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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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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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