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Pro Libertad: Esperanza Martel

Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: PM 315Collection: Puerto Rico

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.

Algo se quema alla afuera! (Something Is Burning Out There!)

Date: 1/1/1975Call Number: Vin 029Producers: Paredon Records, Estrella ArtauCollection: General materials

Songs that call for the independence of Puerto Rico. Sung in Spanish, these protest songs emphasize the injustices in Puerto Rico brought on by capitalism and colonialism. Representation of nonviolence through music.

Como el filo del machete (Like the Edge of the Machete)

Date: 1/1/1978Call Number: Vin 030Producers: Paredon Records, Andres JimenezCollection: General materials

An album of political ballads for independence in Puerto Rico. In traditional decima form, or songs of forty-four lines.

Viva Puerto Rico Libre

Date: 1/1/1978Call Number: Vin 033Producers: Paredon Records, Puerto Rico Solidarity CommitteeCollection: General materials

Sponsored by the Puerto Rico Solidarity Committee, an organization for American support of an independent Puerto Rico, this album is a collection of political ballads by Puerto Rican songwriters. Dominant themes include liberation, anti-imperialism, and self-determination. Album includes extensive liner notes.

Taone- Taone en Cuba

Date: 1/1/1973Call Number: Vin 044Producers: Disco Libre, TaoneCollection: General materials

This album was recorded in Havana, Cuba by a Puerto Rican group called Taone. Influenced by the Nueva Trova movement in Cuba, Taone traveled to Havana in 1973 to record an album of protest songs in solidarity with revolutionary Cuba. Liner notes contain song lyrics.

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.

Radio report of Lolita's arrest in 1954, including her statement

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.

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