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![Bill Crossman on Puerto Rican Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: JG/ 098AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Bill Crossman speaks about Puerto Rican Prisoners of War in the US, a petition for their amnesty to the Justice Dept. under President Clinton. Puerto Rican support for these prisoners.
The 16 prisoners’ sentences, convictions, and conditions are discussed.
Crossman also gives historical background about US occupation of Puerto Rico, and military strategy and plans to control the southern hemisphere.
![Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 206Format: Mini DVProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
SAME AS V202-V204
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.
![Four Puerto Rican Political Prisoners](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Alicia and Ida Luz Rodriguez explain the 1898 US military invasion of Puerto Rico, stripped the island of its independence, continue to maintain Puerto Rico as a colony. As Puerto Rican Revolutionary women, they stress the importance of family, describe the violent US military presence with 11 military bases on the island. They defend the use of arms as essential in protecting life when threatened with colonial violence. They explain how these conditions create the need for a clandestine struggle. They explain how the fight is against multinational corporations, not the people of the US.
They expose the torturous realities of prison life for them as Puerto Rican women imprisoned for their political beliefs. They discuss torture units, known as "control units" where they were held.