I was recently reading about the Young Lords and their hospital occupation in one of the PSL’s publications! I thought this was a pretty cool instance of occupations succeeding and being popular (at least in the sense of mass support).

They occupied a Bronx hospital and were able to get the government to come to the negotiation table. They also staged trash burnings across the city to protest inadequate sanitation.

I don’t know how they are these days, but I thought it was a cool instance of afrolatin history :).

One of the videos is from Democracy Now so bear with me…