[Andres Jimenez performance]
This tape features footage from a Puerto Rican Nationalist support dinner. Musician Andres Jimenez performs for the audience.
This tape features footage from a Puerto Rican Nationalist support dinner. Musician Andres Jimenez performs for the audience.
This tape features footage of a National Liberation Armed Forces (FALN) support gathering in September 1979 in Chicago. It took place right after Puerto Rican Nationalists Oscar Collazo, Irving Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, and Lolita Lebron were released from jail upon President Jimmy Carter’s commutation of their sentences. Collazo was incarcerated for the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman. Flores, Miranda, and Lebron had been in jail for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives. This tape features a church service and meeting honoring the four nationalists. Folksinger and activist Marta Rodriguez also performs.
This tape features footage of a demonstration in New York City against police brutality. Activist Emilio Benevides addresses a large crowd about the perils of “police terrorism” in their community, made up primarily of people of Puerto Rican descent. This is followed by numerous street interviews with supporters, including an interview with Benevides. Benevides had ties to the National Liberation Armed Forces (FALN).
Tape of some sort of meeting with Puerto Rican community members. The meeting is conducted entirely in Spanish and seems to be mainly geared toward organizing the community against a corrupt school administration and end of American Imperialism.
Footage taped off TV of the program “Two on Two,” featuring reports on cable tv and on Puerto Rico. Followed by other off air footage related to the Chicago blizzard of 1979.
“A recording of an Assembly introducing Puerto Rican Nationalists and sharing messages of solidarity”
Puerto Rican Nationalists visit a conference in Chicago in honor of their actions, supporters group leaders speak to demonstrate their support.
A Saturday workshop conference held in Chicago for the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, followed by a brief excerpt of footage of a young children’s classroom.