Puerto Rico
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Young Lords Party
From El Pueblo Se Levanta by Newsreel. Edited for Young Lords 40th anniversary website, www.YLP40.com Young Lords Party http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.3389004 more about “Young Lords Party“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Puerto Rican Nationalism and the Drift Towards Statehood
American Imperialism Called to the Colors In 1898, the United States won Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico from Spain. As U.S. troops invaded Puerto Rico, they proclaimed that their intentions were to overthrow the ruling Spanish authorities, thereby guaranteeing individual freedoms for the inhabitants. However, as Michael González-Cruz, an assistant professor at the… Continue reading
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MACHETERO WINS BIG IN THE UK TAKING AWARDS IN BOTH WALES AND ENGLAND
MACHETERO’s European Premiere in the Swansea Bay Film Festival in Wales took home the Award for Best Film – USA. The film is an exploration into the use of violence as a means towards liberation using the specific example of the island nation of Puerto Rico as springboard to delve into the broader and more… Continue reading
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Video: Machetero
Post 9/11 definitions, ideas and notions of terrorism are challenged in this highly controversial and experimental film. Machetero is an allegorical narrative that follows French journalist Jean Dumont played by Isaach de Bankolé (The Keeper, Ghost Dog, Coffee and Cigarettes, Mandalay) to a New York prison where he interviews Pedro Taino a so called “Puerto… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 