then you have the minor nation. so the slave americans, proc obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism. international law exist as

long as it serves american interest. if it doesn't, it doesn't exist by turning those russians into this danger is boy man that wants to take over the world. that was a conscious strategy. so some golf delta dental noon. i not leashed golf in zebulon and tablet block. nato said it's ours. we moved east. the reason us, hey jim, it is so dangerous. is it the law? the sovereignty of all the countries? the exceptionalism that america uses and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nato disbanded shareholders in united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions or is business and business is good. and that is the reality of what we are facing,

which is fashion with a number of russian soldiers killed in a ukrainian high mark rocket attack in the city of mucky gear. don, yes, rises to 89. the russian defense ministry says mobile phone signal gave away their location to enemy forces. a new level of gas export through china, russian energy giant gas pump pails, record volumes in the 1st days of the new year, made plans to build more pipeline petty need for kina off. so it sells the french