recalled her grandmother's wisdom in that she often said that if Puerto Ricans could feed themselves they could have their country. Vilar appealed for donations of seeds (farmers had lost everything), and received "so many we didn't know what to do with them" so she started the "Resilience Fund" with Tara Rodriguez Besosa. She felt they had to work quickly to save farms and farmer's livelihoods. Further reading Full text of The Young Lords: A Reader (2010) edited by Darrel Enck-Wanzer, including "Lolita Lebron: Puerto Rican Liberation Fighter" (1970), by Carlos Aponte, Ministry of Education, East Coast Region, Young Lords. "War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony"; Author: Nelson Antonio Denis; Publisher: Nation Books (April 7, 2015); . See also List of Puerto Ricans History of women in Puerto Rico List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States 19th Century female leaders of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement María de las Mercedes Barbudo Lola Rodríguez de Tió Mariana Bracetti Female members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Blanca Canales Rosa Collazo Julia de Burgos Ruth Mary Reynolds Isabel Rosado Isabel Freire de Matos Isolina Rondón Olga Viscal Garriga Articles related to the Puerto Rican Independence Movement Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Ponce massacre Río Piedras massacre Puerto Rican Independence Party Grito de Lares Intentona de Yauco Boricua Popular Army Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (Puerto Rico) Notes References External links 1919 births 2010 deaths Burials at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery People from Lares, Puerto Rico 1954 crimes in the United States American failed assassins Puerto Rican feminists Puerto Rican nationalists Puerto Rican Nationalist Party politicians Members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Recipients of American presidential pardons American people convicted of attempted murder Puerto Rican women in politics Puerto Rican Roman Catholics Puerto Rican prisoners and detainees Imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activists Puerto Rican independence activists Puerto Rican socialists Puerto Rican rebels Female revolutionaries Infectious disease deaths in Puerto Rico