Young Lords

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? 

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. 

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."