[CPEO-MEF] mensaje solidaridad Vieques-PR-Asia

[bieke@coqui.net]

Message from Puerto Rico on the International Day of Action for Demanding
the Closure of the Bombing Ranges and Reparation for Human Rights
Violations and Environmental Damages Stemming from US Military Bases and
Practices

Dear brothers and sisters from East Asia and the Pacific:

Receive from the people of Vieques - Puerto Rico, our support and
solidarity to this global effort in this first International Day of Action.
Our demands are fair and necessary, we have the right to live in peace and
with security. Military activities are a serious problem in our countries
and all over the world. Military activities disrupt our lives, pollute the
environment, damage human health and violate human rights.

Our present challenge is:

a.. to brake the secretivity in which the Armed Forces operates;

b.. to demand our goverments revise all treaties and agreements to
guarantee observance of national and international laws and respect of our
cultures and values. Our goverments must demand the US Armed Forces inform
the type, place, and quantity of explosives and toxics used and assume its
moral and ethic responsability to clean and restore the contaminated sites.

c.. to guarantee the people's right to participate in all processes and
discussions on the treaties and agreements, and the right to be informed
about contaminated sites, types of contamination and the right to demand a
complete clean-up process.

The most important thing is that we in Vieques- Puerto Rico, are not alone.
We are in a common struggle with the people in Korea, Phillipines and
Okinawa- Japan, against the injustice and the violence, that stems from the
imperialism and colonialism. Lets continue working together in our common
demand for demilitarization, decontamination, return of our lands and for a
sustainable social and economic development.

United we shall overcome!

For Peace with Justice:

Wanda Colon Cortez
Caribbean Proyect for Justice and Peace
P.O. Box 13241, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00908-3241 / Tel: (787) 722-1640 
/ wandac@coqui.net

Roberto Rabin
Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques
Apartado 1424 / Vieques, Puerto Rico, 00765 / Tel: (787) 741-0716 / 
bieke@coqui.net


Mensaje de los hermanos y hermanas del Pacifico y del Asia Oriental,

con motivo del Dia de Accion Internacional por el Reclamo del Cierre de
Bases Militares, por la Reparacion Ambiental y de los Derechos Humanos.

23 de septiembre del 2000

Hermanas y hermanos puertorriquenos:

Queremos expresarles que hoy 23 de septiembre del 2000, Dia del Grito de
Lares, los pueblos de Corea, Filipinas, Okinawa- Japon, celebramos el Dia
de Accion Internacional por el Reclamo del Cierre de Bases Militares, por
la Reparacion Ambiental y de los Derechos Humanos. Hemos seleccionado esta
fecha para unirnos al pueblo puertorriqueno en su lucha contra el
imperialismo y el colonialismo, que al igual que en nuestros pueblos
significa la injusticia y la violencia, por la presencia y practicas
militares por parte de las Fuerzas Armadas de los Estados Unidos.

Nosotros, los pueblos de Corea, Filipinas, Okinawa- Japon, al igual que en
Vieques - Puerto Rico, compartimos la lucha por la desmilitarizacion, la
descontaminacion y la devolucion de nuestras tierras, para un desarrollo
sustentable. Para nuestros pueblos, Vieques es motivo de ejemplo e
inspiracion, por su gesta de detener por mas de 380 dias, las practicas
militares de la Fuerza Naval mas poderosa del planeta, asi como por la
unidad y movilizacion de todo un pueblo a favor de la salida de la Marina.

Hermanos puertorriquenos, su lucha es la nuestra, unamos nuestras fuerzas
para rescatar el derecho al disfrute pleno de nuestras tierras, libres de
la contaminacion y la violencia de las Fuerzas Armadas de los Estados Unidos.

Reafirmando nuestro espiritu de solidaridad:

Kim Seok - Coordinador / Maehyang-ri National Action Committee
P.O. Box 13241, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00908-3241 / Tel: (787) 722-1640 


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