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and woke up and it was 19 o 3. nope. our life. a water. no cell phones. i mean is just like nothing was working. you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones that you had any immediate missing 80. ready hospitalization, without power, doctors were doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. so once like you're on your, on 40 on the,

the, the rules of brain were the people of where to read. we left with the with and we also love 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 is maria? plays bear 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 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. the sensor input, the in the 19 seventy's when once that guy was in his early 20, as he chose,

to fight for the independence of his homeland. although many, puerto ricans were angered by a lack of political autonomy. only a small percentage advocated full independence from the united states. even fewer chose ones passed of paramilitary operations and robbing banks. the last one i did was 33 years ago, and the most of the times my role was because 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 the vehicle was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. in 1898. it became i us call yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people moved a population greater than 20. 1 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 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 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 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 could just don't 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 else? i've gotten myself for sure. if this was the,

in the senior year and over my, my profession 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, 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 traced all over the united states is about, we know we fly to the colonies. we file 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 addendum, the just months after he goes to 1st election, the united states invaded the island 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 for 30 guns us citizens

is like, okay, we're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for. even if we were offered citizenship with happened, 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. 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. no, 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

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 just it seems to 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, 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, us from my radicalization, the crowd man, people inside the building, the

of the 1934 prance invaded algeria and straight away the french started in, habiting it to strengthen their position. the columnist, known as the new arts, took the best land from day one, the local population was put into an unequal position and was briefly exploited. these cause, mazda is going to have the people of algeria began their long term fight for independence. in 1954, the banner of freedom was raised by the national liberation front. a guerrilla war against the occupants that broke out. the french tried to suppress,

to rebuild you and using cruel measures. whole villages were wiped out acts of georgia and executions of civil people, including pregnant women, children and old people took place more than 2000000 people were born into concentration camps. however, these punitive measures didn't help. cl, jerry and patriot managed to induce france the start seize negotiations in 1962 heavy and the cords were assigned 40 l. jerry on the bass warrants independence. but this was achieved at a colossal price. algeria by rights is considered to be a country of martyrs. according to the calculations of historians, the french columnists are responsible for the debts of one and a half 1000000 algerians didn't yahoo tell us by 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, but it's also a the agenda, his potential genocide, the 50 years earlier. another point though he can student matriculate at harvard, federal i'll be so compass. 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 blind for reading. so not i am the

after harvard. i'd be so campus returns to for don't 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 composts organize and sugarcane cutters, or much of data to strike against us sugar confidence. 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 taken an oath to fight for point the week of independence on palm sunday, 1937 and a peaceful march at the last minute. the colonial governor revokes their permit

to assemble and they are surrounded by 200 police. the sum armed with thompson, the on the police begin firing, marchers and bystanders attempt to sleep the flag. there is the 1st to these 2 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 of the whole associates. 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 did i know? and i, it wasn't until years later that i see me under how the different historical perspective on, on for the vehicle been you know, the gag law. they may find the board or you can fly by itself illegal and

punishable by prison. you know you can speak in favor of independence or if it's wrong. in the prison, the in 1948 law. 53, lay the mortar 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 rebuild. 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 47 bombs. this is the 1st time fighter planes. i tap on

the, in the aftermath, 2000. puerto ricans around it, off 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. have tried on this and i knew that they'd try it 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 governors 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 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 knows, 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

a mission. 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 while congress is in session. leads them in reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point the equally what a long live freeport thought equal wire in the house of representatives. and these police and crowds rushing to the capital shuttle down while i'm aboard, or we can put out a gravity all around is photograph moments after he and i follow terrorist andres cordero at joined with the lead on that button and buying more than 20 shot cents and part of the house for 5 congress when our wounded and the murder rest of the

time, the film grimley defiant, the woman is hustled on the angry, menacing crowds the next time made them from iceland. 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 in the family because of all the ways have been tried the country are politically it's not easy, only continue the way it is the big fire and, and i asked that i came here to be made statements not to us

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 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 hand bag. 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 all head audio 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 cause of wherever though at that end, or what do you mean? so, you know, at the end of the main thing is convincing me in to the good that what would be in

the vice court only. so they got point by the room that going on my, that a big guess on the 3. and that also will look as a pretty good handle see the best 3 i'm going to make or thought 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 we'll work for all head there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage go ahead. i called these actions farms propaganda. the

relationship from i think it weighs such seemed to move in a sweet truthfulness. i'm losing this. we police because of the, some of those devices in the community and that's a gamble unless you're willing to order these voided. what's the key of know wouldn't be the one that you leave the ottoman room. there are still co new, super new to the super going to was just last any possible solution or going to volume dealer. so as of friday, so told me to go to see if we could set up for, for the last place. the

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the, maybe your skin by you can even tell us that people are to report from jerusalem and across the world. web pro, policy in raleigh is that taking place in a so called day of rage against these are the bombing of gaza for these are cracking down on demo straight as in some cities. the units of concerns of these 447 policy didn't children killed and use ready as flags. as the world health organization says teletubbies bought into a bucket of tools in gaza is a death sentence for some patients. lost under the us defense sheets,

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