in their freedom of speech, whether it's on social media, whether it's on university campuses, or whether it's in the public square, engaging in protest itself. while the united states votes about being some kind of bass, jen of human rights and freedom that has the right to go around, criticizing governments around the world. it one looks at what's actually taking place in the united states. one will see that it's becoming a less and less free country every day. yeah, came over and the world is turned in and doesn't look for it doesn't know how it's going to be any better. but thanks for joining us. i mean, it's up to speed kind of open, like any delays of for the mass i live at, bab oak has fruits as i rush of a quote. play simple game when it goes to the green deal. shumate both comments during a press conference with the remaining counts of all the same food supplies in the black sea region. but the event has also gone it attached because of a confusing slip off of by the gentleman to prove that she accidentally called him

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we went to bed and 2017. the and woke up and it was 19 o 3. nope, our life. a water. no cell phones. i mean, it's just like nothing was work and you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones in your head. you need immediate mission. 80. the hospitals are without power. doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones

saw once like 0 on your on 40 on the, the rule. so brain with the people of where to read. we left with the with and we also love puerto rico. the new response to re, uh, was really like upholstered child of, of the relationship between, you know,

puerto rico and, and the united states. the situation in mario is 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 for today go is one of them the interactions with getting people. so yes, it is possible to resist break the colonized mentality that these guys can be

part of that there's nothing we can do to change the situation. the sensor in the, in the 19 seventy's, when, once that guy was in his early twenties, he chose to fight for the independence of his homeland. although many, puerto ricans were angry to buy a lack of political autonomy. only a small percentage advocated full independence from the united states. even fewer chose ones past of paramilitary operations and robbing banks. the last one i did was 33 years ago. and the most of the time

my role was because the protection against the police coming so i was ready to engage in gunfire if it had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. so i had thought that through the the island of point the vehicle was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. in 1898. it became let

us get 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 would close to has to live in poverty. the puerto rico is a us territory, powerless to challenge options of the united states government, that effective speed, the residents have no vote in congress or in presidential elections. the we had a subscription to time magazine and there was an issue in which the cover story was

on 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 we had made it for very us while the i had like a shark skin suit, which i thought was so cool. the 1st time i walk into the dining hall, maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. and as soon as i walk into the cho take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes, hey you know, that's the 1st time i'd heard that word. let alone address did me when i went up

and slapped them in the face. you know as hard as i could just don't look at. he was so shocked that he doing and i went into the, to the co room, to have my coat and then go into the, the dining room. and, you know, i say holy water, if i've gotten mice for sure. if this was the senior year 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, why don't you do a paper on the spanish american war? and i did, and i came to our door in the library to bottles of the library to read the congressional records. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered

on the one side it was i was referring to us for practically as monkeys in like these round races. and this on that i'm going to wait. and then you had guys like a william jennings bryan in the anti imperialist saying this be traced all over the united states is about, we know we fly to the colonies. referral for independence, what are we? we're going to become a empire now. the for over 400 years, puerto rico suffered as a spanish calling but in 1897, spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy. many hopes that this was a step towards independence. but it turned out to the addendum, the just months afterwards though he goes to 1st

election, the united states invaded the to within 10 weeks. hopes of independence were dashed as the island was a next by the us. and then in 1970. the jones at made point though, he can see us citizens like okay, we're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for even if we were offered citizenship with had and we would prefer the you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i don't know we were supposed to and i know a lot, i see a lot of people doing it. so there you go. okay. who's next?

i do know that that's not john harvard. no, that is no because he was dead by the time they did that. so some, some young man posed so on. okay. um as the years not right. and he wasn't just the founder because he was one of of a whole lot of so that's why they say this was the statue was a 3 lice. ah, okay. the year the that was my dorm room window on the top floor there. the 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 so real quality.

and there was a ring of policemen, setting up an outer perimeters. i mean, they all had these elements on visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here. and 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. the bigger everybody. i just pulled it on and is it as they brought you down the stairs and kicking you and hitting you until you got to the battery? i can throw you in the battery right in the field of adding right and drove it out . and then brought the next one is the answer. that was what basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful

change and thinking that we could change things peacefully in understanding with these guys had to be for in a different way. for me, that was the beginning, us from my radicalization, the crowd man, and the people inside the building, the

the, the 50 years earlier. another port authority can student matriculate at harvard federal i'll be so. campbells. in 1921. he graduates from harvard law school with the highest grade point average and his class privilege minds of puerto utilized per ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blackboard reading so not the

after harvard be so con plus returns to 4 door recall where he witnesses the us controlled sugar cartel, extracting higher profits from plantation workers than any other place in the world . the in 1934 b. so compost organizes sugarcane cutters, or much of sales 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. the emboldened diesel campus forms the cadets of the republic who take an oath to fight for point to heat and independence. on palm sunday,

1937 and 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, the on the police begin firing. marchers and bystanders attempt to sleep the flag. there is the 1st to be killed. a 7 year old girl picks up the flag and she is a medium shot. the a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood viva! like a pool because of a holo!

cmos long lived the republic, down with the murders, the 23519 killed including the 7 year old girl, the $20000.00 mourners attend the funeral ceremonies. the none of the police are held accountable. the i didn't know any of that. when i was growing up the, you know, i was like this, what did i know? and i, it wasn't until years later that i sent me on to have

a different historical perspective on, on the vehicle. and you know, the gag law or they may find the border. you can slide by itself illegal and punishable by prison. you know, you can speak in favor of independence or to be thrown into prison. the in 1948 law, 53, lay the more data known as the gag order makes it a crime to display a puerto rican flag speaking out for independence or seen a patriotic point. 30 can song can lead to 10 years in prison. in 1950 nationalist across the island rebuild. staging, coordinated attacks on police station, the governor's mansion and the us federal courthouse. the national guard responds with heavy artillery motors for needs and p 47 farms.

this is the 1st time fighter planes. i tap on the, in the aftermath, 2000, puerto ricans are round it up and arrested. the in retaliation to national list form a plan, the outside warehouse, the presidents temporarily. washington homes, 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, colorado,

and 2 other guards are wounded as the plotters for washington's emergency. the hospital, a 24 hour guard watches over to you as of who despite a chest wound, drake covers to face trial for murder. they have tried to kill me, and i knew that they'd try it again. i knew who they were, they are a bunch of fanatics that a lot of an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalist 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 go down and fight and

so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course, they responded and thought crushed and crushing away that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put the invaders, you know, put down all the freedom fighters, cut their heads off and put them on a place. so everybody knows noticed. don't mess with the us because this is which waiting for you, the why was approached by somebody i trusted very much and said listeners saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. and you know, we think you're a good candidate. what do you say? i said, yes, the in

1954, 4.3 kids living in new york decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. are communicating from prison. diesel campus presents them with a mission. to bring the fight for independence to the american public. purchases new sunday dress clothes advise one way. tickets to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building while congress is in session. need turn it on, leads them and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point the only way. long live freeport thought equal wire in the house of representatives and the police out in crowds rushing to the capital. the shuttle down wild. i'm aboard or we can put out a grovel. miranda is photograph moments after he and wrist. andres cordero joined

with the lead on that problem and buying more than 20 shops. that's a crowded house for 5 congress. when are wounded in the murder rest of the time, the film grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowds the next time. see them from iceland. and i would like this to happen today, awake because of the amount of good will the government united states to pay for the recall immediately the headings times again, nobody random some way because all the other ways have been tried as a country are politically. it's not easy only continue the way it is the gate

fire. and i asked that i came here yesterday made statements not to us as the origin the most americans that there's no context to that is like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics are auto, reagan dependence, so you know, when we've done such good for them, how good they do that the, the criminal investigation reveals that no lead been able to on fired her weapon into the ceiling, harming no one the capital police, find a note in her handbag, my life i give for the freedom of my country. the united states has be trained the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country.

the feeling better to have that video was born in puerto rico in the 1930s. as a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north american sugar monopolies. he witnessed the slaughter of the points and massacre. he saw the death of colonialism globally, but experienced it lingering on tenaciously at home. in his twenties, already and accomplished jazz musician, he gave up his career as a trumpet player and began to fight for independence. it was clear to feeling better to hear that, that the us was not going to change of its own accord the

single savvy cause of wherever it or if that's in the all but the mean. so you know, at the end at the main thing is going busy in the big get the only the in the vice cold only. so they got blue going by the room that going on my, that a big get found that 3 and the look is that pretty good handle? see the, the best 3 dynamic or somebody about the, the in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding and puerto rico and us based hotels, casinos in department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's. and we'll work for all head there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. go ahead. i called these actions farms propaganda the,

the, to the, sorry this our a full year grading security chief confesses the key to this is an estimate of prisoners for not doing the job. but the less the media whitewash is the officials was changing and eliminate people. and when a terrorist 1st stop the effect of the non to financial institution, risk bones, and that relief to come by the global warming that the applicant, climate, the summit funds. and the idea is protesting outside donations election. cool. those hearings are on the way to reconsider the get to the see of the countries president the.