Browse Items (20 total)
- Tags: Environmental destruction
35. Interview with Nilda Medina A 2004
Tags: Arrests, Camp Cayo Yayí, Camp Justicia y Paz, Camp Luisa Guadalupe, Camp Monte David, Camp Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, Cancer, Carlos Zenon, Civil disobedience (as tourism), Civil disobedience (economic and legal consequences in case of arrest), Civil disobedience (education), Civil disobedience (fear), Civil disobedience (funds to cover legal costs), Civil disobedience (legal aspects), Civil disobedience (long vs short), Civil disobedience (pacific vs. combative), Civil disobedience (training), Civil disobedience camps, Civil disobedience camps (camps in Navy bombing site vs. camps in civilian area), Civil Disobedience camps (communication), Civil disobedience camps (coordination), Civil disobedience camps (fishermen transporting people to camps for a small fee), Civil disobedience camps (medical support), Civil disobedience camps (supplies and materials), Civil disobedience camps (visits from US delegations), Civil disobedience camps (working independently), Comite Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques, Congreso Nacional Hostosiano, Consensus, Consensus (as challenge), Criticism as obstacle, Cruzada Pro Rescate de Vieques, Cultural Center, David Sanes (death), David Sanes (impact), Ecological damage, Education, Environmental destruction, Environmental education, Federación de Maestros, Health problems (and military practices), Hegemony, Hostosianos Camp, Infiltration, Internal conflicts (among camps), Interrupting Navy training/maneuvers (1999-2003), Ismael Guadalupe, Law enforcement (violence), Life as teacher in Vieques, Media coverage, Media protagonism, Media strategy (documenting abuses), Media strategy (promoting struggle), Media strategy (role in protest), Media strategy (Vieques campaign in USA and the world), Monte Carmelo, Navy bombing site, New challenges, New struggle, Nilda Medina, Nilda Medina (arrival at Vieques 1981), Nomos of the earth, Nonviolence, Patriot Act, Police, Political repression, Protest and proposal, Puerto Rico's solidarity with Vieques, Radar, Reflection, Rehabilitation of El Fortín, Resistance, Sept 11 2001 (attacks), Sept 11 2001 (moratorium on struggle after attacks), Strategies, Strategies (blame and shame), Strategies (diverse), Strategies (internal vs. public strategies), Struggle (changes), Struggle (different views of), Struggle (in 1990s), Struggle (local vs. international level), Struggle (pacific), Struggle (relaxed and open vs. close struggle), Struggle (use of violence), Struggle (welcoming struggle for everyone), Styles of resistance, Tactics (Cutting cyclone fence), Tactics (Throwing stones), Tato Guadalupe, Todo Puerto Rico con Vieques, US solidarity with Vieques, US terrorism, Wilda Rodríguez
6. Interview with Edwin Melendez B 1998
Tags: Bill Clinton, Biopolitics, Births (Giving birth in Vieques vs. Fajardo), Bombings, Cancer, Cancer and Navy, Cancer and pollution, Cancer studies, Edwin Meléndez, Edwin Meléndez (cancer survivor), Environmental destruction, Health problems (Vieques), Health services (Vieques), Heavy Metals Pollution (Arsenic and nitrites), Higher education (Vieques), Lack of economic development, Lack of job opportunities (for fighters), Lack of job opportunities (political profiling), Land transfer, Pollution, Privatization (Telefónica), Radar, Recreation in the base for Youth, slow violence, Toxic waste, Unemployment, Vieques and Congress, Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Development, Vieques development (before Navy), Vieques population control, Vieques Youth, Vieques Youth (Lack of recreation), Yolanda Ortiz Ramos
60. Interview with Charlie Connelly B 2004
Tags: Anthropocene, Biopolitics, Cancer, Cancer and Navy, Charlie Connelly, Conservation of polluted areas, Dangers, Environmental destruction, Expropriations, Fish and Wildlife, Fish and Wildlife (biology vs. police), Fish and Wildlife (law enforcement), Fish and Wildlife (needs Navy permit), Fish and Wildlife (police/guns), Fish and Wildlife (restrictions), Fish and Wildlife (surveillance), Hawaii, Health and Pollution, Health problems (causes), Heavy Metals Pollution, Hotel owners, Industrial vs. Navy pollution, Land use, Lawsuit (against the Navy), Media coverage (local press), Myrna Pagán, Navy (Reports), Navy exit, Navy Land (managed by Fish and Wildlife), New challenges, No health treatment (pollution), Nomos of the earth, Oscar Diaz, Paternalism (San Juan-Vieques), Planning (in Vieques vs. San Juan), Pollution, Pollution denial, Pollution studies, Risk of agriculture (pollution), Risks of fishing (pollution), slow violence, Stacey Notine, Sustainable development, Tourism, Toxic waste, USS Killen, Vieques as new Provincetown Key West (monstrous tourism), Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Development
63. Interview with Charlie Connelly and Myrna Pagan 2004
Tags: Anthropocene, Biopolitics, Bombings (Destruction of Vieques), Bureaucracy, Cancer, Cancer and Navy, Charlie Connelly, Conflicts, Conservation of polluted areas, English use, Environmental destruction, Fish and Wildlife, Health secretary opinions, Heavy metals studies, Hypertension, international context, Land transfer, Land use, Language issues (No Spanish Translation), Myrna Pagán, Navy and health, Paternalism (San Juan-Vieques), Peace, Pollution, Puerto Rican planners as experts, Puerto Rico development, Puerto Rico Health Department, Relations (Puerto Rico Government-Navy), Restoration Advisory Board (RAB), Sila Maria Calderon (Cancer), slow violence, Suit against Navy, Technical Review Committee (TRC), Viequenses are not experts, Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Development, Visit to Okinawa and India
7. Interview with Ismael Guadalupe 1998
Tags: Angel Rodríguez Cristobal, Anthropocene, Anti-Navy activism, Arrests, Arrests of the 21 (1979), Baltasar Corrada del Río, Bill Clinton, Biopolitics, Births (Giving birth in Vieques vs. Fajardo), Bombings, Cancer, Cancer and Navy, Cancer and pollution, Cancer studies, Carlos Romero Barcelo, Comando del Atlantico, Comando Sur, Comite de Viequenses Unidos, Comite Pro Defensa de Vieques, Comite Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques, Community organizations, Conflicts with Navy (1950s-1970s), Cruzada Pro Rescate de Vieques, Cuban Revolution, Culebra, Department of Natural Resources, Dialogues (Puerto Rico Government), Environmental destruction, Expropriations (1940s), Expropriations (1964), Expropriations (fight against new Expropriations), Fall of Berlin Wall vs. Vieques divided territory, Family (in social movement), Fiestas Patronales (Defending), Fights with Navy (1950s-1970s), Fishermen struggle (1978-1983), Fishing (Vieques), Foundation of Vieques (LeGuillou 1823), French Families in Vieques, Friend/enemy, Granada Invasion (1983), Health problems (Vieques), Health services (Vieques), Heavy Metals Pollution (Arsenic and nitrites), Hegemony, Higher education (Vieques), Hijos Ausentes de Vieques, History of Vieques (Resistance), Impact of Militarization, Independence of Puerto Rico, Ismael Guadalupe, Junta de Calidad Ambiental, Lack of economic development, Lack of job opportunities (for fighters), Lack of job opportunities (political profiling), Land and sea, Land transfer, Mayor Antonio Rivera Rodríguez, Melba Miranda, Military facilities (in Puerto Rico), Military facilities (lack of economic development), Military facilities (Vieques), Military training (NATO in Vieques), Movimiento Pro Independencia, Navy (blocked Vieques development), Navy land (controlling access to the base), Negotiations (Navy-Puerto Rico government), Nomos of the earth, Panama, Pedro Albizu Campos, Pedro Rossello Gonzalez, Pedro Zenon, Plan Dracula, Political performance, Political repression (against demilitarization), Pollution, Privatization (Telefónica), Radar, Recreation in the base for Youth, Resistance, Ron Dellums, Ruben Berrios, Saint Thomas, Santa Cruz, slow violence, Statehood, Strategic use of Vieques in the Caribbean, Strategies, Struggle (against US militarization), Struggle (for demilitarization in USA), Struggle (Leftist organizations need to prioritize Vieques), Styles of resistance, Toxic waste, Tydings Project (1936: independence of Puerto Rico in exchange for Vieques and Culebra), UN and Vieques, Unemployment, Vieques (after Culebra's demilitarization 1975), Vieques (part of Puerto Rican archipelago), Vieques and Congress, Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Development, Vieques development (before Navy), Vieques es el Guanica de 1998, Vieques population control, Vieques Youth, Vieques Youth (Lack of recreation), Vito Marcantonio, War, WWII
74. Interview with Carmen Valencia and Luis González B 2004
Tags: Agriculture, Anthropocene, Anti-Navy activism (Caravan before referendum), Biopolitics, Bridge Ceiba-Vieques, Carmen Valencia, Conservation of polluted areas, Contaminated bodies, David Sanes (death), David Sanes (other non identified casualties), Death by pollution, Democracy, Discrimination against Viequenses, Education, English use, Environmental destruction, Failure of factories in Vieques, Ferry service, Fish and Wildlife, Food scarcity, Heavy Metals Pollution, High level jobs, Hotels, Job opportunities, Lack of economic development, Lack of transparency, Lawsuit (against the Navy), Luis González (arrival at Vieques), Luis González (role in Labor Department), Luis González (Wichin), Maritime transportation, Migration, Military training, Military training (monitoring effect of training in humans), Navy (Abuses), Navy (blocked Vieques development), Navy (Discrimination against Latino workers), Navy (relations with Puerto Rico government), Navy aid for businesses (seeking support), Navy bombing site (risks for Latino workers cleaning area), Navy exit, Navy exit (impact on jobs), Navy opposition to short route, Navy workers, Navy's Health studies, Navy's Vieques Development Office, Navy's Vieques development office (Failure), Nomos of the earth, Nothing to be preserved, Pollution, Pork food, Preferential treatment, Pro-Navy movement, Racism, Rations (El hoyo), Rations (Navy Leftovers), Referendum, Rompeolas, San Juan vs. Vieques, short route, slow violence, Sugar Cane Plantations, Support to small businesses, Sustainable development, Tourism, Toxic waste, underdevelopment, Unemployment, US solidarity with Vieques, US Wars, Vieques (Improvement after navy exit), Vieques as prison, Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Development, Vieques development (before Navy), Vieques invisible as war theater, Vieques population control, Vieques workforce, Vieques Youth, War
76. Interview with Stacey Notine B 2004
Tags: American Residents (Denial of Vieques problems), Americans (contradictory view of Vieques: conservation vs. denial of political and economic problems), Americans (defensive attitudes), Americans (denial of Vieques situation), Americans (Wealthy American's perception of Vieques), Angel Rodríguez Cristóbal (reaction to death), Anthropocene, Bill Clinton, Biopolitics, Bob Marley, Bombings (Conservation), Camacho family, Casa del Frances, CIA Infiltration, Clean Water Act, Comite Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques, Community organizations, Community perception of the struggle, Contamination, Denial of oppression, Dialogues, Dialogues (Government), Difficult dialogue Vieques-US, Education, El Gallo Beach, Elizabeth Langhorne, endangered species, English use, Environment, Environmental destruction, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Family vs. community struggle, Fear (of military violence), Federal Government, Generational attitudes, Gentrification, Great Depression, Hazardous components, Impact of Militarization, Infiltration, Internal Conflicts, Ismael Guadalupe, John Kerry, Laws, Legal aspects of Struggle, Martineau Bay housing development, Meaning of lucha/struggle, Meaningful dialogue, Military documents, Military lack of respect for Vieques, Military's munitions rule, Navy (Abuses), Navy exit, Navy never left, Navy's intentions to keep whole island to themselves, Navy's lack of dialogue with Vieques, Need of dialogue, Need of education, Need of politics or need of jobs, Need of training, Nilda Medina, Paul Caron, Pedro Rossello Gonzalez, Perception of Americans, Personal agendas, Political agendas, Political repression, Political violence against Struggle, Pollution, Protest vs. Alternatives, Puerto Mosquito Sport complex, Puerto Ricans as poor people, Puerto Ricans as resourceful people, Puerto Rico government, Questioning the military, Resistance, Robert Rabin, Scientific community, Sila María Calderón, Sixties, Solidarity, Spanish Language, Stacey Notine, Stacey Notine (Feeling part of the struggle), Stacey Notine (Viequenses perceptions of Stacey as American), Strategies, Struggle (1970s/1980s), Struggle (after Navy exit May 1 2003), Struggle (changes), Struggle (Fear of Violence), Struggle (Politics vs. everyday), sustainability, Technical advisor, Technical Review Committee (frustrations with), Technical Review Committee (Inefficiency: Not Functioning Well), Technical Review Committee (lack of community groups), Technical Review Committee (Lack of support from lawyers and scientist), Technical Review Committee (methods), Technical Review Committee (Personnel vs. Political engagement), Technical Review Committee (TRC), Technical Review Committee and Scientific/Legal Knowledge, Tourism, Tourists (Denial of Vieques problems), Toxic waste, University for Vieques, Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Cleaning Process (Responsible agencies), Vieques Cleaning Process (Who Pays For It), Vieques conservation, Vieques Conservation and Historical Trust, Vieques Development, Vieques in US-PR relationship (Achilles heel), Vieques municipal government
77. Interview with Stacey Notine C 2004
Tags: Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses, Anthropocene, Biopolitics, Bridge Ceiba-Vieques, Bridge Ceiba-Vieques (Negative effects), Carlos Romero Barcelo, CERCLA, Colonialism, Comite Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques, Community engagement, Community organizations, Community organizations (Taking care of the place vs. taking care of slogans), Comparing Navy in Mass and in Vieques, Conservation of polluted areas, Contamination, Defining problems, Department of Defense, Department of Health, Depleted uranium, Dialogues (Environmental Protection Agency and Navy), Dialogues (Military), Dick Cheney energy program, Dishonesty, Documents, Edwin Hernández, Environmental costs, Environmental destruction, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Environmental Protection Agency vs. Navy, Environmental Quality Board (EQB)/Junta de Calidad Ambiental, Environmental studies (Permits to collect samples), Environmental studies (Wrong methods of study), EQB, Explosive ordinance disposal, Explosives (No inventory), Explosives (No tech to identify explosives), Failure of investigations, Fish and Wildlife, George W. Bush, Health, Health and environmental problems, Health Costs, Homeland security, Human life vs politics, Improved Science-Based Environmental Stakeholder Processes, Internal Conflicts, Jorge Colón, Juan Cruz Pérez, Junta de Calidad Ambiental, Lack of dialogue, Land transfer, Lawsuit, Mariana Islands Trench, Massachusetts case, Media strategy (Talking to the Press about TRC), Military toxics, Navy (disrespect), Navy (manipulation of studies), Navy (pays for studies), Navy funds to Vieques ($40 million), New challenges, No continuity, Office of Management and Budget, Pedro Rossello Gonzalez, Pollution, Puerto Rican scientists, Puerto Rican Trench, Puerto Rico government, RCRA, Rights of Puerto Rico as jurisdiction, Roosevelt Roads, Rubén Reyes, Safe Drinking Water Act, Sampling, Sila María Calderón, Stacey Notine, Technical Review Committee (Inefficiency), Technical Review Committee (meetings), Technical Review Committee (TRC), Toxic waste, US poor environmental record in Puerto Rico, Use of information for legal action, Use of Puerto Rico by the US in the future, Useless information, Victimization, Viequenses sacrificed as Guinea pigs to an ideology, Vieques cleaning process, Vieques Youth
99. Radamés Tirado 2018
Tags: Anthropocene, Biopolitics, Environmental destruction, Memory, Navy (debt with Vieques), Negotiations (Navy-Puerto Rico government), Nomos of the earth, Pro-Navy people (changed perspective), Puerto Rico debt crisis, Puerto Rico government (complicity with Navy), Radames Tirado, Struggle (after Navy exit May 1 2003), Time, Vieques development (after Navy exit)
Vieques 4 1998
Tags: Angel Rodríguez Cristobal, Anthropocene, Antonio Rivera Rodríguez, Arrest of 21, Arrests, Baltasar Corrada del Río, Bill Clinton, Biopolitics, Bombing, Cancer, Cancer and Navy, Cancer studies, Carlos Romero Barcelo, Challenges, Comando del Atlantico, Comando Sur, Comite de Viequenses Unidos, Comite Pro Defensa de Vieques, Comite Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques, Controlling access to the base, Cruzada Pro Rescate de Vieques, Cuban Revolution, Culebra, Defense of Fiestas Patronales, Departamento de Recursos naturales, Dialogues PR government, Environmental destruction, Expropriations 1940s, Fall of Berlin Wall vs. Vieques divided territory, Family in social movement, Fight against new Expropriations in 1964, Fishermen struggle 1978, Fishing in Vieques, Foundation of Vieques (LeGuillou 1823), French Families in Vieques, Giving Birth in Vieques vs. Fajardo, Granada Invasion 1983, Health problems (Vieques), Health services in Vieques, Heavy Metals Pollution (Arsenic and nitrites), Higher education in Vieques, Hijos Ausentes de Vieques, History of Vieques resistance, Independence of Puerto Rico, Ismael Guadalupe, Junta de Calidad Ambiental, Lack of Job opportunities for fighters (political profiling), Lack of recreation for Youth, Land transfer, Leftist organizations need to prioritize Vieques, Medical services in Vieques, Military facilities and lack of economic development, Military facilities in Puerto Rico, Movimiento Pro Independencia, NATO in Vieques, Negotiations PR government, Nomos of the earth, Panama, Pedro Albizu Campos, Pedro Rossello Gonzalez, Plan Dracula, Political performance, Political repression against demilitarization, Pollution, Privatization (Telefónica), Radar, Recreation in the base for Youth, Resistance, Ronald Dellums, Ruben Berrios, Saint Thomas and Santa Cruz, Statehood, Strategic use of Vieques in the Caribbean, Strategies, Struggle for demilitarization in USA, Toxic waste, Tyddings Project 1936: independence of Puerto Rico in exchange for Vieques and Culebra, UN and Vieques, Unemployment, Vieques after Culebra's demilitarization (1975), Vieques and Congress, Vieques clean up, Vieques Development, Vieques development before Navy, Vieques es el Guanica de 1998, Vieques part of Puerto Rican archipelago, Vieques population control, Vieques Youth, Vito Marcantonio, WWII