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we went to bed and 2017 and woke up and it was 19 o 3. nope, our light. a water? no cellphones. i mean it was just like, nothing was working. you didn't know how your loved ones were doing except the ones in your head. you need immediate missionary. ready hospitalization, without power,

doctors were doing procedures with building the flashlight from their cell phones. so once like 0 on here on 40, on the rule. so brain with the people of where to read we left with with and we also love puerto rico 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 bellwood and maria lays bare the reality of strips it down to the bare bones. and you can 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 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 one say 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 the most of the times

my role was as the protection against the police coming so i was ready to engage in 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. 0 wait.

in 1898. it became a 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 hash and live in poverty. the puerto rico is a us territory, powerless to challenge options of the united states government that affected people residents have no vote in congress or in presidential elections. the . we had a subscription to time magazine and there was an issue of which the cover story was

on prep schools in the us. and i read it and, and over was covered prominently there and said they had 7 indoor basketball court that we had made it for very as a 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 when i one of

them slapped him in the face, you know, as hard as i could do something. 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, he said, so now would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam? sure. 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. but it was those referring to us for practically, as monkeys. and like the round races and this and 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 flight 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 call in 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. the just months afterwards,

though he goes to the 1st election, the united states invaded the island. 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 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 horizon, 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. 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 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 statute was a 3 lice. got 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 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 as they brought you down the stairs, a kicking you and hitting you until you got to the battery. i can throw you in the battery right and filled up anyway and drove it out. and then brought the next one is the answer and that was

what basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that change things peacefully, the understanding that these guys had to be for in a different way. for me that was the beginning of my radicalization or policeman or the crowd man, and the people inside the building to the the

oh, what i would show wrong just don't you have to safe house because the engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves will support, we choose to look so common ground the a good 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 headquarter,

utilize per ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blackboard reading, so not out the after harvard be so campus returns to 4 door recall where he witnesses the us 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 campus 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 sleep the flag. there is the 1st to these 2 a 7 year old girl picks up the flag and she is immediately shot.

the wounded cadet drags himself to the wall and writes in his own blood. viva la republica of a hotel 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, you know, i was like this, what did i know? and i, it wasn't until years later that i seemed to have a different historical perspective on, on for today. go been, you know, the gag law made. find the folder 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 off for independence or seen a patriotic port authority 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 us federal court. the national guard responds with heavy artillery motors for need 47. 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 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 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 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, 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 dressed of the advise one way. tickets to washington dc. then they enter the us capital building while congress is in session. lead time, never on leads them and reciting the lord's prayer. then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point so frequently what a long live free point thought equal 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 button 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 with united states to pay for the recall immediately the headings

times that the nobody from freedom from wayne. because all the other ways have been tried to not wake on the on the continue the way it is, the gate fire. and as i say, i came here yesterday statement as the for most americans that there's no context to that. it's like, these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics are honoring independence. 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 all head audio was born in puerto rico. in the 1930s. as a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north american sugar monopolies to witness the slaughter of the onset. mastercard. he saw the depth 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 it or if that in the all. but he knew. so, you know, at the end at the main thing is convincing. me into the game that will leave you in the vice court only. so they got point by the room that going 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 based hotels, casinos and department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's and will work for all his there were few injuries,

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