Urgent Action Mail Art
�POSTCARDS FOR VIEQUES�
Since 1941, the puertorican Island of Vieques has been used as practice and
firing range for the troops of the US Navy. Until
today 60 years of continuous bombing and military practices have gone by, as a
result, we have polluted land, high cancer rates
and a denigrating underdevelopment in all levels among the population of Vieques.
Yes, although it may be hard to believe,
Vieques is inhabited and its population was �relocated� in the middle of the
island, but in the East and West zone the Navy
practice with all sorts of ammunitions: high caliber bombs, napalm, agent orange
(used in Vietnam War), bullets covered with
uranium, beside to rent the lands to other military institutions such as the
Pentagon, armies from European and Latin American
nations. From Vieques departed the invasion to the Dominican Republic in 1965,
the invasion to Grenada and Panama in the
80�s, the Persian Gulf troops in 1991 and the planes that bombed Yugoslavia in
1999.
But the people of Vieques and the great majority of puertorican have said Enough
is Enough! On April 99, a Navy bomb killed
David Sanes, and since then, the fight to take the Navy out of Vieques has
intensified. For a year hundreds of civil disobedience
including political, religious and community leaders, peacefully invaded the
restricted lands and challenged the US authorities,
claiming in their messages what is their natural and moral right: Peace to
Vieques! On May 4, 2000, the US Government in a
crass violation of civil and human right, evacuated the encampments, arresting
the civil disobedience, to allow the Navy to
continue its war practices.
This quest doesn�t end them. There are multiple strategies under development. As
International Group of Mail Art we make an
URGENT CALL to all artists, mail-artists, visual poets, net-art workers and all
those in solidarity with this cause, to participate
in a wide mailing of art postcards addressed the President of the United States
to make him feel our indignation for the unjust
abuse that the people of Vieques are suffering. Remember the slogan Peace to
Vieques!
AU MA + Gom@ is an independent, horizontal and non hierarchical organization of
artists specialized in Mail Art that from
several countries in two continents, are working in the of the Human Rights
defense, the denunciation and solutions of the social
and ecological problems. Elias Adasme, active member of AU MA, live in Puerto
Rico.
Postcards can be sent via regular mail to:
President of the United States
White House - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C. 20500
Or via E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Send a postcard copy to:
El�as Adasme
Calle Georgetown 1009, Urb. University Gardens
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927-4822.
Or electronic copy to E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are exhibiting this art-postcards at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/7037/ArteCorreo/ViequesExpo.html.
PROJECT 2000 FOR THE SUPRESSION OF DEATH PENALTY
FOR A MILENIUM OF LIFE: SAY NO TO DEATH PENALTY (Puerto Rico)
To mark the worldwide campaign against death penalty organised by Amnesty
International which will go on well until
mid-2,000, the Tarragona group of this organisation pro-human rights has taken
the initiative to work jointly with the Group
AUMA (Mail Art Urgent Action) on the organisation of a Mail Art call to support
the above-mentioned postulates.
Through this campaign, Amnesty International attempts to put pressure on the
United Nations General Assembly so that a
resolution is passed encouraging those states which have not abolished death
penalty to consider its total abolition.
Simultaneously, Amnesty International will request that those countries where
executions are still in force put an end to such a
procedure. Likewise, Amnesty International will ask for a general ratification of
pro-abolition treaties, and will defend the
inclusion of this point in the constitution of the countries where death penalty
is still in force.
BASIS OF THE CALL
Organised by: Amnesty International Puerto Rico and AUMA
Subject: Against death penalty in the year 2,000.
Deadline: November, 14 of the year 2,000
There will be no previous selection.
All works will be exhibited.
All techniques will be accepted.
Further information will be sent to all participants.
Works will not be returned and authors will yield their rights (except those
resulting from the marketing od works) to Amnesty
International with the purpose of spreading the aims of this campaingn.
Works must be bi-dimensional and DIN �A4 in size (29.7 x 21 cm).
Please send your works to:
Amnist�a Internacional / AU+MA
1009 Georgetown, Urb. University Gardens
San Juan de Puerto Rico 00927-4822
Works received will be shown from November, 16 to December, 10 in Plaza del
Soportal Gallery. During the exhibit, visitors
will be shown a list of potential addressees i.e. governments, embassies, mass
media, and will be able to contribute to the
mailing of the works. For further information please write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROJECT 2000 FOR THE SUPRESSION OF DEATH PENALTY
FOR A MILENIUM OF LIFE: SAY NO TO DEATH PENALTY (Tarragona)
To mark the worldwide campaign against death penalty organised by Amnesty
International which will go on well until
mid-2,000, the Tarragona group of this organisation pro-human rights has taken
the initiative to work jointly with the Group
AUMA (Mail Art Urgent Action) on the organisation of a Mail Art call to support
the above-mentioned postulates.
Through this campaign, Amnesty International attempts to put pressure on the
United Nations General Assembly so that a
resolution is passed encouraging those states which have not abolished death
penalty to consider its total abolition.
Simultaneously, Amnesty International will request that those countries where
executions are still in force put an end to such a
procedure. Likewise, Amnesty International will ask for a general ratification of
pro-abolition treaties, and will defend the
inclusion of this point in the constitution of the countries where death penalty
is still in force.
BASIS OF THE CALL
Organised by: Amnesty International Tarragona and AUMA
Subject: Against death penalty in the year 2,000.
Deadline: July, 30 of the year 2,000
There will be no previous selection.
All works will be exhibited.
All techniques will be accepted.
Further information will be sent to all participants.
Works will not be returned and authors will yield their rights (except those
resulting from the marketing od works) to Amnesty
International with the purpose of spreading the aims of this campaingn.
Works must be bi-dimensional and DIN �A4 in size (29.7 x 21 cm).
Please send your works to:
Amnist�a Internacional/AUMA
Apartado de Correos 256
43080 TARRAGONA
(Spain)
The entries received will be exhibited. During the exhibit, visitors will be
shown a list of potential addressees i.e. governments,
embassies, mass media, and will be able to contribute to the mailing of the
works. For further information please write to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
WORKS CAN BE SEEN AT:
http://www.adso.net/ai
News
The exhibition "Solidarity with Humberto Nilo. Freedom in the Fine Arts
teaching was finished its itinerance. Almost
1000 works from 500 artists had travelled through gallerys in Tarragona and
Barcelona (Spain), Buenos Aires
(Argentina), Montevideo (Uruguay) San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Santiago
(Chile). We are preparing the catalogue. All
participant artists will receive this catalogue very soon. Many thanks to
all.
We want to remember to all of you the case of Mumia Abul Jamal. Contact with
www.mumia.org
