Peoples
Video Network Video: Leonard Weinglass on the Cuban Five: At the
National Lawyers Guild Convention in Pasadena in October 2002, Leonard
Weinglass, attorney for one of the five Cuban political prisoners incarcerated
for defending their country from rightwing terrorists based in Miami
and funded by the CIA, gives an excellent analysis of the status of
their case.
Peoples
Video Network Video: We Defend Cuba: Activists gather to show solidarity
with the Republic of Cuba and to challenge the continuing abuse and
misrepresentation hurled against it by bourgeois governments and mass
media. Ray LaForest (NYC Labor Against the War), Samia Halaby (Support
Palestine Ctte.), Mumia Abu-Jamal, Attny. Leonard Weinglass (Cuban 5
Defense Ctte.) and many others defend Cuba’s outstanding humanist
achievements in the face of decades-long sanctions and counter-revolutionary
terrorism.
5 U.S.-Held Cuban Political Prisoners
from left to right: Ramón Labañino,
Fernando González,
Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, René González
The New York Free the Five Committee is excited to report that we
have set up a web site for the New York Committee. This web site will
be devoted to local events so you can visit to check on local events
as well as developments on the case. The web site is: www.freethefiveny.org
"I
am committed to seeing the end to the Castro
regime, which
I have long condemned for its flagrant human
rights abuse and
political oppression. There is no excuse for
the Castro regime
to hold down over 11 million talented and
hardworking citizens
of the Americas, some of our closest neighbors.
Let there be
no mistake about my view: I will support effective
and peaceful
strategies that will hasten the end of the
Castro regime as soon
as possible, and enable the Cuban people to
take their rightful
place in the democratic community of the Americas.
..."
From:
U.S. Humanitarian Group Arrives in Cuba
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 10, 2004
HAVANA (AP) -- Members of an American humanitarian aid group arrived
in Cuba Saturday in defiance of U.S. law and wearing T-shirts calling
for ``regime change'' in the United States.
About 120 volunteers with Pastors for Peace flew in from Tampico,
Mexico, where they had loaded a caravan of 12 vehicles filled with
goods including medicine, computers and bicycles onto boats bound
for Cuba -- all in violation of a long-running U.S. trade embargo.
``We know in our hearts and in our heads ... that the blockade is
immoral, is illegal, is illogical and is unjust,'' said the Rev. Lucius
Walker, a Baptist minister from New Jersey who founded Pastors for
Peace. entire
article
Rachel Corrie was never a terrorist.
She never sympathized with Al Qaeda. Her blond hair and U.S. nationality
and the fact than no Arab blood ran in her veins made her stand out
among the other young women in the Gaza Strip. Neither was she a follower
of Islam and she was barely 23 years old.
From International Peace for Cuba Appeal:
In these recent times of increased U.S. hostility against Cuba and the
signing of the Helms-Burton law, it is important for supporters of the
Cuban Revolution and opponents of the blockade to be up to date on new
developments in Cuba, and to hear the Cubans' perspective on the struggles
they face. The International Peace for Cuba Appeal has worked hard to
prepare two new works:
Videos are also available from
the Peoples Video Network Online
Store about current issues regarding the blockade (place IAC in
your bookmarks before leaving).
National
Committee to Free the Five / Comité Nacional Libertad para los Cinco
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