19 o 3, no power, no 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 and you had you need immediate mission 80 ah hospitals or without power. doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. so it's like you're on your own. what do you need to know? ah, with

also brain, with people who had to wreak we leapt 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 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.

ah, i mean our actions are aimed at getting people say yes, it is possible to resist and break the colonize mentality, that these guys can't be beat on that there's nothing we can do to change the situation that their 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, path of paramilitary 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 gun fire. 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. college. yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people live a population greater than 21 of the 50 us states, but close to half and 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 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 in and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 and or basketball court that they had made that made it very as a wow with i had like a shark skin so which i saw was so cool with 1st time i woke in

the, 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 to me, but i went up and slapped him in the face. you know as hard as i could just a 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 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 a paper on the spanish american war. and i didn't, i came to harvard to warn 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 over the united states. as of all, we and all we fought the colonies, reform for independence. what we were going to become an empire now.

ah, for over 400 years, puerto rico 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 with just months after winter, he goes to the 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 the citizenship of happened,

we would prefer or 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 and all i see a lot of people doing that. so i asked 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. it's 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 policeman 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 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

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 battery where i can throw you in the battery wagon filled a paddy wagon drove it out and then brought the next one. and i think it was just checking on someone who would clearly 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. a lack of municipal policeman. i mean, it was a little to crowd man, man with the people inside the building with ah,

ah no need to be, i'm so glad i shall cloth it. what is the best time to actually go about them? this is a little bit of a lady named who did he really believe what i see school of a car. what report, what's past something, something they might ask him. importantly, carteret, the step dad, is there a national crime? skip part of it, which it, it said to jeff. so, i mean, i mean you're the one that you that you don't can be coma loosened up and the a couple of somebody at the community that they've got a not result. like it's supposed to start out, they can still affect it or only out of them. so i do need it with us. that's clear, but, but how much the building does spoofing it? right? nobody for you to close is looking at them during

the summer because i've met with so much with them. we cannot create world was it was the case then you big as well for you go that they try see if it can open up that were still a win win unless it is an open so long now when i would show the wrong one, i just don't know if the easiest to see about the same becomes the advocate and engagement. it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look for common ground. 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 met, 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 they called returned 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 students. i don't the question on 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 the child said for me to return back home knowledge support from the united nation. i commission african united

nish. i don't care about douglas, said people 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 was produced and was not recognized as such because in ohio's blight, poor angel not amen. ah, ah. after harvard, i'd 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 lisa 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 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 unprovoked. the police begin fire. marchers and bystanders attempts to flee a flag. there is the 1st to be a 7 year old girl picks up the flag and she is immediately shot. ah, a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood. viva la republica. 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 puerto rico. and you know that gag law and 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 lamar garza known as the gag order, makes it a crime to display a puerto rican flag speaking out for independence or seen 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 that us fighter planes are tackling with

in the aftermath. 2000, puerto ricans are rounded up and arrested. in retaliation, 2 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 plotters foiled washington's emergency hospital, a 24 hour guard watches over garzo, who, despite a chest wound, recovers to face trial for murder,

there tried to kill me. 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 on. 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 put down all the freedom fighters cut their heads off and put

them on a pike. so everybody else knows that dom as will ask assistance, 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 um, you know, we think you're a good candidate. what id say? i said, yes. in 1954, it's 4.3 kids 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 dc. then they enter the us 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 late. don't legally, but a long live free point. don't recall 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 photograph moments after he and a fellow tower. as time goes good, are all at joined with little hebron and barring more than 20 shops at the crowded house for 5 congress. when our wounded in the murderous, ah still grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowd. ah,

a new man that's paying for freedom from icon on that, i would like, did happen today. i wake it kind of, it may not good with the word and i think government and i think that they put a recall immediately i think on the new year nobody did you gotten your polar wrapper? freedom from wayne because all the other ways have been tried and i think company a pretty good feeling not click on take it. the only point in the new way is indicate that new. i think you've heard somebody of you fired 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 learn this like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics for pottery, gun abandon, 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 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 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 it thought that the main thing is convincing me in the game that will we be alone buys call on he's out because we won't bother you. they're going on my

battle bigger than the 3 a lot. the world as applica handles either there the other with 3. let me. well, i 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 we'll work. we're all hit. there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. really bad. go ahead. i called these actions arm propaganda. lou needs to come to russian state

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