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Me the we went to bed and 2017 and woke up and it was 19 o 3. Nope, our life of the water, the no cell phones. I mean is just like nothing was working. You didnt know how your loved ones were doing except the ones and you had you need immediate, initiating the hospitalization without power, doctors who doing procedures with the flashlight from their cell phones. So once like youre on your, on 40, on the, the rule. So brain with the people of where to read we left with 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 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 today go as one of them the, the, the directions were getting to those. So yes, it is possible to resist break the colonized mentality that these guys can be part of that theres nothing we can do to change the situation sensor and protect the in the 19 seventys 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 the most of the time to 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 of the, the, the island of puerto rico was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8 in 1898 became a us 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 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 effective speed, the 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 it and, and over was covered prominently there. And it said they had 7 into our basketball boards 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, the 1st time i walk into the dining off 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 you know, thats the 1st time id heard that word. Let alone addressed in me, but i went up and slapped him in the face. You know as hard as i could do. So and 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, the dining room and, you know, i said, holy, what if ive gotten myself for the senior year and over my, my professor for american history, mr. Len james . He said, so how would you like to do a term paper in lieu of the final exam . I 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 trace all over the United States is about, well, you know, we flight the colonies. Referral for independence. What are we . Were going to become a buyer now. The for over 400 years, puerto rico 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 be a dead. Just months afterwards, though he goes to 1st election to 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 forward so he can see us citizen, the like, okay, were gonna make you american citizens, which you didnt 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 dont know we were supposed to, im, i know allows the, 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 all okay, is the air 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. Ok. The year the was my do room window on the top floor there. The, as i looked down that morning i was just starting to be like there 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 it 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 fill the padding right and drove it out. And then brought the next one, and 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 with these guys had to be for in a different way. For me, that was the beginning of my radicalization, the crowd man, and the people inside the building, the the, the theres no end in sight over how youre going to continue to destroy the earth. Is the case of the med, most of the people. I tried to go to the gym, but im certainly not ready to fight russia. This is also absurd. This is the 3rd world lunacy re washing press for so the funder line likes to say we have the tools while we just start with stability and business deals to help me living on that. And we have very quick propaganda. You know a price here in new york. I think we dont know the aftermath any time that youre not allowed to ask questions, you should ask all of the questions. The more questions ask the better the answer is, will be the be sure, lets click the links. So you have to just to move some campbell system to personalize. Can use me over to good enough to go to. Yes. Thats the to the launch which will be similar patella. It does your learn your image stuff which is the new which in the 4th or the me 50 years earlier. Another point though he can student matriculate at harvard federal ill be so. Campbells in 1921. He graduates from Harvard Law School with the highest grade point average in his class privilege minds a puerto utilized for ghost and was not recognized as such because you know, he was blind for reading. So not the after harvard be so come plus returns to fort dont recall where he witnesses the us control of sugar, cartels 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 sales 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 sleep the flag. There is the 1st to be 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, like a pool 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 was growing up the, you know, 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 quite a go the name of 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 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 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 court. The National Guard responds with heavy artillery mortars for nice, 47 bombs. This is the 1st time fighter planes of 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 warehouse, 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 potters for washingtons emergency hospital, a 24 hour guard watches over co. You also who despite a chest wound, rick 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 followed, 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 bike. So Everybody Knows noticed, dont mess with the 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, 44 adult ricans, living in new york, decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. Communicating from prison. Id be so campus presents them with admission to bring the fight for independence to the American Public purchases new sunday dress clothes advised one way. Tickets to washington dc. Then they enter the us capital building. Now congress is in session, need turn it on, 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, the equal fire in the house of representatives and the police out in crowds rushing to the capital the shuttle down wild. Im aboard or 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 sets in crowded house for 5 congress. When our wounded and the murderous or dying, the sale 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 will of the government United States to pay for the recall immediately the headings times again. Nobodys been in some way because of all the ways have been tried as a country or politically. Its not easy, only continue the way it is the gate press on the fire and ive asked that i came here yesterday made statements not to act as the most americans that theres no context to that. Its 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 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 for all head i 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 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 thats in the albany new or 0 at the end of the day is going busy me in the big game that will leave you in the vice court only. So big a 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 best 3 dynamic or somebody about the, the in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exploding and puerto rico and us based hotels, casinos and Department Stores like sheraton, Howard Johnsons and will work for all his there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. Really bad. Go ahead. I called these actions farms propaganda. The take a fresh look around his life. Kaleidoscopic isnt just a shifted reality distortion by tell us tired vision with no real opinions. Pictures designed to simplify will confuse who really wants a better wills, and is it just because it shows you few fractured images presented to this, but can you see through their illusion going underground . Can the the we are in no way preventing anyone from contacting anyone. It is the west that is running around the world, trying to get others to block diplomatic contact with us. They are not succeeding, but they keep trying Russian Foreign minister, slums western powers for colonial audit to its towards the global side. Hows the g 20 summit wraps up in new delhi and it is from there. Were continuing to bring you our special coverage from the high ranking gathering. The now the world news is the dental from the wrong, cuz devastating quakes. The policy is 2000 way from low codes about the terrifying go deal. 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