But what is maria plays bear 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 today, go as one of the directions were getting to those a yes, it is possible to resist break the colonize mentality, that these guys cant do these the theres 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 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 in the most of the times my role was because the protection against the Police Coming so i was ready to engage in gunfire. If it had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. So i had thought that through the, the island of point, the recall was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8. In 1898. It became a us calling. 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 with close to has to live in poverty. The puerto rico is a us territory, powerless to challenge options of the United States government that affect exp, residents have no vote in congress. Or in president ial 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 in and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 indoor basketball court. That very, that made it very, 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 and take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes, hey, you know, thats the 1st time id heard that word, let alone address did me. When i went up and slapped them in the face, you know as hard as i can just. So why had he was so shocked that he didnt 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 if ive gotten myself for sure. If this was the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. Len james, you said, so how would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam . Said yeah, sure. And he said, why dont you do a paper on the spanish american war . And i didnt, i came to our door in the library to bottles of the library to read the congressional record. And theres nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side. It was referring to us for practically, as monkeys, in like the brown 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, we know we for the colonies, referral for independence. What are we . Were going to become a buyer now. The for over 400 years, where does equal suffered as a spanish colon. 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 afterwards. So he goes to 1st election. The United States invaded the ice within 10 weeks, hopes of independence were dashed as the island was the next by the us. And then in 1917, the jones act made point, so he can see us citizens are like okay, were going to make you american citizens, which you didnt ask for. Even if we were offered citizenship with, had them we would prefer are wrong. The you guys in line for a rubbing the statue or i dont know we were supposed to, im and all i see a lot of people doing it. So there you go. Okay. Whos next . I do know that thats not john harvard know that theres no because he was dead by the time they did that. So it was some some young man posed so on. Okay. Um as the year is not right. And he wasnt just the founder because he was one of, of a whole lot of so thats 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 as i look down that morning i was just starting to be like there was a mist still on, on the right which added to this kind of so real 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 it 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 paddy wagon 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 peaceful in understanding that these guys had to be for in a different way. For me, that was the beginning, us from my radicalization, the crowd man, and the people inside the building, the some of anyway. So seems to move my sweet google news. Im losing this. We thought because of the some of the go. So by the user, the sticker coordinates took a gamble pleasurable and to order these voided. Whats the key of know wouldnt be the one that you ladies room. There are silicone you pardon . You assume the point to is that, you know, is mostly possible solution deal as soon as for next friday. So told me to go to see if we can set up a folder on the last place. So it was in the russian states never as one of the most sense community invest, not getting hold of all sun set up the same assistance to progress be the one else holes. Question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on the russians putting s r t spoke next. Even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube, the Student Services question. Did you say even twist, which is the stall me this intellectual . A man of i d is a great read a few as a comedy, as cheap as a mock system to our discomfort didnt really understand before she was affiliating intellectual trust. The Emotional Depth from power, all these audiology and politics run emotionality, emotional falls, office, or geology. These politics, which united with into actually room people all the tutorial the 50 years earlier. Another portability can student matriculate at harvard federal. Ill be so, campbells in 1921. He graduates from Harvard Law School with the highest grade point average and his class privilege minds of puerto utilized for ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blind for reading. So not i, on the after harvard be so compost 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, id be so compost, organizers, sugarcane cutters, or much it fails to strike against us sugar companies. They are quickly met with a bloody crackdown but the strikers prevail and the wages are double towards 1. 50 a day. The emboldened diesel compost forms the cadets of the republic who take an oath to fight for point to heat and 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 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 logical because 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 didnt know any of that. When i going up the hill, i was like this. What did i know . And i, it wasnt until years later that i sent me on to have a different Historical Perspective on, on part of a go, you know, the guide law. They may find the board or you can slide 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 motor 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 read the staging, coordinated attacks on police station, the Governors Mansion and the us federal courthouse. The National Guard responds with heavy artillery mourners for needs and p. 47 farmers. This is the 1st time fighter planes, or tackling the in the aftermath. 2000, Puerto Ricans are round it up and arrested. The in retaliation to National List form a plan. The outside, blair house, the president s 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 but as far as washingtons 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 theyd 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 its 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 heads off and put them on a place. So Everybody Knows noticed. Dont mess with us because this is which waiting for you, the why was approached by somebody i trusted very much. And you said listeners saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. And you know, we think youre a good candidate. What do you say . I said, yes. The in 1954, for, for adult ricans, living in new york, decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. Communicating from prison, diesel 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 time, never to leads them and reciting the lords prayer. Then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. V by point the only way, long live free point thought equal wire in the house of representatives and the police that in crowd rushing to the capital. The shuttle down wild. Im aboard or we can put out a graph is photograph moments after he and a fellow terrorist Andres Cordero at joined with the lead on that problem and buying more than 20 shops. Thats a crowded 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. 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 times. Okay, nobody to ask for freedom from wayne because all the other ways have been tried as a country, a political. Its not easy, only continue the way it is the gate press on the fire and i asked that i came here. Yes. Have you made the statement not to us as the. Ready most americans that theres no context to that is like these guys are totally insane. You know, these fanatics, pottery gun dependence. So you know, when weve 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 1930s. As a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north American Sugar monopolies. He witnessed the slaughter of the points 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 feeling better to hear that the us was not going to change of its own accord the single savage cause of wherever assessing the albany meal or 0 at the end of both the names they is going busy in the big game that will leave you in the vice court only, so they got point by the room pick on, on my the bic. I found that 3 in the look. Is that 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 based hotels, casinos in Department Stores like sheraton, howard johnsons. And well 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 afghanistan has attracted conquerors attention from time immemorial, in the 19th century, the British Empire decided to subjugate that century. The british view, the ap can lands as the Northern Gateway to india, and wanted to turn them into an obedient province, trying to predict the independence see a mere of a dentist in the us to move turned for help the russia raise the rate is considered their d o political adversary. This was the last straw for london. Britain declared war on the half gans in august 1839. The invaders occupied couple and brought their henchmen to bower. The invaders brutally suppressed any resistance, thus, is deli. They slaughtered all ask in man who had reached the delta pen, raped hundreds of women, seeking to humiliate the muslims of 18. 41 general uprising against the british yoke began debris. It is under the command of general elton stone, laughed campbell, and started to retreat. Only a few out of the 16000 invaders who had begun their march from google, made it to the british position in jello. 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