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and had more to do with the rapid development of the group—or "growing pains"—a natural friendly competition between cities, and primarily by infiltration and repression by government groups that were trying to create conflict between the chapters to divide and ultimately destroy the newly formed movement. Despite their considerable presence in the Young Lords Party, female members were consistently overlooked to occupy high-ranking leadership positions.
272:. While being a member in the YLP, Oliver-Velez first served as a minister finance and then as a minister of economic development. Amongst Oliver-Velez's membership in the YLP, she also held the position of Officer of the Day in 1969. This leadership position called for overseeing daily activity within the organization and instilling discipline on membership and duties of current members.
381:), a Puerto Rican East Harlem social service in New York City with connections to anti-poverty programs. She also worked with University of the Streets to reform New York's youth gangs. Through networks from University of the Streets, Oliver-Velez taught Black and Puerto Rican students who were expelled from New York public schools about Black and Puerto Rican history.
230:. As she states, "I was in the Young Lords, and one of the points in the original program was ‘Revolutionary Machismo.’ Machismo is reactionary, so you can’t have revolutionary machismo. We women weren’t having it. So we made a very different kind of statement. ‘We want equality for women. Down with machismo and male chauvinism.'"
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By May 1970, the New York section of the Young Lords followed its then
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318:. Oliver-Velez wrote and edited articles for Pa'lante newspaper as well as producing political artwork, publishing and distributing the newspaper. She was also included in the original
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