| Brooklyn, N.Y. - New York City political leaders and activists
will discuss the 60-year U.S. Navy bombardment of the Puerto Rican
island of Vieques for training purposes, and the nationwide protest
movement to stop it, at a panel discussion at Long Island University's
Brooklyn Campus. The event, which is free and open to the public,
will take place on Tuesday, April 23 from noon to 2:15 p.m. in the
Library Learning Center, Room 122.
The first panel, from noon to 1:30 p.m., features Juan Figueroa, president
and general counsel of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education
Fund. The invited guest is Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión.
Speakers in the second panel, from 1:45 to 2:15 p.m., include Héctor
Rivera, co-founder of Welfare Poets and an organizer of the Vieques
protests; Alma Villegas, community organizer and director of Music
Against Drugs; Vicente "Panama" Alba, community organizer
and union representative (Local 108); and moderator Samuel Sánchez.
Los Bomberos de Brooklyn will provide music; refreshments will be
served. The event is sponsored by The Latin American and Caribbean
Studies Program of Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus. For more
information, call professor J. Patrice McSherry at (718) 780-4105. |
