Vieques

Calling all cold and miserable activists to the tropical island of Vieques.

A Puerto Rican municipality, Vieques is located in the Caribbean Sea seven miles east of Puerto Rico. In 1942, the United States Armed Forces evicted almost half of Vieques' residents in order to use the island for military training, and it presently occupies about 70 %of the land.

For decades, the people of Vieques have been terrorized by the use of live bombs and ammunition during the Navy's training exercises. In April, two of these bombs caused the death of a civilian and injured four others. The Navy has bombed Vieques with napalm and radioactive material. The cancer rate on Vieques is twice of that of the rest of Puerto Rico.

Since April, hundreds of Puerto Rican activists have been staging a camp on U.S. Navy land in Vieques. They demand an immediate cease-fire of practice bombings that have destroyed a great part of the island's ecology. These peaceful protesters need your help now! The United States is trying to keep Vieques a secret. You can help them break this silence and show the world the plight of the forgotten people of Vieques.

If you might be interested in forming a group or organising a protest outside the US embassy in London, contact: support@eco-action.org.

Or you could travel to the island, and contribute to the construction of "un pueblo", a town or village, in the campsite areas. If Clinton follows through with his plan to authorise bombing to resume in March this year, they will have to destroy a town or village in order to do so. Paz para Vieques!

Info from: ivanr67@hotmail.com or visit http://www.viequeslibre.org/.