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The July 26th Coalition, a solidarity group that supports the Cuban revolution, hosted a March 13 evening of information and open dialogue with two representatives of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in New York City. The women were here participating in events held at the United Nations and hosted by the Commission on the Status of Women during International Working Women’s Month....
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It was with profound and searing grief that our people and the Revolutionary
Government learned about the decease of President Hugo Chávez Frías
and are therefore preparing to pay a heartfelt and patriotic tribute to him,
for he will go down in history as a Hero of Our America....
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As a Cuba solidarity network, we lift our voices to tell Washington and the
Venezuelan elite: NO to destabilization efforts in Venezuela, which we fully
recognize is also aimed at Cuba's sovereignty. We say: "Hands off the
Bolivarian Revolution."...
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A crisis arising out of a major natural disaster tends to reveal a society’s strengths and weaknesses, values and priorities, and forms of organization....
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A meeting in Tehran starting Aug. 26 puts into the sharpest perspective the
waning position of U.S. imperialism globally and especially in the Middle East.
Both the U.S. and Israel’s demands for a boycott of the meeting were
ignored. Clearly the U.S. hold is slipping....
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This year, the International AIDS Conference is being held in Washington, D.C., a city with one of the highest HIV rates in the world. At 3 percent, the HIV rate in this country’s capital is close to that of Sub-Saharan Africa’s 5 percent rate. (unaids.org) This situation prevails despite the enormous wealth held by the 1% and the existence of a monumental academic and scientific establishment....
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Teachers, students with jobless futures and indentured to enormous loan debt, and public workers from the U.S. will travel to Tijuana, Mexico, for the Aug. 17 through 19 Ninth U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America Labor Conference. The conference will be preceded by a 3-day seminar from Aug. 15 through 17 led by instructors from the Cuban Workers Central Union’s Lázaro Peña Workers School. The Aug. 17 evening program will uplift the struggle to free the Cuban 5 — Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Ramón Labañino Salazar, René González Sehwerert, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernando González Llort — unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998....
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Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter heard nothing but applause on May 23 as she made her first public appearance in San Francisco....
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The “5 Days for the Cuban 5 in Washington, D.C.” are over, but its broad and unified call to the Obama administration continues to echo: Open the U.S. prison doors and return Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero and Rene González to their Cuban homeland....
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Once again, as during the 2009 Summit of the Americas, the recent VI edition of the outmoded Summit finished without a declaration. According to the Summit’s bylaws, such a declaration must be unanimous....
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In Florida in 1998, five Cuban men were arrested and eventually tried on
trumped-up charges of conspiracy to commit espionage, and given sentences
ranging from 15 years to 2 live terms plus 15 years....
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Starting this weekend, solidarity friends from different U.S.
cities, Canada and Europe will gather in the capital of the United States to
denounce the colossal injustice committed against the Cuban 5 and to demand
that President Obama immediately release these men whose only crime was
to defend their people from the scourge of terrorism. Until the Cuban 5
return to their homeland the solidarity movement will continue to demand that
the U.S. government grant regular visas to all the family members of the
Five....
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Activities include lobbying, lit distribution, documentary film
screenings, public cultural events. Personalities, actors and artists, union
leaders, writers, researchers, and activists from the U.S. and abroad will
gather in D.C. for these days....
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Momentum is building for concentrated activity in Washington DC, as a growing list of endorsers who support changing relations with Cuba embrace 5 days for the Cuban 5, April 17 to 21. Last week Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers and actor Danny Glover both agreed to participate in the largest of the public events, "Obama Give me Five" on Friday April 20th at 6:00 pm. The evening of exhibits, speakers and poetry will take place at the Festival Center, located at 1640 Columbia Road, NW, Washington....
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Five Days to Free the Cuban Five begins April 17 and continues through a
demonstration on April 21 at the White House. The theme will be “Obama,
give me Five,” referring to the five Cubans held in the U.S. against
their will....
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Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and Rene González, known as the Cuban Five, have been unjustly held in U.S. prisons since 1998....
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International Women’s Day, commemorated on March 8, was founded in 1910 by European socialist women, to demonstrate solidarity with women worldwide. The special day honors struggles against inequality, oppression and war....
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On Jan. 19, a request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles from the
United States was filed in the Panamanian courts, according to LaEstrella.com.
Posada and four co-conspirators were convicted of the attempted assassination
of the then-Cuban president, Fidel Castro, at the 2000 Ibero-American Summit in
Panama. Their plot to bomb the crowded university venue with 200 pounds of
explosives was thwarted, saving many lives....
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We believe that the message of the postcard will be an attractive one for US
audiences and will be stronger if the same message gets multiplied all over the
world. We will make the PDF available for you to print them locally....
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The 7th International Colloquium for the freedom of the
Cuban Five concluded in this eastern Cuban city on Nov. 19. Representatives
from international committees that have mobilized parliaments, unions, Nobel
laureates and millions over the past 13 years of unjust U.S. incarceration of
these five heroic Cuban men planned the next phase in a week of
events....
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“A social movement strong enough to force change.” That
statement could describe the Occupy Wall Street movement, but it refers to the
struggle of Mexican electrical workers and Mexican miners in Cananea, Sonora.
Leaders from these struggles will open the 8th U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America
Labor Conference on Dec. 2 in Tijuana, Mexico....
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In order to give an idea of the potential of the USSR in its efforts to
maintain parity with the United States in this sphere, we only need to point
out that when its disintegration occurred in 1991, in Byelorussia there were 81
nuclear warheads, in Kazakhstan 1400 and in the Ukraine approximately 5000; all
these went over to the Russian Federation, the only state capable of sustaining
its immense cost, in order to maintain independence....
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From capitalist media pundits to the Occupy Wall Street encampments
struggling to hold public space in countless cities and towns across the U.S.,
this question is bubbling underneath the daily actions and police
repression....
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ABRACADABRA is not a play. It is an act of Justice and Life, written mainly by children who share the dream of freedom . A teacher invites her students to walk the road to the essences, through five very true stories of
heroism and virtue....
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Edward Asner, Jackson Browne, James Cromwell, Mike Farrell, Danny
Glover, Susan Sarandon, Peter Coyote, Bonnie Raitt, Elliott Gould, and
Others Send Letter to President Obama for the Safety and Immediate Return
of One of the Cuban 5, Rene Gonzalez to Cuba....
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On Sept. 16, Judge Joan Lenard refused to allow René González, one
of the five Cuban heroes unjustly held in U.S. prisons, to return to Cuba and
his family when he is released on Oct. 7....
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The desperate situation of the Haitian people has given rise to political
tensions in the country’s Parliament and anger among the people against
the U.S.-backed regime. The only effective aid for combating the cholera
epidemic has come from socialist Cuba....
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Beloved around the world to this day, Fidel stated in 1961: “This is what they cannot forgive us ... that we have made a Socialist Revolution right under the nose of the United States. ... Comrades, workers and farmers, this is the Socialist and democratic Revolution of the people, by the people and for the people. And for this Revolution ... we are willing to give our lives.”...
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Carter, invited by Cuban President Raul Castro, on behalf of The Carter Center, is the first US President in 50 years to set foot on Cuban soil. He ended his three-day trip on March 30th by also calling to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, to lift the US blockade now having been imposed on Cuba for half a century, and to remove all restrictions imposed on its citizens regarding travel to Cuba....
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The recent visit to Cuba by former US President Jimmy
Carter, renews our hope. His positive statements calling for the
freedom of the Cuban 5 and the right of family visits during an interview
with Cuban television constitutes an encouraging sign for our struggle. In addition, his statements have appeared in media around the world, for many
of these news outlets this marks the first time they have mentioned the Cuban
5. But we can not sit still while the 5 continue to be imprisoned
and think it is over....
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Following is the statement of Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Geneva, March
1 [2011]....
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OIL became the principal wealth in the hands of the large yankee transnationals; with that source of energy, they had at their disposal an instrument that considerably
increased their political power in the world. It was their principal weapon when they decided to simply liquidate the Cuban Revolution as soon as the first, just and sovereign laws were enacted in our homeland: by depriving it of oil....
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The following link connects our readers with the first of a series of 15 excellent daily stories on the trial of anti-Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in El Paso, Texas. These articles are available in English and Spanish. ...
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This year, through an exciting educational and cultural program, we will
celebrate and honor the achievements of young people in Cuba, as well as learn
about their daily lives and experiences as we visit organic gardens,
neighborhood projects, health centers and schools....
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With the beginning of a new year and in coordination with committees and
friends from other countries, we propose to start a new and steady campaign on
behalf of the Cuban 5:...
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A mass movement of protest and anger has erupted in Haiti against the
oppression, extreme poverty and desperation experienced by the vast majority of
people. The militant struggle is challenging the so-called
“constitutionally mandated” election of Nov. 28, claiming fraud and
misconduct throughout the process....
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After receiving massive support in Cuba, a delegation of Iranian activists has visited Venezuela in the second stop of its tour of Latin American countries, an effort designed to promote international solidarity with Iran....
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For the seventh consecutive year, union leaders, social movement activists
and socialists from many countries in the Western Hemisphere came together in
this dynamic border city on the first weekend in December for intense
discussions. They focused on the global crisis of the imperialist system, its
increasing belligerence and its devastating attacks on the living conditions of
the international working class....
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When the campaign “Solidarity with Iran – SI!” was
initiated in mid October 2010 through an appeal under the same name, the
initiators – House of Latin America (HOLA), an NGO based in Iran - were
confident of the promising prospect of the campaign. Now, the
campaign's success in a short period to gain the support of 100s of
activists and 10s of organizations involved in the international peace movement
indicates the correctness of such assessment....
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Just a few months ago, on July 26, 2010, Lucius Walker, the head of the American organization Pastors for Peace, at an encounter with Cuban intellectuals
and artists, asked me what the solution for Haiti’s problems would be....
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On the rainy night of Nov. 5, hundreds of thousands of Haitians huddled under their tarps and tents while Hurricane Tomas passed. The government, which told them to flee, put only 15,000 people on trucks to go to higher ground....
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From Dec. 3 to 5 in Tijuana, Mexico — just minutes from the San Diego,
Calif., airport — a cross-section of workers from Latin America who are
confronting the global crisis will meet with U.S. workers grappling with
devastating challenges. Building on six previous conferences, the
meeting’s aim is to grow the unity of the working class in the Americas
and increase its influence — from the tip of Chile to Alaska — by
sharing problems but also examining strategies to fight and win....
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The U.N. General Assembly on Oct. 26 voted 187 to 2 against the 48-year
economic blockade of Cuba. Only the U.S. and Israel voted for it. Palau,
Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained....
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Worker s (CTC) will visit Tijuana,
Mexico, a border city 15 minutes south of downtown San Diego and the
San Diego Airport - U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people
from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to
hear first hand from the Latinoamerican and Caribbean workers. Also, you will
hear from Union leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti,
Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the
U.S. discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas.
and coordinators of Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America have also been
invited. ESNA is a new development that involves the largest and most militant
labor federations throughout Latin America.
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Resolution in Support of the Cuban Five, their Rights to Fair
Trial and Visitation Rights for their Families...
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n October 6, 1976 a civilian Cuban airliner took off from the coast of Barbados towards Cuba. Among the 73 passengers on board was the Cuban Junior Fencing team who were proudly returning to their island with gold medals. Along with them were 11 humble students from Guyana who were to begin studying in Cuba, five passengers of the Democratic Republic of Korea, among them a young girl. There were 57 Cuban passengers and flight crew on that plane. But flight 455 never made it to its destination. Its 73 passengers died a horrible death when a bomb, ordered to be placed in the plane by the international terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, blew up in mid air....
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The plight of the Cuban Five is never far from the minds of progressive
people around the world. This Sept. 12, exactly 12 years since their arrest in
the United States for defending Cuba from terrorist attacks, organizations and
individuals intensified demands for their release through petitions,
demonstrations and ad campaigns....
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On Sunday August 8, renowned actor Danny Glover visited Gerardo Hernandez at USP Victorville, California. The meeting caused a big stir in the prison that just a few days before had held Gerardo in "the hole" under
inhumane conditions....
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nce Again the US
government has imposed another cruel punishment against Gerardo
Hernandez, one of the Cuban 5 imprisoned in the US for fighting against
terrorism....
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The youth are more interested than anyone else in
the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of
society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society
will survive....
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President Obama’s election brought hope for change in many aspects of US policy including the potential to end the illegal, immoral and internationally condemned economic blockade of Cuba....
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Looking for terrorists? Get a mirror, Secretary of State Clinton....
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None of the Five should be in prison, for their only crime was to stop terrorism against Cuba, terrorism carried out by right-wing Cuban American organizations in Florida...
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On Oct. 13, a 21-year-plus-10-month prison term was imposed on Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez by the same Florida U.S. District Court that initially condemned him to a life sentence plus 10 years. The steadfast support of the Cuban people and government, amplified with worldwide solidarity, forced the U.S. government to back off some of the unjust and wildly excessive life sentences imposed on Guerrero, one of the revolutionary heroes known as the Cuban Five....
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Type the words “Cuba Day against Homophobia” into Google’s search engine and you will find video clips and news stories about a festival on May 16 of this year in Havana and many other Cuban cities that raised public consciousness about the rights and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people....
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The Supreme Court has confirmed the U.S. legal system’s ongoing
hypocrisy in the treatment of the Cuban Five. The court on June 15 made public
a list of what cases it will hear during its coming term—and the appeal
of the Cuban Five was left off the list, with no explanation....
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The US Supreme Court announced today that it will not review the case of the
Five Cuban Patriots. This decision denies our 5 brothers, unjustly imprisoned
from more than a decade for monitoring terrorist organizations based in Miami,
from ever having the possibility of an impartial and just trial outside
Miami....
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday, without explanation, its decision not to review the case of the Cuban Five who are unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. for struggling against anti-Cuban terrorism that is sponsored by the U.S. rulers....
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Ricardo Alarcón, president of Cuba's Parliament, speaking in
Havana, denounced the U.S. and international corporate media for their silence
regarding the massive international support for the petition to the U.S.
Supreme Court to hear the case of the Cuban Five....
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n the vast U.S. spy network, there are undoubtedly whole rooms -- maybe
even whole buildings -- of "experts" whose job is to analyze
what's happening in Cuba. They study all kinds of data, some of it
published openly by the Cuban government, some of it provided, or rather sold,
by counter-revolutionaries cultivated by U.S. diplomats and handlers....
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40 Years of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution! 40 Years of Friendship with the Cuban People!...
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The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments on as few as 100 cases per year,
although thousands are submitted. The briefs submitted support a full
examination of the legal issues in both cases....
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The struggle to free the Cuban Five entered a new stage Jan. 30 when the
defense team filed a formal request—a petition for a writ of
certiorari—asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decisions of lower
courts that have caused these five Cuban antiterrorist heroes to be imprisoned
in the United States since 1998....
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From five prisons scattered throughout the bowels of the United States, we condemn this
crime with all our strength; we demand that the barbarity stop now and we send all of our love and support from the deepest part of our souls to the beloved Palestinian people. We will be with you today and always. If there is one thing that profoundly hurts us about our imprisonment it is that we cannot do much more for you, for your cause, for our peoples, but we trust that soon we will be able to accompany you physically....
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The 2008 Cuba/Venezuela/Latin America/North America Labor Conference is fast approaching - along with an economic crisis that crumbles illusions in the
profit-first capitalist system and a new administration coming to Washington,D.C. setting the sights of millions of workers on a better life. There is a lot to learn and much to discuss and share....
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Actor Danny Glover sent the following message of solidarity on Sept. 13
to the concert "Five Stars and One Song" held in New York in support of the Cuban 5....
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) will visit Tijuana, Mexico, a city 15 minutes from the San Diego, U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to hear first hand from the Cubans about Cuba’s workers and their unions. Also, you will hear from leaders of the Venezuelan union, UNT, about the present situation of the Venezuelan revolution and the issues facing Venezuelan workers, representatives of Mexico, United States, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Haiti, the Philippines and Nicaragua discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas....
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The Cuban Five are five Cuban men who are in U.S. prisons,
serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being arrested in
September 1998 and wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami in
2001....
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(RHC)—Senator Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz of the Mexican Senate has added her name to the list of international politicians, activists and cultural and artistic personalities who are urging the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice to grant visas without further delay to Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, whose husbands, Gerardo Hernandez and René Gonzalez are serving prison sentences in US gaols for infiltrating
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Fifty five years is a short period of time in the life of a nation but enough to confirm that July 26 marked the beginning of a new era in Cuban history. In his fundamental speech at the official ceremony on the 20th anniversary of the Moncada also held here in Santiago de Cuba, Fidel recalled the inflammatory poem written by the outstanding Communist leader and noble intellectual Ruben Martínez Villena: ...
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We have just been notified about the decision of the three Judges of Atlanta. Under absurd political pressures, two of them rejected nearly all of our appeal points, and only granted three of us retrials,in an attempt to divide us, weaken us and isolate us....
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CSNY urges everyone to attend this year's annual July 26th 2008 Celebration in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution! This years event will take place on saturday, July 26th at the 1199/SEIU Building Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 West 43rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues, Times Square Subway Stop) in Manhattan. ...
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Dear Friends of the Cuban Five: For more than ten years, Adriana and Gerardo have not been able to see each other. Olga and René have also been denied the right to family visits, since August 2000.
This is due to the cruel and unjustified refusal by the U.S. government to grant entry visas to the wives of two of the Cuban Five.
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Two years ago, in this very hall, the international community agreed to
eradicate world hunger. It adopted a goal of halving the number of malnourished
people by 2015. Today that modest and inadequate goal seems like a pipe dream....
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A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdicts
of guilt against each of the five Cuban heroes on June 4. This was the second
round of appeals for the Five, all of whom have been in prison for almost a
decade for trying to prevent U.S.-backed terrorist organizations in Miami from
engaging in violent attacks on Cuba....
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The Cuban Five are five Cuban men – Fernando Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Gerardo Hernandez - who are currently still in U.S. prison, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami, on June 8, 2001.
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With the theme "Sovereignty and Food Security: Food for Life," delegations from 15 countries met in Managua, Nicaragua, on May 7 to discuss and plan strategies to confront the serious hunger crisis that is affecting the
peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean....
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n June/July 2008 14 different routes of the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba will be on the road visiting more than 120 US and Canadian cities. We will travel in school buses, trucks, and cars to
Cuba via Mexico with medical and educational supplies collected from groups
across the US and Canada as a collective challenge to the inhuman and immoral US blockade and travel ban. Five of our buses will be named in honor of the Five Cuban patriots who are unjustly incarcerated in US jails. ...
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U.S. imperialism is ramping up its military threats in Latin America and the Caribbean. On April 24 the U.S. Navy announced the re-establishment of the U.S.
Fourth Fleet to increase and coordinate the U.S. military presence there. As a
sign of its aggressive intent, the new commander is Rear Adm. Joseph D. Kernan, who has been head of the Naval Special Warfare Command, better known as the SEALs....
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As news flashed of the formal resignation of Cuba's Fidel Castro from the office of the President, morbid celebrations broke out in "Little Havana"(Miami), Florida, the U.S. capital of the Cuban exiled, anti-Castro movement. Just as they rejoiced at his illness in 2006, they reveled at his resignation....
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Those who know and love Cuba know that Fidel's announcement that he
would not run again for president marked a sad day. Yet we are confident that
the Revolution will prevail at every phase of its long journey....
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March 2005 marked one year since the filing of the last appeal in the case of the Cuban Five. The Five are Cubans who were arrested in 1998 in the U.S. The U.S.
government charged the Five with engaging in espionage against military bases
and threatening "national security." The Cubans were trying to monitor and prevent terror attacks from U.S. soil against their island nation. ...
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Beginning in 2001 students from the U.S. began studying in Havana for free at the Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). Originally 500 students were offered scholarships annually. This has been increased to 1,000. The only condition is that the students make a commitment to serve poor communities in the U.S. after receiving their medical licenses....
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As part of its effort to forge new ties, Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five held a meeting at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City June 2. Leaders from various organizations voiced their commitment to work on behalf of the Cuban heroes,...
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The U.S. prosecutor, on the other hand, decided to prolong what a United Nations Commission has termed an "arbitrary detention." The prosecution has not abided by the August 2005 decision for a new trial in an impartial location. Nor has it repatriated the Five to their homes and loved ones in Cuba. ...
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We met, as we are doing now, fifteen years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro. It was a historic moment. There, we took on the commitment later on contained in the Convention on Climate Change and, subsequently, in the Kyoto Protocol. Cuba was then the first country to take the environmental issue to a constitutional platform. ...
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Please tell Bush and Congress: HANDS OFF CUBA! Sign the petition and send it to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez, U.N. Secretary-General Ki-moon, Congressional leaders, your own Congressional delegation, and media representatives!...
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