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Grito de Lares Commemoration Event
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.
Solidarity with Zimbabwe’s Struggle for Liberation Part 1
Sylvia Baraldini, national director of the May 19th Communist Organization, shows slides of about the struggle for the liberation of Zimbabwe and her trip with ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union).
Another speaker about the history of the struggle in Zimbabwe and the imperialist white rule in South Africa and Rhodesia. Luis Rosado of the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War speaks about Puerto Rican solidarity with those struggling in Zimbabwe.
Music of the Grito de Lares Commemoration Event in San Francisco
Los Pleneros de la 24 (Afro-Puerto Rican Plena) perform a musical set at the end of an event commemorating the Grito de Lares in 1868, a crucial uprising of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. They describe themselves as the artistic arm of el Comite Pro-Puertoriceno. In Spanish. On and Off Mic at event.
Grito de Lares Commemoration Event
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.
Jose Lopez
Jose Lopez, of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) of Puerto Rico, grand jury resister, co-founder of Pedro Albizu Campus High School, brother of Oscar Lopez Rivera, talks about counterinsurgency, Prisons and Puerto Rico, US imperialism at home and abroad. Talks about 1978 secret conference on "terrorists" in PR, about Angel's (last name?) "suicide" in prison, the Federal Raids on homes in PR, Macheteros and the FALN, etc. Cuts off after he finishes.
Black & Gold: The Latin King and Queen Nation
Call Number: V 121Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In 1994 the Latin Kings, the largest and most powerful street gang in New York, became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claim to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and Young Lords. With over 3,000 members in New York, some see the Nation as the most important political voice to rise from the streets in decades. Unsurprisingly, the NYPD doesn't agree, calling it a vicious gang with a PR campaign. Made in 1999.
Women in Prison
Intervew of Women in Prison, Dublin, CA 1995. Political prisoners Dylcia Pagan, Linda Evans, Ida Robinson, and Marilyn Buck are asked to speak about themselves and why they are in prison.
The women also discuss the GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the lack of wages and benefits for the poor and oppressed, and the wrongs of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Ida Robinson speaks about families of ethnic minorities, and Marilyn Buck speaks about how political prisoners aren’t violent, they are just casualties during the conflict. The women discuss the state of the poor white woman, how is marginalized because no one is fighting for her and she has no representation.
Have You Seen La Nueva Mujer Revolucianaria Puertorriquena?
Various Puerto Rican women reflect upon their struggle to immigrate to America as well as Puerto Rican people that still live on the island. There is considerable talk about the Puerto Rican independence movement and these women tell their stories of imprisonment as political prisoners of war in the United States. Women’s suffrage in Puerto Rico and the United States is also a topic frequently discussed.
Puerto Rican Plebscite Seminar -Tape 1 of 3
Date: 6/30/1989Call Number: LA 060Format: Cass A & BProgram: recorded conferenceCollection: Puerto Rico
Tape 1 of 3. In Spanish. Off-mic reording of a day-long seminar at the University of Puerto Rico on the Puerto Rican Plebiscite and Independence. Carlos Gallisa starts in the middle of a sentence, talks for 15 min. Jose Lopez talks for 15 minutes. 15 Minutes blank. Juan Mari Bras starts in middle of a sentence, talks for 20 minutes. Carlos Quisos talks for 20 min, then cuts off to blank for 5min.
Puerto Rican Independence (continued from LA056)
10 min. Tape starts mid-sentence - (probably continued from lost tape LA56) , Jose Lopez talks about Puerto Rican independence party and movement, Puerto Rican politics, the most recent colonial elections, voting, participation. Some questions from audience.
