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Puerto Rican Solidarity Day Puerto Rican Solidarity Day
Date: 10/27/1974Call Number: LA 157Format: CassetteCollection: Puerto Rico
This bilingual broadcast of Puerto Rican Solidarity Day features Bay Area and international activists shedding light on the history of US and Spanish domination of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican resistance, the movement for independence, and the connections of those struggles with the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world. The event begins with the comical, yet serious play by Bay Area Grupo Claridad and Mexican Grupo Zapilote portraying how indigenous Puerto Ricans have been exploited and manipulated in the past by the colonial Spanish conquerors and in the present by United States politicians and oil, coffee, and sugar tycoons. The groups convey the message that in spite of this foreign domination, Puerto Ricans have maintained a rich tradition of spiritual, cultural, and political resistance that will continue until Puerto Rico is free. A quick interlude showcases the Puerto Rican National Anthem sung by Lolado Rodriguez, followed by an introductory political and economic history lesson and statement of solidarity with the Puerto Rican Independence Movement by organizer Ruth Rodriguez. Rodriguez highlights the industrialization of Latin America, Puerto Rican unemployment, militarism, cultural genocide, and the struggle of Puerto Rican political prisoners. Enrique Valle Ester of Sopelote then sings two Mexican folk songs illustrating Latin American resistance to U.S. imperialism. The event is concluded with a speech on the connections of the American Indian Movement to the Puerto Rican freedom movement, by one of the original founders of the American Indian Movement, the Red School House, and the Freedom School for Native American Children, Eddie Sounding Voice Benton.
Viva Boricua! Viva Boricua!
Date: 9/1/1973Call Number: KP 199Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Sidney JohnsonCollection: Puerto Rico
Viva Boricua! A survey of the independence movement in Puerto Rico as told by independistas. Features interviews with staff and students from the University of Puerto Rico, and Puerto Ricans living in New York City. Dr. Luis Nieves Falcón, the director of the Social Studies research Center at the University of Puerto Rico speaks about the independence movement since "operation bootstrap," a U.S. colonial program to industrialize Puerto Rico. Robert Anderson the Dean of Social Studies at UPR comments on the deterioration of Puerto Rico as an agricultural society. The creator of a socio-cultural book series written for children compares the difference between the colonial curriculum, and her own books which were deemed subversive for showing images of poverty, barefoot children and the realities of a 30% unemployment rate. She describes different ways the independence movement is persecuted in the media, through the judicial process, by forcing employers to fire activists, and by direct FBI harassment. A Puerto Rican economic advisor living in NYC, describes Puerto Rican migration to New York and criticizes the environmental harm and unjust economic impact of "operation bootstrap."
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.
NACLAs Latin America & Empire Report NACLAs Latin America & Empire Report
Publisher: The North American Congress On Latin AmericaYear: 1976Volume Number: Vol. 10-5 May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: NACLA
U.S. Unions In Puerto Rico