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Felix Matta speaking at Puerto Rican Independence Event Felix Matta speaking at Puerto Rican Independence Event
Date: 11/17/1989Call Number: LA 028AFormat: Cass ACollection: Puerto Rico
Felix Matta speaking at a Solidarity event for Puerto Rican independence in San Francisco. Gloria Alunzo and Leslie Mullin give introductions. Slightly off-mic
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.
Jose Lopez Jose Lopez
Date: 4/12/1986Call Number: LA 053Format: Cass A & BProgram: Public SpeakerCollection: Puerto Rico
Jose Lopez, of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) of Puerto Rico, grand jury resister, co-founder of Pedro Albizu Campus High School, brother of Oscar Lopez Rivera, talks about counterinsurgency, Prisons and Puerto Rico, US imperialism at home and abroad. Talks about 1978 secret conference on "terrorists" in PR, about Angel's (last name?) "suicide" in prison, the Federal Raids on homes in PR, Macheteros and the FALN, etc. Cuts off after he finishes.
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-IVFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Celebrate El Grito de Lares; Regional Campaign to Build for October 31st Mobilization; Haydee Torres Transferred to San Diego MCC; Update on Cruz-Osorio. In English and Spanish.
NACLAs Latin America & Empire Report NACLAs Latin America & Empire Report
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 5-8 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
Documents of Struggle: Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Colombia
Libertad Libertad
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1988Volume Number: Vol. IX-VII JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Libertad
Contents: Message from the MLN; Guillermo Morales- Puerto Rican Patriot & Hero; Message for the July 3rd Lexington Control Unit Mobilization and Protest; Independence Leaders Comment on William and Alejandrina; Message from Alejandrina Torres and Silvia Baraldini for the July 3rd Demonstration at Lexington Control Unit; All Out to the United Nations.
Lolita Lebron on a National Tour to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War Lolita Lebron on a National Tour to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Publisher: MLN Comite Nacional Pro-Libertad Prisioneros de Guerra Puertorriquenos Prairie Fire Organizing Committee New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and SocialismFormat: ProgramCollection: Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional
Announcement about Lolita Lebron on a national tour to free Puerto Rican prisoners of war sponsored by: MLN, National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War, National Coordinating Committee Against Repression, New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism.