story of what hot enough time money went through on the morning of last saturday, october 7th. we were woking advi, alarms that keeps going on exclusions all around us. and we were running to the safe room for protection. and we couldn't understand what was going on. we've never experienced the apps to last them dis, exclamation when my husband came into the same room, he gave me a gun and we looked at each other and we said that we're fighting to the last, but no matter what that is, the better option than being the hostage, we have to fight i and for one second i in all those 8 hours and i was sitting there in the despair and then going there was burning off with us. there was no point. instead of going down with at us, right. we didn't know we did and they don't want to think we're now going to they make it. i'm sitting here today almost

a week after i still don't understand it. i still don't believe that we've been through this, that my children had to go through this that i had to tell my children that they have to fight and never give up and die. i then to be hostage, it's, it's, it's crazy. it's insane. one can only imagine the seating people are going through right now. that's still big for this out. well, bring it more. i think that's all for yeah, hi, i'm michael porch and i'll see you again. the mm. the

we went to bed and 2017.

the and woke up and it was 19 o 3. nope. our life. the water. no cell phones. i mean it's just like nothing. just wanted you to know how your loved ones were doing except the ones that you had any immediate initiating. ready hospitalization, without power, doctors doing procedures with building and 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 with and we also of puerto rico, the, the response to re, uh, 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 it, maria lays bare the reality. it strips it down to, to its barebones. and you can really see that colonialism still exists in a few places. and for the go as one of them,

the, the, 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 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 economy. 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 in 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, the, the island of point the vehicle was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. in 1898. it became a us 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 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 effective speed, 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 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 all 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 i could just don't. wow. 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 water, if i've gotten myself for 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 want to 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 record. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side. it was i was referring to us for practically as monkeys. and like these round races and this on that are going to way. and then you had guys like a william jennings bryan in the anti imperialist, saying this be trays all over the united states is about, you know,

we flight 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, the same. granted the island, a degree of autonomy. many hopes that this was a step towards independence. but it turned out to the addendum, the just months afterwards 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 1917, the jones act made point,

so he can see us citizens are 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 and 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 not 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 was my dorm room window on the top floor there. the or 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 and kicking you and hitting you until you got to the battery where i can throw you in the battery. right and fill the battery 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.

the crowd, man, the people inside the building, the the, i'm thinking of a single who's moving to sweet truthfulness. i'm losing this. we thoughts because of the some of those are bites in the community to cook where they need to conclude that took a gamble unless you're willing to order these voided. what's the key of know what it means? you won't literally automate room. there are still going. you pardon,

you have to assume the point choose, which is mostly both the virtual customer volume it's 0. so it's more than a bunch of fridays. it's only going to come out to see if we can figure out before the last place the 50 years earlier. another port authority can student matriculate at harvard battle . i'll be so campus. in 1921, he graduates from harvard law school with the highest grade point average in his class privilege minds. a pottery glass produced and was not recognized as such because you know, he was black for reading. so not the

after harvard be so compost 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 fails to strike against us sugar companies. they are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers present. and the wages are double to a $1.50 a day. the emboldened diesel compost forms the cadets of the republic who taken 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 begin firing. marchers and bystanders attempt to clean 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 lived the republic down with the murders, the 235, were the 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, there wasn't until years later that i began to have

a different historical perspective on like the vehicle. and you know, the gag law that made flying 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 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 station, the governor's mansion and the u. s. federal court. the national guard responds with heavy artillery motors for needs and p 47 from

the 1st time fighter planes. i tap on the the, in the aftermath to 1000, 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. 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. they 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 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 which 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 crushed in a way that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put the invaders, you know, put donald freedom fighters, cut their heads off and put them on a price. so everybody knows knows that don't mess with 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 hardly so campus presents them with admission to bring the fight for independence to the american public. the group 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 able to lead to 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 buyer in the house of representatives. i mean police that in crowd rushing to the capital, the shuttle down wild. i'm a puerto rican fanatic raphael miranda as photograph moments after he and wrist. andres cordero at joined with the lead on that button,

and buying more than one is shop sets and crowded house for 5. congress, one are wounded in the murder of the time, the film grimly defiant. the woman is hustled from the angry minutes synccloud the next thing i need them from. i and i would like this to happen today. i wake a kind of a man of good will not the government's united states to pay for the recall. immediately the headings time to be and nobody to ask for freedom from way because of all the ways have been tried as a country, a political scene is not the only continued the way it is the gate fire

. and i asked that i came here to be made statements as the most americans that there's no context to that. it's like, these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics are pottery, gun dependent. and 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 hand bag. 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 to have that video was born in puerto rico in the 1930s. or as a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north american sugar monopolies. he witnessed the slaughter of the onset 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 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. in the game that won't be in the vice accordingly. so they can point by the room they can on my the biggest and the 3 on the look as a pretty good handle. see the best 3. let me, let me go to somebody about the, the in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding and puerto rico and us base hotels, casinos in 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 farms propaganda. the

number mcneal media visits deploy boston. yep. sent to nancy cook gyms and then actually she just needs a the the only showcase use the thing. so i'm just going into the ways that the boys, the what would be the most and that'll be for them. i'm not sure if this slaughter

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