Cafe Che: Free The Cuban Five! - (Toronto, ON) - Fri. March

[Comrade Marcel]

Free the Cuban Five Committee-Toronto, Philippine Network For Justice & Peace; & Young Left Present.......

[size=14]Cafe Che:
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Free the Five!

[FONT=Impact][b]<span style='color:blue'>Cuban Political Prisoners unjustly held in U.S. prisons

Join us in the discussion of these five heroic men (Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Fernando Gonzalez, & Rene Gonzalez) & their efforts to stop terrorism, & the struggle against the unjust imprisonment they are now facing. Learn how you can help by taking action & showing solidarity. We will also discuss other past & present political prisoners & victims of political persecution such as: Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jose Maria Sison, & Dudley George.
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Event program:

Guest Speakers
Broadcaster/Educator Thando Hyman
Video screening of Leonard Weinglass (lawyer) on the Cuban 5
Live African Based Music
Special Guest Preformer Thando Hyman
Poetry from Wakefield Brewster & Ernest "pookie" Carter
Open Mic for poetry, hip-hop, & musical preformances

[size=14][FONT=Optima]Friday March 21st, 2003 @ 7:00 PM
Oasis Restaurant
294 Collège Street (west of Spadina)
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For more info contact:
Young Left: 416-295-8404 &#0124; [email protected]

rebelyouth.ca (http://rebelyouth.ca/) --- freethecubanfive.ca (http://www.freethecubanfive.ca/)


(Edited by Comrade Marcel at 5:28 am on Mar. 6, 2003)

[Larissa]

http://www.granma.cu/miami5/ingles/index.html
More information about the Cuban five.

[Larissa]

Free the Five demosntration to demand their liberation:
March 30 - April 7, 2003

DEL 30 DE MARZO AL 7 DE ABRIL "JORNADA INTERNACIONAL DE LUCHA POR LA LIBERTAD DE LOS CINCO PATRIOTAS CUBANOS"
El mundo alzara su voz para exigirle al imperio:
!!!LIBEREN A LOS CINCO YA!!!

SUMATE DESDE TU PAIS A ESTA JORNADA, POR FAVOR CONTÁCTANOS EN:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Comité Argentino por la Libertad de los Cinco Patriotas Cubanos" "Presos Políticos del Imperio"
Esta jornada se realiza, como respaldo a la presentación de la apelación de los abogados defensores de los Cinco ante los tribunales de Atlanta.
En esa semana de lucha se propicia que en todo el mundo dediquemos nuestros esfuerzos para realizar actividades, manifestaciones y actos simultáneos en la mayor cantidad de países posibles.

Durante las primeras jornadas del 12 de septiembre, logramos unirnos 24 países quienes juntos gritamos LIBERTAD!!!!

Esta segunda jornada debe multiplicar ese grito dado que es un momento clave para lograr su libertad y es indispensable que el tribunal escuche nuestro reclamo de justicia.

La idea de que esta vez la jornada dure una semana es para permanecer en la prensa durante el mayor tiempo posible, tambien esto dará mayor libertad a cada país a realizar las actividades en la fecha que le quede mas conveniente, aunque seria importante que quienes estén en condiciones de hacerlo dediquen toda la semana a realizar actividades en reclamo por la libertad de los compañeros.

ES INDISPENSABLE PONER ÉNFASIS EN EL 7 DE ABRIL, MANIFESTANDO FRENTE A LAS EMBAJADAS NORTEAMERICANAS DE NUESTROS RESPECTIVOS PAÍSES, dado que ellas pasaran el reporte a Whashington. Y allí si deberíamos gritar al unisono.

CONTAMOS CON USTEDES, PARA MAYOR INFORMACIÓN SOBRE ESTA INICIATIVA, DE ACUERDO A DONDE VIVAS PODES CONTACTAR A:

TO PARTICIPATE CONTACT THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE:
América latina: [email protected]; [email protected]
Europa: [email protected]
Estados Unidos y Caribe de habla inglesa: [email protected]; [email protected]
África o Asia: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

JUNTOS PODEMOS LIBERARLOS
Todo sobre los Cinco Patriotas en:
http://www.amigosdecuba.com.ar/5patriotas/index.html
http://.www.antiterroristas.cu http://www.freethefive.org/

On April 7, 2003, 24 countries will join a march at their respective US embassies to protest against the Cuban five and support their lawyers' actions.

Contact the above people if you want to participate.

[Comrade Marcel]

http://rebelyouth.ca/prop/images/cafe_che_cuban5.jpg

Download the double-sided handbill (pdf) (http://www3.sympatico.ca/comrade_m/yl/prop/pdf/cafe_che_cuban5_handbill.pdf)

[Larissa]

From Granma:
Russi's Lower Chamber approves resolution on the Five

MOSCOW.- On Thursday, the Duma (Russian Lower Chamber) approved a resolution on the unjust sentencing of the five Cuban patriots imprisoned in the United States after a rigged trial in the state of Florida, reports PL.

Ivan Nikitchuk of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation presented the project; he commented that the verdict in the Miami court is a true affront to those who dedicated themselves to defending their people.

Nikitchuk was referring to the sentences ranging from 15 years to life handed down to Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, Tony Guerrero, René González and Ramón Labañino, imprisoned in the United States since 1998.

Full article:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/mar03/vier7/10...0aprueba-i.html (http://www.granma.cu/ingles/mar03/vier7/10aprueba-i.html)

[Larissa]

Cuba charges the United States with violating the Five’s rights

GERARDO Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González have been placed in solitary confinement since February 28, locked up all day with no contact with the other prisoners or the outside world.

They have been denied all visits including those from their lawyers or the Cuban consul. They are not even allowed telephone communication with their lawyers and families.

By prohibiting contact between the Five and their defense lawyers, the United States government is violating basic legal principles and standards.

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/mar03/lu10/cinco10.html

[Larissa]

Call for an international week of solidarity with the Five

BUENOS AIRES, March 5.— The Argentine Committee to Free the Five Cubans prisoners in the United States called for an international week of struggle for the men, now incarcerated for over four years, Prensa Latina reported.

The call announces that the campaign, taking place between March 30 and April 7, is in support of the defense team’s presentation of an appeal in the Atlanta court.

The announcement, publicized throughout Argentina, urges for as many activities, protests and simultaneous acts to be held in as many countries as possible, and recalled similar events organized in 24 cities worldwide on September 12, to mark their fourth year of imprisonment.

This second round should multiply voices at this key moment for achieving the Five’s freedom and the court must listen to our demands for justice, the Argentine committee declared.

Likewise, it was explained that on this occasion the protests will last one week, with the intention that the men’s cause receive publicity in the press for as long as possible.

The Committee also announced the opening of a new Internet page called Amigos de Cuba (Friends of Cuba), dedicated to Argentine-Cuba friendship and solidarity (www.amigosdecuba.com.ar)

(Amigos de Cuba is my friend's site)!! She's doing a great job!!

Source: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/mar03/jue6/9convoc-p.html

[bolshevik1917]

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[Larissa]

Please help us Free the Five. Thanks.

CALL OR E-MAIL JOHN ASHCROFT TO PROTEST THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT OF THE FIVE CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONERS IN U.S. PRISONS.
Phone: 202-353-1555
E-mail: [email protected]

You can also write to him at:
John Ashcroft
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington DC 20530-0001


The following is a sample of a letter to be sent to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington DC, urging the release of the Five Cuban compañeros from solitary confinement. We thank our Belgian friends for their contribution with the letter.

Please note that it contains their names as they are registered in prison, along with their Identification numbers, which is very important when calling the Bureau.

If you can call the Bureau of Prisons, please do so, starting at 8:00am - 5:00pm Monday, March 10th.

The Director of the Federal of Bureau of Prisons is
Kathleen Hawk Sawyer
Phone: 202-307-3198
Fax: 202-514-6620
E-mail address: [email protected]

To the Director
The Federal Bureau of Prisons
Kathleen Hawk Sawyer
320 First St. N.W.
Washington DC 20534
202-307-3198

10 March 2003

Subject: Prison conditions of five Cuban prisoners

Dear Director Sawyer:

I am writing you to express my grave concern about the situation of five Cuban prisoners who, in separate prisons, have been put into solitary confinement in late February 2003, without any justification.

The five Cuban prisoners are Gerardo Hernández, Reg. #58739-004, U.S. Penitentiary, Lompoc, California; Antonio Guerrero, Reg. #58741- 004, U.S.P. Florence, Colorado; Ruben Campa, Reg. #58733-004, (aka Fernando González) F.C.I. Oxford, Wisconsin; Luis Medina, Reg. #58734-004, (aka Ramon Labañino) U.S.P. Beaumont federal prison, Texas; and René González, Reg. #58738-004, F.C.I. Edgefield, South Carolina.

They are imprisoned since September 1998, when they were arrested by the FBI on trumped-up charges of espionage on the United States. In reality, they were defending their country from acts of terrorism that emanate from Miami.

As the five Cubans are known to be model prisoners, I fear that the solitary confinement to which they are being submitted is mere political repression. I am concerned for the safety of the five Cuban prisoners, and I vehemently protest their unjust and unnecessary solitary confinement. Their exemplary behavior does not warrant this kind of treatment.

I also ask you to allow their attorneys full and unrestricted access to their clients, in order to safeguard their rights as prisoners and their dignity as human beings.

Hoping for a positive reply, and thanking you for your attention,

Yours sincerely,

Your name.

[Larissa]

"...The Revolution’s generosity and tolerance should not be expected when we are witnesses to brutal and repugnant acts like the cruel and merciless treatment being meted out to our five heroic compatriots who risked their lives defending their people and the U.S. people against terrorism and death, whilst mercenaries without scruples or conscience — the vast majority of whom are hardened slackers — are living by selling off the portions of the homeland for the empire’s gold anticipating impunity."

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/mar03/mier19/11nota-i.html