ISBN:
9780814722411
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9780814722428
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 253, [8] p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Young Lords : A Reader
DDC:
305.868/72950747
Keywords:
Young Lords (Organization) Sources History
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Readers
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Puerto Ricans Biography
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Political activists Biography
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Puerto Ricans Sources Politics and government 20th century
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Puerto Ricans Sources Social conditions 20th century
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Political activists - New York (State) - New York
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Electronic books
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New York (N.Y.) Sources Social conditions 20th century
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New York (N.Y.) Sources Ethnic relations
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New York (N.Y.) Biography
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Biografie
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Quelle
Abstract:
The Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into a national political movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with headquarters in New York City and other centers in Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, and elsewhere in the northeast and southern California. Part of the original Rainbow Coalition with the Black Panthers and Young Patriots, the politically radical Puerto Ricans who constituted the Young Lords instituted programs for political, social, and cultural change within the communities i
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword: Why Read the Young Lords Today?; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Toward Understanding the Young Lords; 1. Young Lords Platform and Rules; 13 Point Program and Platform of the Young Lords Organization (October 1969); Young Lords Party 13-Point Program and Platform (revised November 1970); Rules of Discipline of the Young Lords Organization; 2. The Ideology of the Young Lords Party; Introduction; Definition of Terms; Protracted War in Puerto Rico; Colonized Mentality and Non-Conscious Ideology; The Party and the Individual; 3. The Origins and History of the Young Lords
Description / Table of Contents:
Interview with Cha-Cha JimenezOrigins of the Young Lords; Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger; YLP Editorial: Separation from the YLO; Central Committee; 2 Years of Struggle; The Young Lords Party (speech by Juan Gonzalez, 16 Nov. 1971); 4. On History; Puerto Rican Obituary (by Pedro Pietri); Malcolm Spoke for Puerto Ricans; The Vote or the Gun; Lolita Lebron: Puerto Rican Liberation Fighter; Sojourner Truth: Revolutionary Black Woman; History of Cuba (parts 3 and 4); Editorial (Betances); El Grito de Lares; Albizu Campos; History of Boriken (parts 1-13)
Description / Table of Contents:
5. On Education and StudentsCommunity Education; Student Conference; H.S. Revolt!; Seize the Schools!; Puerto Rican Student Union; 6. On Revolution, Nationalism, and Revolutionary Nationalism; On Revolutionary Nationalism; Puerto Rican Racism; Felipe on Political and Armed Struggle; Message from a Revolutionary Compañera; Yanquis Own Puerto Rico; Puerto Rican Society: An Analysis; Armed Struggle (parts 1-3); On Our Struggle; YLP on Elections; 7. On Women in the Revolution; Women's Oppression: Cortejas; Revolutionary Sister; Sterilized Puerto Ricans; An Interview with Blanca Canales
Description / Table of Contents:
Young Lords Party Position Paper on WomenWorld of Fantasy; Madame Dinh; Abortions; Position on Women's Liberation; Sexism; Women in a Socialist Society; 8. The Garbage Offensive; Young Lords Block Street with Garbage; El Barrio and YLO Say No More Garbage in Our Community; 9. Health and Hospitals; Ten Point Health Program; Revolutionary Health Care Program for the People; HRUM: Health Worker Organization; Socialist Medicine; The Fight against Prospect Hospital; Think Lincoln; TB Truck Liberated; Murder at Lincoln; Lincoln Hospital Must Serve the People; Seize the Hospitals!
Description / Table of Contents:
10. The People's ChurchThe People's Church; Interview with Yoruba; Speech by Felipe Luciano; Report Given to Rev. Pablo Cotto by Iris Luciano; Julio Roldan People's Defense Center Opens in the People's Church; Armense para Defenderse; 11. Social Justice Programs; YLO Feeds Children; Free Clothes for the People; Breakfast Programs; Socialism in Practice; People's Child Care Center; Message to a Dope Fiend; Heroin! From Where?; Fight Drugs-to Survive; Seize the Jails; Free Martin Sostre!; We Are All on Trial; 12. Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization; Editorial: 1st Party Congress
Description / Table of Contents:
Editorial
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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