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B NORTHEASTERN QUE ONDEE SOLA PUERTO RICO- VIEQUES NEW YORK (NS)-Rven before any kind of in sestigation could be ‘conducted, prison authori ac the Federal Prison in Tallahassee, Florida had ae Sealy. pronounce” Bue move han $3,000. people who. turned out for Angel Rodriguez iatoba's funeral inthe small Puerto Rican town of Gales offered another verdiet-murder~and questioned a man ho, had een ts ie Tong steugee for Puerto Rian independence wou Lilt himelf because ofa few weeks in prison antes om May 19 fo egal espa om US. td eum the second muck of sxsmonth Sentence wea he Was found with one end of bed sheet ed to the cell bars and the other end around his neck, ‘vel wouph active j-th Fut Rican ine: radence movement have already changed that Cisto- Fas death was a “political attssination” and not erly i Tet of an anexpanedprycolopid Inpse. Rodrigues, a 33yeacold farmer with tro cild- ‘en, wis a-menber of the Puerto. Rican Socialist Teague's (LSP) Cental Committe. Like many ofthe 20 other arrested last May, he had played vse fote in bath the drive to eust the Navy and in the overall Puerto Rian Independence Movement. "Tis ‘eat that Crtobal's death iva message to activists in the. Independence Movement,” sid Luis Rosido hing res conference eld by he New York Com mittee in Support of Viegues, “If you'e ever - prtoned, you wil be ied ™ Acconding toa chronology prepared by the LSP, Rodrigues Ctabal was sentenced talon Sept ber 26 and was required to pay a $300 fine. But he insisted thar his tal and sentence were meaningless because “the US. government is an internet an) legal transgesor against our land. In addition, INSIDE INTERNATIONAL DAY ? TIENE PROBLEMAS 7 EDITORIAL POETRY... * THE CASE OF ZEYAD BLACK LIBERATION . INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT. COMMENTARY ....... STUDENT LETTERS 1980 en CHILE Que Ondee Sola NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Que Ondee Sola INTERNATIONAL DAY ? Why id's the UPRS represent Puerto Rico and participate in he International Dy festivities? heard ths question over snd overagan of thurs the Ist of November, the day of the cultural fest ‘My answer to that question was that We viewed the feat ava fare. Why should Puerto Ricans go up and dance and sing mone ofthe same institution that tying to Sihinae our cultnal identity? The same people who Enphatially sate "Your in America now why don't Sou spec Amncican (english)? and “We don € speak Spanish ere, your ia Americal” re the people who ‘ont us to gop and be her prone cour esters tnd then hace This unteriy isin the proces of taking away cent ALBIZUZAPATA et) the Latine Catal Center withowralloating new lotion. “the Hicory Department is inthe proces of “ee moving” the ale Puerto Klean History instructor we Fav, all under the pretext tae he has not submitted fditertation egies of the fact tha he hasall of iistothereauictents completed We fel that i the admiostration or anyone is terete in Latino Colton, attompting to el Sur Cultural Genter and ou History teacher orcce way of showing "School have hictotialy been aged tindoctinate socialize Puerto cate and “minorles" with WWhice’Amerikkan mde claw values while a the Sime ime removing our ethnieand clural vases "aight. now the Puerto. Rican Gs wel a other ‘Third World mean) dna fen see ent se out When our Ciara Cote ced wd ‘tiny progam isimainained and expanded and this Univesity becomes more eaponsie tothe edationl Seely of dhe Latino and the ceonomicaly disadvan ged (yhieh i the responsibility of “insrtions of {ekining) then is ir pombe thatthe Union for Fert Rican Seadens will paricpate in the display nd exchange of cultural fetes wilh the rest of theunversiys Teale incortect label ws sectarian and ant- the baie? "THEN wil Puerto Ricans havea reason to celebrate? When the Unived States Navy and. Marines cease bombarding the inated Wand of Vieques Gust off the coat ti part of sR) with its ples and ware ‘hips and leaves the island and returns the exprope- ited tind to the people and when the Colon gover ment in Puerto Ro sep brutally tepresing Pureo Rican. Independentistes end when ‘Puerto Rican Independence andthe righ to exis seared ten wil the PoertoRican Nation dance a display ie Fesutfol and sich eta? me PT wite not only for Puerto Ricans, Native Amer- feans Sind Mexicanes bt fora ofthe spprened peo Pl of the World who are victimized by Capeallsm, Estoniaism, NeoColomalan and Imperial Gn ‘luding poor white Nort Ametian, When the U.S. Government sops collaborating vrhland lpn to cra fs mds go fmnments thfowgh assassinations and. coup de fats (Guch as the Sih of Iram the fuse Phochet of Chile, Marcos of the Philipines, etand the is seems cna) Por, slong th th x fhe {ties of the world fighting agains Imperialism wiljoy- Filly dance’ and ng io ancrimperatise slsacley ‘Uni then, we the Union Tor Pucro” Rican Seadents el tat sou ogtion wo continue int out the contadieions of this expialit soe Ene inttins of dactnation, We aleve tht je could we our ne and energy more contrive by removing the obmeales in the pa as the poor in tnt fora comple nl prac sso, With alt emphasis on celta] arenes ‘Haro $i, Yangui Nol ‘Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre! US. out of Pucreo Rico and Vieques! Angelo Nelson Santana President, of the ‘Union for Pucto Rican Seedats Que Ondee Sola BLACK LIBERATION MOVES FORWARD NEW YORK (LNS) ~ The event hada't been scheduled ase clebration. But that shuts New York tering in support of longimprsoned Black revel BonaryAssata Shakur comed into November 9. Gone tere the bamers and chants demanding "Fre Assats Shan fenced ys aly primed poe pro Chiming “Asata Shakur Welcome Here.” Because Steak aticr, on November 2, three Black men and ite woman posing as viors had commandeered & ison van, ten eo prison employees hong, and Fea’s ‘cimen, ‘New fork pen with the woman Icnown in the pees as “te foul” ofthe Black liber: ation movement. No-one was hurt during the escape Timoediaey” after ‘Shakur's escape New Jerey ‘officals et up roadblock at every posible ext fromm tbe sate anf led in she PHL, On November 9, ‘New York police equipped with riot gar swarmed nto the ome. of former Black Panther Panty member [Ronald Boyd Aly claiming that he had pertcipated Inthe espe. Although the only change ajainas Hil f° federal ‘charge of abetting am onlwfel fight co tna proven, he ciency eg halon $2 Ini bond, Hil who wesunarmedat the sine of hi rest, har stated through his wyer Ut be fs anor {ene And supporers have pointed on that fst about the las place you would expect to find someone who fu jos een part nam armed jalresk would be sit Ing at home: Noncthless Tl officals hae alo been reported vsiong the homes of other known Black ‘One ofthe primary ranges of well-planned gor cmnment atk on the Buck Hberation movement ‘ting the early “7s Shaka was rested in 1973 in 2 oottinetskaestonslare” aetck by New Jersey State trooper. Zayd Shakur, another former Bick Panther Patsy merber, was kiled during the stack, alongwith one ofthe state topes "At dhe te of her aret, Shakur was being sought ax 1 Yoptive under sx tdicements Bat goverment ‘tcl failed to obtains singe conviction om any of the charges luted in hove indictments, St Shakar secretly sence ein pons 65 yu ‘on charges from New Jeney Turnpike shootout when She was arrested. Ava esl, she was impisone for ‘othing athe than belngpresentat her own ares and the gunfire thet accompanied eventhough medial cidence confirmed. that she had been shot while Folding hr hands above her head. The state trooper Who. Gatfied"againt her nested she had been

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