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![Puerto Rico status](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/9/1989Call Number: JG/ 003Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
ACLA show, Just Peace Today Program, Bill Crossman from the Free PR committee on upcoming US government referendum on PR's status.
![Bolivia: Drug War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/25/1989Call Number: JG/ 033AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
ACLA (Atlantic Committee on Latin America) show. Covers Bolivia following the murder of 2 Mormon missionaries the crackdown on left wing guerilla organizations and the US War on Drugs , FBI involvement and $11 million for War on Drugs in 1989. Uruguay from a article in the "Guardian" on massive unemployment, the exodus of youth and youth withdrawal from activism. El Salvador on the ARENA party and Salvadorian refugees in the US and the repression they face when trying to organize against right wing ARENA. Vieques: 4 month stand off between Puerto Rican residents and the US Navy, history of resistance on Vieques and the living/environmental conditions.
![Felix Matta speaking at Puerto Rican Independence Event](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Continuation of speech by Julio Rosado on Puerto Rican Independence (LA 030). Question/ answer section. 10 min.
![Grito de Lares Commemoration Event](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
This event, commemorating 121 years after El Grito de Lares (the “birth” of the Puerto Rican nation), was organized by Casa Puerto Rico, el Movimiento de Liberacion Puertorriqueno, and the Free Puerto Rico Committee. In mixed Spanish and English. Gloria Alonzo and Eli Jordan are the masters of ceremony. Taped from on and off mic. Continued on LA049.
![Grito de Lares Commemoration Event](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Continued from LA033 -- This event, commemorating 121 years after El Grito de Lares (the “birth” of the Puerto Rican nation), was organized by Casa Puerto Rico, el Movimiento de Liberacion Puertorriqueno, and the Free Puerto Rico Committee. In mixed Spanish and English. Gloria Alonzo and Eli Jordan are the masters of ceremony. This tape is the end of the speech by Josephina Rodriguez reading a message from prison from one of her daughters -- Alicia or Ida Luz. It might be on-mic.
![Presentation on Puerto Rican political prisoners by Josefina Rodriguez](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Josefina Rodrieguez, mother of two Puerto Rican prisoners in the United States speaks about her international work and solidarity with political prisoners, and her fight to have Puerto Rican political prisoners recognized around the world. She discusses also the prison conditions in which prisoners are subjected, expecially women prisoners within the system.
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