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![Lolita Lebron](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
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.
![Radio report of Lolita's arrest in 1954, including her statement](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Interview with Lebron after her arrest for the shooting of US Congressman Alvin Bentley in 1954.
![Alberto Rodriguez Parole](images/thumbnails//26854.jpg)
Collection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Poster in protest of the imprisonment of Alberto Rodriguez and other Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
![Hunger Strike Halted statement by the 10 P.O.W.](images/thumbnails//26780.jpg)
Publisher: FALN Ten Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1981Collection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Statement of the FALN regarding ending of 10 day hunger strike in protest of denying Alfredo Mendez Habeas Corpus.
![Jose Lopez COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage](images/thumbnails//8545.jpg)
Call Number: C 10 129Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
José López is the executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center. Under his leadership, the PRCC has developed a number of initiatives in the Humboldt Park community, including an alternative high school, a parent child learning center and day care, a museum and cultural institution, a youth drop-in center and an HIV education and advocacy organization. He has also directed efforts in urban agriculture, promoting a community health curriculum among high school students and business endeavors among the Paseo Boricua district. He is a lifelong advocate for Puerto Rican Independence from the US and his brother, Oscar López Rivera, is a Puerto Rican Independentista and US political prisoner.