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Pro Libertad: Esperanza Martel
Esperanza Martel, a Puerto Rican independentista, gives a brief history of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. She also discusses the colonial relationship between PR and the US and cites the violations of the PR constitution by FBI surveillance and harrassment of activists. Also discussed is the underground resistance movement, Los Macheteros (the Machete Wielders, also known as the Boricuan Popular Army) and political prisoners such as Elizam Escobar, Ricardo Jiminez, Adolfo Matos, Edwin Cortes, Ida Luz Rodriguez, Alicia Rodriguez, Dylcia Pagan, Luis Rosa, Alejandrina Torres, Carmen Valentine, Alberto Rodriguez, Antonio Camacho Negron and Oscar Lopez Rivera.
Lolita Lebron
Collection: Puerto Rico
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.
Vito Marcantonio, US Congressman (1934-1950): Fighter for Puerto Rico's Independence
Publisher: Third World CoalitionCollection: Puerto Rico Small Books and Monographs
Selected Speeches: May 6, 1936; August 14, 1939; July 17, 1942; June 6, 1947; December 18, 1947; June 19, 1948; October 19,1949; March 16,1950. Introduction by annette T. Ribinstein.
Los Conocer
Publisher: Cuadrenos de Educacion Ofensiva '92Year: 1992Collection: Puerto Rico Small Books and Monographs
Collection of silk-screened art and brief messages from the Puerto Rican political prisoners.
En la Carcel, seguimos la lucha!: Testimonio de dos huelgas de hambre Presos Politicos-Guayaquil Ecuador
Year: 1987Collection: Puerto Rico Small Books and Monographs
About political prisoners on hunger strike in Quito, Ecuador.
Albizu Campos and the Ponce Massacre
Publisher: World View PublishersCollection: Puerto Rico Small Books and Monographs
A personal account of the Ponce Massacre and events leading up to the riot. Includes information on Bolivar marquez, Albizu Campos.
Ricardo Jiminez
Collection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Poster in protest of Bureau of prison's denial for Ricardo Jiminez Furlough to visit his dying mother
Alberto Rodriguez Parole
Collection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Poster in protest of the imprisonment of Alberto Rodriguez and other Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Lucy Rodriguez/Alicia Rodriguez at San Francisco Airport, Leaving for home
Year: 1999Collection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Digital photograph on paper
Puerto Rican Prisoners of Colonialism
Publisher: ProLibertadCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Flier on campaign to free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners