our actions where we are aimed at getting people say, yes, it is possible to resist and break the colonized mentality that these guys can't be beat or that there's nothing we can do to change the situation in that sense of input. in the 19 seventy's when once i was in his early twenties, he chose to fight for the independence of his homeland. although many point to weakens were angered by a lack of political autonomy only a small percentage heated full independence from the united states. even fewer chose wines, path of paramilitary operations and robbing banks. the last one i did was 33 years ago. most of the time my role was as the protection against the police coming so i was ready to engage in gunfire if it had to be to protect my comrades from, from getting caught. and also i had thought that through with with the island of point dot equal was 1st colonized by spain in 15 o 8 in 1898. it became a u. s. college. yet it has retained its own cultural identity. today nearly 3 and a half 1000000 people of a population greater than 21 of the 50 us states a close to half live in poverty point the vehicle is a u. s. territory powerless to challenge options of the united states government that affected people residents have no vote in congress or in presidential elections. we had a subscription to time magazine and there was an issue which the cover story was on prep schools in the us. and i read in and over was covered prominently there and it said they had 7 indoor basketball court that they hadn't made that made it really is a wow with i had like a shark skin suit which i thought was so cool. with 1st time i walk in the dining hall, maybe half an hour after my parents left and i felt homesickness. and as soon as i walk into the child on take maybe 10 steps, some guy goes you know, that's the 1st time i'd heard that word. let alone addressed me, but i went up and slapped him in the face. you know as hard as i could use a while and he was so shocked that he didn't do anything. and i went into the, to the court room to hang up my coat and then go into the, the dining room. and, you know, i said, holy, what have i gotten myself with senior year and over my, my professor for american history. mr. len james. he said, said, how would you like to do a turn favor in lieu of the final exam? i said, yeah, sure. and he said, want to do paper on the spanish american war and i didn't, i came to our door in the library to the bottles a library to, to read the congressional record. and there's nothing like reading these guys talk on filtered on the one side there were those referring to us for practically as monkeys in like of the brown races and listen that are going away. and then you had guys like go william jennings, bryan and the anti imperialist, saying this betrays all over the united states, is about we fought the colonies, reform for independence. what are we? we're going to become an empire now with for over 400 years point dot eco suffered as a spanish colony but in 1897, spain granted the island, a degree of autonomy with many hoped that this was a step towards independence. but it turned out to be a dead end with just months after went to rico's 1st election. and the united states invaded the island within 10 weeks, hopes of independence were dashed as the island was annexed by the u. s. and then in 1917, that jones actually made point. lincoln's us citizens with like okay, you're gonna make you american citizens, which you didn't ask for even if we were offered citizenship with happened, we would prefer or wrong. ah okay. you guys in line for a robin the statue applies to robin. i don't know if you're supposed to and all i see a lot of people doing it, so i go to them. okay. who's next? i do know that that's not john harvard. no. the didn't know because he was dead by the time they did that. so some, some young man posed a year is not right. and he wasn't just the founder because he was one of, of all one of the. so that's why they say this is the statue of the 3 lies. okay. about the year that was my dorm room window on the top floor there. as i looked down that morning, it was just starting to be light. it was a mist still on the yard which added to this kind of surreal quality. and there was a ring of policeman setting up an outer perimeter. i mean, they all had these helmets on with visors and they set up a gauntlet on, on this door here. the link i planted and then you could hear the screaming and everything else and then started seeing the guys students who were in the building being evicted, one by one. i got to play with i grabbed by, i just pulled it on him as, as they brought you down the stairs and kicking you and hitting you until you got to the bathroom. so you in the bad a wagon filled a vanity wagon drove it out and brought the next one. and i was just checking on someone who was apparently injured. and that was, was basically made the break for me from being an advocate of peaceful change and thinking that and we could change things peacefully. understanding that these guys had to be fought in a different way for me. that was the beginning of my radicalization. a lack of municipal policeman on the little the crowd, man, man with the people inside the building with ah ah ah ah ah, talk about the what issues just some good asked wolf tori come up with bush bush from which mutually which could allow what he's he's not a simple denial for your motive. to echo just a salute leaking like you know what my choice? 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and i, it wasn't until years later that i began to have a different historical perspective on puerto rico and all the gag law. i made flying the puerto rican flag by itself illegal and punishable by prison . you know, we couldn't speak in favor of independence, be thrown into prison. with in 1948 law, 53 lay the la moda, known as the gag order, makes it a crime to display a puerto rican flag speaking out for independence or seeing a patriotic point. 3 can song can lead to 10 years in prison. ah, in 1950 nationalists across the island read the staging coordinated attacks on police station, the governor's mansion and the u. s. federal court house. the national guard responds with heavy artillery mortars grenades and p 47 bombs. this is the 1st time us fighter planes attack on with in the aftermath, 2000, puerto ricans are rounded up and arrested. in retaliation, 2 nationalists form a plan. ah, outside blair house, the president's temporary washington home. extreme fanatics of the puerto rican nationalist party tried to force their way in guns blazing to assassinate the president of the united states. assassin oscar cardozo and 2 other guards are wounded. as the plot is spoiled. at washington's emergency hospital, a 24 hour guard watches over co jago, who, despite a chest wound, recovers to face trial. for murder. have tried to kill me. and i knew that they tried it. i knew who they were. they are a bunch of fanatics. there was an independent puerto rico actually one of the common views is that the nationalists rose up like a bunch of and the government squashed on. in fact, it was the us government policy, the owners policy to push these guys into a corner and get them to a point where it's either give up or slow down fighting and so they were pushed into that situation. and then of course, they responded and for crushed and crushing away that is like, you know, like when they do, when they put know an invaders in a, put down all the freedom fighters cut their heads off and put them on a pike. so everybody else knows, don't mess with oscars. this is what's waiting for you. i was approached by somebody i trusted very much and said listeners saw the underground movement is being organized in puerto rico for independence. and are, you know, we think you're a good candidate. what it say, i said, yes. in 1954, it's 4 point or recons living in new york decide that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for independence. communicating from prison. i be so campus presents them with a mission. to bring the fight for independence to the american public. the group purchases new sunday dress clothes and buys one way. tickets to washington d. c. then they enter the us capital building. now congress is in session. the only time it leads them in reciting the lord's prayer, then she stands up and shouts from the gallery. viva point equally would a long live free point don't equal the buyer in the house of representatives and the police and crowds rushing to the capitol, shoveled and wild. i'm a border. reagan brought out a grantville miranda. it's photograph moments after he an apollo tower. as time grace go, darrell had joined with little brawn and boring more than 20 shops at the crowded house for by congress when our wounded and murderous. ah bill grimly defiant, the woman is hustled from the angry and menacing crowd. ah, a new man that's paying for freedom from night and that i would like it happened today. i wake it kind. it may not good way up the road, not the government, and i thank the paper to recall immediately. i think i'm thinking about it. did you come here for the rest for freedom from wayne because all the other ways have been tried and i think, i think a pretty good feeling not think on the on the continuity is indicate that you think that you heard somebody fired and i asked that i came here yesterday evening not to laugh at them. i just thinking i'm sorry who. ready most americans are, there's no context to that. it's like these guys are totally insane. you know, these fanatics for pottery, gun abandoned, so you know, done such good for them. how can they do that? ah, the criminal investigation reveals that knowledge delivered on fired her weapon into the ceiling, harming no one. capitol police find a note in her handbag? my life i give for the freedom of my country. the united states is betraying the sacred principles of mankind with the continuous subjugation of my country. ah mm. fully medical all, heather rios was born in puerto rico in the 19 thirty's. as a child, he saw his grandparents lose their land to the north american sugar monopolies. he witnessed the slaughter of the bon, so massacre blue. he saw the death of colonialism globally, but experienced it lingering on tenaciously at home in his twenties, already an accomplished jazz musician, he gave up his career as a trumpet player and began to fight for independence. it was clear to feel better though a heather that the u. s. was not going to change of its own accord. fiorella seal nazare because of where we're at that in the open meal. so you know, at the, in a thought and mailed it to convince him in the gave them one will be a long vice call on his out. they got, we went by the you, they cannot my that bigger than the 3 a lot that will look as applica handles either or the other. with 3, let me go, isabella. ah, in the fall of 1969, dozens of bombs began exp putting in point a new s based hotels, casinos and department stores like sheraton, howard johnson's. and we'll work for all hit. there were few injuries, but hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. really bad. go ahead. i called these actions harm propaganda. ah. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk november 22nd 2022 outraged orthodox christians. confronted ukrainian security service offices, looking entrances and exits to keep the oldest monastery. they were looking for, alleged russian spies among the monks. we mean dealer seeming or perform a reason for the brutal crime down one church. his parishioners had song, a song about a long been recently enough to condemn any orthodox christian attack in prison and even kill them. russia, what i knew russia finance because when you loud store you, when you store grow slider venue in your store, thought i shoot you a samuel sample i used from his dog with ah, ah, violation of free speech on the rights of journalists. that's what roches foreign minister calls the detention love, the chief editor of sport, make lithuania news agency file parties. in last year we heard from the communications director of good next parent company devoted to close, you know, the baltic states or a testing ground for lawlessness. the act either on direct instructions more in coordination or superior therapy in union and, and you were a refuses to stop shooting for orthodox christmas after vladimir putin old is a 36 hour russian sci fi to begin on friday with the un chief scraps, a fruitless mission to investigate the mass killing of ukrainian military prison isn't done yet.