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![Interview with Lolita Lebron](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.
![Nothing Is More Precious Than](images/thumbnails//5583.jpg)
Date: 1/4/1975Call Number: NI 052Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark SchwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
First program of 1975, opens with poem and New Year's statement from the Black Liberation Army, reports on San Quentin 6, Ruchell Magee, Willie Tate; report on Menominee Indian occupation of Wisconsin estate; Vietnam, and series of reports on Puerto Rico and sterilization of women in Puerto Rico.
![Interview with Lolita Lebron](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.
![35% Puerto Rican Women Sterilized](images/thumbnails//31854.jpg)
Publisher: Committee for Puerto Rican DecolonizationYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 2-5Format: ArticleCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
An article from the Committee for Puerto Rican Decolonization in New York exposing the massive sterilization program carried out by the U.S. Government and the Rockefeller Foundation in response to the "population problem" in Puerto Rico that was seen as responsible for widespread unemployment.
![Gov't Network Sterilizes Workers](images/thumbnails//31855.jpg)
Publisher: Committee for Puerto Rican DecolonizationFormat: ArticleCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
A continuation of an article about the history of mass sterilization in Puerto Rico but focuses on the problems with the current health system and includes the results of a 1968 study on sterilzation.
![Women in the Colonial Society: Massive Sterilization](images/thumbnails//34176.jpg)
Format: ExcerptCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
This excerpt is about massive sterilization and the myth of overpopulation. Includes information on sterilization as part of the the colonial project in Puerto Rico.
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