7 thoughts on “Was it right for Puerto Rican Activists to takeover the Statue of Liberty?”
Once arrestados manifestación en Estatua Libertad
Once arrestados manifestación en Estatua Libertad
domingo, 5 de noviembre de 2000
NUEVA YORK (AP) – Once personas fueron arrestadas este domingo por colgar desde la corona de la Estatua de la Libertad una bandera pidiendo el fin de las prácticas militares estadounidenses en la isla puertorriqueña de Vieques.
El incidente ocurrió a eso de las 10:20 de la mañana, cuando unas seis personas ganaron acceso a un área en la corona de la estatua, dijo el sargento Sal Norman, portavoz de la Policía de Parques de Estados Unidos.
Una persona se ubicó del lado de afuera de una ventana en la corona, sujetando una bandera o pancarta, dijo Norman. Indicó que el incidente duró unas dos horas, y algunas personas fueron arrestadas fuera del monumento.
Los investigadores determinan aún los cargos que radicarán a los manifestantes, dijo.
Carlito Rovira, de 47 años y miembro de la campaña neoyorquina en favor de Vieques, dijo que fueron colgadas una pancarta que leía “Paz para Vieques”, una bandera de Puerto Rico y una bandera de
Vieques.
Rovira dijo que la protesta fue planificada por miembros del grupo Amigos del Mar y Amigos de Vieques.
La Armada utiliza dos terceras partes de la isla de Vieques para sus prácticas de guerra desde la década de 1940. Los cerca de 9,400 civiles de la isla residen entre el polígono de tiro de la Armada, al este, y un antiguo almacén de municiones al oeste.
Las protestas contra la presencia militar en la isla municipio tomaron fuerza en abril de 1999, cuando murió en el lugar un guardia de seguridad civil por una bomba lanzada por error.
El presidente Bill Clinton ha dispuesto que la Armada salga de la isla municipio para mayo del 2003 si los residentes de Vieques lo reclaman mediante un referéndum programado para el año que viene.
Absolutely right
I was proud to see the Puerto Rican and Vieques flags waving over the Statue of Liberty. The Navy must be made to realize that they are not wanted.
Surprise!
Sila Calderon, Anibal Acevedo Vila and Damaso Serrano, the new mayor of Vieques, are all calling for the Navy to leave Vieques. What a mandate of the people–sweeping them into office. I see the takeover of the Statue of Liberty–if it can be characterized as such, as a very powerful political gesture sending the same message to Washington that the Puerto Rican electorate did yesterday! Was it right for the activists to display the Puerto Rican and the Vieques flags along with a U.S. Navy Out of Vieques banner atop the Statue of Liberty? I say yes.
PR Cinema
Sorry to all who thought this posting was related to the Statue of Liberty incident. Awhile back the question of the existence of PR cinema was raised. I found this online and deemed it worthy to share. Enjoy.
JBaez
Long Lost Puerto Rican Films in NY
Ateneo Puertorriqueño’s Cine sin
Pantalla, the highly praised series
featuring long lost Puerto Rican films, will premiere in The Bronx as part of Borough President Fernando Ferrer’s Puerto Rican Heritage Month Celebration.
Four Puerto Rican motion pictures once
believed to be permanently missing will
be shown from Sunday, November 19th
to Wednesday, November 22nd, at Hostos Community College’s Repertory Theater, Grand Concourse at East 149th Street. Admission is free.
Founded in 1876, Ateneo Puertorriqueño
(Puerto Rican Athenaeum) is the oldest
and most active cultural institution in
Puerto Rico. A not for profit organization,its mission is to preserve and promote Puerto Rican arts, culture, identity, and values. Its film unit, headed by Professor José Orraca, owns Cine Nuestro (Our Cinema) the largest collection of Puerto Rican motion pictures in the world.
Directed by writer and director Roberto
Ramos-Perea, Cine sin pantalla (films
without screen) is a special project to
recover and revive long lost Puerto Rican films. This summer after years of
research, the program began screening at Ateneo Puertorriqueño’s San Juan headquarters its most precious findings to date. Some of these films unaccounted for since their original release decades ago, were blockbusters with New York Puerto Rican audiences.
“Before Spanish language television arrived, Spanish language movies were the primary form of entertainment for Puerto Ricans and overall Hispanics in New York. It was common to see lines around the block of people waiting to get into local theaters, to watch the films and live performance interludes that made them feel closer to home,” said Ferrer.
The films to be shown in The Bronx are:
Ayer Amargo/Sour Yesterday (Drama, black & white – 1959): An unfertile woman obsessed with motherhood recurs to desperate measures to have a child. Trouble erupts when her husband’s illegitimate son is sent to live in her household. Starring Marta Romero, Arturo Correa, Roberto Rivera-Negrón, and Raúl Carbonell Jr. Produced by Gerónimo Mitchell Meléndez, and directed by Amílcar Tirado. The film had been lost since its original release. Ateneo Puertorriqueño recently obtained a
16 mm perfectly preserved copy from a private collector.
Entre Dios y el Hombre/Between God and Men (Drama, black & white – 1960): A
concert pianist gets caught in a love triangle with two college students. Starring Rolando Barrera, Tony Rigus, and Wally Jane Vázquez. Featuring Cuarteto Los Rubíes. Produced and Directed by Barrera. Born in the Dominican Republic,Barrera is attributed the revival of commercial Puerto Rican cinema. This film had been lost until Rigus provided Ateneo Puertorriqueño with a personal copy. Barrera
produced and directed 4 other motion pictures in Puerto Rico, all of which are currently missing.
Historia de un Gángster/Story of a Gangster (Action, black & white – 1968):
Hollywood-influenced mafia story, Puerto Rican style. Starring Juan Orol, Velda
González, Dinorah Judith, César del Campo, and Manolo Villamil. Directed by Orol for Caribe Films. Orol, the most successful Mexican filmmaker in the 1940’s and 50’s, produced, directed, and distributed 8 films in Puerto Rico. Although Ateneo puertorriqueño has located all of them, only 4 of the titles are available in the Cine
Nuestro Collection.
El Curandero del Pueblo/The Town’s Quack (Comedy, color – 1969): Traditional
quackery clashes with modern medicine in Puerto Rico’s countryside. Starring
Adalberto Rodríguez (Machuchal), Iris Martínez, Lucy Pereda, Eddie Miró, Esther Marí and Héctor Cabrera. Featuring Lucecita Benítez. Directed by Fernando Cortés. Machuchal starred in 12 motion pictures, all of which are currently available in Ateneo Puertorriqueño’s archives. El Curandero del Pueblo, one of his lesser-known
works, was a hit with New York Puerto Rican audiences. The film had been lost
since its original release until last year, when a New York woman provided a
well-preserved copy.
Historians agree that Puerto Rican cinema faced major distribution challenges during the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s. The films were distributed to theaters and Spanish language television stations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. but were hardly ever returned or collected.
Ateneo Puertorriqueño continues to track down additional titles. The institution has called on the New York community to support its film recovery project by providing material and/or tips of lost films’ whereabouts.
“We are very enthusiastic about the presentation of Cine sin Pantalla in New York,” Ramos-Perea said. “We hope that the local community enjoys these films, and supports our project to recover and preserve Puerto Rican movie classics.”
The films to be featured are in Spanish without subtitles. Screenings are as follows:
11/19 11:00 am: Historia de un Gángster
1:30 pm: Entre Dios y el Hombre
4:30 pm: Ayer Amargo
7:00 pm: El Curandero del Pueblo
11/20 10:00 am: Entre Dios y el Hombre
1:00 pm: El Curandero del Pueblo
11/21 5:00 pm: Historia de un Gángster
7:30 pm: Ayer Amargo
11/22 12:00 pm: Entre Dios y el Hombre
2:30 pm: El Curandero del Pueblo
For more information on Cine sin Pantalla and Ateneo Puertorriqueño’s film recovery project, contact Roberto Ramos-Perea at (787) 721-3877. A special press opening reception in The Bronx featuring a screening of Ayer Amargo, has been scheduled for Thursday, November 16th, at 6:00 p.m. For information on the New York
engagement, the public can call Bronx Borough President Ferrer’s Community
Affairs Unit, 718-590-7092.
The Statue Of PR Liberty
As long as Puerto Rico remains a captive nation, it is neccessary for Puerto Rican’s to use what ever means they have at their disposal to constantly remind everyone that Puerto Rico is still a colony, and that Puerto Rican’s, like all people, are also worthy of liberty.
It’s not a matter of right or wrong
It’s not a matter of right or wrong. In a sense, they were bringing the war home. What right has the U.S. or is it right that the U.S. continue bombing the land of Vieques when the people are against it? These men and women were compelled to act in order to draw attention to the continued disregard of the will of the Puerto Rican people.
RE: Surprise!
I want the Navy out of Vieques as much as anyone else. Now about that “gesture” at the Statue of Liberty.
What did it really accomplish besides being in the papers for a day or two?
Giving bragging rights (if you want to call it that ) to some media -hungry fanatics? People like Ruben Berrios are the real deal. They faced the Navy on their own turf.
Once arrestados manifestación en Estatua Libertad
Once arrestados manifestación en Estatua Libertad
domingo, 5 de noviembre de 2000
NUEVA YORK (AP) – Once personas fueron arrestadas este domingo por colgar desde la corona de la Estatua de la Libertad una bandera pidiendo el fin de las prácticas militares estadounidenses en la isla puertorriqueña de Vieques.
El incidente ocurrió a eso de las 10:20 de la mañana, cuando unas seis personas ganaron acceso a un área en la corona de la estatua, dijo el sargento Sal Norman, portavoz de la Policía de Parques de Estados Unidos.
Una persona se ubicó del lado de afuera de una ventana en la corona, sujetando una bandera o pancarta, dijo Norman. Indicó que el incidente duró unas dos horas, y algunas personas fueron arrestadas fuera del monumento.
Los investigadores determinan aún los cargos que radicarán a los manifestantes, dijo.
Carlito Rovira, de 47 años y miembro de la campaña neoyorquina en favor de Vieques, dijo que fueron colgadas una pancarta que leía “Paz para Vieques”, una bandera de Puerto Rico y una bandera de
Vieques.
Rovira dijo que la protesta fue planificada por miembros del grupo Amigos del Mar y Amigos de Vieques.
La Armada utiliza dos terceras partes de la isla de Vieques para sus prácticas de guerra desde la década de 1940. Los cerca de 9,400 civiles de la isla residen entre el polígono de tiro de la Armada, al este, y un antiguo almacén de municiones al oeste.
Las protestas contra la presencia militar en la isla municipio tomaron fuerza en abril de 1999, cuando murió en el lugar un guardia de seguridad civil por una bomba lanzada por error.
El presidente Bill Clinton ha dispuesto que la Armada salga de la isla municipio para mayo del 2003 si los residentes de Vieques lo reclaman mediante un referéndum programado para el año que viene.
Copyright 2000 Associated Press. Derechos Reservados.
Absolutely right
I was proud to see the Puerto Rican and Vieques flags waving over the Statue of Liberty. The Navy must be made to realize that they are not wanted.
Surprise!
Sila Calderon, Anibal Acevedo Vila and Damaso Serrano, the new mayor of Vieques, are all calling for the Navy to leave Vieques. What a mandate of the people–sweeping them into office. I see the takeover of the Statue of Liberty–if it can be characterized as such, as a very powerful political gesture sending the same message to Washington that the Puerto Rican electorate did yesterday! Was it right for the activists to display the Puerto Rican and the Vieques flags along with a U.S. Navy Out of Vieques banner atop the Statue of Liberty? I say yes.
PR Cinema
Sorry to all who thought this posting was related to the Statue of Liberty incident. Awhile back the question of the existence of PR cinema was raised. I found this online and deemed it worthy to share. Enjoy.
JBaez
Long Lost Puerto Rican Films in NY
Ateneo Puertorriqueño’s Cine sin
Pantalla, the highly praised series
featuring long lost Puerto Rican films, will premiere in The Bronx as part of Borough President Fernando Ferrer’s Puerto Rican Heritage Month Celebration.
Four Puerto Rican motion pictures once
believed to be permanently missing will
be shown from Sunday, November 19th
to Wednesday, November 22nd, at Hostos Community College’s Repertory Theater, Grand Concourse at East 149th Street. Admission is free.
Founded in 1876, Ateneo Puertorriqueño
(Puerto Rican Athenaeum) is the oldest
and most active cultural institution in
Puerto Rico. A not for profit organization,its mission is to preserve and promote Puerto Rican arts, culture, identity, and values. Its film unit, headed by Professor José Orraca, owns Cine Nuestro (Our Cinema) the largest collection of Puerto Rican motion pictures in the world.
Directed by writer and director Roberto
Ramos-Perea, Cine sin pantalla (films
without screen) is a special project to
recover and revive long lost Puerto Rican films. This summer after years of
research, the program began screening at Ateneo Puertorriqueño’s San Juan headquarters its most precious findings to date. Some of these films unaccounted for since their original release decades ago, were blockbusters with New York Puerto Rican audiences.
“Before Spanish language television arrived, Spanish language movies were the primary form of entertainment for Puerto Ricans and overall Hispanics in New York. It was common to see lines around the block of people waiting to get into local theaters, to watch the films and live performance interludes that made them feel closer to home,” said Ferrer.
The films to be shown in The Bronx are:
Ayer Amargo/Sour Yesterday (Drama, black & white – 1959): An unfertile woman obsessed with motherhood recurs to desperate measures to have a child. Trouble erupts when her husband’s illegitimate son is sent to live in her household. Starring Marta Romero, Arturo Correa, Roberto Rivera-Negrón, and Raúl Carbonell Jr. Produced by Gerónimo Mitchell Meléndez, and directed by Amílcar Tirado. The film had been lost since its original release. Ateneo Puertorriqueño recently obtained a
16 mm perfectly preserved copy from a private collector.
Entre Dios y el Hombre/Between God and Men (Drama, black & white – 1960): A
concert pianist gets caught in a love triangle with two college students. Starring Rolando Barrera, Tony Rigus, and Wally Jane Vázquez. Featuring Cuarteto Los Rubíes. Produced and Directed by Barrera. Born in the Dominican Republic,Barrera is attributed the revival of commercial Puerto Rican cinema. This film had been lost until Rigus provided Ateneo Puertorriqueño with a personal copy. Barrera
produced and directed 4 other motion pictures in Puerto Rico, all of which are currently missing.
Historia de un Gángster/Story of a Gangster (Action, black & white – 1968):
Hollywood-influenced mafia story, Puerto Rican style. Starring Juan Orol, Velda
González, Dinorah Judith, César del Campo, and Manolo Villamil. Directed by Orol for Caribe Films. Orol, the most successful Mexican filmmaker in the 1940’s and 50’s, produced, directed, and distributed 8 films in Puerto Rico. Although Ateneo puertorriqueño has located all of them, only 4 of the titles are available in the Cine
Nuestro Collection.
El Curandero del Pueblo/The Town’s Quack (Comedy, color – 1969): Traditional
quackery clashes with modern medicine in Puerto Rico’s countryside. Starring
Adalberto Rodríguez (Machuchal), Iris Martínez, Lucy Pereda, Eddie Miró, Esther Marí and Héctor Cabrera. Featuring Lucecita Benítez. Directed by Fernando Cortés. Machuchal starred in 12 motion pictures, all of which are currently available in Ateneo Puertorriqueño’s archives. El Curandero del Pueblo, one of his lesser-known
works, was a hit with New York Puerto Rican audiences. The film had been lost
since its original release until last year, when a New York woman provided a
well-preserved copy.
Historians agree that Puerto Rican cinema faced major distribution challenges during the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s. The films were distributed to theaters and Spanish language television stations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. but were hardly ever returned or collected.
Ateneo Puertorriqueño continues to track down additional titles. The institution has called on the New York community to support its film recovery project by providing material and/or tips of lost films’ whereabouts.
“We are very enthusiastic about the presentation of Cine sin Pantalla in New York,” Ramos-Perea said. “We hope that the local community enjoys these films, and supports our project to recover and preserve Puerto Rican movie classics.”
The films to be featured are in Spanish without subtitles. Screenings are as follows:
11/19 11:00 am: Historia de un Gángster
1:30 pm: Entre Dios y el Hombre
4:30 pm: Ayer Amargo
7:00 pm: El Curandero del Pueblo
11/20 10:00 am: Entre Dios y el Hombre
1:00 pm: El Curandero del Pueblo
11/21 5:00 pm: Historia de un Gángster
7:30 pm: Ayer Amargo
11/22 12:00 pm: Entre Dios y el Hombre
2:30 pm: El Curandero del Pueblo
For more information on Cine sin Pantalla and Ateneo Puertorriqueño’s film recovery project, contact Roberto Ramos-Perea at (787) 721-3877. A special press opening reception in The Bronx featuring a screening of Ayer Amargo, has been scheduled for Thursday, November 16th, at 6:00 p.m. For information on the New York
engagement, the public can call Bronx Borough President Ferrer’s Community
Affairs Unit, 718-590-7092.
The Statue Of PR Liberty
As long as Puerto Rico remains a captive nation, it is neccessary for Puerto Rican’s to use what ever means they have at their disposal to constantly remind everyone that Puerto Rico is still a colony, and that Puerto Rican’s, like all people, are also worthy of liberty.
It’s not a matter of right or wrong
It’s not a matter of right or wrong. In a sense, they were bringing the war home. What right has the U.S. or is it right that the U.S. continue bombing the land of Vieques when the people are against it? These men and women were compelled to act in order to draw attention to the continued disregard of the will of the Puerto Rican people.
RE: Surprise!
I want the Navy out of Vieques as much as anyone else. Now about that “gesture” at the Statue of Liberty.
What did it really accomplish besides being in the papers for a day or two?
Giving bragging rights (if you want to call it that ) to some media -hungry fanatics? People like Ruben Berrios are the real deal. They faced the Navy on their own turf.