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![Puerto Rico: Oscar Collazo (1 of 3)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Oscar Collazo's reaction to release of Andres Figueroa Cordero. Discusses his own political principles and those of the Nationalist Party and why he refuses parole. Discusses Blair House Action, 1950. Describes own education, Puerto Rico, move to New York, what brought him to Nationalist Party, racial dynamics in Harlem, (lack of) support for Nationalists from US progressive/leftist parties. Describes his case briefly, interaction with other Puerto Rican political prisoners, prison life, and a prison strike.
![Puerto Rico: Oscar Collazo (2 of 3)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discusses Nationalist Party’s position on Korean War and Vietnam. Discusses Congress Act, those sent to prison, and his own trial. Discusses goals of Nationalist Party as Independence & Socialism. Discusses Socialism, Communism, Anarchism’s place within the independence movement. Discusses question of tactics and use of violent struggle within the independence struggle -- a question, he says, which had divided/destroyed the Party before he arrived in NYC in 1940. Mentions Party’s interaction with Congressman Mark Antonio. Describes briefly Don Pedro Albizu Campus’ & Benardo Diaz’ last years before their deaths. Describes his own life in prison. Mentions that the Civil Rights Movement had an impact on him and mentions the fallacies of the Freedom of Information Act.
![Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 050Format: Cass A & BProducers: Noelle Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. Intro by Gloria Alonzo, Interviews by Avotcha. Recorded voices of Felix Mata, then Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco). Interviews with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92). (duplicated on LA 070)
![Grito de Lares Commemoration Event](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Event Commemorating el Grito de Lares (1868, Puerto Rican Independence struggle) with Humberto Pagan Hernandez and the National Committee to Free the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War. Dedicated to Alejandrina Torres, William Guillermo Morales, and Filberto Ojeda Rios. Leslie Mulin of the Free PR Committee reads a statement of solidarity. Gloria Alonzo reads a statement from Adolfo Matos on the criminalizaiton of the Independence Movement through the judicial proceedings in Hartford, CT. Humberto Pagan talks about PR colonial history and resistance.
![Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 067AFormat: Cass AProducers: Noel Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit #9: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
(Incomplete Duplicate of LA 050). Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. (Missing LA050’s Intro by Gloria Alonzo, interviews with Felix Mata, Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco), and Rafael Cancel Miranda). Does include interviews by Avotja with Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92).
![Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 070Format: Cass A & BProducers: Noel Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
(Duplicate of LA 050.) Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. Intro by Gloria Alonzo, Interviews by Avotcha. Recorded voices of Felix Mata, then Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco). Interviews with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92).
![Carlos Quiles reads “El Silencio de Amenecer” and “Vieques en Solidaridad” by Marilyn Buck. Music played by Eugenio Maldonado.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Carlos Quiles, Puerto Rican poet and activist, reads two poems in Spanish by Marilyn Buck, “El Silencio de Amanecer” and “Vieques en Solidaridad”. Puerto Rican band, El Viejo Mago, sing two songs in honor of Marilyn Buck. Second track icludes poems read by Carlos Quiles with the sound of rain on the rooftop in the background. Music by Eugenio Maldonado .
![Nov 1 Puerto Rico Rally San Francisco](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Nov 1 "Puerto Rico" rally in San Francisco in the late 1970’s. This rally was a part of an International Campaign to free the 5 Puerto Rican Nationalists who were incarcerated for their actions to free Puerto Rico from U.S. colonial rule. Two of these independentistas, Lolita Lebron and Oscar Collazo sent words to be read at the rally. Along with other speakers/performers, Lucas Demont of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party Nucleus, spoke about the revolutionary history of Puerto Rico, including the Nationalist Party's taking up of arms against US imperialism, the ensuing ultra-repressive US colonial occupation, and also the actions that lead to the incarceration of Puerto Rican Nationalists. Mary Ellen Polluck of the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee explained the ways in which the US has turned Puerto Rico into a colony instead of the "free associated state" as it has been named. Also featuring performance by Nina Serano.
![Puerto Rico: Oscar Collazo (3 of 3)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discusses Collazo's joining of the Cadets, chance for independence during WW II. tells about his first meeting with Lolita Lebron and discuss other Puerto Rican women independence fighters. Discuss conditions in NYC as compared to Puerto Rico.
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