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ah, with we went to bed and 2017 and woke up and it was 19 o 3. no power. no light,
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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 and you had you need immediate mission any a hospital or without power doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from duracell fault. so once like you're on your own. what do you need to know? ah,
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a role so praying with people of where do we come? we left wet. we where so the and we also love puerto rico with 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 exist and a few places and port a go as one of them. one
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in our actions where we 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 they got i was in his early twenties, he chose to fight for the in the, and let's have his homeland. although many,
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puerto 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 para military operations and robbing banks. last one i did was 33 years ago. most of the time to my role was because 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
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with the island of point article was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8 in 1898. it became a u. s. college. 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, but close to half live in poverty
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point the legal 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 made, that made it very, very as a wow with i had like a shark skin suit,
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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 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 why. and he was so shocked that he didn't do anything. and i went into the, to the co room, to hang out my coat and then go into the dining room. and i said, holy, what have i gotten myself with
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a senior year and, and over my, my professor for american history. mr. lenny james, he said, sir, 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, to read the congressional record. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side. there were those 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 when we were going to become an empire now
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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 out, 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 us. and then in 1917, the jones acted made point, lincoln's us citizens with like okay, you're gonna make you american citizens,
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which you didn't ask for even if we were offered citizenship with happened, we would prefer are wrong with you guys in line for a robin the statue or am i supposed to rob it? i don't know if 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 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 them. so that's why they say this is the stature was a 3 life. okay. now the year
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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 were in the building being evicted,
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one by one i was with a grab you by and just pulled it on. and as they brought you down the stairs, they're kicking you and hating you until you got to the battery where i can throw you in the battery where i can fill the paddy wagon drove it out and then brought the next one in. i was just checking on someone with that was, was 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 in a different way for me. that was the beginning of my radicalization. a policeman, our baby was a little the crowd man man with inside the building with
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joggers archipelago home and she goes to san diego garcia, the largest island in the archipelago is now the location of a very large u. s. military base, you could go from med div i to the u. s. government to make a military base and just deported all of douglas and people from their country. so they called returned back on the island. no, but we are fighting. that's why i'm real fighting for the right. so, but i, we do not consider the right to self determination actually applies to the trickle students. i don't the question, no self determination of legal advice we've received is actually the trick options . we're not at all, not a people for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do for the counselor said committee to return back home knowledge support from the united nation. i commission african
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united nish. i don't care about douglas, said people oh i ra, a sheep out disdain becomes the advocate. an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. ah 50 years earlier, another boy 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 puerto rico as per ghost and was not recognized as such because he was bly,
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poor angel, not amen. ah, ah, after harvard, i'll be so campus returned stuff. well, 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 barrels to strike against us, sugar companies. they are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers prevail and the
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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 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 prefer the police begin firing. 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.
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ah, a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood. viva! i probably got a hollow, sasha ceo's long live the republic down with the murders. ah, for $235.00 when 19 killed including the 7 year old girl. ah ah 20000 mourners attend the funeral ceremonies with none of the police are held accountable for i didn't know any of that. when i was
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growing 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 port eagle and all 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 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,
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in 950 nationalists across the island read the staging coordinated attacks on police station. the governor's mansion and the u. s. federal courthouse with the national guard responds with heavy artillery mortars grenades, and p 47 bombs. this is the 1st time that us fighter planes attack on with in the aftermath, 2000 and puerto ricans are rounded up and arrested. in retaliation to national this form a plan ah
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. outside blair house, the president deborah 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 law to spoil the washington's emergency hospital. the 24 hour guard watches over go to despite a chest wound recovers to face trial. for murder there tried to kill me, and i knew that they tried it. i knew who they were. they are a bunch of fanatics that wanted an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalists rose up like a bunch. and the government squashed them. in fact, it was the us government policy, the governors policy to push these guys into
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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 on 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 what's 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 you
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know, we think you're a good candidate what he had say, i said yes. in 1954, 4 point of egan's living in new york, decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. communicating from prison i'll be, shall campos presents them with a mission to bring the fight for independence to the american public. the group purchases new sunday dress clothes and vice one way. tickets to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building. now, congress is in session, you only turn it on, leads them, and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery vive, up late, legally, but a long live free puerto rico wire in the house of representatives,
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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. i'm a fellow terrorist. i'm grace. good are all at joined with little a bron and boring, more than 20 shops at the court house for 5 congress. when our wounded in the murderous or dr. ah still grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowd. ah, a new man that claim for freedom from nikon and that i would like it happen today, awake 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 looking here.
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nobody did governor wrapper freedom from wayne because all the other ways have been try and lee as a company are politically feeling not we can take it the only company new way is indicate the new thank and somebody being fired and i asked that i came here yes of it said me not to laugh at them. i did bacon and mary lou for most americans and there's no context to learn as 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,
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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. mm. fully medical all, heather rios was born in puerto rico in the 19 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.
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it was clear to feel bad. go ahead that, that the u. s. was not going to change of its own accord. blue c o l l e y c o, sorry, because of whatever it that's in the open meal. you know, at the end it thought that a little bit is convincing me in the game that will be in the vice called on. he's out. they got, we went by the you, they're going on my that they've done that 3 a lot of. well look at that particular handle. see there the other 3. let me go, isabella. ah, 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 we'll work for all hit there were few injuries,
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but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. really bad. go ahead. i called these actions harm propaganda with another why. why do easy while for a here for unit 61 slide yes. south. yeah, thrashing south design. you're looking for a new got carson for years now, which done the for me that
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a bull up. right. people know? yeah. pull video from sure. let me just kim's room. sure. thoughtfully it's, it's the y fi, ela, a bill. and that's my thought or change in the again, your fortune pretty up my be a lot about it more than just financial ah ah ah ah ah
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ah ah november 22nd 2022 outraged orthodox christians confronted ukrainian security service offices looking entrances and exits the keys oldest monastery were looking for elijah russian spies among the monks. we mean dealer seeming or perform the reason for the brutal cried down one church. his parishioners had sung a song about russia. ah, it's long been reason enough to condemn any old adult christian attack in prison and even kill them. russia, what are you russia? finance? a big grass when you love,
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store new store across layla. fenusse total us you use a senior bomb? i used to miss dodd, this seems to me, we just sat down with ah, the number of russian soldiers killed any ukrainian high mas rockets attack in the city of marquis of cut near done yet rises to 189 versus defense ministry says mobile phone signals gave the position of the troops away. also this hour. with this ship is equipped with the latest zircon hypersonic missile system, which has no analog. ladyman, putin sends off a frigates, armed with nuclear capable hypersonic missiles on come by duty in the atlantic and indian oceans. under the king of.

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