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![Alejandrina Torres on Puerto Rican Independence](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: Puerto Rico
Alejandrina Torres speaks about Puerto Rican independence and US repression of their national liberation struggle. Taken from CD 800.
![Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican Independence](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: Puerto Rico
A clip taken from a conversation between Puerto Rican independista Lolita Lebron and interviewer Barbara Lubinski. At the time, Lolita was being held in Alderson Federal Prison for her role in the 1954 Attack on Congress. Taken from CD 884.
![Lolita Lebron](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Puerto Rico
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.
![Radio report of Lolita's arrest in 1954, including her statement](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: La Lucha Continua: a talking mural in San Francisco
Interview with Lebron after her arrest for the shooting of US Congressman Alvin Bentley in 1954.
![Interview with Susan Rosenberg and Josefina Rodriguez](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Call Number: CD 799Format: CDProducers: Sally O’Brian, Terry BissonCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interview with Susan Rosenberg, an American revolutionary anti-imperialist female political prisoner, about Lexington prison. Susan Rosenberg describes the focus of Lexington as “the psychological element of incarceration to disintegrate the personality”. She speaks about the terribly harsh and restrictive conditions of Lexington, as well as the psychological impact of the prison. Rosenberg speaks about how every prisoner is there for political reasons, as the control unit is not based on disciplinary measures, but on classification who and what the prisoners are associated with.
Susan Rosenberg’s attorney, Michael Schubert, speaks about the isolation and solitary confinement the Lexington prisoners experience, and how such isolation is aimed at keeping the prisoners isolated from politics.
![Florence Prison and the Fight to Free Oscar Lopez](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 1/20/1995Call Number: JG/ 075AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Lugo Lopez and Alejandro Molina of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War (Chicago) protesting the imprisonment of Oscar Lopez, sentenced to 75+ years on seditious conspiracy charges for his political work in Puerto Rico.
![Florence Prison and the Fight to Free Oscar Lopez](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 1/20/1995Call Number: CD 802Format: CDProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Lugo Lopez and Alejandro Molina of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War (Chicago) protesting the imprisonment of Oscar Lopez, sentenced to 75+ years on seditious conspiracy charges for his political work in Puerto Rico.
![Puerto Rican nueva trova (?) music](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Puerto Rican music program on KPFA. 1970s/80s Nueva trova-ish. Fuzzy sound. Also on very end of LA 071 B.
![Interview with Josefina Rodriguez](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
15 minute Interview with Josefina Rodriguez as part of a longer KPFA radio show. Rodriguez talks about her role as the International Representative for the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional, her daughters (political prisoners) Alicia and Ida Luz Rodriguez, their political development, the struggle for independence, the charge of seditious conspiracy, the Lexington Pennintentiary control unit, etc.. At end, Side B cuts to music from side A.
![Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 184AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc.
Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power.
The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.