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the we went to bed and 2017. the, and woke up and it was 19 o 3. no. light water. no cell phones. i mean 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, initiating the hospitalization without power, doctors doing procedures with buildings, flashlights on their cell phones. so once like your on your on 40 on the,

the also brain with the people of where to read. we left with the with and we also love puerto rico the response to maria was really like a poster 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 is maria? place 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 the go, as one of them, the directions were getting to those a 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. that sense of

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 economy. only a small percentage advocated full independence from the united states. even fewer chose ones passed of parent military operations and robbing banks. the last one i did was 33 years ago in the most of the times, my role was as the protection against the police coming so i was ready to engage in gunfire. even 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 a westcan it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people have

a population greater than 21. if the 50 us states live close to has to live in poverty, the puerto rico is a us territory. powerless to challenge options of the united states government. that affected spe 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 u. s. and i read in and over was covered prominently. there and said they had 7 into our basketball courts that we had made it for very i said, wow,

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 show and take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes, hey, you know, that's the 1st time i'd heard that word, let alone addressed in me. but i went up and slapped him in the face. you know, as hard as i could do something, why? and he was so shocked that he didn't do anything. 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 said holy,

what if i've gotten myself for the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. len james, he said, so 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 didn't, i came to our door in the library to bottles of the library to read the congressional record. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side and it was referring to us for practically, as monkeys in like the brown races and this and that are going away. and then you had guys like a william jennings bryan and the anti imperialist,

saying this be trays, all of what the united states is about. we know we for the colonies, referral for independence. what are we? we're going to become a empire now. the for over 400 years where adult eco suffered as a spanish colon 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 be a dead. the just months after point though, he goes to 1st election, the united states invaded the items within 10 weeks. hopes of independence were dashed as the island was

a next by the us. and then in 1970 the jones act made forward so he can see us citizen the like, ok, we're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for even if we were offered citizenship with have and we would prefer the you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i don't know we were supposed to and all i see a lot of people doing it. so there you go. ok. who's next? i do know that that's not john. harvard know that there's no because he was dead by the time they did that. so some, some young man posed. so all done okay. is

a year is 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. got about a 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 like there was a mist still on the yard which added to this kind of serial quality. and there was a ring of policeman 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 him is as they brought you down the stairs, a kicking you and hitting you until you got to the battery. i can throw you in the battery where i can fill the paddy wagon, drove it out and then brought to an extra one of the stuff that was, was basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that we could change things peacefully, the understanding that these guys had to be for in a different way. for me, that was the beginning,

us from my radicalization crowd, man. the people inside the building, the museums are important for preserving our history so that it is a loss to future generations. but our physical museums, places themselves a relic of the past. this is one of the best museums in the world are coming to us in saint petersburg. to help for us is the director here, and i bet he has met the the revolution of 1789 in france, gave hope for the liberation of the oppressed peoples in the french overseas territories. but paris did not want to part with insurance as

a profit. silver sign of the colonization was the uprising of black slaves in haiti that remote island, reduced almost half of all the sugar on the planet. sooner was made by d as in franchise slaves, broad from africa. scene 1791. they started an uprising against their oppressors. the black swept away the colonial administration and formed their own army. it was led by that charismatic leader, francois dominique. 2 song level 2 are ranked attempts to regain control of the colony were unsuccessful. having comes up, our napoleon dispatched a large expeditionary force to haiti. the french manage the caps or to saul love at your by defeats, but they could not suppress the rebels and suffered devastating defeats. on january 1, 18

o 418 declared independence. the 1st one and the whole latin america. however, freedom was paid for with the blood of 200000 courageous haitians who had sacrificed their lives for the abolition of slavery on our planet. the events in haiti were the only successful uprising of slaves in history when they not only through of slavery, but also began to rule their state the 50 years earlier. another port, though he can student matriculate at harvard federal id. so comes in 1921. he graduates from harvard law school with the highest grade point average in his class as one of those privileged minds of pottery glass produced and was not recognized as such because you know,

he was blind for reading. so not i am the after harvard. i'd be so campus returns to for the 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 data 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 the week of independence. 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, the on the police began firing marchers and bystanders attempt just leave the flag. there is the 1st to be killed. the 7 year old girl picks up the flags 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 the whole associates. long lived the republic, down with the murders, the $235.00 were 19 killed including the 7 year old girl. the 20000 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 began to have a different historical perspective on, on for the vehicle. been, you know, the gag law made flying the border. you can fly by itself illegal and punishable by prison. you know, you can speak in favor of independence or you be thrown into prison. the in 1948 law, 53 lay. the mortar died, fsa, 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. the a 1950 nationalist across the island. redone staging. coordinated attacks on police station, the governor's mansion,

and the us federal court. the national guard responds with heavy artillery mourners. for ne p 47. the. this is the 1st time fighter planes. i tap on the, in the aftermath, 2000 puerto ricans around it up and arrested the in retaliation to nationalist former 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 hospital . the 24 hour guard watches over co, you also who despite a chest wound, recovers to face trial for murder. they have tried to kill me, and i knew that they tried again. i knew who they were there, 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 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 the fire and so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course, we responded and for 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 hands 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, was approached by somebody i trusted very much and said listen, there saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. and, you know, we think you're a good candidate. what hits i said. yes,

the, in 1954, 44 adult ricans, living in new york, decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. communicating from prison be so campus presents them with admission 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 lead time. never on leads them and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point so frequently with a long live free point, the legal fire in the house of representatives and the police that in crowds rushing to the capital the shuttle down wild. i'm a border we can put out

a gravity all around is photograph moments after he and apollo towers. sunrise cordero at joined with the lead on that button and buying more than 20 shot cents and part of the house for 5 congress. when our wounded and the murder rest of the time, the sale i am, the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowds. the next time to see them from iceland. and that 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 that the nobody paid them some way

because all the other ways have been tried to not wake on the on the continued the way it is, the gate fire. and i say i came here to be made statements not to us as the most americans. there's no context to that. it's like these guys are totally insane . you know, these fanatics are pottery, gun 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 delivered on fired her weapon into the ceiling, harming no one. the capitol police find

a note in her handbag. my life i give for the freedom of my country. the united states has to be trained the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country, the feeling better all had already else 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 onset, mastercard. 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 bad 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 he knew. so, you know, at the end at the main thing is convincing. me into the game that will be the in the vice court only. so they can point by the room. they can on my that a big get done that 3 and the work is that pretty good handle. see the, the best 3 on any make or sound about, about the, the, in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding in puerto rico and us based hotels, pacino's in department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's and will work for all his there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage go ahead. i called these actions

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limitation says this done. most of the former employee security chief confesses the key to this isn't because prisoners were not doing the job but the west. the media whitewash is the visual of was trying to eliminate people to eliminate saturdays. first off, the perfect time for the lead is demand, financial institution reforms, and that's really needs to call me back globally that the aspirin private summit inc. and they tried to, you know, in nigeria opposed to the incumbent president victory in the recent election that we did this claims of violent,