----- Original Message ----- From: V. S.C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 6:04 PM Subject: [Cuba SI] Sister Adelfa Vera - PRESENTE!!! Vieques Support Campaign Web site http://palfrente.tripod.com E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the morning of October 22, Puerto Rican revolutionary heroin Dona Adelfa Vera passed away after a long battle with cancer. The Puerto Rican people's movement will surely miss our beloved sister who set an example of what is to be a determined fighter against U.S. imperialism & colonialism. Throughout her entire life, sister Adelfa's greatest devotion was to the Puerto Rican people's struggle for independence and self determination. At 17 years of age in 1934, Adelfa Vera became a member of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico. That same year she was arrested by the colonial police for collecting funds for Don Pedro Albizu Campos' legal defense. During those years she frequently visited Don Pedro in prison, who who victim to the repression the U.S. government unleashed on the Puerto Rican movement. She continued to be active as an organizer during the years of repression when the Nationalist Party was banned by the U.S. colonial government. In the late 1940's U.S. colonialism created an economic situation in Puerto Rico which began a process that resulted in half of the colonized nation being forced to migrate to the United States. In 1948 Adelfa Vera left Puerto Rico, but continued her involvement in the Puerto Rican struggle as part of the Nationalist Party committee in New York City. Her perspective of the liberation struggle was not exclusive to Puerto Rico. Sister Adelfa Vera was also a revolutionary internationalist in every sense of the word. In her pronouncements she identified with the Palestinian, Cuban, Vietnamese, Irish, African American and other liberation struggles. Whenever people sang "La Borinquena", the national anthem of the Puerto Rican people, she would ask others to also sing "The International". While knowing that her illness would soon claim her life, on January 6, 2000, sister Adelfa Vera along with other Puerto Rican women engaged in an act of civil disobedience in which they were arrested for blocking the entrance of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. They were demanding the U.S. Navy stop the bombing and get out of Vieques. In the earlier part of this year she also went to the civil disobedience encampments in the restricted military zone as an act of protest against the U.S. Navy's occupation of Vieques. We will definitely morn, but we will do so in the manner that the death of freedom fighters are morned. We will celebrate her life and do all which is necessary to realize her dream - the defeat of U.S. colonialism and the liberation of the Puerto Rican people! Funeral and memorial arrangement are still pending, but will be posted on this list. For more information contact Rosa Escobar (718)409-3595 or Frank Velgara (718)601-4751 DONA ADELFA VERA - PRESENTE! QUE VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!!! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/0/_/30563/_/972326085/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> Cuba SI - Imperialism NO! Information and discussion about Cuba. Socialism or death! Patria o muerte! Venceremos! http://www.egroups.com/group/cubasi Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change Delivery Options: http://www.egroups.com/mygroups
