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is just like nothing was working. you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones and you had you need immediate mission in any. ready hospital or without power, doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phone. so once like you're on your own, what do you need to know? ah, a role cell brain with people who had to rec we left wet.

where so and we also photo a cow ah, the response to maria was really like a poster child of, 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 lays bare the reality. it strips it down to the bare bones. and you can really see that colonialism still exists in a few places and port a go as one of them when

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

fewer chose is passed of para military operations and robbing banks. last one i did was 33 years ago. most of the times my role was does 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 dot equal was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. in 1898. it became a u. s. column. yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people live here, a population greater than 21 of the 50 us states, but close to half live in 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 in presidential election. ah. 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 made that made it really as a wow with i had like a shark skin suit, which i thought was so cool. and 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 on take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes you know, that'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 a one. 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, you know, 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 should, 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 bottles a library to read the congressional record. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side that was also referring to us for practically as monkeys, in like of the brown races and listen that are going away. and then you had guys like go william jennings, bryan and the anti imperialist, saying this betrays all of what the united states is about. we fought the colonies, reform for independence. 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 hope that this was a step towards independence. but it turned out to be a dead end. just months after went on, 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. and then in 1917, that jones acted made point, duncan's us citizens with like okay, you're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for that even if we were offered citizenship of happened, we would prefer or wrong

with a you guys in line for a robin, the statue applies to rabbit. i don't know if you're supposed to and all i see a lot of people doing it so. oh yeah, there you go. okay. who's next? i do know that that's not john harvard. no. the 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 them. so that's why they say this is the stature was a 3 life. okay. it's about the year.

that 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 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, the link i planted 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 got to play with a, grab you by and just pulled it on. and as they brought you down the stairs,

they're kicking you and you until you got to the battery where i'm throw you in the battery right and fill the value. and drove it out and then brought the next one and i 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. it was a little crowd back in group of people in the building. the

news the joggers archipelago. home of the jo, 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 our eye to the u. s. government to make a military base and just defaulted or the juggle send people from their country. so they call it returned back on the island. no, but we are fighting. that's why i'm fact 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, those 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 time to move on and see what we can do. a full become the said community to return back home knowledge to support from the united nation. i commission, african united nish. i don't care about checklists and people ah, 50 years earlier, another puerto rican student matriculate at harvard barrel. 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 minds of pottery was produced and was not recognized as such because he was blackboard reading so not amen. ah,

ah, after harvard, i'll be so campus returned to point don't 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 strikers prevail and the wages are double to a $1.50 a day. ah, emboldened, i'll be so compost forms, the cadets of the republic who take an oath to fight for point oregon independent 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, until the police begin fire marchers and bystanders attempt to flee 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 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 for $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 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, we 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 point. dory can 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. 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, 2 nationalists form a plan ah, outside blair house, the presidents 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 jago 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, though 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 down. in fact, it was the us 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 slow 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 that don't mess with us because this is which waiting for you i was approached by somebody i trusted very much and said listener 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 point or akins, living in new york,

decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. communicating from prison. i 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 d. c. then they enter the u. s. capital building. now congress is in session. lead time it on leads them and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery to leave up. why don't legally, what a long live freeport don't 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 grant vo miranda. it's photograph moments after he and a fellow terrorist andres go. darrell had joined with little brawn and boring more than 20 shops at the court house for 5 congress. when our wounded and the 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 for my country. and that i would like it happened today, awake, it kind of it may not good with the word, not the government. and i say that they put a weak immediately upon booking. here nobody didn't come here for the rapper freedom from wayne because all the other ways have been tried and i think country a pretty good feeling not please contact the only company anyway. it is the gate.

nope. i think you heard somebody fired and i asked that i came here yesterday said me not to laugh at them or the question, i'm sorry. who for most americans there's no context to not just 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 nolly 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 ponds to 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 c o, sorry, because of wherever it, that's in the open meal. so, you know, in

a thought that maybe it combines the me in the good that one will be alone buys call on he's out. they got, we won't bother you. they're going up my battle bigger than the 3 a lot that 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 us based hotels, casinos and department stores. like sheraton, howard johnson's in world worth for all hit. there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. fully bechtel head, i call these actions farm propaganda ah.

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