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NUEVA ACCION EN FRENTE DEL ONU

Vieques Civil Disobedience at the United Nations


Today, May 31, 2001 (11:00A.M.), once again Human Rights activists
engaged
in peaceful civil disobedience at the United Nations (U.N.) in
pursuit of
an end to the bombings and genuine justice and peace for the people of
Vieques, Puerto Rico.

This action was taken to:
1. Urge the intervention of the Human Rights Commission of the U.N. in
order to prevent the scheduled resumption of bombings later this
month;
2. Protest the Bush administration's heavy-handed policy against
Vieques
activists in the island nation;
3. Denounce the Navy controlled, undemocratic referendum on its future
presence in Vieques;
4. Denounce the incarceration of State Assemblyman José Rivera, City
Councilman and Borough President Candidate Adolfo Carrión, Bronx
County
Democratic Chair Roberto Ramírez, and National Civil Rights Leader
Rev. Al
Sharpton.

Sixty-one years of military activity in Vieques have taken an
intolerable
toll on the island's environment, its economy, and the health and
lives of
its residents. The accumulation of lead, cadmium, and other metals,
including plutonium and other toxic chemicals, have created an
extremely
unhealthy and often lethal environment that not only threatens
Vieques,
but also the rest of the Puerto Rico, and the life and health of the
people across the Caribbean basin.

The U.S. Government's denials do not erase the fact that its
continuing
Naval actions in Vieques constitute a blatant violation of human
rights.
For this reason, the participants of today's action call for the U.N.
to
take action to end this violation.

The Bush administration's response to the time-honored tradition in
the
United States of civil disobedience by pro-Vieques activists has been
to
further persecute those engaged in these activities by denying them
their
Constitutional-guaranteed, due process rights in Federal courts and by
imposing extremely harsh prison sentences with the aim of intimidating
and, ultimately, suppressing the highly effective campaign to stop the
bombings.

Today's action was taken in solidarity with the people of Vieques, the
movement for genuine peace and justice, and with all Vieques political
prisoners both on the island nation of Puerto Rico and in the United
States.

"Today action was coordinated by the David Sanes Rodríguez Brigade"


NOTE from ViequesLibre: 15 people were arrested in today's demo. The
David
Sanes Rodríguez Brigade is requesting people to call (ASAP) the
police at
this number 212-375-5000 and demand that this people be freed and
given a
desk appearance instead of having them stay overnight to see a judge
tomorrow. This practice of holding activist overnight is a recent one
taken by the New York City Police Department, which is on fire by the
ACLU
who is planning to present a lawsuit.


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