[CPEO-MEF] Cristianos solidarios en Vieques Christian peacemakerst

[bieke@coqui.net]

(ENGLISH VERSION)


Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques

P.O. Box 1424 Vieques, Puerto Rico 00765

Tel. (787) 741-0716 E mail: bieke@coqui.net


24 January, 2001


Press Release


Christian Peace Makers Team to visit Vieques in solidarity with peace
movement

A delegation of twenty four pacifists from various religious groups in the
US, Canada and Puerto Rico will visit Vieques this week to meet with leaders
of the struggle for demilitarization and to show their solidarity with the
Vieques movement.


The group, which includes Menonites, Methodists, Catholics, Unitarians and
the Church of the Brethren, is the fifth delegation of the Christian Pe0ce
Makers Team (CPT) to visit Vieques in the past twelve months. Cliff Kindy,
farmer from Indiana and leader of the delegation, was arrested on two
occasions for participating in civil disobedience actions in Vieques.

The members of the delegation are activists who have participated in actions
for peace and justice in Chiapas, Ukraine, Haiti, Nicaragua,
Israel-Palestine, Colombia, Iraq and in issues related to militarism in
several places in the US, like the School of the Americas in Georgia. Several
delegates have been jailed for their non violent actions for peace. Five
members of the group have worked previously in favor of Vieques.


The visit is coordinated by the Committee for the Rescue and Development of
Vieques, grass roots organization in Vieques that has worked with CPT on
several occasions and with whom the CPT maintains close communication. In
Vieques the delegation will stay at the Peace and Justice Shelter and will
participate in the permanent vigil at the Luisa Guadalupe Camp. The CPT also
has the support and works with the Caribbean Project for Peace and Justice
that has, during previous visits by the group, organized meetings with
religious and political leaders as well as peace organizations on the main
island of Puerto Rico.


Contact: Nilda Medina 741-071644


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