Young Lords

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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."