Browse Items · Vieques Struggle: A Digital Video Archive

15. Interview with Carlos Taso Zenon A 2004

Carlos "Taso" Zenon compares civil disobedience by sea and by land. He talks about the 1979 fishermen struggle by sea and contrasts it with the strategies used by him and his sons in the Monte David Civil disobedience camp, established in 1999. He…

Tags: Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses, Arrests (Evasion), Arrests (May 1 2000), Arrests (strategies), Biopolitics, Bombings, Brambilla, Cacimar Zenon, Camp Cayo Yayí, Camp Justicia y Paz, Camp Monte David, Camp Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, Carlos Ventura, Carlos Zenon, Casa del Frances, Civil disobedience, Civil disobedience (interrupting Navy training/maneuvers), Civil disobedience camps (transportations), Comparing struggle (Navy vs. Fish and Wildlife), Conflicts (Vieques vs. San Juan), Conflicts (with educated people), Conflicts (with Fish and Wildlife), Dámaso Serrano, David Sanes (death), Expropriations, Fish and Wildlife (law enforcement), Fish and Wildlife (police/guns), Fish and Wildlife (restrictions), Fish and Wildlife (surveillance), Friend/enemy, Internal Conflicts, José Che Paralitichi, Land and sea, Media protagonism, Money (aspects of sabotage), Navy (loss), Navy exit, Navy land (restricted area), Negotiations (with Fish and Wildlife), New challenges, New Fishermen Association, New struggle, Nomos of the earth, Posthegemony, Resistance, Robert Rabin, Rubén Berrios (boycotts Camp Monte David), Sharing leadership, Strategies (local knowledge), Struggle (changes), Struggle (sea vs. land), Styles of resistance, Sustainable development, Tito Kayak, Unity with honesty, Vieques Fishermen Association (land property), War

16. Interview with Carlos Taso Zenón B 2004

Carlos "Taso" Zenon considers that Fish and Wildlife is a continuation of the Navy in Vieques, and denounces the control they have of Vieques land. He also criticizes some organization who negotiate with Fish and Wildlife to celebrate their…

Tags: Angel Rodríguez Cristobal, Arrests (Evasion), Arrests (May 1 2000), Arrests (strategies), Arrests of the 21 (1979), Biopolitics, Boxing, Camp Monte Carmelo, Camp Monte David, Carlos Zenon, Civil disobedience, Civil disobedience (strategy against Fish and Wildlife), Comparing struggle (Navy vs. Fish and Wildlife), Conflicts (with Fish and Wildlife), Conflicts (with Navy), Dámaso Serrano, Department of Natural Resources, Family (emotions), Family (separations), Fish and Wildlife (law enforcement), Fish and Wildlife (police/guns), Fish and Wildlife (restrictions), Fish and Wildlife (surveillance), Fishing (business in Puerto Rico), Friend/enemy, Friend/enemy (Navy is the enemy not us), Gentrification, Human suffering, Hurricane Hugo (1989), Internal Conflicts, Isabelita Rosado, Ismael Guadalupe, Land rescues, Land Speculation, Land speculation (people displaced), Land transfer, Leaving Vieques, Migration, Navy exit, New challenges, New land invasion, New struggle, Nomos of the earth, Pollution (sea), Posthegemony, Prison experience, Real Estate Agents (internet agencies), Reconciliation, Resistance, Return of Viequenses, Sharing Vieques with all PR, Skepticism, Strategies, Struggle (by sea), Struggle (changes), Struggle (sacrifices), Struggle (unity-working together), Styles of resistance, Sustainable development, Theater, Toñin Medina, University for Vieques, Vieques Development

17. Interview with Carlos Taso Zenon C 2004

Carlos Zenon questions the Vieques development process and expresses concerns about the mayor's plan for the island. He considers that Vieques development could be achieved by a combination of controlled tourism and agriculture.

Tags: Agriculture, Carlos Zenon, Dámaso Serrano, Incentives, Land development (western area), Land transfer, Mayor's group for development, New challenges, New struggle, Political opportunism, Puerto Rican people, Sustainable development, Tato Rivera Santana, Technical language, Tourism, Vieques development (development for Viequenses), Vieques Gas

24. Interview Miguel Vázquez A 2004

Miguel Vázquez discusses the origins and strategies of Camp Mapepe, a civil disobedience camp created in the bombing range of the Navy the 1999. He also discusses some of the challenges faced by the Monte Carmelo community. To fight land speculation,…

25. Interview with Radames Tirado A 2004

Radamés Tirado discusses his political trajectory as major of Vieques and describes key elements of the Navy business in Vieques, consisting on resting land for military training without sharing profits with Viequenses. He discusses the acuerdo…

Tags: Acuerdo Histórico (1983), Anthropocene, Anti-Navy activism, Bill Clinton, Biopolitics, Bravos de Boston (foreigners), Carlos Romero Barcelo, Civil disobedience (vs. Navy destruction), Community organizations, Conflicts (with Navy), Conservation of polluted areas, David Sanes (death), Elections (1976-1980), Environmental destruction, Expropriations (Esperanza), Hegemony, Lack title of property, Land Speculation, Master Plan, Mayor of Vieques, Memorandum of understanding (1983), Monte Carmelo, Navy (Abuses), Navy (arrogance), Navy (as good neighbor), Navy (blocked Vieques development), Navy (buys votes), Navy (manipulations), Navy and Fish and Wildlife, Navy and health, Navy bombing site, Navy business (profiting from bombing Vieques), Navy exit, Navy funds to Vieques ($40 million), Navy jobs, Navy workers, Negotiations, Negotiations (Navy / Land Rescues), Nomos of the earth, Pedro Rossello Gonzalez, Planning vs. rescuing, Pollution, Radames Tirado, Radamés Tirado (Experience as mayor: Challenges), Radamés Tirado (political trajectory), Referendum, Resistance, Santa Maria, Services to communities, slow violence, Struggle (changes), Support to Fishermen, Sustainable Development Plan (Vieques), Tato Rivera Santana, Territorial zoning plan, Tony Mapeye, US citizens protest vs. concept of US citizens in Vieques and PR, Vieques as desolate island, Vieques cleaning process, Vieques commissioner, Vieques Development, Vieques Fishermen Association, Vieques municipal government

61. Interview with Charlie Connelly C 2004

Charley Connelly talks about the paternalism of San Juan's government in relation to Vieques. He question the San Juan attitude of coming to Vieques to teach Viequenses about development. He also expresses concerns for land speculation in Vieques due…

Tags: Anthropocene, Biopolitics, Bravos de Boston (comunidad especial vs. luxury homes), Bridge Ceiba-Vieques, Bureaucracy (Against), Bureaucracy (Navy), Burger King, CERCLA, Charlie Connelly, Class divisions, Crime in Vieques, Culebra-Vieques-Ceiba, Energy Services (Come from Puerto Rico), English use, Environmental violations, Foreign owners, Foreigners, Guest houses, Health services (limited), Land Speculation, Land transfer, language and space, Myrna Pagán, Navy (documents), New challenges, Puerto Rico Government-San Juan (benefits from Business), Referendum, Relations (San Juan-Vieques), Restaurants, Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), Spanish shops vs. English shops, Superfund, Sustainable development (criticism), Technical Review Committee (TRC), Tourism, Touristic business, Touristic development (imposed from San Juan), Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Development, Vieques municipal government (costs without benefits), Vieques vs. Puerto Rico, Water resources, Water services (come from Puerto Rico)

63. Interview with Charlie Connelly and Myrna Pagan 2004

Charley Connelly discusses the cleaning process of the lands of Vieques used by the Navy for bombing range and now administered by Fish and Wildlife, even though the land still belong to the Navy. He talks about the paternalism of San Juan's…