Although there exists a media blockade against the struggle of Vieques, we wish to inform everyone that the Naval bombings will resume this month- at any given moment. There has been an announcement from Vieques that bombing is expected to resume on Wednesday, January 17, 2001. We are preparing for a long-range struggle as in all colonial struggles. We are making a call to all Puerto Rican officials, the religious sector, all social service agencies, clinics, hospitals, bodegas, restaurants, artists, teachers, principals, unemployed, teenagers, students, high-school dropouts, and everyday people to take a position and support this noble cause. As in the past, we will picket, protest, and have people arrested in solidarity with the people of Vieques.
Civil disobedience is the act of human beings opposing unjust laws or actions by a government.
This is the right of every human being. Only through this type of mass action will attention be called to the human rights violations against the Puerto Rican people living in Vieques at the hands of the United States Navy. We are making a call to the Puerto Rican community of Philadelphia to make the issue of Vieques our own personal New Year's resolution and support the Puerto Rican people of Vieques in their struggle against the U.S. Navy. More than five centuries ago, Christopher Columbus landed on this island and set in motion events that would wipe out its Taino Indians. HERE ARE copulating birds that themselves became extinct, a fish, lizards, cute figures that look like creatures from another planet - drawings in charcoal that one could imagine influencing Picasso.