> >----------------------- >Yours in solidarity >Per Rasmussen >Denmark > >Familien Rasmussen >http://home0.inet.tele.dk/pera/ >Cuba SI! >http://w1.1559.telia.com/~u155900388/ >Viden er Magt! - Magten til folket! >http://w1.1559.telia.com/~u155900373/ > >-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- >Fra: Vieques Libre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sendt: 23. november 2000 03:21 >Til: List Member >Emne: ARTISTS LEAVING FOR VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO > >Vieques Libre - http://www.viequeslibre.org > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/PLEASE ANNOUNCE PLEASE FORWARD > >Contact: Annette D'Armata, OCTAAV: 512-442-5986 > >***************************************************** >LOURDES PEREZ TO BE JOINED BY PHOTOGRAPHER ALAN POGUE, >RAULRSALINAS, 'INDIGO GIRL' EMILY SALIERS, OTHER >ARTISTS IN HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATIONS TO VIEQUES, PUERTO >RICO >****************************************************** >PRESS CONFERENCE: >Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2000 >3:00 p.m. >Front of Governor's Mansion 1010 Colorado, Austin, TX > >SEND-OFF: >Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2000 >7 p.m. >La Pen~a Gallery, 227 Congress Ave., Austin, TX >FREE >****************************************************** > >AUSTIN, TX - Puerto Rican vocalist/songwriter LOURDES >PEREZ is heading up 2 human rights delegations to >Vieques, Puerto Rico - the tiny island home of 10,000 >people and a fragile ecosystem - the epicenter of a >massive campaign of peaceful civil disobedience to end >U.S. Navy occupation, bombing and weapons >experimentation there. The U.S. colonized Puerto Rico >in 1898 and appropriated 2/3 of the land of Vieques >for use as a military base over 60 years ago. The >death of civilian David Sanes Rodriguez in May 1999 by >a stray bomb was the "last straw" in a long history of >destruction and abuse, giving rise to an unprecedented >unity among Puerto Ricans across the islands and >abroad in their demand that Clinton issue an executive >order removing the U.S. Navy from Vieques immediately. > Thousands of demands for the complete removal of the >military from the devastated island have come in from >the Dalai Lama, Jesse Jackson and Nobel Peace Prize >winner Rigoberta Menchu as well as medical, religious >and veterans groups. > >NOVEMBER 25 - 29 >A diverse group of Austin and San Antonio based >artists will be sent by OCTAAV (Organization of >Concerned Texas Artists and Activists for Vieques) to >join Perez for the first delegation: > >ALAN POGUE - international photographer (U.S.) >ANNETTE D'ARMATA - music producer/artist >(Lebanese/U.S.) >CORRIE SUBLETT-BERRIOS - poet/producer (Puerto Rican) >MICAELA DIAZ-SANCHEZ - actress (Chicana) >PHILIPPE VIEUX - jazz musician/composer (Haitian/U.S.) >RAULRSALINAS - poet/performer & elder (ChicanIndio) >___ > >DECEMBER 7 - 8 >Perez and D'Armata will return to Vieques with: > >Atlanta-based, Grammy award-winning >vocalist/musician/songwriter >EMILY SALIERS of the INDIGO GIRLS (U.S.) > >***************************************************** > >More information about the human rights/ecological >crisis in Vieques and biographies of the delegates are >accessible at: http://www.angelfire.com/journal/octaav > >DELEGATION GOALS: > >"1. LA VOZ/To offer performances and ceremony for >peace at Campamento Justicia y Paz (in front of Camp >Garcia) as a gift for those living 'in the trenches' >of the struggle in Vieques. > >2. DINERO/To deliver a cash collection from Texans in >solidarity as tangible support for Viequense >activists. > >3. LAS MANOS/To offer our hands and individual skills >to our Viequense sisters and brothers in their daily >activities during our stay. > >4. TESTIMONIOS/Multi-media documentation of encounters >and interviews with Viequense fishermen, children, >religious leaders, teachers, elders, women >(photography, film, music and oral history recording, >poetry, visual art, electronic media and journalism) >drawing connections between Vieques and Indigenous, >Chicano, African American and environmental racism >struggles in Texas and the U.S. Multimedia reportback >events TBA. > >4. PUENTE/To generate publicity in the U.S. about the >crisis in Vieques by sending a diverse delegation of >people established in various disciplines." > >CO-SPONSORED BY: >Veterans for Peace >Doug Zachary >Adrienne Barbee >Austin Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender >Organization (ALLGO) > > > > > >===== >O C T A A V >Organization of Concerned Texas Artists & Activists for Vieques >tel: 512-442-5986; fax: 512-448-4100; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >website: http://www.angelfire.com/journal/octaav >reference: http://www.viequeslibre.org >U.S. NAVY OUT OF VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO! NI UNA BOMBA MAS! > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb > > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >eGroups eLerts >It's Easy. It's Fun. 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