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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 working. you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones that you had. you need immediate nationality.

the hospitalization was not following doctor's doing procedures with the flashlight from 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, the response to a was really like a poster child 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 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 today go is one of them. the interactions with during the so yes,

it is possible to resist break the colonize 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 1970s, 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 passed of parent military operations and robbing banks. the last one i did was 33 years ago. and

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 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 affected 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 taking maybe 10 steps, some guy goes, hey, you know, that's the 1st time i had heard that word,

let alone address did me. when i went up and slapped him in the face, you know as hard as i could just don't. and 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 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, you said cigna, 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, but it was those referring to us for practically as monkeys and like the round races and this on that i'm going to wait. and then you had guys like a william jennings bryan. and the anti imperialist, saying this be traced all over the united states is about we and i'll wait for 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. sweat. it turned out to the addendum,

the just months after of winter 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 for 30 guns us citizens. like okay, we're going to 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. i know a lot of see

a lot of people doing it, so there you go. okay. who's next? i do 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. it's about the year the that was my dorm room window on the top floor there. the as i looked down that morning, it 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 him is 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 of my radicalization or the crowd man, the people inside the building, the video hotels by and we have to go into gaza and rolls out negotiations in turn. fighting says we stand with israel, we stand with israel. so it's clear piece isn't the 1st priority. what is also on the agenda is potential genocide,

the known in vietnam as the american war, the vietnam war lost its almost 2 decades and dragged in numerous countries. not any time right now. and then you don't see it now. wow. it's all on the empty hundreds of thousands of american troops who was sent to the country to back the south vietnamese on me. and i'm sorry about that, not much. american soldiers, militant resistors mercilessly burned down entire villages and spread dangerous chemicals. and even lee by all right, did the americans ever fully acknowledge what they did and on the vietnamese veterans ready to forgive? yeah, yeah. yeah,

that's that way. it's too late. but yeah, the a good, 50 years earlier, another portability 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 mind to pull her equalized for ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blind for reading. so not the

after harvard be so compost returns to for the recall where he witnesses the u. s. 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 compost forms the cadets of the republic

who take an oath to find for point though he can 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 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

wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood, viva la republica. hullo, cmos 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 it, i know,

and i, it wasn't until years later that i sent me on to have a different historical perspective. on unplug the vehicle and you know, the gag law. 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 motor garza 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 courthouse. the national guard

responds with heavy artillery motors for need 47 from the 1st time fighter planes attack on the in the aftermath. 2000, puerto ricans are round it up and arrested. the in retaliation to nationalist 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 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 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 why 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 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. communicating from prison. i be so campus presents them with a mission. to bring the fight for independence to the american public. purchases new sunday dressed. this advise one way to get us to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building. now congress is in session. lead never on leads them and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point, equally with a long live free point, the equal fire 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 gravity. i'm or i'm the is photograph moments after he and wrist, andres cordero at joined with the lead on that problem and buying more than 20 shops at the crowded house for 5 congress. when our wounded and the murderers of the time, the sail, grimley defiant, the women as hustled from the angry, menacing crowd the next time, see them from iceland and that i would like this to happen today, awake because of the amount of good will of the government united states to pay for the recall immediately the headings times again, nobody from freedom from wayne because all the

other ways have been tried as a country, a political. 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 on the for most americans that there's no context to that is like these guys are totally insane. now 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 be trained the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country, the feeling better go ahead. 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 points and massacre. he saw the death of colonialism globally, but experienced 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. oh if that's the end to all. but he knew, you know, at the end of the main thing is convincing. in the game that will leave you in the vice court only, so they can point by the room that going on. my the biggest on the 3 on the look, is that pretty good handle? see the, the big 3. i mean, i mean, what side of 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 in world war world head. there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage all had called these actions.

farms propaganda, the release of russian states never is as tight as i'm wondering. the most sense community not getting hold of all sun set up the speed, the one else holes. question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on russia to day and split the r t smooth neck, even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube, the services for the question, did you say even twist which is the,

the job rally, or my little story, the model girl that i got you. no problem saying it all out of the know nothing 30 minutes us out in the drive i showed my brother through. he was sudden to help big afresh a low so now i never looked at searches as being said, well i guess i lost my list. that's the outcome of chicago police. it'd be gang chicago is like to give you a photo that police. you lose your life as another crime scene. another one could have been a doctor. a nurse could have been the next president. we can't keep losing people out here. the

1972. when i 1st met fairly back to and we sat down on a bench like this, and i had the 1st conversation with the man that i was to follow for for many years . and that past change my life, the in 1976 for the better to hear that. and once i got banded together with others, fighting for independence and formed, lost much of those are the king cutters. the context was that vietnam had won the cuban revolution at that time was like a beacon to a lot of.