2024-04-27T21:44:06Z http://tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=proving-grounds&rss=yes&xn_auth=no tag:tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com,2013-05-03:2567841:Video:25713 2013-05-03T04:16:12.671Z Tony Nuspl http://tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com/profile/TonyNuspl

<a href="http://tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com/video/punishing-vieques-puerto-rico-struggles-with-contamination-10"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2511175393?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>A fisherman recently discovered a giant unexploded bomb underwater, off the coast of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.<br></br> <br></br> The bombing stopped after campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience, but the island continues to suffer. At the current cleanup rate, the Navy says, it will take until 2025 to remove all the environmental…

<a href="http://tulsapeacefellowship.ning.com/video/punishing-vieques-puerto-rico-struggles-with-contamination-10"><br /> <img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2511175393?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />A fisherman recently discovered a giant unexploded bomb underwater, off the coast of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.<br /> <br /> The bombing stopped after campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience, but the island continues to suffer. At the current cleanup rate, the Navy says, it will take until 2025 to remove all the environmental damage left by more than 60 years of target practice.<br /> <br /> "Reparations need to come by giving the people back their land and also by the U.S. government doing intensive, massive cleanup of the land, that has depleted uranium, napalm, and God knows what other contaminants that continue to kill the people," said Rosa Clemente, 10 years ago, in 2003.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org">http://www.democracynow.org</a>