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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Miranda Lopez: Para mi niña
DESCRIPTION:LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SHOW\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPara Mi Niña reflects the past\, present\, and future dreams of our little Black and Brown girls. Three young girls — the youngest\, middle\, and oldest — play dress-up as their mothers\, aunts\, grandmothers\, and matriarchs who worked during the World Trade Fair era. \n\n\n\nWearing vibrant colors\, flowers\, prints\, and dresses inspired by Puerto Rican culture and the spirit of Plena\, they mirror the strength and pride of the women before them. The youngest builds the Women’s Pavilion with blocks\, symbolizing foundation and possibility. \n\n\n\nThis piece honors how older women clear the path so younger generations can dream\, create\, and shape lasting change.
URL:https://tallerpr.org/events/mirandalopez/
LOCATION:Pennsylvania
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SUMMARY:Cold War Puerto Rico: Steve Howell in conversation with Vanessa Maria Graber
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 13\, 6:30pm\n\n\n\nTaller Puertorriqueño | 2600 N. 5th St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19133\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet Tickets\n\n\n\n\nTicketing Options: Book + Admission | Sliding Scale Donation: $0 – $20\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a riveting discussion with author Steve Howell in conversation with Vanessa Maria Graber about his new book\, Cold War Puerto Rico. \n\n\n\nTicketing Options: \n\n\n\n\nRECOMMENDED: Book + Admission\n\n\n\nSliding Scale Donation: $0-$20\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book: \n\n\n\nA gripping history of FBI surveillance\, political repression\, and the fight for Puerto Rican independence. In the 1940s\, with the construction of a naval base and a bombing range\, Puerto Rico became a major geo-political military outpost for the United States. For a power claiming global leadership in a decolonizing world\, however\, the archipelago’s colonial condition underscored the dissonance between American democratic rhetoric and its imperial reality. The solution was a deal that\, in 1952\, gave Puerto Rico a degree of self-government without changing its legal status as an “unincorporated” US territory. The US then publicly claimed Puerto Rico was now more autonomous while using repressive tactics such as FBI surveillance\, arrests\, destabilization\, and other methods developed in Washington to silence activists and political parties pushing for full independence. \n\n\n\nIn Cold War Puerto Rico\, Steve Howell examines how J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI targeted Puerto Rican communists as part of an offensive against pro-independence parties and activists generally. Howell’s US-born father\, who fell afoul of Hoover for producing radical cartoons while working in San Juan in the 1940s\, remained on the FBI’s watch list long after exiling himself in Britain. His close friends\, the Puerto Rican author César Andreu Iglesias and Jane Speed de Andreu\, were meanwhile arrested and imprisoned three times during the 1950s. Drawing on a wealth of new sources\, including interviews and FBI files\, Howell tells their stories along with those of other activists who battled indictment in 1954 under the Smith Act\, challenged the jurisdiction of the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Juan in 1959\, and revived the Puerto Rican independence movement in the 1960s\, despite the FBI deploying the covert tactics of COINTELPRO against them. \n\n\n\nPuerto Rico is virtually invisible in histories of what is generally called McCarthyism\, yet anti-communist repression was in many ways more intense there than in the mainland US. Now\, with Puerto Rico’s future currently hanging in the balance\, Howell’s compelling history demonstrates why we need to understand the long enforcement of its colonial status.
URL:https://tallerpr.org/events/coldwar/
LOCATION:Taller Puertorriqueño\, North 5th Street 2600\, Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania\, 19133\, United States
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