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War Against All Puerto Ricans: Inside the U.S. Crackdown on Pedro Albizu Campos & Nationalist Party

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http://democracynow.org - Commemorations are being held today to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Pedro Albizu Campos, popularly known to many as Don Pedro, the former head of the Nationalist Party and leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement. Albizu Campos spent some 26 years in prison for organizing against U.S. colonial rule. He was born in 1891, seven years before the U.S. invaded the island. He would go on to become the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School. Once he returned to Puerto Rico, he dedicated the rest of his life to the independence movement, becoming president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in 1930. It was a position he held until his death in 1965. In 1936, Albizu Campos was jailed along with other Nationalist leaders on conspiracy and sedition charges. His jailing led to protests across Puerto Rico. On Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, police shot and killed 21 Puerto Ricans and wounded over 200 others taking part in a peaceful march to protest Albizu Campos’ imprisonment. The event became known as the Ponce massacre. After his eventual release, Albizu Campos was arrested again in 1950, just days after a Nationalist revolt began on October 30. Pedro Albizu Campos would spend almost the rest of his life in prison, where he repeatedly charged that he was the subject of human radiation experiments. We hear Albizu Campos in his own words and speak to three guests: Rep. José Serrano (D-NY); Nelson Denis, author of the new book, "War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony"; and Hugo Rodríguez of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.

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joe carr
joe carr1 day ago
Blanton Winship the Master Mind "serial killer".
MrVidLuv
MrVidLuv1 month ago
Since the original, indigenous people from Puerto Rico were Taino indians, and they originated from the sea faring Arawak Indians, why aren't Puerto Ricans given the same rights as other native Americans?
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Maria Magdalena Gonzalez Nieves (Magdy)
Maria Magdalena Gonzalez Nieves (Magdy)2 weeks ago
+Benjamin Martinez Well said
Klas K
Klas K10 months ago
Tell me, is there any South/latin-american or Caribbean country the U.S has not screwed up in some way the last 100 years?
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onlythewise1
onlythewise13 weeks ago
+Judo Lover yes instead of a wise comment like ,what country hasn't been helped by USA  he goes for the shit talk  .
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Judo Lover
Judo Lover2 weeks ago
+Klas K Aren't you using YouTube right now???? Doesn't that come from the USA?? Are you using the Internet right now????? You're telling me those two things have screwed up Latin America??? SMH!!!
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MrVidLuv
MrVidLuv1 day ago
Shit on his grave? What would that do? How bout collecting all the back taxes the corporations didn't pay in Puerto Rico along with the wealthy families in the USA who benefitted and rebuild this exploited and raped island back to its natural beauty and their people, back to their independence and freedom? Wouldn't that be beautiful? One less colonized people, one less apartheid state in this world, one less injustice.I hate to say this but I've only heard Bernie Sanders speak about Puerto Rico once and it flew by in conversation. He couldn't face the camera! He briefly turned away. This shows how clueless he is on the topic. This shows he can't look you in the eye and lie. He is even against reparations. I hope he reads "War Against All Puerto Ricans"!!! It would certainly change his mind. The torture parts are pretty awful. You better have a strong mind as well as stomach to read it.
j tg
j tg2 weeks ago
Here the the Deceiver should be judged by the internatinal courts for the invasion of Puerto Rico, the abuse, the persecutions of Puertoricans, the assassinations of Puertoricans and many many atrocities done to the people of Puerto Rico since the invation of Puerto Rico in 1898. All they have done is deceive, steal and kill to destroy and humiliate Puerto Rico. I am not the one saying that, history says so.
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Elliot
Elliot1 month ago
GREAT LEADER ..STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHT'S
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Mike A
Mike A1 week ago
So when does a communist revolutionary's life matter??? It doesn't! He does not represent me, he does not represent my family, and he does not represent my ancestors. Screw him and the communists!
MrVidLuv
MrVidLuv2 weeks ago
Anybody can say they've studied any sort of book on the Caribbean or even taken classes. It doesn't impress me, especially with what's been coming out (both good and bad).What was suppressed, filtered by the media and lied about is emerging.The history of the Caribbean is much more complex than most people can imagine. Information comes out all the time.Like I keep mentioning, read War Against All Puerto Ricans. Otherwise you're misinformed. Just the fact that you're against reparations means you're against justice. If you do serious wrong to someone you're in trouble usually and am obligated to pay that person back return their possessions to their original state, like in an auto accident for example.If you do damage to an entire nation with its own peace and economy. Their own currency and turn their land upside down with violence and colonization, don't you think those effects which can still be felt today, should be corrected in the best way possible?I see some people choose to take the easy way out and just stick their head in the sand, pretending reality doesn't exist.
rich b
rich b6 months ago
Campos led a strike that increased wages ??? You know that made the CEOs nuts.
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minedga mcnamee
minedga mcnamee5 months ago
He gave his life for the truth.
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Maddog TV
Maddog TV1 month ago
Siendo 100% honesto, creo que el PIP no es nuestra salvacion al buscar la independencia... El ideal esta correcto, pero el problema es que siguen siendo un partido que lleva recostado tantos años haciendo MIERDA! Un candidato independiente CON EL MISMO IDEAL del PIP seria una mejor opcion en mi opinion, alguien que no puede ser manipulado por un partido...
Smokey Rico
Smokey Rico5 months ago
Viva Albizu.
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M Ros
M Ros3 months ago
The truth be told about the abuse, DOMINO sugar and American invasion
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Luis
Luis5 months ago (edited)
There are very few of us left. The US has brainwashed almost every Puertorrican here at home and has put us puertorrican nationalist on the list of potential terrorist once again this is outrageous. They have destroyed our country by putting our people on welfare, making our country addicted to debt, destroying and rewriting our true history and culture, shooting down and killing us all the times they new an uprising was imminent. And people are dumbed down through worthless indoctrinating style education. We don't want a fight with the American people they are loving and good. We just want our country back through peaceful means and the truth to come out of the mouths of those in charge for the whole world to here. We just want to live in peace.
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Kaloyan Stoyanov
Kaloyan Stoyanov10 months ago
240p?? Seriously??
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MrVidLuv
MrVidLuv1 month ago
Well 60% of the island has 60% Taino DNA. So if Puerto Ricans have most of their DNA as indigenous then they should be deserving of all the rights of all natives and indigenous peoples. This includes independence and even reparations. It wasn't just the physical war and conquest of the island but the labor exploitation and levels of brutality were enormous, this includes economic exploitation, environmental destruction and pollution......I read the book "War Against All Puerto Ricans". Anyone who does and has any sense of decency and humanity will be outraged!What the US did to Puerto Rico was so violent and disgusting and with such goddamn nerve. Honestly, if I'd I met an old guy who took part in the atrocities there, I'd strangle his fucking ass.
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joe carr
joe carr1 day ago
instead go to Macon, GA and shit on somebody's grave (the master mind of the massacre).
Miriam Warrior
Miriam Warrior8 months ago
There are a lot of EVIL PEOPLE IN THE USA GOVERNMENT and a lot of GOOD PEOPLE as well.......RIP JFK how sad the way your government betrayed you.
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Francesco Arellano
Francesco Arellano4 months ago (edited)
+Miriam Warrior JFK signed the Social security Administration funds into the claws of the gov. .. Learning is power...
joe carr
joe carr1 day ago
Martin Luther King, Malcon X etc.
Francesco Arellano
Francesco Arellano4 months ago
400 de Espana y 100 de USA. Nunca Libre! Prefieren darle 380 Billones a Iran y para que? Mas armas??? Cuba recibio 300 millones de la gente Americana para Obama poder dejar su legacia....LMAO. Y PR que se joda!!! Ya los pesos se hicieron para los ultra ricos...Y el ELA se comio todos los fondos con su fuego popular. La infra estructura obsoleta, crimen fuera de liga y siguen pasando el peso al proximo...Ay bendito, PR esta' jodio!
M Ros
M Ros3 months ago
Puerto Rico a political football
Benjamin Martinez
Benjamin Martinez6 months ago
Mr.albizu campos graduated number one in his class at Harvard, he did not recognized because he was Puerto Rican, but because he was black. That was not clarified in this program. 
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Judo Lover
Judo Lover2 weeks ago
+Benjamin Martinez Right!! Then they didn't care if he was Puerto Rican, it was because he was colored, or black. Many Cuban and other Latin Americans at that time were awarded, but only if they were white.
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