List of Navy-Vieques protesters and supporters

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[edit] Famous protesters / arrested / imprisoned

Name Arrest Imprisonment Remarks

[edit] Celebrities

Edward James Olmos April 28, 2001 20 days Actor
Paid $3,000 bail
Danny Rivera Yes Several months Singer
Robert Kennedy, Jr. April 28, 2001 No Environmentalist lawyer
Paid $3,000 bail
Robi Draco Rosa April 28, 2001 No Singer / Songwriter, former Menudo

[edit] Natives of Vieques

Mirta Sanes Rodriguez Yes ? Sister of David Sanes Rodriguez.
Nilda Medina Yes Yes Cause of Vieques leader.
Leader of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques.
Robert Rabin Yes Several months Cause of Vieques leader.
Leader of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques.
Tito Kayak Yes One year (plus time served in New York) Found guilty of Criminal Trespassing after escalating the Statue of Liberty in order to place a "Peace for Vieques" sign. Attached himself once with handcuffs to a tank left as scrap on Vieques grounds.

[edit] Native fishers of Vieques

Carlos Zenón Yes Yes Cause of Vieques Leader
Ismael Guadalupe Yes Yes  

[edit] Politicians

Damaso Serrano Yes ? Mayor of Vieques at the time
Jose Rivera Yes ? City Council member of New York
Luis Gutierrez Yes Yes United States Representative
Maria De Lourdes Santiago Yes One month Puerto Rican Senator, PIP party Vice-President, El Nuevo Dia columnist
Norma Burgos Yes Several months Puerto Rican Senator, Puerto Rico's Secretary of State at the time
Nydia Velazquez Yes ? United States Congresswoman
Rafael 'Churumba' Cordero Yes 30 days Mayor of Ponce at the time
Roberto Ramirez Yes ?  
Ruben Berrios Yes Yes (detained and released without trial after being arrested in May of 2000, subsequent to a stay of 362 days in permanent act of civil disobedience; for second entry into the U.S. Navy bombing area, he received a sentence of 5 hours of prison after trial and conviction; and, subsequently received a sentence of four months (120 days) of incarceration time at Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Guaynabo, which he served after trial and conviction for a third act of civil disobedience at Vieques. Total time sentenced to prison, together with the six month sentence for protesting in Culebra: 11 months and five hours) Puerto Rican ex-Senator (three-times elected Senator, receiving most amount of votes); Honorary President of the Socialist International (SI); has run five times for governor of Puerto Rico, President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party since 1968.

[edit] Religious

Al Sharpton Yes 90 days Reverend
Jacqueline Jackson Yes 10 days [1] Wife of Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Imprisoned after refusing to post a $3,000 bond.
Placed on probation for 1 year.

Was placed in solitary confinement after refusing to be strip searched.
Rey Saliba Gonzalez Yes ? Friar of the Franciscan Cappuccino order

[edit] Others

Dennis Rivera ? ? New York Labor Leader
Paid $3,000 bail


[edit] Famous supporters

[edit] People

Name Remarks

[edit] Athletes

Carlos Delgado All-Star MLB player
Chi Chi Rodriguez Golf player
PGA & Senior Tour Champion
Félix "Tito" Trinidad Boxer
AMB & FIB Junior-Middleweight Champion
Iván Rodríguez All-Star MLB player
John Ruiz Boxer
NABF & WBA Heavyweight Champion
Juan González All-Star MLB player
Roberto Alomar All-Star MLB player

[edit] Celebrities

Benicio del Toro Actor / Oscar Winner
Jose Feliciano Singer / Composer
Grammy Award Winner
Marc Anthony Singer / Actor
Grammy Award Winner
Martin Sheen Actor
Ricky Martin Singer
Grammy Award Winner

[edit] Nobel Prize Laureates / Winners

Dalai Lama Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Óscar Arias Nobel Peace Laureate
Former President of Costa Rica
Rigoberta Menchú Nobel Peace Prize Winner

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Members of Congress / United States Senators
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá Governor of Puerto Rico
Charles Rangel Congressman of New York
Chuck Schumer Senator of New York
Ed Towns Congressman of New York
Eliot Engel Congressman of New York
Hillary Clinton Senator of New York
Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House;
Congresswoman of California
Bob Menendez Senator of New Jersey

[edit] Religious

Bob Edgar Executive Director of the National Council of Churches

[edit] Others

Fernando Ferrer Bronx Borough President
"King" Hossein Zargaran Peacemaker
Margarita Lopez City Council member of New York


[edit] Organizations

[edit] Political

Congressional Hispanic Caucus (United States Congress members), Puerto Rican Independence Party.

[edit] Puerto Rican

Friends of Vieques.

[edit] Religious

All the bishops of Puerto Rico.

[edit] Paramilitary groups

Los Macheteros.

[edit] Others

Cuba's House of the Americas, Local 1199, New Black Panther Party.

[edit] See also

[edit] References