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Young Lord

Young Lord

1975 · 14 min

A young woman talks about the "Young Lord", the Puerto Ricans who are living in the United States but do not have the necessary diploma to find work. The movie tracks back the story of the movement, born in 1969. Inspired by the american black fights, it is at first a very political movement. it gets more social around 1970. The movie makes us discover a place of refuge for the junkies. They talk about the difficult life conditions of the minorities, about drogue problems and about the initiatives that are meant to help them. They denounce a governmental plan which is supposed to get ride of the blacks and Puerto Ricans by using drogues: the methadone substitution program, legal and provided by the government, holds the junkies into a mental slavery, which drives them to their death. They also talk about the whole propaganda system and the mental conditioning of society.

Directed by Carole Roussopoulos

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