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our life. a water. you know, 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 and you had any immediate, initiating the 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, with, with a, we also puerto rico the, 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 maria was not just created by maria, but what is maria plays fair, the reality. it strips it down to the bare bones and you're going to really see that colonialism still exist and a few places, unfortunately, go as one of them,

the directions were getting to those. 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 that 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 angry to buy a lack of political latan. 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 times my role was as the protection against the police coming so i was ready to engage and gunfire even had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. so i had thought that through

the, the island of point article was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8 in 1898. it became let us call yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people of a population greater than 21 of the 50 us states live close to house and live in poverty. the puerto rico is a us territory, powerless to challenge options of the united states government. that effective

people 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 boards that we had made it for very eyes 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 addressed in me, but i went up and slapped him in the face. you know as hard as i could just don't 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, the dining room. and, you know, i said, holy, what if i've gotten my certification? the senior year and over my, my professor for american history. mr. len james?

he said, so now would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam? i said yeah, off shore. and he said wants to 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 in 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, you know, we flush the colonies. referral for independence. what are we? we're going to become a empire now. the

for over 400 years for adult eco 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 be a dead just months after, when does he goes to 1st election to the united states invaded the item within 10 weeks, hopes of independence were dashed as the island was the next by the us. and then in 1917, the jones at made a point so he can see us. citizens are 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, the you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i don't know they were supposed to. i know a lot of 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 on. okay. um as the 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 is the statute was a 3 life job. okay. it's 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 light. it 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, it's kicking you and hitting you until you got to the battery where i can throw you in the body 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 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 when the crowd, man, the people inside the building, the

didn't yahoo tell us by and we have to go into gaza and rules 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 question of the nuclear envelope she was like, i do live muscles. if you look on the initial do while significant dealer post on zillow, while it be almost getting used to put value, what do you do, origin, but you also still, this is done, the newest frame going

to be of assistance to you. what i see these the buses, the little gear relation says this done by the 50 years earlier. another point though he can student matriculate at harvard. federal i'll be so complex. in 1921, he graduates from harvard law school with the highest grade point average and his class privilege minds at pottery lies produced and was not recognized as such because you know, he was black for reading. so, not out the,

i asked her harvard i'd be so compos 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 fight 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 a wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood viva la republica. i've also seen a long live in 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. 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 white though they go. when 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 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 read the staging, coordinated attacks on police stations, the governor's mansion and the u. s. federal court. the national guard responds with heavy artillery motors for need and p 47 from

the. this is the 1st time fighter planes attack on the, in the aftermath, 2000, puerto ricans are rounded off and arrested the in retaliation to national list form a plan. the outside, blair house, 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. as, as in 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, 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 governor's policy, to push these guys into a corner and get them to a point where it's either give up or slow down the fire. and so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course,

they responded and followed, crush, and crush in a way 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 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 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, 44 adult ricans, living in new york,

decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. communicating from prison for the diesel 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. now, congress is in session, lead time over the leads them and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point the equally with long live free point, the equal buyer in the house of representatives. and these police that in crowds rushing to the capital, the shuttle down wild. i'm a puerto rican fanatic raphael miranda is photograph moments after he and apollo tourist andres cordero at joined with the lead on that button. and buying more than 20 shop sets and crowded house for 5 con, this one are wounded,

and the rest of the film grimly defiant. the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowds the next time to see them from night. and i would like this happen today. i wake the kind of a man of good will not pay to pay for the recall immediately the headings times of the nobody to ask for freedom in some way because all of the ways have been tried as the country are politically. it's not the only content anyway,

it is the gate fire. and i asked that i came here yesterday with the statement not to us as the most americans, as 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 as be trained the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country, the or

a feeling better to have anybody else was born in puerto rico in the 19 thirty's. 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 guess of wherever. oh, if that's the end the all. but i mean, you know,

at the end of the main thing is convincing into the game that will leave you in the vice cord only. so they get point by the room that going on my, that a big good found that 3 and the look at that pretty good handle. see the best 3 i'm going to make or set about about the the in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding in puerto rico and us based hotels, casinos and 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. freely red. go ahead. i called these actions farm propaganda

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segment that has nothing extra them. but adults under that the as violence escalates in the gaza, the, you and the cries as impossible, israel's order for more than a 1000000 northern gods or residence to flee from their homes to the south within 24 hours. meanwhile, israel slammed still in response as a disgrace. that's, as is rarely tripped a mass on the border with guns that in preparation for a possible ground assault, the and paris. please use water cannon and tear gas to this 1st pro palestinian protesters who