A look back at the struggle against the U.S. Navy on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques

For decades, the U.S. Navy used the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a testing and dumping ground for highly dangerous weapons and materials. Huge protests and brave acts of civil disobedience alongside a determined battle in the courts led to victory in 2003, and this struggle is remembered as a key part of the broader struggle for freedom for Puerto Rico. Scott Edwards, co-director of the Food & Water Justice project at Food & Water Watch and an attorney who has prosecuted U.S. ... Más informaciones energy companies for contamination of waterways and worked against factory farms in both North Carolina and the Chesapeake region, joins the show.