the, the we went to bed and 2017, the, and woke up and it was 19 o 3. nope, our life. a water you know, cell phones. i mean is just like nothing was work and you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones and you had you need immediate nationality. ready hospitalization, without power, doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones.

so once like you're on your, on 40 on the, the also brain with the people of where to read. we left with well, and we also love puerto rico. the new response to maria was really like a poster child of the relationship between you know, puerto rico and stanley 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 going into the say, 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 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 homeland. 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 the most of the times

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 late

us. 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 with 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 us. and i read in and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 indoor basketball boards that 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, 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 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 like, we just had, he was so shocked that he didn't do anything. and i went into the to the co room to have my coat men go into the dining room. and you know, i said, holy, what if i've gotten myself for sure. if this was 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, 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, the just months after went to the coast 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, okay, we're going to 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 the there you go. ok. who's next?

i don't know that. that's not john harvard. now 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 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 being evicted, one by one. the bigger everybody. i just pulled it on him. 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 that 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 on the beach. let's click the links, right. so you have to just change to this and campbell system to personalize. can use me over to good enough to go to the, to the

phone as long to which will be similar patella. it does your learn your image stuff. oh, because a lot of new which in the for the

a good 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 and his class privilege minds at puerto utilized for ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blackboard reading so not i am in the

after harvard be so campus returns to for the recall where he witnesses the us controlled sugar cartels, 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 compost 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 to flee the flag. there is the 1st to be 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 velocity pool because of the whole associates. 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 today go. when you know the gag law, they may find the border. you can fly 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 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 port authority can song, can lead to 10 years in prison. in 1950 nationalist across the island, redone staging. coordinated attacks on police stations, the governor's mansion and the us federal court. the national guard responds with heavy artillery motors 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 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 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. there are a bunch of fanatics that a lot of an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalists 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 the fire 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 bike. 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 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, 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 dressed advise one way. tickets to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building while congress is in session. lead not 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 freeport. vertical wire 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 wrist. andres cordero at joined with the lead on that problem,

and buying more than 20 shop cents. and part of the house for 5 congress when our wounded and the murder rest of the time, the film grimly defiant, 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 we have 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 politically. it's not easy,

only continue the way it is the gate fire and i asked that i came here to be made statements not to us as the. ready 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. 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 capital 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 for all head i 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 ones that 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 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 and all. but he knew so you know, at the end at the main thing is convincing me in the game that will be the 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. the 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

look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings accept. we're so charters at conflict with the 1st law show your mind, anticipation. we should be very careful about our professional intelligence at the point, obviously is to create a trust rather than fit the various job with artificial intelligence. we have somebody with him and the robot must protect this phone. existence was on the 1950 to us so, so i was returning to peaceful life with the newspapers didn't report ongoing

mexico's and the ukranian saw, according to intelligence ukrainian nationalists. and the ukrainian insurgent ami said by real mind shall give each of which way to these atrocities. for future was the best hold at the old school. and what, what i see on your cell school do what you would do. it would be like this, but it won't cause to do a new one. most of the plaza was the head of the n k v d sabotage department at the time. he was tasked with stopping the atrocities in ukraine for good reason, general sort of blonde. it was very familiar with the situation. he had experience finding the nationalist before the war, loveless to contend a z, a do it to me or send me no, could i? e. but it was cool. that's funny. so give me the task was tremendously difficult, but suit up front that was determined to complete as you have personal accounts, to settle with the ukrainian nationalist

the . now you need your visa, stupid lloyd? here, nancy, nancy kim's in the book is that probably the national should see where it gets to the young showcase. use the thing. so he's going to the boys at the boys, the, the noun that will be put down. i'm not sure if this to florida doesn't want that

extra them. but adults appears that the oppression for an intelligence says us is considering of the physical elimination of these hairs and new to governments . and yet another bid to existence of officers the military lead government in gabon freeze the nations as to the president after a coup in the country last week. and a warning, some viewers may find the following footage, disturbing the pen explosion in a ukrainian and controlled city and on back till 16 people and was 33 more including a child who have accused as moscow, but even ukrainian support style. that narrative the

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