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NORTHEASTERN
QUE
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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 UNIVERSITYQue 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 SeedatsQue 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