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WORLD
SOCIAL FORUM
Tribunal in
defense of the five Cuban heroes
• Large
Cuban delegation also to denounce the blockade of
the island, and expose the dangers of the FTAA and
neoliberal globalization
THE
sizeable Cuban delegation participating at the 3rd
World Social Forum in Porto Alegre has very quickly
entered into the activities of an event bringing
together 100,000 people in the Brazilian city.
The
future of education in the five continents was the
first tribunal opened, attended by ministers from
some 30 nations and UNESCO representatives. The
island’s educational achievements from the 1961
literacy campaign to the current new programs aimed
at improving knowledge were outlined.
Cuban
elementary school student Gabriela Castellanos gave
an improvised talk to the 10,000 educators present;
she offered greetings from the island’s delegation
and affirmed: "the Cuban people’s struggle
really shows that a new world is possible."
Her
vibrant message demonstrates why Porto Alegre
continues to be a venue for events as important as
the World Social Forum.
A
subject that has awakened special interest is the
report on the rigged trial in the United States and
the unjust sentences handed down to the five Cuban
patriots imprisoned in that country’s jails.
Relatives of Gerardo Hernández, René González,
Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and Antonio
Guerrero are to denounce the men’s situation in
distinct tribunals. From their cells, the five have
sent messages of solidarity to the thousands of
representatives of NGO’s, institutions, ethnic
groups and other sectors meeting in the Brazilian
city.
A
roundtable and other activities have been announced
to discuss the situation of the five prisoners of
the empire. Additionally, Cuba’s representatives
will speak out against the Free Trade Area of the
Americas (FTAA), a neocolonial instrument of the
U.S. government, and the damage to Third World
nations resulting from the neoliberal policies of
the Washington administration and its allies. The
serious difficulties that the U.S. superpower’s
criminal blockade creates for Cuba will be aired
once again at the forum.
The
pro-peace fight and rejection of war plans against
Iraq, the problems of Palestine, and the campaign to
destabilize the constitutional government in
Venezuela are other issues to be raised by the
island’s representatives at the world event —
now one of the planet’s most significant political
gatherings.
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--Is
it that terrorism against Cuba isn’t terrorism?
“IT is a great coincidence that
just at the point where a motion for a retrial for the five
Cubans sentenced in Miami has been filed, The New York Times has
decided to write on the case,
--Mass
protests in United States against the war
SAN FRANCISCO, California.- Half a
million U.S. citizens and residents filled the streets of
Washington D.C. on Saturday,...
--25,000
U.S. citizens say No to Bush’s war and demand
justice for the Five
LOS
ANGELES, California.— Last weekend, in a
broad-based display of opposition to the Bush
administration’s war, some 25,000 people
demonstrated here against that war and attacks by
the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) on
Arab immigrants.
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