Point 5 of the YOUNG LORDS PARTY 13-Point Program and Platform states “We want community control of. Toward Understanding the Young Lords; 1. Young Lords Platform and Rules; 13 Point Program and Platform of the Young Lords. Health and Hospitals; Ten Point Health Program. THE HEALTH INITIATIVES OF THE YOUNG LORDS PARTY. Taking advantage of the New York State Educational Opportunity Program (EOP). Talk: Young Lords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. There are virtually NO citations on this page. I had some contacts with these folks circa 1. New York. Very interesting, very worth an article, but I don't have much special knowledge and would be doing web research just like anyone else. I've tried to write a stub and point to some uesful online sources. They recently had a documentary on Puerto Rican Nationalism called . It was quite interesting and did some coverage of the Young Lords. I was surprised to learn that Geraldo Rivera was actually a Young Lord. After watching a Latino Public Broadcasting program called . It's always interesting to see what these guys were doing back in the sixties. I'll add some stuff to this in a few days. Jersey Devil 0. 0: 2. September 2. 00. 5 (UTC)I'm a researcher and teacher currently writing a dissertation, which will become a book, on the New York Young Lords. The Young Lords: Its Origins and Convergences with the Black Panther Party. Young Lords was one of numerous inner-city gangs. MCC Young Cricketers; MCC & Chance to Shine in Schools; MCC Spirit of Cricket; What is MCC Spirit of Cricket? MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture. Lord's Afternoon Tea; Online Store. They were a very interesting and important organization that, unfortunately, too few people know much about. In the spirit of education, I need to correct Jersey Devil about a couple of things.
First, Geraldo Rivera was not a member of the Young Lords. He certainly hung out with them and represented them in legal matters; but according to interviews I've done he was never . Second, Juan Gonzalez, while an important founding member and figure in the Lords, was not . There were several other folks actively involved in that formative process. A lot more deserves to be said about the YLO/YLP/PRRWO. Jesus. Arocho 0. 6: 0. October 2. 00. 5 (UTC)I will volunteer to add some historial background and commentary on this topic - since I was the first woman on the Central Committee of the Young Lords Party, and was a part of the early history of the formation of the Young Lords Organization, New York Chapter. The comment about Geraldo Rivera was correct - he was not a member of the YLO/YLP. He was however an attorney for the Young Lords, and as such was often a spokesperson in the media on issues that the membership could not comment upon for legal reasons. Geraldo gained local media attention via his link to the YLO, and shifted his field from law to media studies/journalism as a direct result of his contact with our organization and the issues we were organizing around. Denise . What was the point of their creation? What did they stand for? What work have they done to accomplish their goals? And what are they doing today? More information on these topics would be greatly appreciated. Zigbigadoorlue 2. January 2. 00. 6 (UTC)We do link to their 1. But in my experience as a New York- area activist at the time, the Young Lords were not driven so much by genuine ideology as by emulation of the Black Panthers. There were some impressive individuals in the Young Lords, but they never achieved the Panthers' level of organization and coherence (which probably saved quite a few of them from the fate of Fred Hampton. First, in terms of ideology, Jmabel is pretty on target. The Lord's weren't driven so much by ideology in any orthodox sense; that said, they did articulate their . In terms of their level of organization and coherence, I'm not so sure that I'd agree entirely. When they split from Chicago and became the . Even before that point, however, they were divided up into ministries (defense, health, education, and information) and were . Even given that organizational coherence, the issue of individual leadership is a different matter entirely - - the issue of . Does that make sense or am I being too cryptic? Jesus. Arocho 1. 7: 2. February 2. 00. 6 (UTC)Hi Jmabel - I'd really like to know what you mean by . Our organizational structure was similiar to that of the BPP, but there were differences. We were not driven by emulation of the Panther's, though the initial inspiration for the Chicago Lords came from Fred. The evolutuon of the YLO (Chicago) and YLP (NY and other locations) is too complex to discuss here in a short comment, but the ideology of the YLP was neither lumpen- based, nor CPUSA Marxist. The fact that we were dealing with the issue of Puerto Rico and a long history of both nationalist and independentista struggle made us clearly revolutionary nationalists - which is an ideological stance. What saved the Lords from the fate of Fred Hampton was more than likely the fact that the Lords made it clear in public that neither our living quarters nor our offices contained weapons. I don't want it to seem that I'm attacking you - actually I'm really overjoyed to find this discussion, and look forward to further dialogue. Dee. Olive 1. 6: 5. March 2. 00. 6 (UTC)My contacts with the Young Lords were entirely with the New York contingent and were not extensive; I had only the most minimal contact of with the Panthers while they were an active organization, so my impressions were mostly secondhand or by talking years later to ex- Panthers; so I could well be wrong in my impressions. Re- reading my remark above, I didn't really mean to emphasize . But I still had the feeling, and I can't claim that it is much more of a feeling, that the Panthers just simply seemed to me to be more ideological, more dedicated to their broad program, whereas the Lords seemed more like they were simply driven by nationalism. Again, I could well be wrong: this all may reflect more whose path I've crossed thant the nature of the groups. Dealing with equality, Pablo . They intend to tear down the capitalistic establishment that is causing the degradation of all classes and replace it with one of equality. Similarly, dealing with your comment about their coherence and Fred Hampton's fate, they believed in the distribution or diffusion of power between all (hence equality), which, contrary to the Panthers, created a system where the organization did not have a set of leaders that could be murdered or assassinated to cause the downfall of the organization. In the rules of the Young Lords, rule 2. The effect of this contributes to the system of equality that keeps everyone educated in preparation for attacks against their organization or the collapse of the capitalistic system. August ? I'll be sure to ask around about that.. I know it was used because it was basically just slang connoting either progressive movement or . Dee. Olive 1. 6: 3. March 2. 00. 6 (UTC)Odd wording? I was trying to give a reference to their support from armed self- defense and armed revolution just like the Panthers, but that it rarely played out like it did with the Panthers. Could you take a shot at rewriting the whole sentence coherently, either in the article or here on the talk page? If it's easier for you to write it in Spanish here on the talk page, feel free, I'm sure I'll be able to translate. I too was immediately struck by this article's evasive and murky treatment of the question of armed struggle and all that. The FBI certainly considered it a central issue at the time! And in fact so did just about anyone who was serious about anything at that time - even if they opposed the idea strongly, it was ALWAYS a central concern. Either a group intended to challenge state power, or it didn't. If it didn't it was generally dismissed as sell- out, reformist, etc (even if the pacificism happened to be sound strategy - ML King being the best- known example; he was much vilified for refusing to entertain notions of arms even for self- defense.) The bloodshed of 1. Panther leaders were gunned down by police and FBI - not always with return fire. No one became a leader or even a member of a group allied with the Panthers unless they were mentally prepared, at least a little, for war. The clinics and breakfasts were certainly not JUST a cynical ruse to give these groups a benign public image - they were audacious and authentic, as much as the more militant- looking activities were audacious and authentic. But to say ten or twenty things about the nice neighborhood programs and then slide over the warfare question is deeply misleading, and very typical of the sort of manipulative propaganda that has almost always characticized the extreme left, at almost all times and almost all places, no matter which sect or tendency is telling the public the story of their aims and programs. One reason that Malcolm X's reputation has stood the test of time and grown ever- larger is that he NEVER lied, fudged or prevaricated - or he sure gave a convincing show of never doing it. The same could be said of King, too, although he was firmly on the other side of the violence question. Let's try to follow the malcolm & martin example here - and tell the story of the young lords in a more realistic way. In fact I do want to know more, as I always found the YL impressive but never knew a whole lot about them. ON THE OTHER HAND (SECOND THOUGHTS): It occurs to me that it IS possible the YL actually were 9. That would be consistent with the general impression I have (from Rat articles, and radio interviews on WBAI with veterans of YL) - militant in principle, but really just more interested in human- to- human good works. Maybe you didn't have anything coherent to say about armed struggle because it genuinely doesn't much interest you? If that's the case, my apologies for accusing you of fudging. If you've got citations saying that they did specifically advocate armed struggle, that would belong in the article. If this is not substantiated within seven days, I intend to remove the tag. I suspect that despite the name it is just someone's personal site; it also just seems to be a single web page. The information on the page looks accurate. The Young Lords believe in self defense like any other human being. But we feel it is our quantitative actions(our combined demonstrations,our door to door organizing,our education,our programs, our UNITY building,support networks,coalitions; and our preparing of our People for Freedom Fighting)that are going to lead us to a qualitative change,in our conditions. Today we are not going to permit the C.
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