puerto ricans and mexicans. very separate groups that are united conveniently and coalitions, but maybe not as unified as we assume as historians or in a public memory. >> i want to go back to the 19th century. i

being puerto rican, i think most of us who come from puerto rico a connection to the island, even after we left it, even if we've never been there, which is the truth. as i sank puerto rican snow, comes from a poem by -- i forgot his name but it came from a poem and it means i would be puerto rican even ifo i was born on the moon. so i wanted to reach people who would never read about publicans or people who wouldn't pick up a history book or didn't have access to the history. for whatevert reason and make some of the history accessible to the general reader or reader who picks up a memoir about her hood so i tried to talk about the parts of puerto rican history that shapes me as a woman and human being and a writer. a lot of this influence, the kind of writer i became no space thinking of who i was writing for. in so many ways, i felt like this book, even though i intended it to be as open and honest and vulnerable, i wanted it to be in conversation with a specific group of people from across the world like i was, puerto ricans, puerto ricans, girls who grew up in poverty and for them

but what was more natural, blacks and puerto ricans living in harlem organizing together, or puerto ricans in harlem finding allies in rural in new mexico. moderates and liberals envision equal access to the war on poverty. leftists had a different perspective, they often viewed it as the basis of achievement of separate objectives such as puerto rican independence. this is an approach that the great radical labor organizer valentin, called together but not scrambled. latino coalitions varied as to structure. sometimes they were sort of one to one, that is, mexican-americans are a group and puerto ricans are a group and so each gets one vote. sometimes coalitions distributed power more in reflection of their population numbers. and yet even as latinos are really pursuing i think what are coalitions among each other, they're still working on alliances with african-americans, indigenous and poor whites. this is an exciting proposition to interrogate in that literature that looks at the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s, looking at the foundations of what are the next steps. >> great. you guys too

being puerto rican, most of us who come from puerto rico feel a connection to the island even after we have left it even if we have never been there which is the truth, there is -- a lot of puerto ricans know of phrase which comes from a poem by -- i forgot his name but comes from a poem and it means i would be puerto rican even if i was born on the moon. i wanted to reach people who would never read about puerto rico or pick up a history book or didn't have access to that history for whatever reason and make some of that history accessible to the general reader, to a reader who picks up a memoir about girlhood so i tried to talk about the parts of puerto rican history and colonialism but shaped me as a woman and human being and as a writer. and a lot of this influence the kind of writer i became and i was thinking about who i was writing for. in so many ways i felt like this book, even though i intended it to be as open and honest and intended it to be vulnerable i wanted to be in conversation with a specific group of people, girls are like i was, certainly puerto ricans, black americ

puerto ricans and mexicans. very separate groups that are united conveniently in coalitions but maybe not as unified as we assume as historians or in public memory. prof. lozano: do you mind if i start? jaime: it is open. prof. lozano: i want to go back to the 19th century. being a historian, i would like to go first. this is something that is not new. in the 19th century, you would see it within each of the communities that were in the -- that became the southwest. that is who they were. if they talked about themselves as a larger group, if they were part of the whole spanish-speaking americas, it did not mean hispanic americans in the united states. they were not part of the united states at that that is one of point. the things you see again and again in the documents. not only do you have to figure out how -- you have to figure out how mexicans became mexican americans. there was a larger process that happened in the 19th century where they began to see themselves as united and that was a process that contin

it's about 700,000 puerto ricans rely on medicare advantage to receive treatment for covid-19. >> to at end, 13 members of the hispanic caucus sent a letter to hhs urging the federal government to help puerto rico battle this outbreak. it reads it is imperative that the federal government provide the tools necessary during this pandemic to sustain the availability of beds, testing and surge capacity to care for the u.s. citizens in puerto rico. pre-covid, was puerto rico equipped to handle a crisis of this magnitude? >> no, we already saw puerto rico still hurting from hurricane maria. we have been advocating and putting pressure on fema to release those fun, to provide relief for puerto rico. and then the series of earthquakes that destroyed the island. so their public infrastructure was already at a breaking point. and it is very concerning that puerto rico has the lowest level of testing than any other state in the united states. we need to support our puerto rican brothers and sisters that are suffering through the pandemic. just last week they got affected by another earthquake.

one of the things i am most proud of about the puerto rican community is the puerto rican community is realizing its grassroots power and pushing the envelope and still raising their voices and it is becoming more activated in the process. i am a very appreciative of that and very appreciative of your question. host: we go next to tom in texas. caller: thank you for taking my call. incited people to attack the 16-year-old and he served mr. sellers. i was calling to find out the status of the lawsuit. is there a trial date set? are you still encouraging people to assault that 16-year-old kid? for thatank you question. to clarify, no one ever encouraged anyone to assault anyone. he did not sue me. even more importantly than that, i do wish mr. sandman and everyone well. providesis country access to the american dream and ability to do all the things they want to do in their future careers. on a different note, i can say i say or write anything that says i am perfect. one thing we have to acknowledge about political leaders and those of us trying to do well is that we have made mistakes.

my grandmother moved here, one of the first puerto ricans. hey, ma. love you. >> love you more, love you more. >> my mother is 60, has hypertension. so you have to maintain distance from your own loved ones for their own protection. >> her hypertension, one of the many invisible ties bonding poverty to poor health. this borough, home to waste treatment facilities and tucked between highways that for decades gave rise to unforgiving health consequences. children here twice as likely to be hospitalized with asthma. than their counter parts just across the river. you were diagnosed with asthma at the age of 8. >> yes. when you live in conditions of mold and mildew and vermin, those are known triggers for asthma. i was repeatedly hospitalized as a child. >> poverty takes a toll on the body. >> the difference in life expectancy between the south bronx and manhattan is ten years. poverty is poison. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> for two decades, dr. ramon has been seeing patients from immigrant communities. his team one of the few lifelines to predomin

he threw paper towels at puerto ricans. he paid off a porn star. in the middle of a pandemic, he wants to reopen the mall. he stared directly into an eclipse and none of it worked. he's still popular and still trapped in that white house. and there's only one way out. a big glass of bleach with a hydro and z pack chaser! i don't think people understand. this is a cry for help. everyone is paying attention, but no one is paying attention. his twitter feed alone is basically the world's longest suicide note. he hates his life. and, of course he does! imagine having to live every day knowing that at any minute, don jr or eric could walk in and say "hi, dad." its a nightmare! i'm amazed he's made it this long. donald trump could be the first president who ever tried to assassinate himself. and somebody needs to watch him. he really outdid himself this time. even other idiots are going, "don't be an idiot." trump lashed out last night, at fox news. after neil cavuto of fox news had the temerity to warn his viewers that this miracle drug is not recommend

the quake hit as puerto ricans remain home under a nearly two-month lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. no immediate reports of casualties. many people on the island still in shelters from previous earthquakes earlier this year. >>> people in spain took to the streets today to exercise for the first time after seven weeks sheltering at home. they ran, they walked. you see they rode bikes. under a brilliant sunny sky. this is in barcelona. the government has set up time slots for age groups and activities. now, until now people have been kept inside except for necessary shopping trips for food and medicine and essential work. spain has nearly 25,000 deaths from the covid-19 virus. more than 215,000 infections. now, france's government is building a stop covid app to better track the spread of infections. but privacy concerns could make it a hard sell. the french are already a privacy-loving people. the idea that the app would store data on a centralized server not going over very well right now. concerns are also coming from the united states, where google and apple h

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. >> the lunches were prepared by the lucky 37 filipino restaurant and a puerto rican restaurant on macarthur boulevard. >> a wild turkey is causing trouble in the rose garden in oakland. people are posting on social media the mail turkey has been attacking them as they walk in the park. several people say the bird flu it them and scratching them with their claws. without the large turkey guarding his flock including baby chicks this afternoon. animal services told the chronicle the city has no jurisdiction over wild animals and humans must find ways to coexist. officials are encouraging people to stop feeding the turkeys because it makes them less fearful of humans. >> summer camps are going to look a lot different this year coming up. the changes of families who opt into the programs what they will be seen. it's not something you can see an official coronavirus death toll numbers were right now there's growing concerns over depths of despair during the pandemic. we will have another verbal gaffe from the presumptive nominee. what joe biden said while he is now apologizing this evening. and.

they are doing an amazing work with puerto ricans, latinos, south americans. this is one of the main centers we have in virginia for this population. david: for people who may not know you as well as i do, how did you decide to get out of the world of being a chef, which is an honorable thing to do, and get into the world of feeding people who are hungry? what made it -- motivated you to do that? jose: i always said i feed a few we cannot have a restaurant without making sure nobody else is hungry. that we cand to me gras and twos streets down, people don't know what they are putting on the table. a little building across from my restaurant was able to create the most impressive system to provide relief to soldiers during the civil war. if they could do that over a century ago, a cook like me should be able to achieve the same success feeding the hungry in emergencies. that is why. i try to help feed the many. david: you have a number of restaurants around the u.s. and elsewhere. are they all closed now? ones i am one of the first that said i was closing my re

the puerto rican public generally receive the americans well. miles organized everything well. it was really effective in his execution. he made sure they abided by sanitary procedures and as a result, miles had virtually no sick rate. so it tells you it could have been done had we had a more competent command. so we've got guantanamo bay, we've got san juan, anyone with any more questions before we shift to the pacific? all right, let's talk about the pacific. that is how you spell the philippines, people, oftentimes misspelled, one l, two p's. dewey sunk the spanish fleet, waited for reinforcement, waited for reinforcement command the british and germans both dried to make inroads there, because the spanish were in bad shape. the u.s. resisted, they were going to be a part of it. the u.s. eventually sent troops out there to the philippines, and it was one of those interesting situations. a brigade, 2500 men, arrived at guam. guam was at the time part of spain, and the governor of guam apologized to the americans for not firing the appropriate salute to the american flag, but

. >>> a puerto rican rapper is spending his quarantine having exclusive conversations about coronavirusesponse and president trump's handling of the pandemic. he's collaborating with latin leaders, hosting virtual one on ones with the president of argentina. the new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> i have within watching these interviews, what inspired you to have these conversations? >> thank you for having me. i started to do these interviews because the example that we have -- the way people in the government of puerto rico are handling this pandemic is very since we are a colony of the u.s. we have as a model trump is our model to see. i thought that by interviews our presidents handling the things differently, people we had, that they will be able to understand different ways of handling the situation. that's why i wanted interview the president of argentina because i think they're doing a great job over controlling the pandemic. >> as we say in television land -- no, go ahead. also i interview a philosopher and because he had a good idea of giving people money so th

this comes at puerto ricans remained home after a two-month lockdown to help curtail the president of the coronavirus. and the skies over baltimore roared with the navy blue angels and air force thunderbirds today as a show of support for medical personnel and first responders fighting the coronavirus. it followed trips over part of new york, new jersey and pacht th -- pennsylvania this week and will continue across the country. "politics nations" continues after the break. "politics nations" continues after the break. and me...the world's best, and possibly only, schmelier. philadelphia. schmear perfection. high protein. low sugar. tastes great! high protein. low sugar. so good. high protein. low sugar. mmm, birthday cake. and try pure protein shakes, with 24 vitamins and minerals. anwefrom the 7,000 cignat,s, clinicians,. supporting front line doctors and nurses, to everyone staying home to protect others. find answers to your most pressing questions: at cigna.com/covid19 -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour? -what could be better than being a mo-tour? the real question i

the biggest facing disasters in puerto rican he street.urricanes in a 5.5 earthquake in the south part of the island, and on top of that, the coronavirus. it has been a challenging time. the bankruptcy situation as well in many agencies. so far, puerto rico has received billion in terms of the federal government. that is not counting the stimulus package and the unemployment funds, so those are separate. were talking about universities, health care, hospitals, and the government. all those funds have been dispersed to the local governments, so a lot of the issues are being worked by the governor of puerto rico as we speak. received $1200 in , trying to mixt up with what happened in maria in terms of the disaster, i must say if we compare the response of the federal government to what is happening now with covid , it is a complete change, more, faster disbursement of funds animal rapid response as well. we are talking with jennifer gonzalez, the chair of puerto rico's republican party. trying to navigate this, you meet with your constituent

over its bankruptcy, had no problem with creating massive distress for millions and millions of puerto ricans during a crisis, but now because of the bad publicity, immediately fired amy cooper. your response to that particular incident -- amy: let's go to a clip of exactly what happened, this film by the man christian cooper -- no relation to amy cooper, a a writer, editor, and avid bird watcher who is a board member of ththe new york city auaudubon society. he filmed this -- >> please, don't come close to me. >> sir, i am asking you to stop recording me. >> please don't come close to me. >> i'm going to call the cops. >> please call the cops. >> i'm going to tell them there is an african-american man threatening my life. >> please tell them whatever you like. >> there is an african-a-americn man who is recording the and threatening me and my dog. mane is an african-american -- i am in central park. he is recording me and he threatened myself and my dog. i'm sorry, can't hear. i being threatened by a man. please send the cops immediately! i am in central park. i don't knknow. >> thank you. j

labor scholar and puerto rican independence activist jose soler has died. for over 20 years, he was director of the umass dartmouth labor education center and most recently co-head of the new bedford coalition to save our schools, which fought charter school expansion. soler emerged in the social justice world as a leader in the chicano rights organization the brown berets. he advocated for human rights and the independence of puerto rico in the 1970's. throughout his life, soler continued to work in the labor rights movement. he was a union organizer with uaw district 65 and a labor journalist. jose soler was 75 years old. and the 202020 pulitzer winners were announced monday. among the recipients, nikole hannah-jones of "the new york times" for her essay as part of the 1619 project, which reexamines the legacy of slavery. staff of " "the baltimore sun" n for local rereporting anand "the anchorage dailily news" " was awararded the public serervice e for its s series w with propubla about law enforcement and sexual crimes in alasaska. brian rosenthal won fo

back -- this new church, beautiful church which are doing amazing work with all types of family, puerto ricansatinas, south american, this is one of the main centers we had in virginia for this distribution. >> so for people don't know you, they're people who may not know as well as i do or -- how did you decide to get out of the world of just being a chef, which is a very honorable thing to do, and get into the role of feeding people who are hungry? what motivated you to do that? >> i always said that i feed a few common but we cannot have a restaurant without making sure that nobody else is hungry. it is an awkward to be eating -- into streets down from her have my restaurant, guys, families, they don't know what they will put on the table. i always said that during the civil war, in a little building across my restaurant was able to create the most amazing system to provide relief to the soldiers during the civil war. if the north was able to get over a century ago, a cook like me should be able to achieve the same success on feeding the hungry in emergencies. so that's why. i tried to help

latinos in texas are mexican american, but the majority much latinos in florida are cuban and puerto ricanith very different backgrounds, right. so, just your average white consultant isn't necessarily going to have that kind of insight and that does work against the effectiveness of the work that democrats will be doing. >> yeah, just-- go ahead, david. >> you can try to peel off individual percentage points of that vote or you can try to put up barriers to the ballot box it 0 make it harder to vote. you know? yeah, and you can do both of those things and, i mean, if you look at in 2016 again, you know, i mean, hillary clinton wins by the popular vote by 3 million votes, but donald trump wins the electoral vote by 80,000 votes by the gerrymandered states and suppression tools in front of voters, especially voters of color in milwaukee, detroit, in philadelphia. that is enough in many cases. i mean, the voter i.d. bill that was enacted by that gerrymandered legislation in congress helped drive down turnout of black voters in milwaukee by a couple hundred thousand votes in 2016 over 2012 an

stayitith us ♪ [ [sic break] amy: "mio" by the puerto rican band buscabulla. song is about the corporations that t use the isld as an unsustainable tax haven. this is s democracacy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine reportrt. i'm amy goodman. as more than 40 states begin to reopen their economies, many continue to face a severe shortage of tests. meanwhile, president trump gets tested every day at the white house yet downplays thehe importance of tests for the rest ofof the country. we're joined now by leana wen leana wen d dr., emerergencyy physician and public h health prprofessor at george washington univerersity. previously served as baltimore's health commissioner. it is great to have you back with us.s. i want to talk about -- oh, and congratulations on giving birth. you just gave birth. but i want to ask you first about this issue, presidentt trump partly as a valet just tested positive for covid. he apparently went ballistic, yelling at his staff about him not being protected. a lot of people in this cocounty feel that way. and the solution has bee

one of the things i am most proud of about the puerto rican community is the puerto rican community is realizing its grassroots power and pushing the envelope and still raising their voices and it is becoming more activated in the process. i am a very appreciative of that and very appreciative of your question. host: we go next to tom in texas. caller: thank you for taking my call. incited people to attack the 16-year-old and he served mr. sellers. i was calling to find out the status of the lawsuit. is there a trial date set? are you still encouraging people to assault that 16-year-old kid? for thatank you question. to clarify, no one ever encouraged anyone to assault anyone. he did not sue me. even more importantly than that, i do wish mr. sandman and everyone well. providesis country access to the american dream and ability to do all the things they want to do in their future careers. on a different note, i can say i say or write anything that says i am perfect. one thing we have to acknowledge about political leaders and those of us trying to do well is that we have made mistakes.

get rid of the jones act, and taxes 1 1/2 billion to puerto rican consumers every year. and fixes for the sba and. 501 c3 organizations are created as small businesses, but most in puerto rico are not registered with the irs, they're registered with the commonwealth. and we need a fix of the territorial government and also get the benefit. the family paid sick leave act, we obviously got paid sick leave for our workers, but unfortunately the u.s. department of labor say that will start on april 1st, but in the case of the island, puerto rico locked down march 15th. and let me just commend the governor. the first and strictest lockdown to included a curfew, as they do in latin america from people leaving their house at night. while that was commendable, unfortunately there's much more to do. i really want to close by saying we need to lift the medicaid cap. puerto rico has other territories here have an arbitrary cap to the medicaid funding that we need and obviously, dealing with a pandemic is no way-- i'm sorry, capping medicaid is no way with the pandemic. and in conclu

spanish,romanian, puerto rican, no problem.friends was used to go to his mother's house and she would make pancakes. 10, a kidt nine or said what are you doing with that white boy? i didn't understand it. was racism around? yeah. have i been pulled over? i have never had a record. i have had guns drawn on me. nothing is going to change and nothing has changed because policy. until the day a police officer any race unarmed they know that they are either going to jail, they will lose their pension, no more administrative leave, nothing will change. the problem is this is legislated through the state, not the federal government. calle gentleman who called -- about blacks against blacks, i just watched a documentary about ulysses s grant. you want to talk about people killing each other? the union and the confederates? grant, blacklysses people were not considered human beings. the emancipation proclamation, you could fight. this is as clarence thomas said -- who i can't stand -- a high-tech lynching. blake, the tennis player who w

i know there are a lot of puerto ricans who live in your districts. important part and a group among your constituents. what are you looking for in terms of aid for puerto rico? and are you confident that they're going to get help? >> they should get help. they got hit by another earthquake. puerto rico has maria until today. then the earthquake, another earthquake on top of that, also the pandemic hit puerto rico as well. so they really need help. they haven't gotten up and got up and started. they haven't recovered from maria yet. so they really need to be included in this package. we're fighting hard both congresswoman lydia vel questions kwez asquez and myself. >>> now the president is trying meat plants to stay open as the concerns expand. we are back after there. . the concerns expand. we are back after there. n person, during trying times. today, being on your side means staying home... "nationwide office of customer advocacy." ...but we can still support you and the heroes who are with you. we're giving refunds on auto insurance premiums, assis

it came as a result of police abuse of a young puerto rican boy. they did a commission afterward and the commission said we have problems with policing. policing tends to ignite many other resentments, socioeconomic disparities, so on. we have a riot in 1965, they do a report. they come to basically the same conclusions that the 1935 report, all the way on the other side of the country came to. in 1967, newark, you can go to the library, the rutgers university library in newark and read that report. ten-volume report. bigger than a set of encyclopedias. can be distilled down, same thing. you have underlying socioeconomic disparities, policing becomes the spark that triggers the explosion. 1992, los angeles report, same finding. same thing. we've done this again. it's like running face forward into a brick wall. detroit. baltimore. we go through it again and again. last year, last spring, i was in st. paul to talk at the east side freedom library, a library established by historian friend of mine, his wife, peter beth ratcliff. they created this lib

a popular puerto rican actor shared a video saying he was in the territory working when the earthquakeappened, structural damage was reported in a number of locations. >>> troops from north and south korea exchanged gunfire this morning in the first border clash in a number of years, military leaders and south korea say the fire began when soldiers from the north open fire in the demilitarized zone, south korean soldiers shot back but nobody was hit. today the shooting marks a step backward in the recent attempt to ease tensions between these countries. >>> gunfire coming one day after a north korea state media showed footage of what is believed to be kim jong-un's first public appearance in three weeks, his mysterious absence had some prompted unconfirmed news reports about his health and rumors of his death but the government says this video shows him attending the opening of a fertilizer plant near the nation's capital, president trump says he is not ready to comment on the video. >> the north korean leader just surfaced do you know about this? >> i would rather not comment yet. we

it is a working class neighborhood with a large puerto rican population.y of those families moved from the u.s. territory to orlando in recent years in search of economic opportunity economic crisis or hurricane maria. in members of this community, social distancing, whether at home or at work, is difficult or nearly impossible. often, it is a two bedroom home or apartment. this is in part because of a strong social commitment but also because of the housing crisis in central florida makes larger living spaces unaffordable or unavailable. are of these men and women essential workers. they often rely on public transportation. the hospitality industry has been devastated. struggled to obtain benefits and have to secure food from local food pantries, forced to wait in line just to put food on the table. houses home to crowded the virus toread family members, especially abuelas and abuelos that can be more at risk for the virus. florida has one of the highest uninsured rates in the country. meanwhile, despite these efforts , there is just not enough informatio