Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documents
March for Vieques; Elizam Escobar
Date: 1/12/2003Call Number: V 135Format: Mini DVProducers: hana tauber, nyla rosen, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited video taping used for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. All in Spanish except interview with Dylcia.
First half hour is at a March to get the Navy out of Vieques. Former political prisoners Dylcia Pagan (min16) and Luis Rosa (min. 19) talk about the connection between the Vieques struggle and PR Independence and the political prisoners. Korean war vetran talks about serving time for civil disobediance on vieques (min. 3). Also includes brief interview with a teacher’s union at the March and the union’s band playing music, and brief interview on the connection between Palestinian and Puerto Rican liberation.
Second half hour is the continuation of an Interview with former politcal prisoner Elizam Escobar at his hosue (V 139). Talks about the role of art in the struggle for freedom, self-determination and Puerto Rican liberation.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited and english-subtitled interviews of these and other PR Independentistas.
Interview with Dylcia Pagan
Date: 1/14/2003Call Number: V 138Format: Mini DVProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Unedited interview used to get clips for a project on the Puerto Rican former political prisoners. In English.
Independence figher, media creator, artist, and former political prisoner Dylcia Pagan talks about the connections between Puerto Rican Independence and the release of the political prisoners, about her history and current projects, about the women Nationalists, about Vieques, etc.
NOTE: For easier viewing, check out V 143 which has extracted, edited and english-subtitled interviews of her and other PR Independentistas.
Dylcia is also briefly intervied on V 135.
Interviews with Puerto Rican former political prisoners and their lawyer
Date: 1/30/2003Call Number: V 143Format: VHSProducers: nyla rosen, hana tauber, jose ignacio fuste, marcos garofaloCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
First 20 minutes: Edited and subtitled (both English and Spanish) interviews on the connection between the release of the prisoners and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. First footage of a march for peace for Vieques; then former political prisoner Dylcia Pagan talks about the connection between Vieques and PR Independence and the prisoners’ release; lawyer Jan Susler talks about fear and action; former political prisoner Jose Solis Jordan talks about solidarity, love, formal and informal/social/internal prison, the academy/university, and freedom; former political prisoner Elizam Escobar talks about art and liberation.
Next 40 minutes: Roughly edited clips from interviews with these Independence fighters, as well as with Luis Rosa and Adolfo Matos. In English and Spanish, Not subtitled. To use these or other clips, see full interviews -- V 135 through V 142.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War
Call Number: V 205Format: Mini DVProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
SAME AS V199-V201
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.
