>From: "V S C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > November 5, 2000 > > PRESS RELEASE > > >Ellis Island, NY-- Members from the Puerto Rico-based Colectivos de >Resistencia >Amigos del MAR y Amig@s de Vieques, composed of environmentalists, >university professors and students, defied the altitude of the Statue of >Liberty while decorating it with a banner that reads, Peace for Vieques. >"The Statue of Liberty, >symbol of the inalienable rights of the People, has been taken as an act of >protest against the military practices by the U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto >Rico" expressed Professor Gazir Sued, a former student leader at the >University of Puerto Rico. > >Representatives from both collectives, that last month took over the Tower >of the University of Puerto Rico and El Capitolio (the legislature building) >in San Juan, demand the immediate withdrawal of the U.S. Navy from the >Island of Vieques. > >Amigos del MAR y Amig@s de Vieques echo the clamor of the Puerto Rican >people and demand from presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush, >as well as from Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, a resolute position >regarding the prompt eviction of the US Navy from Vieques. > >Vieques is an island of the Archipelago of Puerto Rico that has been used >for more than 60 years as a bombing range by the U.S. Navy as well as other >NATO forces. > >"The negative effects of the shelling," expressed Albana� Valent�n, a >student and activist at the University of Puerto Rico, "are evidenced in the >deaths of civilians, in the mutilated bodies of children, in the high cancer >rates of our people, and in the environmental pollution caused by the >uranium, aluminum, lead, arsenic, and mercury left over by the military >practices." > > For more information, please contact: > > New York > Juan Casa�as: (917) 929-1197 > Olga San Miguel: (646) 263-5351 > > Puerto Rico > Carmen Chazulle: (787) 562-8552 _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
