>From: Tom Burghardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >DISCLAIMER: Antifa Info-Bulletin neither accepts nor endorses paid >advertisements. Please ignore any ads above/below the content of this >message; they have been inserted by the listserv not AFIB. > >_______________________________ > >ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN >News * Analysis * Research * Action >_______________________________ > >SPECIAL EDITION >- August 28, 2000 - > >* * * >______________________________________________________________________________ > >NEWS FROM VIEQUES >______________________________________________________________________________ > >CONTENTS: > >1. COMMITTEE FOR THE RESCUE AND DEVELOPMENT OF VIEQUES [Puerto Rico]: >Vieques Report; Artists and Vieques. >2. WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS [US]: US Navy Ends Vieques Exercise. > >* * * > >COMMITTEE FOR THE RESCUE AND DEVELOPMENT OF VIEQUES >Box 1424 >Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765 >Tel: (787) 741-0716 >Cel. 375-0525 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >- Wednesday, 23 August 2000 - > >----- >____________________________________________________________________ > >VIEQUES REPORT >Report on Activities in Vieques through 23 August >____________________________________________________________________ > >Source: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >(Hurricane Betty did not pass close enough to Vieques to cause damage. >Thanks to all for emails and phone calls concerned about our situation. ) > >The first of August a team from the Committee for the Rescue and >Development of Vieques (CRDV) and the Vieques Youth United (VYU) occupied >the office of the Secretary of Health in San Juan, forcing her to meet with >the group and discuss the serious situation of military contamination and >the urgency to update the investigations about the cancer rate on the >island municipality. > >During the first week of August the Navy began maneuvers scheduled to last >until de 24th of this month. Simultaneously, we began several actions of >civil disobedience and protest. On 3 August more than 200 people >participated in a People4s Assembly at Peace and Justice Camp, in front of >the entrance to the bombing range of Camp Garcma. A resolution was approved >by the assembly, reafirming the committement of the community organizations >to use peacefull civil disobedience in the struggle for peace on Vieques. >After the mesages, around 125 people crossed the street, walked up the the >Navy4s fence - heavily fortified with several rolls of razor wire creating >a concentration camp atmosphere - to tie ribbons on the fence, sing hymms >and chants and reflect while Norma Torres recited her most recent poem, The >silent fence. > >The following week a group of Viequense Women - accompanied by women in >solidarity from the main island - and a group of Vieques youth, were >arrested after penetrating the Navy4s restricted zone of Camp Garcma on two >consecutive nights. The women were freed after processing in the Federal >Court at San Juan. The members of the VYU, however, were sent to the >Federal Corrections Facility when they could not post the 10 thousand >dollar bail imposed by the judge! They were released the next day. Hundreds >participated in car caravans and support protests at Camp Peace and Justice >the nights the women and youth returned by plane chartered by the CRDV. > >Saturday, August 5th, the Coordinating Committee All Puerto Rico with >Vieques met in Vieques with leades community organizations. That night >during the vigil that takes place every Saturday night at Peace and Justice >Camp, enjoyed the participation of the theatre group, Agua, Sol y Sereno, >under the direction of Pedro Adorno. Also contributing to the festive >atmosphere of our protests was the group Locobloco, a San Francisco based >youth group with an exciting presentation of dance and percussion. > >During the week of 6 August, the special report, Alerta Roja 2 (Red Alert >2) was aired on Channel 4 News. The special, prepared by reporter Pedro >Rosa Nales, dealt with an incidente in 1966 when Navy pilots accidently >dropped a nuclear device in Vieques waters. The report included new >evidence, obtained by CRDV representative Flavio Cumpiano, esq., >(Washington, DC), that revealed new information about the cover up of this >issue that was highlighted in the Alerta Roja program originally prepared >by Rosa Nales in 1998. > >On Sunday, August 13th, we created a Human Chain, with the participation of >approximately 1000 people, mainly from Vieques. Americo Bosheti sung and >Norma Torres read her most recent poem, The Silent Fence, while over 600 >spread out along the military fence to tie white ribbons, flags and signs >for peace on Vieques. > >Here is part of the multi-generational mesage offered during the activity: > >For more than half a century the Navy has attacked the Viequense family, >forcing our husbands to look for work in other places and our children to >leave in order to study. They have raped our women. They have poisoned our >land, air and water. It is time to put an end to this abuse. It is time to >unite the greater Viequense family, this great Puerto Rican family in >defense of Vieques. > >The Navy fences can never stop the march of history and justice. This fence >will not detain the march of our people toward our destiny - that is to >have a Vieques Free from the Navy! > >Today we meet in front of the military fence to know it close up, to >contemplate the lands trapped on the other side. Today we place ribbons and >flags, we reflect and pray for our peace and that of future generations. > >There will be another moment when we will be together in front of this >fence with our duty in our hands, with the history of so many abuses in our >hearts and with the committment to eliminate the barriers that separate us >from our territory and our peace. > >The Vieuqense family is united before the threat of the Navy. Vieques is >ours, lets rescue her! > >The Human Chain action was organized by the CRDV, the Vieques Women4s >Alliance and the Vieques Youth United. > >A delegation for decontamination and demilitarization, organized by the >Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Caribbean Project for Peace and >Justice (PR), arrived on Vieques on Tuesday the 15th, with delegates from >community organizations in the US, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Panama, Hawaii and >Korea. They shared their experiences and learned about our situation >through a series of meetings with members of the Vieques groups. They were >in Vieques for two days and several more on the main island to study the >problem of militarism in Puerto Rico. > >Also on Tuesday, a public hearing was held on the Land Use Plan submitted >to the Planning Board by the Municipal Government of Vieques. Hundreds of >Viequenses participated in a protest outside the Multiple Use Center here >while around 40 people presented depositions. The common theme - of the >protest and the depositions - was the demand for more time to study the >documents, community participation in the planning process and a strong >denouncement of the protagonic role of the Navy in the plan prepared by the >Mayor, Manuela Santiago. By the end of the hearing, the mayor was forced to >cede to demands for more time to review the plan and to remove all mention >of the Navy from a revised plan she would have prepared before December. >Our community had the excellent support of the Technical and Professional >Group for the Sustainable Development of Vieques in the process of >analyzing the Land Use Plan. > >>From the 17th to the 20th of August, 20 members of a solidarity delegation >from New England were with us at Peace and Justice Camp. Puerto Ricans and >North Americans from Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and five doctors >from the Bronx participated in a series of meetings with Vieques leaders >(Carlos Zensn, Ismael Guadalupe, Nilda Medina, Judith Conde, among others) >to learn first hand about the current situation and plans for the next >phase in the struggle for Peace on Vieques. Among other tasks, the >delegation helped paint the Peace and Justice Shelter build under the >supervision of singer-song writer and master builder, Noel Hernandez. The >group also participated in the Saturday night vigil, together with a group >of poets from New York and Puerto Rico. > >As you can see, the work here is continuos. Our community strongly backs >the struggle, participating in the the many activities here at Peace and >Justice Camp, together with people and organizations in solidarity from >diverse areas of the planet. The construction of the Peace and Justice >Shelter and the daily tasks involved in maintaining this camp require great >efforts and sacrifices on the part of our work team. The Committee for the >Rescue and Development of Vieques maintains this important protest area in >constant action. > >We appeal to all people in solidarity with our struggle to send economic >support to help continue this struggle for Peace in Vieques, which is a >struggle for peace for everyone. You may send donations to CRDV PO Box 1424 >Vieques, PR 00765 or deposit in the Committee4s account: Banco Popular # >112 868231 > >In Struggle, in solidarity >Robert Rabin, CPRDV > >!Fuera la Marina de Vieques! > >***** >____________________________________________________________________ > >ARTISTS AND VIEQUES >____________________________________________________________________ > >Source: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >- Monday, 28 August 2000 - > >PRESS RELEASE >I BELIEVE AND CREATE IN VIEQUES: ARTISTS FOR PEACE ENTER THE US NAVY >RESTRICTED ZONE IN VIEQUES > >Vieques, Puerto Rico. Today, August 28, 2000, a group of graphic artists >and actors entered the restricted zone of the US Navy on Vieques. The >artists performed a theatrical-pictoral play titled: I BELIEVE IN VIEQUES. >They proclaimed the fundamental importance of the landscape, which for >sixty years the US Navy has been destroying with their war practices. This >distruction has caused grave damages, not only to the landscape but also to >the mental, physical and spiritual health of the people of Vieques. > >The artists painted a spectacular human mural in which they portrayed the >landscape of the Isla Nena (Baby Island-Vieques) that proclaimed, "from the >esthetic point of view the landscape has been, and will be a vital source >of inspiration of artistic creation." The artists and actors formed two >groups: one that entered the restricted area in a civil disobedience act, >and another group providing support on the outside. The support group, >besides presenting a mural similar to the Vieques landscape, showed another >mural that was an adaptaption of the world famous painting by Picasso, >GUERNICA, to dramatize the serious situation of the Navy presence on >Vieques. > >The artists that fooled the military security and entered the restricted >zone this morning at dawn were: Rafael Trelles, Luis Alonso, Paloma Todd, >Marta Pirez Garcma, Elmas Adasme and Gustavo Castrodad; and the actors >Carlos Esteban Fonseca, Cristina Soler and Antonio Sotomayor. The support >group was composed of the actors and actresses Magaly Carrasquillo, >Georgina Borri, Maritza Pirez Otero, Rosabel Otsn, Teresa Hernandez, Puchi >Platsn, Ineabelle Colsn, Yamil Collazo, Vilma Martmnez, Pepmn Lugo and >Carlo D'Atili; painter Tam Fernandez, producer Pedro Muqiz and >communications expert Zaida Castro Meaux. Also Myrna Pagan and Juan Silva, >Viequense artists, joined the group. > >>From the main island, master artists Rafael Tufiqo, Antonio Martorell, >Antonio Maldonado, Augusto Marmn, Lorenzo Homar, Myrna Baez and Luis >Hernandez Cruz, among others, expressed their solidarity with the artists' >proclamation. > >The artists had the logistic support of the Committee for the Rescue and >Development of Vieques and Peace and Justice Camp of Vieques. The >Viequenses recognized the importante of this action in support of Peace for >Vieques and the demands for demilitarization, decontamination, return of >the lands and sustainable economic development of a Free Vieques. > >This act in support of the struggle of the people of Vieques and their >right to peace, health and their esthetic well being, took place the day >the Navy announced the resumption of military exercises. > >***** > >WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS >Nicaragua Solidarity Network of New York >339 Lafayette St >New York, NY 10012 >Tel: 212-674-9499 >Fax: 212-674-9139 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Web: http://home.earthlink.net/~dbwilson/wnuhome.html >- Issue No. 552, August 27, 2000 - > >----- >____________________________________________________________________ > >PUERTO RICO: US NAVY ENDS VIEQUES EXERCISE >____________________________________________________________________ > >The US Navy concluded three weeks of live-fire exercises near and on the >Puerto Rican island of Vieques on Aug. 25, according to Lt. Jeff Gordon, >spokesperson for Navy chief Adm. Kevin Green. The 12,000 troops in the USS >Harry S. Truman Combat Group were returning to their base in Norfolk after >extending the exercises one day to make up for time lost when the group >moved out to sea because of the approach of Hurricane Debby. Gordon said >that no protesters were arrested after the first week of the exercises, >which started on Aug. 3; he said that 43 were arrested during that week >[see Update #550], and that the exercises had not been impeded by >demonstrators, who have attempted to stop them by entering the restricted >Vieques proving grounds. Airplanes dropped inert bombs on the range on Aug. >24; the cruiser San Jacinto pounded it with three-inch shells filled with >sand on Aug. 25. [El Diario-La Prensa 8/25/00 from AP; Hoy (NY) 8/25/00 >from EFE; New York Times 8/26/00 from AP] > >On Aug. 21, Andres Thomas Conteris, a Methodist missionary and a member of >the Movement for Reconciliation, was entering the fifth week of a >water-only hunger strike to pressure US president Bill Clinton to meet with >religious and civic leaders from Vieques. Conteris, who holds a vigil in >front of the White House every day from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, says he intends to >continue the hunger strike until Clinton agrees. More than 40 people on >Vieques and a dozen in the US are on a rotational hunger strike, according >to organizers. > >The National Boricua Human Rights Network has called for a National Day of >Solidarity with the People of Vieques on Sept. 22, with a rally in >Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. [El Nuevo >Dia (San Juan) 8/21/00 from EFE] > >ISSN#: 1084-922X. 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