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a wire. no cell phone. i mean it's just like nothing was work and you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones that you had. you need immediate mission 80. ready ah, hospitals or without power, doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from duracell font. so once like, you're on your own, what do you need to know? ah, with well so

brain, with people who had to rec, we left wet. where so 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 40 go as one of them.

oh well mean our actions were, 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 or that there's nothing we can do to change the situation. and 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,

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

ah and the island of point article was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. in 1898, it became a u. s. con. 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 live in poverty. point the vehicle is a u. s. territory. powerless to challenge options 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 on the us and i read it and and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 indoor basketball court that that may not made it very, very, as a wow with i had like a shark skin suit who drives all was so cool. a 1st time i walk in

the of the dining hall, maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. and as soon as i walk into the child won't 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 law to the court room, to hang out my coat and then go into the dining room and united 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 where 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. 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 over the united states, is about we and all we fought the colonies, reform for independence. what are we? we're going to become an empire now.

ah, for over 400 years point eco suffered as a spanish colony but in 1897, spain granted the island a degree of autonomy. many hoped that this was a step towards independence. but 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. 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 that even if we were offered citizenship with happened,

we would prefer are wrong with you guys in line for a robin the statue or i'm not surprised to rob it. i don't know you're supposed to, i'm 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 the. so that's why they say this is the statue was a 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. there was a mist still 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 elements on with visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here. the, the 5 planner when you get here, the screaming and everything else and then started seeing the guys, the students who were in the building being evicted, one by one side. i

just pulled down. and as they brought you down the stairs and kicking you and have you until you got to the battery, i saw you in the battery right and filled it out and drove it out. and then brought the next one in which was clearly injured. 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 the crowd back of the people inside the building. i

ah ah, ah jagger's archipelago home and that 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 get given med, div our i to the us go that meant to make a military base and just deported all of douglas and people from their country. so

big caught return back on the island. no, no, but we are fighting. that's why i'm real fighting for the right. so i, we do not consider the right to self determination actually applies to the trickle . since i don't the question, no self determination of the legal advice we've received is actually the trickle. since we're not at all, not a people for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do. a full the tumbler said committee to return back home knowledge support from the united nation high commission advocate, united nish. i don't care about chug or send people oh moon, 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 lines of puerto english per ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, whose blackboard radians all. not alex ah, ah, after harvard, i'll be so campus returned to puerto rico 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 petals. 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 diesel. 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 review upstair permit to assemble and they are surrounded by 200 police. some armed with thompson machine with

the police begin fire. marchers and bystanders attempt to plead a flag. there is the 1st to be killed. 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 were wounded. 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 growing up. good. no, 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 puerto rico. and you know, that gag law that made flying the puerto rican flag by itself illegal and pun symbol by prison. you know, you 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 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 off and arrested. in retaliation to nationalist form, a plan ah, outside blair house, the presidents, 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 to ya, so despite 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. they 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 owners 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, 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 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 do you 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, diesel campus presents them with a mission to bring the fight for independence to the american public. the group purchases new sunday dress clothes and buys 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. viva point, the legal levy. long live free puerto rico wire in the house of representatives and the police and crowds rushing to the capitol, shoveled and wild. i'm a border, reagan fanatic, raphael miranda. it's photographed moments after he an apollo tower. as tom grey's go, darrell had joined with little brawn and boring more than 20 shops at the current house for by congress when our wounded and the murderous attack. ah bill grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry and menacing crowd. ah, a new man! that's plain for freedom from my country and that i would like

it happened today. i wake a kind it may not good will of the word, not the government fate. the paper to recall immediately. incom picking here. nobody didn't come here for the rest, for freedom from wayne, because all the other ways have been tried and the police as a country politically feeling not leak on tape is the only continuity, is indicate that you think that you heard somebody fired and i asked that i came here yesterday evening, not to laugh. i move most americans are, there's no context to learn as like these guys are totally insane. you know,

these fanatics for pottery going to abandon so you know, when we've done such good for them are 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 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 so 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 go ahead that, that the u. s. was not going to change of its own accord with c o l, l e with c o, sorry, because of wherever it that's in the open meal. so, you know, at the end i thought that a little bit is convincing me in the game, but will we be in the, a scholarly so they got, we went by the rule, a handled area with

in the fall of 969, dozens of bombs, began exploding in puerto rico and us based hotels, casinos and department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's and we'll work. we're all hit there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. fully methyl head are called these actions farm propaganda ah ah, ah . november

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