What do you notice?
What questions do you have?
Are these issue still happening today?
How does this group relate to the Revolution of Evelyn Serrano?
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After reading the article on the Young Lords share your reaction...
What do you notice? What questions do you have? Are these issue still happening today? How does this group relate to the Revolution of Evelyn Serrano?
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Bayan
12/15/2017 04:38:34 pm
It's wrong to take over a other peoples' land for no reason, like the US invaded Puerto Rico. They also treated Puerto Ricans poorly in the US, which isn't okay.
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Alexei
12/17/2017 07:12:49 pm
Yeah, it does! Also, I think it said something about the Chicago Young Lords occupying a church, but I might have read it wrong.
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Ms. C
12/18/2017 01:24:35 pm
Seems like they communicated across the country and took the same actions of protest. 3/29/2022 02:14:49 pm
the spicks had it coming, it is our land and they are monkeys
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Chloe
12/15/2017 08:49:58 pm
I noticed that the Young Lords included women in their campaign, but necessarily later. These issues are still happening, women aren't
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Maggie
12/16/2017 07:38:31 am
I noticed in the first paragraph that the way they welcomed the Fire Department, and the NYPD was pretty violent considering the way other people settle things. But was it necessary? Even if the problem that had occurred before this, that they had brought up now was because of the anger that was distilled inside them? People are sill having to settle things in a way that they feel is right. Which to me should not be happening. I'm not saying you have to be friends with everyone, but just try not to conduct a problem that produces a bigger problem. This relates to R. of E.S because in the first paragraph (again) it talks about the El Barrio and how much the rotten trash smells so malodorous. Also in the second chapter of The R. of E.S Evelyn is walking to her job (she walks through El Barrio) and she comes across what she calls: 'The El Barrio Fart.' Which depicts that this is exactly what they were talking about in the Y.L article. Could these have been around the same time? I also noticed that The Black Panthers and The Young Lord are very similar. On the first and second paragraph it tells the reader that The B.P inspired The Y.L to serve child care, breakfeast, ect. Which the B.P did and even if the Young Lords weren't inspired thy would still be related to The B.P because they both involved the community and the also didn't just stand together for themselves they stood together for the community. All those facts state my opinion: The Y.L are very similar to The B.P but not 100%.
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Ashiya
12/16/2017 06:34:19 pm
I feel like it was totally unfair that the Puerto Rican community had no one to help them clean up their trash that left the Puerto Rican community to do it then selves which was wrong. So I think that it was right for them to set it on fire. This was stating that they would not let people to drive by unless the sanitation department came to that neighborhood and did his or her job properly. I also think that the (chicago) Young Lords were an amazing group that really cared about the community for example in one of the paragraphs it had stated that the young lords had tested people in their neighborhood for led poisoning. So in conclusion the young lords were a powerful group that deserves to be remembered
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Elliot
12/17/2017 08:04:37 am
I found it interesting that the Young Lords protested while simultaneously helping out the community. But Helping the community was a form of protest as well, showing that the members of the Young lords and others who were being treated with little respect and almost no city services, were willing to do them themselves. When I first heard that the Young Lords occupied a church, I though it was a protest (It was the second time). But really, they turned it into a community center, where citizens of the local area could give speeches about their time living in spanish harlem. a big aspect of this whole movement was who (racially) to include.The Young lords were typically a guerilla group, taking part in unusual protests, like piling trash up on third avenue and lighting it on fire. But women were excluded from this movement, and they criticized this type of protest. It took a while, but the Young lords eventually changed their program, including women.
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Ms. C
12/18/2017 01:37:48 pm
Who has the power to control what information the general public has access to? I'm wondering if this has something to do with why the Young Lords were overshadowed.
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Isaiah
12/17/2017 09:54:02 am
I feel like the NYPD and the sanitation department were purposely not helping the Puerto Rican community. They were protesting and making programs to help the community.
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Ms. C
12/18/2017 01:30:40 pm
The Young Lord and Black Panthers had community centers. The Black Panthers created some of our first free lunch and breakfast programs for kids. Both groups were trying to build community and make up for the social services that were not happening in their neighborhoods.
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KeiB.
12/17/2017 11:22:50 am
I noticed that there are many different ethnicities (vocab word) in the Young Lord's group. Connecting to T.R.O.E.S. (The Revolution of Evelyn Sarrano) in the book it said a lot of African Americans came to Harlem after the assassination of M.L.K. and I'm predicting that another reason why they went to Harlem is to join the Young Lords.
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Wilder
12/17/2017 04:02:58 pm
V
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JACK
12/17/2017 04:51:15 pm
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wilder
12/17/2017 04:51:56 pm
hi
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Ms. C
12/18/2017 01:36:47 pm
Your ideas make me think that Puerto Ricans are still not considered as important as the average American citizen.
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Wilder
12/17/2017 04:51:16 pm
I noticed that they only burnt trash and made barricades because the sanitation department didn't clean up the street trash. I wonder what the Young Lords were inspired by in the BPP that made them do the protest in that way? I also went a little further by going on the internet and found out that the NYPD forgot about the Young Lords! Odd... Anyway, no the sanitation department doesn't just leave trash out anymore so I bet the Young Lords made some impact (suddenly I decide to write a word in science that we've been studying randomly in a way that hopefully makes sense) on the city and probably the world (which is very hard to do, so at the same time, probably not ).
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Isabel
12/17/2017 05:03:19 pm
I noticed that the NYPD didn't help the young lords by cleaning the streets of El Barrio/East Harlem.Also the young lords were inspired by the black panthers.A question that I have is that why did the NYPD not help the young lords clean up the streets. In a paragraph it says that the young lords establish and prove themselves as a real community organization so that means to me it's a legacy.the article relates to the revolution of Evelyn Serano because in the book it says,the trash smells like fart said Evelyn, so of course trash smells bad and the young lords set a the trash can on fire
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Alexei
12/17/2017 07:20:50 pm
By golly you're right! The trash thing is totally right!
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Ms. C
12/18/2017 01:42:03 pm
Yeah why didn't they collaborate and work together. Thats a great question!
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Jade
12/17/2017 05:57:15 pm
I feel like nobody helped for a reason but not a good one.many African Americans come to Harlem. Young lords wanted to make a group to protest about people that committed to the job to actually work. It was very unfair. But however it’s might never happen again
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Ms. C
12/18/2017 01:43:29 pm
How can we learn from this experience? When communities need support what should NYC do in the future?
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zion
12/17/2017 07:04:06 pm
I feel that its wrong that nypd and the sanitation to not respect the el barrio and leave trash all over the street.cleaning up every other town but el barrio east Harlem is like cleaning up every piece of dust but keeping one piece left and thinking its fine.the young lords did the right thing by protesting.Doing marches and burning piles of garbage on third street.I wonder who was the leader of the young lords and why they didn't mention he or she in the article.I also agree that in the blurb of the revolution of Evelyn sorrano "a fiery protest'.
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Alexei
12/17/2017 08:04:43 pm
I think you are right. You can't leave garbage in just one spot and clean everyone else's!
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Willa
12/17/2017 07:15:53 pm
It seems like the biggest problem the Young Lords faced, were the health issues. The sanitation, medical issues. It really does show how much people will go out of their to give other people a hard life. The city made two trucks avoid the Puerto Ricans! The sanitation, and the TB truck! It was interesting to know that the Young Lords were mostly college students. I mean, burning trash, taking over churches and hospitals, that's a lot for college kids. But it also seems that the Young Lords didn't just fight for Puerto Rican rights, they also fought for Feminists, and Gays. But you can tell that things really have gotten better. You don't hear anything on the news about this stuff anymore. Part of the reason the Young Lords aren't around anymore, I think, is because there just wasn't a reason to fight. I mean, there were other reasons too, but I think that was one of them. What surprised me was that it seems like the Young Lords weren't around for very long. Maybe five minutes, at most. Th Young Lords didn't seem like the most peaceful group, either. Stealing X-rays, burning trash, taking over buildings, not really peaceful. It was better than violence, but still. But our city seems to have a real problem activists groups. They know if something is constantly not right, people will do something. Just fix it right away, don't fight back for what's wrong. But the worst part is, that theN YPD knows it's wrong, but they don't stop that wrong. They keep doing it, that's unjust!
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Ms. C
12/18/2017 04:28:53 pm
It does seem like a lot of responsibility for college students to organize this movement. They had the time and numbers to organize unlike the poor families in El Barrio who are spending all their time working and taking care of their families.
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Alexei
12/17/2017 07:54:15 pm
I noticed that that cover photo must have been earlier rather than later, because there are very few women there.
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Mateo
12/17/2017 08:21:52 pm
I thought that too.
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Ms. C
12/18/2017 04:25:22 pm
Any movement or action to make change is a political move. Whether connected to known political group or not. You might want to look up the community philosophy of the marxist movement of that time. They thought the needs of the whole community outweighed the needs of the individual.
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Mateo
12/17/2017 08:19:17 pm
One thing that I noticed that I thought was wrong about the sanitation department protest was that the sanitation department was right up the block. I think that the Young Lords did the right thing by doing that because if they didn't do that El Barrio and all of East Harlem will have trash all over it. Another thing that I found out is that the Young Lords of East Harlem were inspired by the Black Panther Party (BPP) and a group called the Young Lords in Chicago, Illinois. "The Chicago Young Lords were a former street organization that had gained national attention when they took over a local church in order to provide child care, a breakfast program and other community-oriented programs." The Young Lords relate to "The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano," because Evelyn lives in El Barrio and in one of the chapters Evelyn talked about the bad smell of El Barrio. That bad smell is probably the trash in the streets. The book also says that Evelyn found her desk in the street and that her desk was apiece of trash.
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