Vieques is a little island, 8 miles from mainland Puerto Rico. From the 1920s until 2003, 2/3rds of the island was occupied by the US Navy. Day after, day, the people of Vieques lived with bombs falling every day. Until they had enough.

Petition to demand healthcare, clean up, sustainable development and demilitarization and return of the land for Vieques. http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7743

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Sources:

https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/vieques-island-protests https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/puerto-ricans-force-united-states-navy-out-vieques-island-1999-2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_in_Vieques,_Puerto_Rico https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/7/1/puerto-ricos-vieques-still-reels-from-decades-of-us-navy-bombing
https://theworld.org/stories/2019-07-16/puerto-rico-s-vieques-island-ousted-us-navy-now-fight-s-against-airbnb
https://projectpulso.org/2022/01/26/navy-bombings/
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