Thaw in US/Cuban Relations? (tags)
Cuba
Lynne Stewart Arrives Home (tags)
Lynne Stewart
The Shortwave Report 09/23 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- HIGHEST QUALITY BROADCAST, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China Radio International, NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
ANSWER conference to honor the Angola 3 and other political prisoners (tags)
ANSWER Coalition leaders and organizers will make presentations and receive awards at the upcoming National Conference on Socialism in Los Angeles. The Nov. 13 and 14 event will feature two days of speakers, panels, organizing sessions, discussion and entertainment at the University of Southern California campus. Hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, hundreds of workers, students, organizers, anti-war activists and progressive people will come together from across the United States.
The Cuban Five: Victims of US State Terrorism (tags)
US lawlessness
The Untold Story of the Cuban 5 (tags)
The Cuban 5 are 5 Cuban anti-terrorists working in Miami to expose terrorism against Cuba. They were framed up in Miami and are serving long prison terms here in the U.S. for doing nothing illegal. Below is part one of a series about their case.
Noam Chomsky on the Cuban 5 (tags)
Chomsky was interviewed by Radio Havana Cuba on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the arbitrary arrest and detention in Miami of Cubans Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, who after a legally flawed trial in Miami District Court, are incarcerated in US prisons for infiltrating anti-Cuba Miami based groups of terrorists with the aim of defending Cuba against US based terrorism. As Professor Chomsky says in this interview "They weren't criminals. They were heroes". He points out "that the only way to remedy the injustice is to withdraw the charges completely".
The Long March of the Cuban Revolution (tags)
In 1960, C. Wright Mills warned Americans that the revolution in Cuba was the start of a wider process that would spread to Latin America and the third world. On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, practically anyone can see that our continent has begun a new era...
I have honestly and strongly criticized the objectively cruel methods of kidnapping and retaining prisoners under the conditions of the jungle. But I am not suggesting that anyone laid down their arms, when everyone who did so in the last 50 years did not survive to see peace…
TODAY: Internet Forum by Cuban Students about the Cuban Five (tags)
The main purpose of the forum will be to discuss what Cuban university students and those in the rest of the world could do to help the release of the Five Cuban men, who were arrested for having infiltrated Miami- based anti-Cuba groups and trying to prevent criminal actions against the island.
Hoy: Violencia y narcotráfico en América Latina (tags)
Esta tarde Mesa Redonda Informativa: Violencia y narcotráfico en América Latina
Billboard on Cuban Five to Appear on Hollywood Boulevard (tags)
A new billboard to raise awareness of the case of the Cuban Five will soon be erected on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
A friend of CUBA passes away… (tags)
On the evening of Monday, January 7, Philip B. Agee passed away in Havana. The US citizen was a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official until he broke with the agency in 1968 for ethical reasons.
Message from Ramón Labañino, Cuban Five (tags)
Ramón is in lockdown since December 11 and for that reason he has not been able to send all the letters and salutations for the new year to his friends around the world...
Contradictions Abound in Cuban Five Case (tags)
Contradictions Abound in Cuban Five Case
Film showing of "The Trial: The Untold Story of the Cuban Five" (tags)
Film showing of "The Trial: The Untold Story of the Cuban Five" featuring Danny Glover
Call for the release of the Cuban Five (tags)
The Cuban chapter of the Defense of Humanity Network announced in Havana a new call for the release of the five anti-terrorist Cubans incarcerated for nine years with heavy sentences hanging over them.
The Cuban Five: Imprisoned for opposing Terrorism (tags)
The National Lawyers Guild and several legal and human rights organizations have called on the U.N. Human Rights Committee and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture to launch a formal investigation of the United States government’s continuing violation of human rights of five political prisoners known as the Cuban Five.
Freedom for the Cuban Five ! (tags)
An International Campaign to Free the Cuban Five will begin on September 12. This will be an excellent opportunity to knock at the doors of American people’s consciences
Luis Posada Carriles, the White House terrorist (tags)
In an article published on April 10, 2007, president Fidel Castro declared, “Orders for Kathleen Cardone’s decision could only have come from the White House. President Bush constantly avoided the issue of the criminal and terrorist character of the accused. He was protected and charged with a simple immigration violation.”
The Empire Tastes an Unprecedented Moral Defeat (tags)
GERARDO, Ramón, René, Fernando and Antonio are still behind bars in the United States, three of them in maximum security prisons, and all of them subjected to the hateful revenge of those in Washington who have made them the target of reprisals against the Cuban Revolution.
US Hides the Truth on Cuban Five Case (tags)
"Someday the truth will prevail; meanwhile, we must persevere in our struggle to make the case known,"
The Cuban Five: Mission against Terror and Hypocrisy (tags)
The allegation of «Conspiracy to gather and to transmit information on National Defense» is the technical charge, according to US criminal law (18USC & 794), commonly called «Conspiracy to commit espionage». It is without doubt the central topic of the legal process against five Cuban prisoners wrongly held in the United States...
The Cuban Five: Mission against Terror (tags)
This interview with Leonard Weinglass, appeals attorney for Antonio Guerrero was conducted by Gloria La Riva, coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, on August 1, 2007.
2 of the Miami Five have Birthdays in August and Appeals Case Update (tags)
Jailed for Fighting Terrorism
Fight for Justice Campaign (tags)
While in the name of the fight against terrorism, hundreds of thousands of people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and others - arbitrarily detained - are tortured in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the United States government protects the most notorious terrorist in this hemisphere...
The Release of Posada Carriles: A BRUTAL REPLY (tags)
George W. Bush is undoubtedly the most genuine representative of a system of terror forced on the world by the technological, economic and political superiority of the most powerful country known to this planet.
Join the Cuban Five contingents the 17th... (tags)
Join Cuban 5 contingents in the March 17 & 18 anti-war marches...
Who are the Cuban Five? (tags)
Now is the time to demand the release of the Cuban Five. They were sentenced 5 years ago this month and have been imprisoned unjustly in the U.S. for 8 years for the crime of trying to defend their homeland against terrorist attacks...
THE SINGULAR STORY OF THE CUBAN FIVE (tags)
THE SINGULAR STORY OF THE CUBAN FIVE
Terrorist conspiracies could help case of the five (tags)
THE most recent revelations about conspiracies by anti-Cuban counterrevolutionary groups in the United States could help the case of the Cuban Five, according to a U.S. newspaper, the Los Angeles Times.
Encabeza Fidel Castro acto por el Aniversario 53 del Día de la Rebeldía Nacional en la Isl (tags)
El presidente cubano lidera desde las siete de la mañana la conmemoración en la oriental provincia de Granma, ganadora de la emulación nacional que se desarrolla en Cuba en homenaje a los jóvenes que en 1953 asaltaron dos fortalezas militares en esa región, para derrotar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista, fecha que marca el inició de la última etapa de lucha por la independencia
Encabeza Fidel Castro acto por el Aniversario 53 del Día de la Rebeldía Nacional (tags)
26 de Julio del 2006 El presidente cubano lidera desde las siete de la mañana la conmemoración en la oriental provincia de Granma, ganadora de la emulación nacional que se desarrolla en Cuba en homenaje a los jóvenes que en 1953 asaltaron dos fortalezas militares en esa región, para derrotar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista, fecha que marca el inicio de la última etapa de lucha por la independencia
Meet Tuesdays 6:30 PM to plan May 20 US Hands off Cuba/Venezuela (tags)
Join us to help build the May 20 Los Angeles demonstration against US intervention in Cuba and Venezuela. The meetings are every Tuesday until May 20. @ UCLA Downtown Labor Center, 675 S. Park View Street, Los Angeles (between 7th Street and Wilshire Blvd.). See Cuba Solidarity (cubasolidarity.com) for more information on the national mobilizations. On May 20 this year Mr. Bush will announce further attacks on Cuban sovereignty and everyone's right to travel and trade with Cuba.
Report Back From the 16th World Festival of Students in Venezuela (part 2) (tags)
"[The U.S. ruling elites] have a lot to lose because Venezuela is setting an example. If the people of Venezuela are able to struggle and alleviate so much poverty and illiteracy and lack of healthcare in their country, then why can't we do it here as well?" -- Muna Coobtee, delegate, World Festival of Students, 2005
Heroes in the war against terrorism (tags)
She was soft-spoken and earnest.
UMass Student Apologizes To Tillman Family For Column (tags)
Rene Gonzalez, a punkass not fit to carry Pat Tillman's jockstrap, "apologizes" for his idiocy (too late, shithead).
Pat Tillman is not a hero: He got what was coming to him (tags)
However, in my neighborhood in Puerto Rico, Tillman would have been called a "pendejo," an idiot. This was not "Ramon or Tyrone," who joined the military out of financial necessity
Open Letter from an Antiterrorist to Mr John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United Stat (tags)
Open Letter from an Antiterrorist to Mr John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America
Carta de un antiterrorista a John Ashcroft. (tags)
Denuncia los tratos crueles que sufren cinco héroes cubanos presos injustamente en cárceles de EE UU