05.10.18 - Lecture notes 6 PDF

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5/10/18 !Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords  First generation Puerto Ricans dealing with a lot of community issues  10th street = what do you need? (wanted clean street)  Wouldn't even give people brooms to sweep  Garbage would not be picked up by the sanitary system  First Harlem Garbage protest  More people joined because they wanted social change  Not much info in Puerto Rican culture  Niches of 3 great culture = Indian, African and European/Spanish  Multiracial people  1800s Mariana Bracetti  Puerto Rico = Spanish colony until  US embarked on Spain war  Spaniards thought Americans would let them be free but there was a military regime instead  The longer America’s presence in Puerto Rico, the worse Puerto Rico got  Bad health, education, housing, paid 6 cents per hour  10 years between WW2, thousands of PRs came to USA, NYC  Challenged to exploitation, discrimination  Latinos respond with direct action  Young Lords Organization = pressured institutions to help Latino concerns, led by Cha Cha Jimenez  Young Latinos in NYC inspired by Chicago Young Lords  Agreement to create Young lord East coast branch  Military structure to the group  The group of young Puerto Rican could have impacts in the city issues  Tremendous potential of young people  13-point program (community control, socialist society, weekly political sessions, right to defense)  Unemployed youth, students, war veterans joined  Women allowed to be at the level of men  Understood the importance of collective action  Expanded their activities to do free breakfast program and clothing drives  Asked Church to make more room for their program  13 arrested in Harlem Church battle, kidnapped the church  11-day occupations = young lord members and supporters arrested  Continued their programs at different community spaces  May 1970 = young lords party = created newspaper Palante  Police Brutality in Philadelphia  El Che Ve = socialist fight for new individuals  Sexism amplified within the military based program  Women of organization = came up with list of 10 demands to the male counterparts  Platform = machismo is not a concept  Equality of women on all levels  Denise Oliver and Gloria Fontanez promoted to the board  Male men disciplined for oppressing women  Homosexuality = gay clockers, 3rd world gay  Afro-Indio culture  Lead poisoning detection program = third of children in homes had lead in their system  Banned the use of lead-based paint in apartments

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TB testing within community, high percentage of positive TBs Health revolutionary workers and doctors joined forces with Young Lords to offer healthcare July 14th, 1970 = took over hospital 600-700 people at Lincoln Hospital New Lincoln hospital in Bronx Student conference to come and specific purpose to develop free Puerto rico clubs on campus Puerto Rico student union FBI counterintelligence program aimed to stopped subversive elements of AfricanAmericans FBI instructed agents to cause internal conflicts within the organization Local police brutality on the daily for the young lords Demanded investigation of prison system List of demands to negotiate Are you Puerto-Rican enough? Issue March 21, 1971 - Young lords had march in Puerto Rico and announces move to Island Branching out in Puerto Rico Obstacles in Puerto Rico (transportation, selling of newspaper, experiences of Puerto Ricans, language barrier) Resigned from the Young Lords of Puerto Rico and returned to the US Trying to think we support the independence of PR, that we could fix Puerto Rican situation = a mistake Young Lords = Puerto Rico Workers Association** was no successful Leaders from this organization kidnapped 1986 = police infiltration, shifting division, people fighting caused the organization to end Young Lords = promoted PR history and pride, to get response to Latino concerns Activism inspired generations Social justice in health care system, El Puente community program Dramatic action = call for release of nationalists who were in prison since 1950s...