List of Navy-Vieques protesters and supporters

Edward James Olmos

April 28, 2001

20 days

Actor
Paid $3,000 bail

Danny Rivera

Yes

Several months

Singer

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

April 28, 2001

No

Environmentalist lawyer
Paid $3,000 bail

Robi Draco Rosa

April 28, 2001

No

Singer / Songwriter, former Menudo

Mirta Sanes Rodriguez

Yes

?

Sister of David Sanes Rodriguez.

Nilda Medina

Yes

Yes

Cause of Vieques leader.
Leader of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques.

Robert Rabin

Yes

Several months

Cause of Vieques leader.
Leader of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques.

Tito Kayak

Yes

One year (plus time served in New York)

Found guilty of Criminal Trespassing after escalating the Statue of Liberty in order to place a "Peace for Vieques" sign. Attached himself once with handcuffs to a tank left as scrap on Vieques grounds.

Carlos Zenón

Yes

Yes

Cause of Vieques Leader

Ismael Guadalupe

Yes

Yes

Damaso Serrano

Yes

?

Mayor of Vieques at the time

Jose Rivera

Yes

?

City Council member of New York

Luis Gutierrez

Yes

Yes

United States Representative

Maria De Lourdes Santiago

Yes

One month

Puerto Rican Senator, PIP party Vice-President, El Nuevo Dia columnist

Norma Burgos

Yes

Several months

Puerto Rican Senator, Puerto Rico's Secretary of State at the time

Nydia Velazquez

Yes

?

United States Congresswoman

Rafael 'Churumba' Cordero

Yes

30 days

Mayor of Ponce at the time

Roberto Ramirez

Yes

?

Ruben Berrios

Yes

Yes (detained and released without trial after being arrested in May of 2000, subsequent to a stay of 362 days in permanent act of civil disobedience; for second entry into the U.S. Navy bombing area, he received a sentence of 5 hours of prison afer trial and conviction; and, subsequently received a sentence of four months (120 days) of incarceration time at Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Guaynabo, which he served after trial and conviction for a third act of civil disobedience at Vieques. Total time sentenced to prison, together with the six month sentence for protesting in Culebra: 11 months and five hours)

Puerto Rican ex-Senator (three-times elected Senator, receiving most amount of votes); Honorary President of the Socialist International (SI); has run five times for governor of Puerto Rico, President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party since 1968.

Al Sharpton

Yes

90 days

Reverend

Jacqueline Jackson

Yes

10 days 1

Wife of Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Imprisoned after refusing to post a $3,000 bond.
Placed on probation for 1 year.
Was placed in solitary confinement after refusing to be strip searched.

Rey Saliba Gonzalez

Yes

?

Friar of the Franciscan Cappuccino order

Dennis Rivera

?

?

New York Labor Leader
Paid $3,000 bail

Carlos Delgado

All-Star MLB player

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf player
PGA & Senior Tour Champion

Félix "Tito" Trinidad

Boxer
AMB & FIB Junior-Middleweight Champion

Ivan Rodriguez

All-Star MLB player

John Ruiz

Boxer
NABF & WBA Heavyweight Champion

Juan González

All-Star MLB player

Roberto Alomar

All-Star MLB player

Benicio del Toro

Actor / Oscar Winner

Jose Feliciano

Singer / Composer
Grammy Award Winner

Marc Anthony

Singer / Actor
Grammy Award Winner

Martin Sheen

Actor

Ricky Martin

Singer
Grammy Award Winner

Dalai Lama

Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Óscar Arias

Nobel Peace Laureate
Former President of Costa Rica

Rigoberta Menchú

Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Aníbal Acevedo Vilá

Governor of Puerto Rico

Charles Rangel

Congressman of New York

Chuck Schumer

Senator of New York

Ed Towns

Congressman of New York

Eliot Engel

Congressman of New York

Hillary Clinton

Senator of New York

Nancy Pelosi

Speaker of the House;
Congresswoman of California

Bob Menendez

Senator of New Jersey

Bob Edgar

Executive Director of the National Council of Churches

Fernando Ferrer

Bronx Borough President

"King" Hossein Zargaran

Peacemaker

Margarita Lopez

City Council member of New York