The Young Lords: A Reader

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247 Index abortion, 173, 178–179; and Carmen Rodriguez, 51, 198–199. See also birth control; sterilization Afro-Boricua, 17, 20, 23 Albanian Affairs Study Group, 233, 235 Albizu Campos, (Don) Pedro, ix, xii, 5, 21, 80, 82, 85, 95, 113, 145; arrests, 19–20, 84, 96, 116, 123; biography, 95–98; and Blanca Canales, 167–168; criticisms of, 97; torture while imprisoned, 96. See also Nationalist Party Algerian War, 69, 90 American dream (“amerikkkan dream”), xi, 20, 221, 242 American Indian Movement (AIM), x American Revolution, 43, 90, 103–104. See also revolutionary nationalism anti-poverty programs, 36–37; “Great Society,” 1; and Urban Action Taskforce, 37–38 Armed Liberation Commandos (Comandos Armados de Liberacion, CAL), 153, 160, 217, 239 Armed Revolutionary Independence Movement (Movimiento Independentista Revolucionario Armado, MIRA), 143, 160, 217 armed self-defense, 142, 151–157; follows political struggle, 142, 154; as means to liberation, 11–13, 47, 92–93, 135, 138, 217–218; and opposition to violence, 11, 13, 64, 217; and People’s Liberation Army, 13–14, 152. See also guerrilla warfare; revolution; self-determination; war artists as inspiration for politics, x, 94; and Taller Alacran, 149 “ay bendito,” 125, 217 Babylon, 9, 12, 83 Baraka, Amiri, 238–239 “Basta Ya!” xiii, 82, 164 Betances, Ramon Emeterio, 18, 81, 88, 92–95, 107–109, 212; and ten-point program (“Ten Commandments”), 94, 108. See also El Grito de Lares Bill of Rights, 36 birth control, 198; and genocide, 146, 173. See also abortion; sterilization Black Panther Party, ix, x, 82; and Black nationalism , 1; as exemplar for the Young Lords, 3, 27–28, 36–37, 237; and Free Health Clinics, 190; and split, 34, 242 Black Power, 1, 23 Black Workers Congress, 57, 232–233, 235 Blair House attack (1950), 82, 84, 123, 153 Bracetti, Mariana, 18, 173 breakfast program, 4, 20, 32, 190, 218, 220 Brown Berets, x Brown, H. Rap, 37 cadre, 26 Canales, Blanca, ix, 20, 144–146, 164, 166, 174; imprisonment, 165; interview with, 167–169. See also Jayuya Revolt capitalism, 17, 22, 98, 151; as fascist, 69; fragility of, 67; and monopoly, 109–110; opposition to, 10, 12; and oppression of women, 169, 171; and racism , 23, 125–126, 163. See also class; machismo; socialism; Third World people; women in the Young Lords Castro, Fidel, 36; and History Will Absolve Me, 42, 90; and imprisonment, 91. See also Cuba Chains Off Offensive. See Ofensiva Rompecadenas Chicanos, xi, 9, 11; and Brown Pride, 1; and social movement, 1, 3, 37, 43, 98, 126, 130 child care centers, 173, 222 Citizens’ Organization for a Sane World (SANE), xii civil rights movement, x; and comparison to Grito de Lares, 93. See also King, Martin Luther class, 17; bourgeois, 17; and division of society, 117, 158, 231; lumpen, 17, 42, 150; petty-bourgeois, 17, 42–43, 150; working class, 17, 42, 120, 150. See also capitalism; socialism Cleaver, Eldridge, 34, 210; and armed struggle, 242 Cleaver, Kathleen, 87, 174 clothing program, 4, 20, 190, 219–220 coalitional politics, ix, 9, 11, 83, 190; and guerrilla warfare, 144; as “people’s movement,” 64; Puerto Rican-Black alliances, 43; worker-community alliances, x, 42; worker-lumpen alliances , 42, 183, 243. See also Third World people COINTELPRO. See FBI Counter Intelligence Program 248 Index collective leadership, 16; as alternative to charismatic leaders, 41 colonized mentality, 22–25, 134; and decolonizing , 26 colony, 17; Hawaii, 70. See also Puerto Rico Committee to Defend the Community, 4, 54, 63, 232, 235 community control: of institutions and land, 10, 12, 179, 193–194; of schools and curriculums, xi, 128. See also health care; self-determination Community Health Advisory Board, 50 Congress attack (1954), 82, 84–85, 96, 123, 153 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), xii Constitution (U.S.), 36 contradiction, 17; among the people, 22; and U.S., 66 Corsado, 19 cortejas, 163–164; as instrument for male pleasure, 163, 170 criticism: and development of the Young Lords, 44, 51, 56; self-criticism as key to Party democracy , 26 Cuba: and Cuban revolution, 90–92; history of, 87–92; and neo-colonialism, 88; and resistance movements, 89; U.S. corporations in, 89. See also Castro, Fidel; Guevara, Che; Platt Amendment Davis, Angela, 174 Declaration of Independence, 36 democracy: and decision-making, 26; as goal of the Young Lords, 64; as ironic concept, 19, 59, 122. See also elections democratic centralism, 34, 237, 239, 243 “Despierta Boricua, Defiende Lo Tuyo,” ix, 149, 165, 199 dialectical materialism, 65, 241, 244 divided nation...