STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:17 AM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] 'Vieques Four' hunger strike continues Associated Press. 4 June 2001. Sharpton Continues Fast With Support From Coretta Scott King. NEW YORK The Rev. Al Sharpton's mother tried to convince him to stop his prison hunger strike on Sunday, but the activist is pressing on after receiving a letter of support from Coretta Scott King. The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. said she wrote "to express my wholehearted support of your efforts." Sharpton has been fasting since Tuesday at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he is serving a 90-day sentence for trespassing on U.S. Navy property during a May 1 protest on Vieques. The Navy has used its range on Vieques, home to 9,400 people, for six decades and says it is vital for national security. Critics say the bombings pose a health threat. Also serving sentences for their roles in the protest are City Councilman Adolfo Carrion, state Assemblyman Jose Rivera and Bronx County Democratic Party chairman Roberto Ramirez. All three were sentenced to 40 days. "It is a terrible tragedy that Puerto Rican children are experiencing serious illnesses as a result of the Navy's bombing exercises," King wrote to Sharpton, "and I applaud the courageous protest of the 'Vieques Four' to call attention to this injustice." Sharpton and his wife of 21 years, Kathy, had been scheduled to renew their wedding vows Sunday at a Harlem church. Instead, she visited him in jail, as did their teen-age daughters, Dominique and Ashley, and his mother, Ada Sharpton, who urged him to stop fasting, said Sharpton spokeswoman Rachel Noerdlinger. The 46-year-old activist said he would subsist solely on liquids until bombing operations on the island ceased. He was lost 8 pounds so far, Noerdlinger said. On Thursday, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston rejected motions to stay the sentences or set bail for Sharpton and the other three men convicted of federal trespassing by a judge in Puerto Rico. The court decided to expedite a hearing on the men's appeals of their convictions, setting it for Tuesday. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
