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Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 199Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 1 of 6 In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners. Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism. Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious. The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system. Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 200Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 2 of 6 In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners. Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism. Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious. The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system. Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 201Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 3 of 6 In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners. Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism. Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious. The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system. Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 202Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 4 of 6 In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners. Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism. Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious. The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system. Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 203Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 5 of 6 In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners. Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism. Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious. The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system. Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 204Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 6 of 6 In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners. Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism. Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious. The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system. Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.