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Speech by Julio Rosado about Puerto Rican Independence Movement Speech by Julio Rosado about Puerto Rican Independence Movement
Date: 2/25/1989Call Number: LA 030Format: Cass A & BCollection: Puerto Rico
Former political prisoner and grand jury resistor Julio Rosado speaks on the status issue in Puerto Rico and calls for the decolonization and self-determination of the island. Set against the changing agenda of the government of the United States towards Puerto Rico, Rosado stresses the need for a plebiscite as opposed to a referendum and explains the difference between the two processes. The incentive for the US's proposal of a referendum, he argues, is to make Puerto Rico into a market for the assembly and distribution of American goods. Rosado traces the history of US/ Puerto Rico relations from the late nineteenth century to the present and discusses the different positions of the three main electoral parties in the island: The New Progressive Party (pro-statehood), The Independence Party, and the Popular Democratic Party. The Independence Movement of which Rosado has been part for several years asks for the removal of all the instrumentations of power (such as the armed forces and the federal courts of the United States) that have served to exercise colonial control in Puerto Rico.
Speech by Julio Rosado about Puerto Rican Independence Movement (2 of 2) Speech by Julio Rosado about Puerto Rican Independence Movement (2 of 2)
Date: 2/25/1989Call Number: LA 031AFormat: Cass ACollection: Puerto Rico
Continuation of speech by Julio Rosado on Puerto Rican Independence (LA 030). Question/ answer section. 10 min.
Marion Program Panel 1 Marion Program Panel 1
Date: 10/1/1988Call Number: PM 429Format: CassetteProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Program on the life and work of Assata Shakur, and her influence on the work and life of fellow activists. Also speakers on the Puerto Rican liberation movement.
Marion Program Panel 1 Marion Program Panel 1
Date: 10/1/1988Call Number: CD 821Format: CDProducers: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Introduction by Nancy Kurshan and preliminary comments by Jose Lopez. Lecture by Bruce Wright, judge, scholar, poet and activist for social justice. Using his own experience as a Black man, he describes the history of US racism and the criminal justice system. Program on the life and work of Assata Shakur, and her influence on the work and life of fellow activists. Also speakers on the Puerto Rican liberation movement.
Grand Jury Repression and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement Grand Jury Repression and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement
Date: 4/5/1983Call Number: KP 525Format: Cass A & BProgram: WBAICollection: Puerto Rico
Two lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild and their activist clients join radio host to discuss issues in Puerto Rico and especially the efforts of the F.B.I. to stop the Puerto Rican independence movement. Guests, Elizabeth Finkel and Bob Bloom are lawyers whose clients are activists and often subject to grand juries. Julio Rosado, another guest, was a member of Comite Unitario Contra la Represion y Para la Defensa de los Presos Politicos (CUCRE) and former political prisoner incarcerated for civil contempt. They discussed prison conditions and independentista Carlos Noya, member of Movimiento Liberacion Nacional (MLN) joins the general conversation about economic, health, environmental, and political problems in Puerto Rico caused by the U.S.
Update Update
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersYear: 1981Volume Number: Vol. 1-IXFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Grand Jury Forced to Continue Proceedings; Five POWs Secretly Transferred; POW Haydee Torres to Receive Medical Attention; Referendem Proposed to End Student strike at UPR. In English and Spanish.