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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/4/2022
2022's Labor Uprising Reminds of More Radical Past and Possible Future
by Xochitl Gonzalez
The Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers' Organization encouraged its college-educated members to take on industrial work to support a labor union movement in crisis; the moment encouraged a broader sense of who is a worker. Today, are workers in health, service, and logistics coming to a similar recognition?
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SOURCE: The Metropole
12/8/2021
Rise And Fall Of A Movement — A Review Of “The Young Lords: A Radical History”
by Leo Valdes
Johanna Fernandez's history of the Puerto Rican activist organization reconstructs the movement's roots and shows that an organization formed in 1969 still offers a useful diagnosis of an "urban crisis" rooted in experiences in housing, schools, hospitals, and jails.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/12/2021
When the Young Lords Took Over a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care
by Emma Francis-Snyder
"The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital produced one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide."
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