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![Grito de Lares Commemoration Event](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
This event, commemorating 121 years after El Grito de Lares (the “birth” of the Puerto Rican nation), was organized by Casa Puerto Rico, el Movimiento de Liberacion Puertorriqueno, and the Free Puerto Rico Committee. In mixed Spanish and English. Gloria Alonzo and Eli Jordan are the masters of ceremony. Taped from on and off mic. Continued on LA049.
![Grito de Lares Commemoration Event](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Continued from LA033 -- This event, commemorating 121 years after El Grito de Lares (the “birth” of the Puerto Rican nation), was organized by Casa Puerto Rico, el Movimiento de Liberacion Puertorriqueno, and the Free Puerto Rico Committee. In mixed Spanish and English. Gloria Alonzo and Eli Jordan are the masters of ceremony. This tape is the end of the speech by Josephina Rodriguez reading a message from prison from one of her daughters -- Alicia or Ida Luz. It might be on-mic.
![Interview with Josefina Rodriguez](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
15 minute Interview with Josefina Rodriguez as part of a longer KPFA radio show. Rodriguez talks about her role as the International Representative for the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, her daughters (political prisoners) Alicia and Ida Luz Rodriguez, their political development, the struggle for independence, the charge of seditious conspiracy, the Lexington Pennintentiary control unit, etc.. At end, Side B cuts to music from side A.
![Four Puerto Rican Political Prisoners](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Alicia and Ida Luz Rodriguez explain the 1898 US military invasion of Puerto Rico, stripped the island of its independence, continue to maintain Puerto Rico as a colony. As Puerto Rican Revolutionary women, they stress the importance of family, describe the violent US military presence with 11 military bases on the island. They defend the use of arms as essential in protecting life when threatened with colonial violence. They explain how these conditions create the need for a clandestine struggle. They explain how the fight is against multinational corporations, not the people of the US.
They expose the torturous realities of prison life for them as Puerto Rican women imprisoned for their political beliefs. They discuss torture units, known as "control units" where they were held.
![Alicia Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 (1 of 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Puerto Rican nationalist and member of the FALN sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy against the US government. She has since been released.
![Alicia Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101 (2 of 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Puerto Rican nationalist and member of the FALN sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy against the US government. She has since been released.
![Alicia Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Puerto Rican nationalist and member of the FALN sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy against the US government. She has since been released.
![Alicia Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Puerto Rican nationalist and member of the FALN sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy against the US government. She has since been released.
![Alicia Rodriguez for COINTELPRO 101](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Puerto Rican nationalist and member of the FALN sentenced to 55 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy against the US government. She has since been released.
![Interview with Susan Rosenberg and Josefina Rodriguez](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Call Number: CD 799Format: CDProducers: Sally O’Brian, Terry BissonCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interview with Susan Rosenberg, an American revolutionary anti-imperialist female political prisoner, about Lexington prison. Susan Rosenberg describes the focus of Lexington as “the psychological element of incarceration to disintegrate the personality”. She speaks about the terribly harsh and restrictive conditions of Lexington, as well as the psychological impact of the prison. Rosenberg speaks about how every prisoner is there for political reasons, as the control unit is not based on disciplinary measures, but on classification who and what the prisoners are associated with.
Susan Rosenberg’s attorney, Michael Schubert, speaks about the isolation and solitary confinement the Lexington prisoners experience, and how such isolation is aimed at keeping the prisoners isolated from politics.