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Vieques 60 years of struggle - UF Digital Collections

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After 60 Years of Bombing, Vieques Gets an Unreality Show from TLC

Viewers discretion is advised: While this show will air during the ten-year anniversary of a valiant international struggle to end over 60 years ...

Vieques: Worth Every Bit of Struggle 2005

Vieques is an island east of Puerto Rico that is administratively part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. For over 60 years, the United States Navy ...

About - Justice for Vieques Now

... 60 years of bombing by the US Navy. The webmaster is Kathy Gannett ... These last four years of struggle began on April 19, 1999 when ...

Vieques After a Year of Struggle | Solidarity

THIRTEEN PEACE ENCAMPMENTS prevented the U.S. Navy for thirteen months from using the Puerto Rican island of Vieques for target practice, until they were ...

Vieques 12 Years Later: Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

On May 1, 2003, the United States Navy finally closed its naval base, the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Area in Vieques after 60 years of using the island ...

Vieques: Island of Conflict and Dreams - UNT Digital Library

... struggle between citizens of the island and the Navy. This ... For over 60 years the island was used by the United States Navy as a ...

Fish, Wildlife, and Bombs: The Struggle to Clean Up Vieques | NACLA

The wilderness designation to the live-impact range, bombed 60 years, has less to do with maintaining the quality of the ecosystem than with ...

Vieques, a Target in the Sun - WOLA

After nearly 60 years of bombardment, the island of Vieques finally saw the Navy leave on May. 1, 2003. There was jubilation on the island; the celebrations ...

Vieques, Puerto Rico: an island under siege

After 60 years of bombing and shelling by the US Navy, this tiny island is as cratered as the moon, said a medical intern in New York.

'I thought they'd kill us': how the US navy devastated a tiny Puerto ...

From 1941 until 2003, the navy fired an appalling quantity of explosives into Vieques' land and sea, and 20 years later, islanders still bear the devastating ...

Hasta La Victoria Siempre - Earth Island Institute

Residents of Vieques Pushed Out the US Navy After 60 Years of Bombing. A Sick Population Now Fights for Redress.

on vieques island, return occupied land to people of puerto rico

... struggle for Puerto Rico's independence. The representative of ... Vieques for 60 years of destruction. The presence of the Navy had ...

The Importance of Vieques Island for Military Readiness

Although this has been the only fatality in the 60-year history of the training facility, Puerto Rican independence activists are using the accident to ...

Punishing Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 ...

At the current cleanup rate, the Navy says, it will take until 2025 to remove all the environmental damage left by more than 60 years of target ...

In Vieques, Puerto Rico, La Lucha Sigue - NACLA |

The service members who trained there fought the wars on fascism, on communism, on drugs, and later on terror. During the Navy's 60-year ...

Puerto Rico's Invisible Health Crisis - The Atlantic

... on Vieques Island off Puerto Rico. (AP). September 3, 2016. Share. Save. For over 60 years, the U.S. Navy used the small island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, ...

U.S. Military Out of Vieques!

But after 60 years, the people of Vieques and all of Puerto Rico said “Enough! ... Concretely, the position of the PIP is that the people in the Vieques struggle ...

Ten Years After Ousting US Navy, Vieques Confronts Contamination

The island of Vieques in Puerto Rico recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary of a struggle that ended 60 years of U.S. Navy test bombing ...

Exploring Digital Archives | 27 | Vieques on the Internet and Yabureib

... struggle of the Viequenses against militarism. He recalled that in 1973 some ... For more than 60 years, the military facilities in Vieques, an island ...