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August
8, 2003
Activists
Face Up to 20 Years in Prison
Defend the Vieques
12!
By ROBERTO BARRETO
The federal government is trying to take its revenge
on the movement that drove the U.S. Navy off its base on the
Puerto Rican island of Vieques. Twelve anti-Navy activists are
facing serious felony charges--including conspiracy and destruction
of federal property--that carry sentences of five to 20 years
in federal prison.
The charges stem from a demonstration
on May 1 called to celebrate the Navy's pullout from Vieques,
which had been used for years for target practice by the U.S.
military. Thousands of people came to the site to take down the
military's fence and take control of the land.
But when they arrived, demonstrators
found that another federal agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, was keeping control of the base, claiming that it would
now be turned into a nature preserve. Infuriated, the crowd tore
down the entrance gates, demolished the guard's station and set
fire to several military vehicles.
They were destroying symbols of their
oppression--an installation that poisoned their environment,
strangled their economy and destroyed their health, causing the
highest cancer rate in Puerto Rico.
By all accounts, the rioting was spontaneous.
But the federal government and its lackeys in the colonial government
of Gov. Sila Calderon want to make us believe that it was planned
and organized by a small group of conspirators. The feds want
to criminalize the Vieques struggle so that they don't have to
pay to clean up the land--and can prevent the example of Vieques
from inspiring new struggles.
In the past, each time a social or political
movement has threatened U.S. control in Puerto Rico, Washington's
response has been to jail its leaders. In the early 1950s, Puerto
Rican nationalists received the longest jail sentences of any
political prisoner in the Western Hemisphere. Likewise, in the
1980s, Puerto Rican political prisoners received disproportionately
long sentences for their participation in the struggle for independence.
Many of them remain incarcerated today. In 2001, Pedro Colon
Almenas, a young university student, was jailed for opposing
the use of the state university for military education.
Now 12 activists--including well-known
figures such as Nilda Medina, a Vieques organizer, and teachers'
union leader Jesus Delgado--face serious charges for a justifiable
action that thousands of people participated in.
The federal government has the gall to
accuse these activists of property destruction. But as former
U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark put it, "It has been
the U.S. Navy that has contaminated Vieques with toxic materials
and live munitions, not the Committee for the Rescue and Development
of Vieques, nor any other Vieques resident."
It's urgent to organize an international
defense campaign to support the Vieques 12. The victory in Vieques
over the Navy at the same time that the U.S. government was conducting
its brutal war on Iraq is an example of how imperialism can be
defeated. By going after the Vieques 12, they want to bury this
victory. We can't let them!
What you can do
-- Organize meetings and discussions
to publicize the Vieques struggle and oppose the repression being
used against it. For more information, visit www.viequeslibre.org
on the Web.
-- Help raise funds to defend the Vieques
12. Send money collected to: Familiares de los Arrestados por
el Primero de Mayo en Vieques, cuenta # 512 076 726, Banco Popular
de Puerto Rico, Apartado 1424, Vieques, PR 00765.
-- Gather signatures on petitions demanding
that all the charges against the Vieques 12 be dropped.
-- Demonstrate at a U.S. court or other
federal building or at U.S. embassies and consulates to demand
that the government drop all charges, and clean up and return
Vieques to its people.
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