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Journal Article
Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (102): 154–160.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Edgar Iván Gutiérrez INTERVIEWS
Pedagogy and Activism in
Vieques, Puerto Rico:
An Interview with Ismael Guadalupe
Edgar Iván Gutiérrez
Vieques, a small island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, has for many years
attracted international notice for its controversial role...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 121–146.
Published: 01 May 2017
... and instead presents a genealogy of women's activism that was dialectical in bridging each generation's experiences at the intersection of political work and private life. Figure 1. Emilia Rodríguez Sotero (seated left) on the beach in Vieques with fellow protestors, Mildred
Martínez (directly right...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 1–11.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques and used it for “firing practice and amphibious
landing by tens of thousands of sailors and marines.” McCaffrey, “Social Struggle against
the U.S. Navy,” 87. US troops further used Vieques as a staging ground from which to invade
Guatemala in 1954; the Bay...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 37–45.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of peaceful struggle, con-
tinued to work for the independence of Puerto Rico. In 2000 she joined the move-
ment to expel the US Navy from Vieques, Puerto Rico, and, along with many others,
participated in acts of civil disobedience. She was arrested in 2001 and served thirty
days of a sixty-day...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 199–222.
Published: 01 May 2017
...
an outright attack on the fundamental right of nations to self-determination, peace,
and freedom.”69 The FALN forcefully rejected the implication of Puerto Rico in
such imperialist schemes, lambasting the United States’ use of Vieques, Puerto Rico,
as a testing ground and bombing range for military...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (138): 39–59.
Published: 01 October 2020
... , “Message.” 9. Movimiento de Liberación Nacional, Struggle of Vieques , 2 . For more on the origin and ideology of the MLN and the context of the stateside Puerto Rican Left of the 1970s in which it emerged, see Torres, “Introduction,” 5–15 , and Starr, “‘Hit Them Harder.’” 10. López...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (102): 1–7.
Published: 01 October 2008
... in Mexico and in the United
States helped make him a pioneering historian of transnational Mexican history. In
recounting the deep struggle of the citizens of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico,
to reclaim the lands that the U.S. Navy took from them, the longtime activist and
educator Ismael...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 147–172.
Published: 01 May 2017
... resources during the 1990s, to the effort to eject the US Navy from
Vieques in the early 2000s. As student activist Roberto José Thomas Ramírez noted,
“As I understand it, in Puerto Rico the university has historically been the site, the
spearhead, of resistance and struggle.”26 The student movement...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (133): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2019
... their sustainable lifeways. Beyond Hawai’i and South America, Niheu urges us to consider the globe-spanning systemic violence—in Vieques, Flint, New York, Canada, Standing Rock, Palestine, and Afghanistan, as well as Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, and Parkland. Whether about pineapple plantations...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (82): 37–64.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of the
Iranian peoples’ upsurge against the Shah. In 1978 activists in the Puerto Rican left
and Puerto Rico solidarity movement formed the Vieques Support Network to assist
Vieques residents trying to stop U.S. warships from using the area as a firing range,
a fight that continues and has become an important...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 147–164.
Published: 01 January 2023
... sustainable housing, told me: “I’ve never seen people at their best like I have after natural disasters. And I’ve been in a bunch of them. That’s what being human is all about. Erasing all those lines, working towards just sustainability and being in harmony with your environment.” Another resident of Vieques...
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Journal Article
Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 91–119.
Published: 01 May 2017
... installations east of Puerto Rico in 1917 when Congress
purchased St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix from Denmark.28 The expropriation
and displacement of islanders for the sake of military security was later repeated
in the neighboring island of Vieques during World War II, when more locals were...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 87–101.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., the first
Gay Shame event featured speeches critiquing gentrification and the U.S. coloniza-
tion of Vieques, Puerto Rico, and tried to bridge antiprison, youth, and trans activ-
ism. The San Francisco group’s statement of purpose reads:
GAY SHAME is a Virus in the System. We are committed to a queer...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
... after the Cold War: New Forms
of Resistance to the US Military in Vieques, Puerto Rico,” in The Bases of Empire: The
Global Struggle Against US Military Posts, ed. Catherine Lutz (New York: NYU Press,
2009), 223 – 39; Heefner, “Missiles and Memory”; Mark Gillem, America Town: Building...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 107–141.
Published: 01 May 2021
... resilient. The same direct-action strategies employed by the Latina/o Caucus and ACT UP/PR paved the way for the 1999 island-wide mobilization against the US naval bombing range in Vieques. Through nonviolent civil disobedience, the people of Puerto Rico successfully forced the Navy to withdraw from...
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