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Outstanding
solidarity with the five heroes in India
Dezember
30,
2003
NEW
DEHLI.—The weekly People’s Democracy,
organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist),
has published in its entirety the message that the
five Cuban heroes imprisoned in the United States
sent to everyone in the world who has shown
solidarity with them, a solidarity that, they
stress: "is also part of the solidarity given to the
Cuban Revolution."
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RENE
GONZÁLEZ’ DAUGHTER IRMITA VISITS CANADA
"People
were asking: ‘What can we do?’"
October 24, 2003
"What
most surprised me was that after every public
meeting, the same question came up: ‘What can we do
to help?’" says Irmita González when asked what was
the most striking aspect of the Canadian tour she
has just completed to publicize the case of the Five.
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Demonstrations
against war and
in
favor of freeing the Five
October 1, 2003
MORE than 5,000 people took to the streets in
San Francisco, California on Sunday (September 28) to demand
an end to the U.S. occupation in Iraq and the immediate return
of troops.
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The
eagle’s feather
Augusts
29, 2003
THE
North American Indigenous Movement had already been founded in
the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota when Daniel Yang was
born.
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Poem
dedicated to the Five
Augusts
27, 2003
The following poem was written by Agustín Díaz Cartaya,
author of the historic 26th of July March, to honor the five
Cubans serving unjust sentences in U.S. prisons for fighting
terrorism. Originally published in Habanera magazine
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Campaign
for the release of the Five continues in India
Augusts
25, 2003
MUMBAI,
India.— Hundreds of people filled a trade union
center in the former city of Bombay to demand the
release of the five Cuban patriots imprisoned in the
United States and to express their solidarity with
the Cuban Revolution on the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the Moncada assault.
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The
Miami Five are capable of risking their lives for
humanity
Augusts
8, 2003
BONN.—
The five Cuban patriots sentenced in Miami “have the valor
and capacity to defend other people, something important that
maybe we have lost.”...
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Who
has given the U.S. government moral authority to create an
opposition in Cuba?
Augusts
8, 2003
Letter written
by René González, one of the five Cuban political prisoners
in U.S. jails, in response to the statement by the Campaign
for Peace and Democracy (CPD), denouncing Cuba for the trial
of the counterrevolutionaries...
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Campesinos and
indigenous peoples call to free the Five
July
30, 2003
IF the law is respected then we should win the
case, affirmed lawyer Roberto González in Havana. Roberto is
brother of René, one of the five Cubans imprisoned in the
United States for fighting Miami-led terrorism against Cuba.
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René González sends letter to the presidents
of
People’s Power
July
24, 2003
Through yourselves, it is a
privilege for me to be able to address the people of
whom you are the legitimate representatives elected
on your merits, and on behalf of whom we have
received the message of encouragement and support
signed by yourselves as presidents of the municipal
and provincial assemblies of People’s Power.
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Five
Cubans in U.S. prisons kept in medieval conditions
says Mexican
July
22, 2003
MEXICO,
(PL).— Marta Elvia García, a Mexican lawyer and
co-author of a book on human rights in Cuba, has
called the imprisonment of the five Cubans in the
United States a medieval punishment. The men all
received hefty sentences after being tried in Miami.
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Puerto Ricans demand the
Five’s release
July
17, 2003
SINCE March 2002, over 10,000
signatures demanding the release of the five Cubans
have been collected in Puerto Rico, informed
Milagros Rivera, president of that country’s Cuba
Solidarity Committee.
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Over 300
Mexican legislators demand new trial for the Five
July
10, 2003
MEXICO, (PL).— More
than 300 Mexican deputies and senators yesterday
demonstrated their solidarity with the five Cubans
unjustly imprisoned in the United States and
demanded that the men receive a retrial.
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International conference on the Five in the Mexican
Chamber
June
17, 2003
THE International
Conference: "Human Rights Violations: analysis of
the trial of the five Cuban prisoners in the United
States, took place in the Green Room of the Chamber
of Deputies of the Mexican Congress, officially
sponsored by that legislative body.
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Berkeley Council demands new trial for the Five
June
13, 2003
WASHINGTON.— The cause of the five Cuban political
prisoners in U.S. jails is being supported by the
Council in the Californian city of Berkeley, which
has backed a retrial for Gerardo, Ramón, René,
Antonio, and Fernando.
WITH
a lovely children’s party and a resounding "Happy
Birthday to you!" that reached his cell in the
empire’s prison, hundred of pioneers celebrated
Ramón Labañino’s 40th birthday yesterday at the
Arístides Viera School in La Lisa, the very same
elementary school that the Cuban patriot attended.
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Prison
visit with Cuban hero
Lompoc is long way from Havana
June
6, 2003
Lompoc, Calif. Like many
prisons in California, the Federal Penitentiary in
Lompoc is in an isolated area far from urban
centers. It sits on agricultural land where crops
and flowers once grew and cattle grazed. Fast-food
chains and hotels today distinguish the town of
Lompoc.
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The
U.S. people have the right to an honorable
government
May
16, 2003
THIS
Thursday, Ricardo Alarcón, president of the
National Assembly of People’s Power, affirmed that
the people of the United States have the right to
know the moral face of the administration that took
control of the Washington government in 2000.
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Trade
unionists from 47 countries demand the release of
the Five and an end to the blockade
May
7, 2003
REPRESENTATIVES from
more than 120 trade union organizations from 47
countries meeting in Havana at International
Solidarity with Cuba Encounter, in the presence of
President Fidel Castro, agreed to call on the U.S.
government to release the five Cuban patriots and
end the 40-plus-year blockade of the island.
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New
support for the Five
April
28, 2003
JOURNALIST Menbique
Tikibaeva informed on Kazakhstan national radio that
a committee to free the five Cuban prisoners of the
empire has been formed. In his summary he spoke of
the difficult situation that the five patriots are
going through.
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WFTU
demands freedom for five Cuban prisoners in the
United States
April
21, 2003
QUEBEC — The World
Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) has joined the
demand for the release of the five Cuban political
prisoners in U.S. penitentiaries before the UN Human
Rights Commission (HRC) in Quebec, reports Prensa
Latina.
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Messages
from the Hole
April
17, 2003
Attorney
Rafael Anglada is part of the defense team for the
Cuban Five. He was able to visit all of them in the
last days of March, shortly after they had been
released from solitary confinement, more commonly
known in prison parlance as the hole.
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The
New York Times Publishes Letter on Cuban Five from
Nadine Gordimer
April
16, 2003
Nadine
Gordimer
The South
African laureate for the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Nadine Gordimer, has written to The New York Times
to express her concern about the situation of the
five Cubans incarcerated in the United States for
defending their country against terrorism.
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