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it was 19 o 3. nope, our life. a water you know, 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 mission 80. ready hospitalization without borrowing doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. so once like your on your on 40 on the

the i also pray for the people of where to read. we left wet wet and we also loved puerto rico, the new 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? plays fair, 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 interactions with 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 input, the in the 19 seventy's, when once that guy was in his early twenties,

he chose to fight for the independence of his home are. although many puerto ricans were angered by a lack of political economy. only a small percentage advocated full independence from the united states. even fewer chose ones past 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 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 late us yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people lived a population greater than 20. 1 of the 50 us states would close to house and living

in poverty. the puerto rico is a us territory, powerless to challenge options of the united states government. that effective sp 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 in and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 indoor basketball court that they had made it for very as a while the i had like

a shark skin suit which i thought was so cool. the 1st time i walk into the, 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 address did me. when i went up and slapped them in the face, you know as hard as i can just look at. 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 dining room. and, you know, i said, holy, what if i've gotten myself for sure. if this was

the, the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. len james, you 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. it was referring to us for practically as monkeys. and like the round races and vision that are going away, and then you had guys like a william jennings bryan. and the anti imperialist, saying this be trays all over the united states is about, we know we fly the colonies. referral for independence. what are we? we're going to become

a empire now the for over 400 years, where does equal suffered as a spanish call in 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 to he goes to 1st election to the united states, invaded the items within 10 weeks, hopes of independence were dashed as the island was the next by the us. and then in 1970 the jones act made for him so he can see us citizen the like, ok, we're going to make you american citizens,

which she didn't ask for the even if we were offered citizenship with, haven't 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. okay. 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 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 look down that morning i was just starting to be light. 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 be, is elected 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 and filled a paddy wagon drove it out and then brought the next one is the answer. and stuff that was, was basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that we could change things peaceful in understanding with these guys had to be for in a different way. for me that was the beginning of my radicalization. policemen are the crowd man and the people inside the building.

the the 1950 us as i was returning to peaceful life with the newspapers, didn't rip or ongoing massacres, and the ukrainian saw, according to intelligence, ukrainian nationalist and the ukrainian insurgent ami said by romano. she'll give each other to i do these atrocities for future the best hold of those going well. but i see in your new way to be way to be like this is of course to do a new or novel through the plot of who's the head of the n t v d sabotage, department of the time he was tasked with stopping the atrocities in ukraine for a good reason, general sort of blonde. it was very familiar with the situation. he had experience finding the nationalist before the war. page named, loveless, to contend a z, a do it to me or send me a know, could i e mail as well?

that's funny, so give me the task was tremendously difficult, but suit up, rhonda was determined to complete as we had personal accounts, the central with the ukranian nationalist who when i was just going to shave, how's the application and engagement equals betrayals when so many find themselves will support we choose to look so common ground the 50 years earlier. another point though he can student matriculate at harvard. federal i'll be so comes in 1921. he graduates from harvard law school

with the highest grade point average in his class privilege minds of pottery, less per ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blackboard reading so not out 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 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 find 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 begin firing. marchers and bystanders attempt just to leave

the flat. 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 la republica. i've also seen a long lived the republic down with the murders, the 23519 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'd 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. in 1950 nationalist across the island read the staging coordinated attacks on police station, the governor's mansion and the us federal court. the national guard responds with heavy artillery motors for need and p $47.00 for the 1st time fighter planes attack on the, in the aftermath, 2000, puerto ricans around 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 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'd try it again. i knew who they were. there 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 on. in fact, it was the us 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 and fight it. 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 hands off and put them on a place. so everybody knows noticed. don't mess with us because this is which waiting for you

the, was approached by somebody i trusted very much and said listeners, 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, 4.3 kids 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 of the advise one way. tickets to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building. now congress is in session. never 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 free point, the equal fire in the house of representatives and these police and 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 a fellow tourist andres cordero at joined with the lead on that problem and buying more than 20 sharp cents in crowded house for 5. congress. one are wounded in the murder rest of the time, the film, grimley defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowds the next time to see them from night. 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 only point in the new way is to get a fire and i say i came here to be made statements not to the for most americans that there's no context to that. it's like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics are pottery, gun dependence, all 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 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 for all head audio was born in port authority goal 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 better to hear that that the us was not going to change of its own accord the single savvy cause of wherever though if that's in the opening you see, you know, at the end at the end of the day is convincing me in the game that will leave you in the vice court only. so they got point by the room that got on my that a big get done that 3 and the work is that pretty good handle? see the, the best 3. i'm going to make one started in the fall of 1969,

dozens of bombs began exploding in puerto rico and us base hotels, casinos and department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's and we'll work for all his there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage go ahead. i called these actions farm propaganda. the admission slipped. the ladies near seems to have the chance of losing campbell system to personalize. can use me. it looks on the labels to go to the

the on as long the which will be sitting up with a lot. it does your learn your image stuff. oh. because a lot of new which in the, for the high acceptance and i'm going to plan with you whatever you do, do not watch my new show search like why watch something that's so different whitelisted opinion is that he won't get anywhere else to do with please do have the state department to see i a weapons, bankers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your facts for you. go ahead, change and whatever you do. don't want my show stay main street because i'm

probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called direction. but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way you the question of the nuclear above seeing the muscles, if you look on the visual do while i pull up significantly post on zillow, while it be almost getting used to put value, where do you do origin, but you also still this is done. the supreme only begins with systems to good lou do what i see these the buses. the little gear limitation says this to,

to do them both of the 1972 when i 1st met really back to and we sat down on a bench like this. and i had the 1st conversation with man that i was to follow for for many years. and that past changed my life, the in 1976 for the battle. heather. and once i got banded together with others fighting for independence and formed, lost much data or the cane cutters. the context was