In my twenties, I told an older lady that I was a radical. She said "that's a bad word." I said "okay, revolutionary then!" She says that wasn't going to go over well either. I said well, they are both labels I embrace as an advocate and social justice & equality freedom fighter. If it's radical to not be cool with going along with status quo, then by all means call me radical. ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
I know i'm late but my ex girl friend was doing a paper on the Young lords and she tried to go to jail in New York and they would not let her go interview one of the men at all..
I owe a great debt to the Young Lords, because I grew up in "El Barrio" in New York City to economically poor Puerto Rican parents, but who were immensely wealthy in culture, family and language. I was only 9 or 10 in 1969, but I remember how the Young Lords were standing up to the mistreatment and discrimination of Puerto Ricans in New York. The Young Lords were labeled as radicals and militants, but in truth they fought for and struggled for equality and respect of Puerto Ricans and poor people in America.
The Young Lords also fed children, provided day care and provided health care, help the government was not providing, it was YL and Black Panthers that started free breakfast programs yet got labeled radicals and militants.
Self determination for all Puero Ricans! Independence of the island of Puerto Rico! Freedom for political prisoners! And the withdrawal of US troops from anywhere they don't belong(that means everywhere)! Still absolutely necessary demands today. All power to the people!
In 1977 as a young Army recruit I a Chicano was having a conversation in the barracks with a Boricua brother. I distinctly remember the Young Lords being at center of our talk along with the Chicano Movement. To me together with AIM, Black Panthers and the Young Lords were the big 4 in this country. In my heart we still are. Resistencia!
E of the meetings here in Chicago at a Old church on Halsted and Armitage in the late 60s or early 70 .at a time we was a motorcycle club Named ,the Horsemen.i got to know Chacha jimenez.we went to jail and battle with Chicago Police at that time those were the good old days..😅
I was born in 1954 in Cataño we were very poor I was one of those skinny kids with a big belly because of bad nutrition. We moved to Brooklyn years later my sister became a Young Lord in 1970 I became a pro athlete , life has many turns and the struggle makes us wiser. Puerto Rico Libre !!
My wife Jeanette and myself were members of Radio Free People - an anti-war audio collective with studios in Soho on Mercer Street. We lived with the Lords at the church for several days and recorded a tape, "The Young Lords Occupy the People's Church." Miraculously, in 2019, I found what's left of that tape at Northwestern University in Evanston at their Oakwood library storage building. It had been converted from cassette to VHS. Not in great shape but still, part of the history. I also remember David Perez and Flaco and singing doowop at night. Great joy during very intense times. The neighborhood was with the Young Lords
✊👍 As always great journalism!! Enlightening educational lesson on the revolutionary struggle of the Puerto Rican people told by lovely revolutionary guests. Thank u Amy n Juan!! And Amy u r rockin' the silver nicely!
Thank you!!! To the men an woman that made a difference for our ppl 🌎🌴👤❤the struggle is real an still our ppl need attention for housing, school, health care an the police violence 🗽🚔
We need to keep on educating our people, I’m 36 and didn’t know anything about the Young Lords until about 5 years ago. I’m a father now, my daughter will know our history and truth! I know first hand what it is to be hated because I’m a Latino. I was raised in a town of Florida -High Springs FL- my siblings and I were the only Latinos in the that attended school at Bell High School & elementary, at the time Elementary, Middle, and Highschool were all in one campus. I had to fight all the time, I hated it, it was pure Hell, to be honest, it still effects me till this day! But at the same time it makes me stronger, I wish I could talk to every person in that school, that bullied me, and that caused so much harm to me, mentally and physically, I would look them in the eye, and let them know that I love them, and I pray for them sincerely. God has always put them in my mind and thoughts, I still remember their names -at times I forget my own wife’s name- JK LOL! I hated them for a long time and I wanted revenge, but then... I got tired of hating them, i grew exhausted of plotting my revenge on a daily basis. That’s when I learned a very important lesson from the Man Above, it’s better to forgive and live your life peacefully, then to keep a grudge and be miserable. So, to all of you in Bell Florida that caused me so much pain, I hope you all will teach your children to respect and love to everyone no matter where they come from. PS!!!! Afterwards, we moved to Philadelphia -in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods-, shootouts and violence were the norm. I was more at peace and felt secured, compared to living in High Springs Florida. That should tell you how bad it was for me and my siblings.
Unfortunately Lin Manuel would not support this if we take his past actions as evidence. He campaigned for PROMESA which gutted Puerto Rican infrastructure. He comes from a family of Coffee plantation owners and actually owns direct shares. He abused his platform to further an agenda for the ruling elite in Puerto Rico and elites in the U.S. for his own economic gain.
Funny how we come around full circle, never realizing that nothing really changed substantially. And now are going through another period of time where we again have to fight for human rights for human dignity..Will we do it better this time or will it just be more of the same ?
Albizo Campos is Puerto Ricos Malcolm x, Assata Shakur, and Nat Turner, who was jailed, and tortured. Campos graduated from Harvard at the top of his class, and was denied the speaking opportunity, because Harvard did not want to publically announce it accepted Puerto Ricans, or, who else knows what more.
@@BoricuaNyc CANPOS SERVE IN THE U. S ARMY WITH A SAGREGATED UNIT. THEN HE WENT TO HARVARD , AFTER THAT HE MOVE BACK TO PUERT RICO AND WAS THE MAIN MAN FOR THE INDEPENDACE PARTY, THEN THE LOCAL RICAN GOVERMEN RUN BY A GRINGO PUT HIM IN JAIL UNTILL HE DIE FROM ( TORTURAS) WITH POISON FROM THE GOVRMENT.
I had two cousins who served with the Young Lords in Philadelphia early 70s. At the time I didn’t fully understand what was going on because my family was not very outspoken about it. One of my cousins did tell me once that he was helping lots of people and children. I even had a copy of a handout with stories of the young lords and I think my dad took it away from me. I was about 6 yrs old when I first knew about the Y.L. Both of my cousins who served are now deceased. RIP
The stuff they have access to here in the United States even back then is not available to them in Puerto Rico so the reality is Puerto Rico is a oppressive Nation
Puerto Ricans lack Unity as a whole too much dancing and singing to worry about what matters the most, a great disconnect between those on the island and the ones on the mainland ever since I was a child and I have not seen things get any better throughout the years
@@yasminerivera9151 I'm afraid you got the wrong Puerto Rican, what I'm talkin about is change and accountability if we want change for a 21st century we have to look at ourselves first and foremost and be ready to make those hard changes that we're going to have to make as a people to guarantee the Island stands for future Generations.
Wow, l have no idea of the struggle of Puerto Rican’s, The Young Lords, are the stars that of the Libertadores de America, LA PATRIA GRANDE. THANK YOU I FOR EVER WILL TREASURE THE SACRIFICES THAT PAY THE WAY TO FREEDOM, HADTA VICTORIA COMANDANTES, I am energised, inspiredThe Good Lord will show His glory in all our troubles, trials and tribulations. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💘💗💟💝💜💚🤎🧡💔💙🌻😷❣️💕💞☘️💐🌷🇬🇧🇧🇴
I live in PR, born and raised, What really gets me going is people that have lived all their lives and have no intention of living here (PR) are in the states going around saying we want independence. They presume to know what we want and what our dreams are. They don’t. We want to stop the privatization of public corporations, the gentrification of the island, to stop the use of the insular Cases, we want representation and a voice. We want Constitutional Rights. Not independence. No one I know wants independence. I’m 60 years old, bachelors in nursing and masters in education. 23 year SUBA dive master, sailor and artist. In Puerto Rico
I remember the Young Lords back in the 1960s-70s. They were good at organizing many of the marginal members of the ghetto community. They enhanced the identities of many ghetto youths. They were also very good at "getting in the face" of the local governmental leaders and the cops. I was always an admirer of the group. I think that any Puerto Rican in NYC worth his salt supported the outstanding group of neighborhood leaders. I learned alot reading PALANTE AND THE MOHAMMAD SPEAKS newspapers. I remember some of Juan's articles and they were outstanding. It's too bad that they didn't enjoy any real longevity over the decades. BTW, Denise tried to say Dona Felisa Rincon , the ex mayor of San Juan. I knew about Mariana Bracetti because my mom was born in Calle Mariana Bracetti in Santurce Parada 16 y media. My dad was the right hand man of Lic. Juan Mari Bras of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (1961 - 1980). His name is Victor "Marcianito "Santiago. I'm sure that some of the Young Lords leadership remembers his name. I'm a sick man and moving on in years. Otherwise, I would probably show up at the Schomberg Center activity. I remember that the old call sign was : RIGHT ON !!!!!! So Right On brothers and sisters. Let's free Puerto Rico tonite !!!!!! QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE !!!!!! PA QUE LO SEPAS !!!!! TY AMY & JUAN. Felix Santiago in the Bronx. 6/25/22.
The Honorable Don Pedro Albizu Campos was murdered and tortured by the American Government for simply wanting our people free.. R.I.POWER ALL THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT REALLY LIVED THAT FOR OUR PEOPLE..✊🏼✊🏿
Puerto Rico has never been more than a profit center for the US. And a strategic strong hold in the Atlantic Ocean. During the Spanish American war in 1898 the United States promised to liberate the inhabitants of Puerto Rico from Spain's colonial rule but, had a change of heart when they ended up wining the war against Spain, instead of liberating the island of Puerto Rico they ended up invading it instead. On July 25 1898 16,000 heavily armed U.S. troops arrived and occupied Guánica, stripping away any self-rule or autonomy that Puerto Rico recently gained from Spain unfortunately the people living on Puerto Rico became victims yet again to a new colonial master in America, the U.S. government has controlled the island militarily, politically and economically ever since. In the early 20th century, the Puerto Rican independence movement was picking up steam on the island it was growing rapidly and embraced by multiple political parties in Puerto Rico. For example In 1914, the entire Puerto Rican House of Delegates demanded independence from the U.S. Instead, the U.S. responded by imposing the Jones Act of 1917, which mandated U.S. citizenship for more than one million Puerto Ricans . It wasn’t exactly a gift or a blessing either, because one month later, on April 2, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. The point of extending citizenship to Puerto Ricans was to get about 20,000 more bodies into World War 1 and to stop the growing independence movement that was taking root and flourishing on the island. The sad truth is Puerto Ricans are both citizens and colonial subjects of the United States. Here's another example the Resident commissioner serves in the House of representatives but does not have any voting powers it can only talk and advocate for Puerto Ricans but is not allowed to vote on any final passing of Bills (not even those related to Puerto Rico) nor for election of the Speaker of the house or other officials. They also have a legislature whose will can be vetoed by Congress anytime.They have been conscripted to take up arms and die on foreign shores for the United States, but yet they are not allowed to vote for its president while living on the island. After the 1898 Spanish American war, Puerto Rico suffered an immediate barrage of economic disasters. In 1899 a hurricane leveled the island, destroying thousands of farms and an estimated $7 million worth of the year’s coffee crop. Rather than send relief, the United States government devalued the island’s currency by 40 percent with just a congressional wave of the pen every Puerto Rican lost nearly half their net worth over night and again, in 1901, Congress imposed an unprecedented assortment of land and property taxes that crippled it's economy even further, with 40 percent less cash than they had before, and higher taxes. Puerto Rican farmers soon lost their land and by 1928, 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s sugar cane farms were US-owned. The railroad systems, trolleys, and the San Juan seaport were also US-owned, along with much of the island’s infrastructure. In the past Congress has excluded or limited Puerto Ricans from access to federally funded programs such as Medicare, Supplemental Security Income and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap). Or Earned Income Tax Credit, the island also receives half the rate of federal healthcare funding even tho the residents living in Puerto Rico pay the same amount of Medicare tax as do other U S. Citizens living in the other 50 states and it does not qualify for federal bankruptcy protection either once again proving that the island inhabitants are colonial subjects being exploited and abused by America. Everything in Puerto Rico is controlled by the U S. Puerto Rico's currency, banking system, international trade, foreign relations, shipping and maritime laws, TV, radio, postal system, immigration, Social Security, customs, transportation, military, import-export regulations, environmental controls, coastal operations, air space, civil and criminal appeals, and judicial code is all controlled by the United States empire. They even changed the name of the island to Porto Rico after the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and ended up changing it back in 1931 to Puerto Rico after a joint resolution from Congress repealed it 33 yrs later lol. They also passed gag laws in 1948 making it illegal to display or own a Puerto Rican flag even in one’s own home. It allowed police and national guardsmen to enter anyone’s home without a warrant and search and seize all property, regardless of probable cause. It also became a crime to speak against the U.S. government; or to sing a patriotic tune, to speak or write of independence, or to meet with anyone or hold any assembly in favor of Puerto Rican independence breaking this law would send you to prison for 10 yrs. It was eventually repealed 9 yrs later in 1957. But as you can see the desire for independence hasn't faded away in the hearts of Puerto Ricans yearning to be free. The United States cannot pretend to be a model of democracy for the world while it discriminates against 3.5 million of its own citizens in Puerto Rico, depriving them of their right to political, social, and economic equality under the U.S. flag and under the U.S. constitution.
There are many black people on the island. The culture is profoundly African, our food like mofungo, our music Bomba &Pleina, santeria etc... My mother is 100% Puerto Rican and she is the color of Lupita N'yongo. Puerto Ricans are a multi colored people. Many times in New York you had black Puerto Ricans marrying black Americans. It's no different than a Jamaican marrying a black American. The only difference was our cultures and language differences. I don't like how some clearly Afro Latinos like these two women on the panel, try to make it seem like being Puerto Rican means you're not black. That is wacked 💯✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🇵🇷
Black man here. Very interesting. I remember hearing AOC say that you should get reparation's too and I was like, WTF? But knowing Alexandria to be an intelligent woman, I knew there had to be a story there. Much I don't know but always willing to learn. This is why you can't just stay in the house. Fuck TV, when you have the real world out there. TV never tells the whole story.
The US Government needs to give Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 back the sugarcane economy 💰 they stole. Charles Herbert Allen wired Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 entire sugarcane economy 💰 to Wall Street which is Domino Sugar today
Ironically while the Young Lords, descendants of those Puerto Ricans who against their will were forced to leave the island, were calling for and demanding Puerto Rico's INDEPENDENCE, some INDEPENDENTISTAS in the island, the ones you'd expect more than anybody else to understand the reasons for those brothers and sisters to leave, do not consider those born and/or raised in the mainland, boricuas too. Instead they're labeled traitors which I find disgusting. In more than one occasion I've been told to move to one of the 50 states if I love the USA so much when I've tried to explain to them for example that ppl like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are as much Puerto Rican as those born and raised in the island. For these jerks the minute you step into that plane at the San Juan airport you stop being Puerto Rican. My regards to the ppl of East Harlem where I moved to in 1980 at the tender age of 22 and immediatelly felt at home. Un abrazo desde Puerto Rico. 👍👍🇵🇷🇵🇷
Actually Puerto Rican an Cubans been in America since the early to late 1700s lots of people from Cuba an Puerto Rico were tooken to boarding schools the movement in 60s was for people from the islands to come an go
He was a black Rican with a parent from Virgin islands. This is proof the black African slaves where actually a west Indian race the Arawak and Taino tribes. The Salem witch was also a black aboriginal women from the Caribs.
How ould Albizu Campos consider himself afro- latino if that word didn't even exist when he was alive fighting for the independence of my country, mi patria?
Every group that cares and looks after the interest of the poor is “radical”
isn't that sad..
In my twenties, I told an older lady that I was a radical. She said "that's a bad word." I said "okay, revolutionary then!" She says that wasn't going to go over well either. I said well, they are both labels I embrace as an advocate and social justice & equality freedom fighter. If it's radical to not be cool with going along with status quo, then by all means call me radical. ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
Anyone who asks why people are poor scares those who benefit from that poverty, they want eyes looking away from them & blaming poor people instead
I know i'm late but my ex girl friend was doing a paper on the Young lords and she tried to go to jail in New York and they would not let her go interview one of the men at all..
Sad but very true
I owe a great debt to the Young Lords, because I grew up in "El Barrio" in New York City to economically poor Puerto Rican parents, but who were immensely wealthy in
culture, family and language. I was only 9 or 10 in 1969, but I remember how the Young Lords were standing up to the mistreatment and discrimination of Puerto Ricans in New York. The Young Lords were labeled as radicals and militants, but in truth they fought for and struggled for equality and respect of Puerto Ricans and poor people in America.
eZorro : U REPRESENTS NEW YORK RICANS . !!!!!!!!! . NOT PUERTO RICO 🇵🇷 .!!!!!! . WE ARE NOT A GANG , MEMBERS .!!!!!!!! .
Write your truth, ignore all the fascists, and thank you.
My grandmother and I use to visit cha cha's mother many years ago in chicago ....I'm just thinking is Cha Cha still living ?
The Young Lords also fed children, provided day care and provided health care, help the government was not providing, it was YL and Black Panthers that started free breakfast programs yet got labeled radicals and militants.
The young lords used the mistreatment of puerto ricans to expand a socialist agenda.
Thanks Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales for educating the world, thanks Democracy Now!
Self determination for all Puero Ricans! Independence of the island of Puerto Rico! Freedom for political prisoners!
And the withdrawal of US troops from anywhere they don't belong(that means everywhere)!
Still absolutely necessary demands today.
All power to the people!
Right on power to the people all peoples
In 1977 as a young Army recruit I a Chicano was having a conversation in the barracks with a Boricua brother. I distinctly remember the Young Lords being at center of our talk along with the Chicano Movement. To me together with AIM, Black Panthers and the Young Lords were the big 4 in this country. In my heart we still are. Resistencia!
Viva la resistencia!
good
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Don't know which country you're talking about but the Big 4 in this country is SLAYER, Megadeth, Metallica, and Anthrax.
@@redacted428 That beer buzz lingers a little too long.
Black and Brown love ✊🏾
Thanks democracy now , few who has always made excelent reporting on puerto rico!! 500 years of resistance!!!!
LOL a very young Juan Gonzales...they were just kids changing the world. We need that today.
Independencia for Puerto Rico 🇵🇷💋🇵🇷✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 The Boricua in Me is Proud
@@WiseFidelista boricua presente!!!
E of the meetings here in Chicago at a Old church on Halsted and Armitage in the late 60s or early 70 .at a time we was a motorcycle club Named ,the Horsemen.i got to know Chacha jimenez.we went to jail and battle with Chicago Police at that time those were the good old days..😅
¡Hasta la victoria siempre!
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Thank you Juan & all Young Lords for everything you all did for our communities. This is a wonderful Lesson History.
It's an honor to be IN THE BARRIOR walking the streets as they did RESPECT
Thanks for reminding us our present struggles are not unique, but rather, part of a long-term struggle with systemic institutionalized adversaries.
I was born in 1954 in Cataño we were very poor I was one of those skinny kids with a big belly because of bad nutrition. We moved to Brooklyn years later my sister became a Young Lord in 1970 I became a pro athlete , life has many turns and the struggle makes us wiser. Puerto Rico Libre !!
So you want cataño to look
Like Cuba? That’s what you get with communism. No seas tonto.
That footage gives me chills.
Juan and Amy!!! ✊🏽
They were still active when I was a kid in the '70s. ✊🇵🇷🇵🇷
Young and Vibrant. God Bless the Young Lord's and PUERTO RICO LIBRE !!!
Give up your American citizenship and I believe you. Until then you’re just full of it.
My wife Jeanette and myself were members of Radio Free People - an anti-war audio collective with studios in Soho on Mercer Street. We lived with the Lords at the church for several days and recorded a tape, "The Young Lords Occupy the People's Church." Miraculously, in 2019, I found what's left of that tape at Northwestern University in Evanston at their Oakwood library storage building. It had been converted from cassette to VHS. Not in great shape but still, part of the history. I also remember David Perez and Flaco and singing doowop at night. Great joy during very intense times. The neighborhood was with the Young Lords
This is awesome!! Salute to our Boriqua leaders. Viva Puerto Rico!!
Much Love and Respect to The Young Lords of Chicago as well
And NYC
And Fred Hampton who united Blaçks, White, Boricuas 🇵🇷 and every race ✊✊🏾✊🏻✊🏽✊🏼
✊👍 As always great journalism!! Enlightening educational lesson on the revolutionary struggle of the Puerto Rican people told by lovely revolutionary guests.
Thank u Amy n Juan!! And Amy u r rockin' the silver nicely!
Great interview and insights of the Young Lords in NYC.
Thank you!!! To the men an woman that made a difference for our ppl 🌎🌴👤❤the struggle is real an still our ppl need attention for housing, school, health care an the police violence 🗽🚔
HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE ✊✊✊✊✊❤❤❤❤❤
POWER To THE PEOPLE
You are appreciated. Muchas Gracias/Many Graces. תודה רבה.
We need a movie about the Young Lords...
Lets start with their drug addictions and the heroin trade.
Yes we do
@@luchi.el.zorrito it can start wherever, tell it all. Until you walked in their shoes , go a little lighter con la sal ya dig
@@chefntoast Ajaja. I don't play nice with left-wing seperatists.
@@luchi.el.zorrito how were they separatist..
THANK YOU so much i LOVE it Thank You again for Posting this video MUCH LOVE
Awesome thanks a lot DemNow!
We need to keep on educating our people, I’m 36 and didn’t know anything about the Young Lords until about 5 years ago. I’m a father now, my daughter will know our history and truth! I know first hand what it is to be hated because I’m a Latino. I was raised in a town of Florida -High Springs FL- my siblings and I were the only Latinos in the that attended school at Bell High School & elementary, at the time Elementary, Middle, and Highschool were all in one campus. I had to fight all the time, I hated it, it was pure Hell, to be honest, it still effects me till this day! But at the same time it makes me stronger, I wish I could talk to every person in that school, that bullied me, and that caused so much harm to me, mentally and physically, I would look them in the eye, and let them know that I love them, and I pray for them sincerely. God has always put them in my mind and thoughts, I still remember their names -at times I forget my own wife’s name- JK LOL! I hated them for a long time and I wanted revenge, but then... I got tired of hating them, i grew exhausted of plotting my revenge on a daily basis. That’s when I learned a very important lesson from the Man Above, it’s better to forgive and live your life peacefully, then to keep a grudge and be miserable. So, to all of you in Bell Florida that caused me so much pain, I hope you all will teach your children to respect and love to everyone no matter where they come from. PS!!!! Afterwards, we moved to Philadelphia -in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods-, shootouts and violence were the norm. I was more at peace and felt secured, compared to living in High Springs Florida. That should tell you how bad it was for me and my siblings.
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Lin Manuel needs to write a play on the (Young Lord's) 🇵🇷
Unfortunately Lin Manuel would not support this if we take his past actions as evidence. He campaigned for PROMESA which gutted Puerto Rican infrastructure. He comes from a family of Coffee plantation owners and actually owns direct shares. He abused his platform to further an agenda for the ruling elite in Puerto Rico and elites in the U.S. for his own economic gain.
Yup . Rich ppls kids . That what communists and marxists nowadays
No, he doesn’t.
@@nickyjones6595 don't put that on Marxists. Marxists are still out there fighting for civil rights
Interesting indeed it will be👍🏽
This is how are brothers and sisters from Mexican el Salvadoran Guatemalan Cuban Puerto Rican decent are receiving in the West Coast today
Funny how we come around full circle, never realizing that nothing really changed substantially. And now are going through another period of time where we again have to fight for human rights for human dignity..Will we do it better this time or will it just be more of the same ?
How brave were we at that time.
History will say we were right.💪
Really appreciated this program!
Que valientes éramos en ese entonces.
La historia nos dará la razón.💪
Lolita Lebron too she represented for our mi gente 🇵🇷
Albizo Campos is Puerto Ricos Malcolm x, Assata Shakur, and Nat Turner, who was jailed, and tortured. Campos graduated from Harvard at the top of his class, and was denied the speaking opportunity, because Harvard did not want to publically announce it accepted Puerto Ricans, or, who else knows what more.
Pedro Albizu Campos 👑💐❤️🇵🇷
@@BoricuaNyc CANPOS SERVE IN THE U. S ARMY WITH A SAGREGATED UNIT. THEN HE WENT TO HARVARD , AFTER THAT HE MOVE BACK TO PUERT RICO AND WAS THE MAIN MAN FOR THE INDEPENDACE PARTY, THEN THE LOCAL RICAN GOVERMEN RUN BY A GRINGO PUT HIM IN JAIL UNTILL HE DIE FROM ( TORTURAS) WITH POISON FROM THE GOVRMENT.
Albizu Campos is Puerto Rico’s Albizu Campos!
Que viva un Puerto Rico libre ✊🏼
This is an amazing interview! Thanks!
Power to all black and brown people.
Power to the people. Respect to these freedom fighters
I wished the truth be TOLD THE YOUNG LORDS MANY WAS AFRO LATINO AND SAW THEMSELVES AS SUCH. SO DID ALBIZU CAMPOS
resistance from 1492-viva puerto rico libre
We need another movement like The Young Lords now in this country.
ASAP ✊🇵🇷✊🏼🇵🇷✊🏾🇵🇷✊🏻🇵🇷✊🏽🇵🇷
I had two cousins who served with the Young Lords in Philadelphia early 70s. At the time I didn’t fully understand what was going on because my family was not very outspoken about it. One of my cousins did tell me once that he was helping lots of people and children. I even had a copy of a handout with stories of the young lords and I think my dad took it away from me. I was about 6 yrs old when I first knew about the Y.L. Both of my cousins who served are now deceased. RIP
RIP 🙏🏼❤️💐🇵🇷
The stuff they have access to here in the United States even back then is not available to them in Puerto Rico so the reality is Puerto Rico is a oppressive Nation
Puerto Rico has the ability to be a great place sadly corruption drug lords and the US had used the island for their own enrichment. ❤️
It is a Great place, it can get better
The corruption starts HERE IN THE UNITED STATES
Puerto Ricans lack Unity as a whole too much dancing and singing to worry about what matters the most, a great disconnect between those on the island and the ones on the mainland ever since I was a child and I have not seen things get any better throughout the years
@@sonychiba4733 speak for your self not because that's YOUR situation means all of us are like YOU amd the people you know in the island
@@yasminerivera9151 I'm afraid you got the wrong Puerto Rican, what I'm talkin about is change and accountability if we want change for a 21st century we have to look at ourselves first and foremost and be ready to make those hard changes that we're going to have to make as a people to guarantee the Island stands for future Generations.
If only we could all fight side by side for the same thing... True democracy and peace for all seems like a good place to start from. Everyone in!
esoooo Boricua ! No mas colonia, democracia justa.
Thank you Democracy Now!
The PR were so strong and radical. Love it. They shouldn't exclude the darker hued. I loved the show of power of that generation.
This is great 🙏🏿🙏🏿👌🏾👌🏾💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
Carlito Rivera went off with his last statement 💯🔥🇵🇷
Really drives home the point of the George Carlin joke: "The motto of this country ought to be, 'give us a color, we'll wipe it out!"
Wow, l have no idea of the struggle of Puerto Rican’s, The Young Lords, are the stars that of the Libertadores de America, LA PATRIA GRANDE. THANK YOU I FOR EVER WILL TREASURE THE SACRIFICES THAT PAY THE WAY TO FREEDOM, HADTA VICTORIA COMANDANTES, I am energised, inspiredThe Good Lord will show His glory in all our troubles, trials and tribulations. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💘💗💟💝💜💚🤎🧡💔💙🌻😷❣️💕💞☘️💐🌷🇬🇧🇧🇴
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Our people's greatest weapon a mind with awareness of itself
Very interesting interview. Thanks for giving voice to puertorriqueños.
Que valientes éramos en ese tiempo. La historia nos dará la razon.
I live in PR, born and raised, What really gets me going is people that have lived all their lives and have no intention of living here (PR) are in the states going around saying we want independence. They presume to know what we want and what our dreams are. They don’t.
We want to stop the privatization of public corporations, the gentrification of the island, to stop the use of the insular Cases, we want representation and a voice. We want Constitutional Rights.
Not independence. No one I know wants independence. I’m 60 years old, bachelors in nursing and masters in education. 23 year SUBA dive master, sailor and artist. In Puerto Rico
Loving all the Silver hair! Rock on with your bad selves!!
I remember the Young Lords back in the 1960s-70s. They were good at organizing many of the marginal members of the ghetto community. They enhanced the identities of many ghetto youths. They were also very good at "getting in the face" of the local governmental leaders and the cops. I was always an admirer of the group. I think that any Puerto Rican in NYC worth his salt supported the outstanding group of neighborhood leaders. I learned alot reading PALANTE AND THE MOHAMMAD SPEAKS newspapers. I remember some of Juan's articles and they were outstanding. It's too bad that they didn't enjoy any real longevity over the decades. BTW, Denise tried to say Dona Felisa Rincon , the ex mayor of San Juan. I knew about Mariana Bracetti because my mom was born in Calle Mariana Bracetti in Santurce Parada 16 y media. My dad was the right hand man of Lic. Juan Mari Bras of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (1961 - 1980). His name is Victor "Marcianito "Santiago. I'm sure that some of the Young Lords leadership remembers his name. I'm a sick man and moving on in years. Otherwise, I would probably show up at the Schomberg Center activity. I remember that the old call sign was : RIGHT ON !!!!!! So Right On brothers and sisters. Let's free Puerto Rico tonite !!!!!! QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE !!!!!! PA QUE LO SEPAS !!!!! TY AMY & JUAN. Felix Santiago in the Bronx. 6/25/22.
The Young Lords started in Chicago in the Lincoln prk area. Cha Cha Jimenez
The Honorable Don Pedro Albizu Campos was murdered and tortured by the American Government for simply wanting our people free.. R.I.POWER ALL THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS THAT REALLY LIVED THAT FOR OUR PEOPLE..✊🏼✊🏿
Love this content.
Allah bendiga estos hombres de fe pues luchan por Puerto Rico
I think a lot of rebels of old have conformed, sad.they are needed more than ever today 2020!
Cant jail the spirit. Free Puerto Rico!! Macheteros Por Siempre!!
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Puerto Rico has never been more than a profit center for the US. And a strategic strong hold in the Atlantic Ocean.
During the Spanish American war in 1898 the United States promised to liberate the inhabitants of Puerto Rico from
Spain's colonial rule but, had a change of heart when they ended up wining the war against Spain, instead of liberating the island of Puerto Rico they ended up invading it instead. On July 25 1898 16,000 heavily armed U.S. troops arrived and occupied Guánica, stripping away any self-rule or autonomy that Puerto Rico recently gained from Spain unfortunately the people living on Puerto Rico became victims yet again to a new colonial master in America, the U.S. government has controlled the island militarily, politically and economically ever since. In the early 20th century, the Puerto Rican independence movement was picking up steam on the island it was growing rapidly and embraced by multiple political parties in Puerto Rico. For example In 1914, the entire Puerto Rican House of Delegates demanded independence from the U.S. Instead, the U.S. responded by imposing the Jones Act of 1917, which mandated U.S. citizenship for more than one million Puerto Ricans . It wasn’t exactly a gift or a blessing either, because one month later, on April 2, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. The point of extending citizenship to Puerto Ricans was to get about 20,000 more bodies into World War 1 and to stop the growing independence movement that was taking root and flourishing on the island. The sad truth is Puerto Ricans are both citizens and colonial subjects of the United States. Here's another example the Resident commissioner serves in the House of representatives but does not have any voting powers it can only talk and advocate for Puerto Ricans but is not allowed to vote on any final passing of Bills (not even those related to Puerto Rico) nor for election of the Speaker of the house or other officials. They also have a legislature whose will can be vetoed by Congress anytime.They have been conscripted to take up arms and die on foreign shores for the United States, but yet they are not allowed to vote for its president while living on the island. After the 1898 Spanish American war, Puerto Rico suffered an immediate barrage of economic disasters. In 1899 a hurricane leveled the island, destroying thousands of farms and an estimated $7 million worth of the year’s coffee crop. Rather than send relief, the United States government devalued the island’s currency by 40 percent with just a congressional wave of the pen every Puerto Rican lost nearly half their net worth over night and again, in 1901, Congress imposed an unprecedented assortment of land and property taxes that crippled it's economy even further, with 40 percent less cash than they had before, and higher taxes. Puerto Rican farmers soon lost their land and by 1928, 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s sugar cane farms were US-owned. The railroad systems, trolleys, and the San Juan seaport were also US-owned, along with much of the island’s infrastructure. In the past Congress has excluded or limited Puerto Ricans from access to federally funded programs such as Medicare, Supplemental Security Income and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap). Or Earned Income Tax Credit, the island also receives half the rate of federal healthcare funding even tho the residents living in Puerto Rico pay the same amount of Medicare tax as do other U S. Citizens living in the other 50 states and it does not qualify for federal bankruptcy protection either once again proving that the island inhabitants are colonial subjects being exploited and abused by America. Everything in Puerto Rico is controlled by the U S. Puerto Rico's currency, banking system, international trade, foreign relations, shipping and maritime laws, TV, radio, postal system, immigration, Social Security, customs, transportation, military, import-export regulations, environmental controls, coastal operations, air space, civil and criminal appeals, and judicial code is all controlled by the United States empire. They even changed the name of the island to Porto Rico after the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and ended up changing it back in 1931 to Puerto Rico after a joint resolution from Congress repealed it 33 yrs later lol. They also passed gag laws in 1948 making it illegal to display or own a Puerto Rican flag even in one’s own home. It allowed police and national guardsmen to enter anyone’s home without a warrant and search and seize all property, regardless of probable cause. It also became a crime to speak against the U.S. government; or to sing a patriotic tune, to speak or write of independence, or to meet with anyone or hold any assembly in favor of Puerto Rican independence breaking this law would send you to prison for 10 yrs. It was eventually repealed 9 yrs later in 1957. But as you can see the desire for independence hasn't faded away in the hearts of Puerto Ricans yearning to be free. The United States cannot pretend to be a model of democracy for the world while it discriminates against 3.5 million of its own citizens in Puerto Rico, depriving them of their right to political, social, and economic equality under the U.S. flag and under the U.S. constitution.
God bless you for sending this information very informative! 🇵🇷✊🏽
There's no such thing as an Ex or Former Young Lord. The struggle continues against the Traitors & Sell Outs.
There are many black people on the island. The culture is profoundly African, our food like mofungo, our music Bomba &Pleina, santeria etc... My mother is 100% Puerto Rican and she is the color of Lupita N'yongo. Puerto Ricans are a multi colored people. Many times in New York you had black Puerto Ricans marrying black Americans. It's no different than a Jamaican marrying a black American. The only difference was our cultures and language differences. I don't like how some clearly Afro Latinos like these two women on the panel, try to make it seem like being Puerto Rican means you're not black. That is wacked 💯✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼🇵🇷
The Young Lords imitate the black panthers!
PUERTO RICAN Lives Matter.
Black man here. Very interesting. I remember hearing AOC say that you should get reparation's too and I was like, WTF? But knowing Alexandria to be an intelligent woman, I knew there had to be a story there. Much I don't know but always willing to learn.
This is why you can't just stay in the house. Fuck TV, when you have the real world out there. TV never tells the whole story.
The US Government needs to give Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 back the sugarcane economy 💰 they stole.
Charles Herbert Allen wired Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 entire sugarcane economy 💰 to Wall Street which is Domino Sugar today
could someone please link me to the song at the break? please and thank you. Que vive Puerto Rico libre!
The Puerto Rico Legal Defense and Education Fund is a boost to all Spanish cultures! Picasso is the only mirror image in the lake!!!
Am i the only one thats watching this video because of online school
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Ironically while the Young Lords, descendants of those Puerto Ricans who against their will were forced to leave the island, were calling for and demanding Puerto Rico's INDEPENDENCE, some INDEPENDENTISTAS in the island, the ones you'd expect more than anybody else to understand the reasons for those brothers and sisters to leave, do not consider those born and/or raised in the mainland, boricuas too.
Instead they're labeled traitors which I find disgusting.
In more than one occasion I've been told to move to one of the 50 states if I love the USA so much when I've tried to explain to them for example that ppl like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
are as much Puerto Rican as those born and raised in the island.
For these jerks the minute you step into that plane at the San Juan airport you stop being Puerto Rican.
My regards to the ppl of East Harlem where I moved to in 1980 at the tender age of 22 and immediatelly felt at home. Un abrazo desde Puerto Rico.
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Right now in today’s time what are the goals of this organization? Specifically what are the struggles and what are the changes that they seek?
This is shameful. We will NOT be erased.
Chicago, had the original group who joined with the Young Patriot s and the Black Panthers.
Fred Hampton 👑💐❤️💯
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Que viva PUERTO RICO LIBRE !
VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE !!!
Who’s watching in 2024 viva 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 thats when the people kicked out rosello 👏🏽👏🏽
Young Lords Started in Chicago ! as a street gang famo , they still active
Schomburg was also Puerto Rican
He said “The real West Side Story”.
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Are they disintegrated, or are they just waiting, training and watching?
P.R. independentista hasta la muerte...
Anyone know the link for this exact version of Pa’lante?
Actually Puerto Rican an Cubans been in America since the early to late 1700s lots of people from Cuba an Puerto Rico were tooken to boarding schools the movement in 60s was for people from the islands to come an go
Revolution now.
Viva Puerto Rico
One of the young ladies of The young lords looks exactly like N.Y. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortéz.
History being facts
I was a member 1968
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He was a black Rican with a parent from Virgin islands. This is proof the black African slaves where actually a west Indian race the Arawak and Taino tribes. The Salem witch was also a black aboriginal women from the Caribs.
Let's become a STATE already!
For this reason WE the PUERTO RICAN people must become a STATE, 🇺🇸❤️🇵🇷
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How ould Albizu Campos consider himself afro- latino if that word didn't even exist when he was alive fighting for the independence of my country, mi patria?
Recordando la era de los 1970's- hoy Sat-27-2021 Mar-