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it was 19 o 3. no power, light 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 any immediate, initiating the hospitals or without power doctors doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. so once like your on your on 40 on the,

the, the also brain for the people of where to read. we left with the with and we also love puerto rico. the new 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 can really see that colonialism still exist in a few places. and for the go as one of them,

the directions really do 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. the sensor input, the in the 19 seventy's, when once that guy was in his early twenties,

he chose to fight for the independence of his homeland the 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 past 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. 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 let us call yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today, nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people. a population greater than 21 of the 50 us states would close to has to live in poverty. the puerto rico is

a you rush 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 of 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 very, that 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 taking 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 them in the face. you know as hard as i could yourself. 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,

what if i've gotten myself for sure. if this was the a senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. len james, you said, said, 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 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, 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 flight the colonies, reform 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. and 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 when so he goes to 1st election. the united states invaded the item 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 a point though the guns us citizens are like okay, we're going to make you american citizens,

which you didn't ask for the even if we were off of the citizenship with have and we would prefer are all 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. ok. who's next? i don't 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 life. ah, 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 serial 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 where i can fill the battery right and drove it out . and then brought the next one in and stuff that was, was basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that change things peaceful in understanding that these guys had to be for in a different way. for me that was the beginning of my radicalization or policeman, the crowd, man, the people inside the building,

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the way, the discovery of the new world. at the end of the 15th century, there appeared atlantics laved ray. the slave traders from european countries started building fords on the western coast of the african continent to transport the african inhabitants to america, to be forced into hard labor. until the middle of the 17th century, portugal had laid the main role in this atrocious business. then great britain, france and the netherlands took the leadership for this fan of 400 years of legal and illegal slave trade. about 17000000 people were forcefully shipped across the atlantic. not including those who died on the way due to unbearable living conditions. modern historians estimate that for each slave ship to america,

there were 5 who died while captured during transportation and cruel obliteration of rebellion. this roof was the whole tre practice by the leading european countries, took away tens of millions of african lives. the organization of united nations class advised the trans atlantics. the laved raid, as one of the greatest human rights abuses in the history of humanity. this is the biggest act of deportation of people ever seen by mankind. 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 in his class privilege minds a pottery glass produced and was not recognized as such because you know,

he was blank for reading. so, not out the after harvard, probably be so campus returns to for the 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 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 clean the flag. there is a, as 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 $23519.00 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 began to have a different historical perspective on, on the vehicle. and you know, the gag law made flying the border. you can slide by itself illegal and punishable by prison. you know, you can speak in favor of independence or you'd 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 portal. the can song can lead to 10 years in prison. the 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. the. this is the 1st time fighter planes. i tap 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 to ya. so 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 nationalists rose up like a bunch of and, and the government squashed on. in fact,

it was the u. s. 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 go down fighting and so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course, we responded and for 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 heads 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, 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, be so 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 leads them and reciting. the lord's prayer, then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. v by point the equally what a 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 wrist. andres cordero at joined with the lead on that button and buying more than 20 shop sets and crowded house for 5. congress. one are wounded in the murder rest of the time the the woman is hustled from the angry, menacing crowds the next time to see them from iceland. and i would like this to happen today, awake because of the amount of good will not the government united states to pay for the recall immediately the headings

time to be and nobody to ask for freedom in some way because of all the ways have been tried as a country, a political scene is not the only continue the way. it is the gate fire. and i asked that i came here to be made statements, not to us as the most americans. and there's no context to that. it's like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics, 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 deliberate 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 for 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. he witnessed the slaughter of the balance and 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 freely that the that the us was not going to change of its own accord the single savvy as a wherever. if that's the end the all but he knew, you know, at the end at the main thing is convincing me in the big game that will leave you in the vice court only. so they get point by the room picking on my the big good found that 3 and the look as a pretty good handle. see the bit 3, i'm going to make or set about about the the in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding and puerto rico and us base 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. go ahead. i called these actions farm propaganda the the job rally her my little story because the model girl that i got you. no problem saying it all out of the know nothing 30 minutes. the side of the drive i showed my brother through he was sudden to help people for

a lo so now i never looked at churches as being the same. well, i guess i lost my list. that's the outcome of chicago police. it'd be gang chicago is like, you'd be a photo of the police. you lose your life as another crime. say another. this could have been a doctor. a nurse could have been the next president. we can't keep losing people out here. the storming was intellectual, a man of ideas, a great read the. he was a communist, he was a marxist defeat or discomfort, didn't really understand before he was a feeling intellectual drug. the emotional that some power will reside eulogy and politics, run emotionality to emotional falls, office, or geology. these politics, which united would need to actually rule people,

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