November 21, 2014 @ 5:30pm
Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
New York University
(1 Washington Place New York, NY 10003)
This event brings together academics and activists in a dialogue about militarized colonialism, human rights and reparations in Vieques, Puerto Rico. Over ten years ago a social movement forced the exit of the United States Navy from the island, which it had used for 60 years to practice bombing and biochemical warfare. Yet, as many Viequenses say, la lucha continúa. The struggle continues. While the island community experiences the long lasting effects of militarized colonialism such as environmental devastation, initiatives are surfacing from an engaged civil society insistent on reparations and a viable future for Viequenses. The conversation will address challenges, initiatives and possibilities in “post-Navy” Vieques.
Participants:
Vasuki Nesiah: professor at the Gallatin School and legal scholar with an interest in colonialism, human rights and reparations
Marie Cruz Soto: professor at the Gallatin School who researches on U.S. Empire, militarized colonialism and the island-community of Vieques, Puerto Rico
Carmen Valencia: founding member of the Alianza de Mujeres Viequenses
Elda Guadalupe: science teacher and member of the Vieques Municipal Legislature, affiliated to the Partido del Pueblo Trabajador
Frank Velgara: founding member of New York Solidarity with Vieques
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan: President-Elect of the National Lawyers Guild and lead counsel on Torres, et al. v. United States, a petition filed before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Co-sponsored by the Rethinking Politics and the Global Faculty Studies Group and the Gallatin Human Rights Initiative
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The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
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Telephone: 718-601-4751
http://www.ProLibertadWeb.org
ProLibertad@hotmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/ProLibertadFC
https://twitter.com/ProLibertad
Telephone: 718-601-4751
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