> --- Robert Rabin - Nilda Medina <bieke at coqui.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Subject:
> Press_Release_on_Oct._1_Actions_in_Vieques
> > Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000
> > Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
> >
> > P.O. Box 1424 Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765
> >
> > Telefax 787 741-0716 E mail: bieke at coqui.net
> >
> > 4 September, 2000
> >
> >
> > Press Release of the Vieques Organizing Committee of
> > the 1st of October National Front
> >
> > March and Demonstration in Support of Civil
> > Disobedience
> >
> > The Puerto Rican community of Vieques, through its
> > organizations, convokes all Puerto Ricans to join in
> > a massive mobilization in support of peacefull civil
> > disobedience here. The related actions will take
> > place principally on Vieques on the 1st of October,
> > with a huge march and demonstration of unity in
> > support of the campaign of peacefull civil
> > disobedience that we have conducted successfully for
> > more than a year. Simultaneously, important civil
> > disobedience actions will take place in Vieques and
> > on the main island of Puerto Rico. The march-demo
> > will begin at 11AM on the first, leaving Barrio
> > Esperanza, on the South coast of Vieques, moving in
> > several directions.
> >
> > This project brings together an ample unitary front,
> > representing the diverse Viequense organizations
> > that have sustained the struggle of our people to
> > get the US Navy out of Vieques. Among these groups
> > are Yayi Key Collective, Mount David, Mount Carmelo,
> > Peace and Justice Camp, Vieques Women´s Alliance,
> > Vieques Youth United, Horsemen for Peace, Mapepe
> > Camp, Popular Democratic Party (Vieques), PR
> > Independence Party (Vieques), Catholic and Methodist
> > churches of Vieques, Vieques South Coast Fishermen´s
> > Asoc., Vieques North Coast Fishermen´s Asoc.,
> > Vieques Merchants, The Voice of Vieques Newspaper,
> > Lula Tirado Camp, Committee for the Rescue and
> > Development of Vieques, and others that will join
> > the march. The wide array of Viequense organizations
> > and the massive participation in the march will
> > counteract the Navy lies - and those of its few
> > supporters - that we the Viequenses are not the
> > protagonists of our struggle. After the first of
> > October it will be clearly confirmed that the
> > Viequense people are in the first line of the battle
> > to end the genocidal presence of the US Navy on our
> > island.
> >
> > At the same time, we support the National Day in
> > Solidarity with the People of Vieques to be held in
> > Washington, DC on the 22nd of September in front of
> > the White House, beginning at midday. This event
> > will constitute a powerful example of how our
> > struggle and demands go beyond the borders of Puerto
> > Rico.
> >
> > The mobilization for the October 1st activity will
> > be organized by brigades, each one with the name of
> > a Viequense killed as a result of many years of the
> > criminal military presence on our island. The
> > brigades will begin to move on the 27th of September
> > and will carry out diverse activities, product of
> > the creativity of this struggle. The actions
> > previous to the first of October are designed to
> > reinforce and amplify the impact of the great march
> > and demonstration, in which more than a thousand
> > Viequenses and an equal number of Puerto Ricans from
> > the main island will participate.
> >
> > The brothers and sisters moving to Vieques on the
> > 27th will be received in Vieques and moved to a
> > series of camps set up for this action. At 8:00 in
> > the morning on 1 October, a shining national fleet
> > composed of dozens of boats with Puerto Rican and
> > Vieques flags will leave the East coast of Puerto
> > Rico. The fleet will transport hundreds of people to
> > the town of Esperanza on the South coast of Vieques,
> > who will join thousands of peace brigade members to
> > begin the actions.
> >
> > This great march and demonstration on October 1,
> > 2000, will go down in the history of our people,
> > together with the 4th of May, as one of the events
> > that marked the history of our liberation from the
> > Navy. Join this great offesive for Peace. Vieques
> > will be free. !US Navy out of Vieques!
> >
> > Contact: Nilda Medina Díaz, CRDV 787 741-0716
> >
> > Robert L. Rabin Siegal
> > Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques
> > Apartado 1424 Vieques, PR 00765
> > (787) 741-0716 cel. 375-0525
> >
> > ¡FUERA LA MARINA DE VIEQUES!