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Father’s Day Call in Week

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Cuban 5 Father’s Day Call-in Week!

Originally posted by The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5

The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 is asking all freedom loving people to call President Obama the week of Father’s Day to ask him to free the Cuban 5; five U.S. held political prisoners incarcerated for 13 years for fighting against terrorism in Cuba and the United States.

Remind President Obama that for the past 13 years these innocent men have been separated from their families and friends. Tell him that he has the power to reunite these men with their loved ones!

Call every day! Ask your friends and family members to call in as well! Thousands of messages will let President Obama know that there is a mass movement calling for the freedom of these five men!

Make your call the week of Mon. June 11th through

Sun. June 17th

(FATHER’S DAY)!

Call President Obama at 202-456-1111!

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This message is for President Obama, I ask that you use your executive power to free the Cuban 5. For 13 years, the Cuban 5 have been unjustly incarcerated for protecting their homeland Cuba and the United States from terrorist actions.

They have the support of various reputable actors, academics and civil rights leaders, such as: Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Cindy Sheehan and Angela Davis. As well as the support of thousands of people throughout the United States and the world.

Only you have the power to set these men free! Please end this long standing injustice by sending these men home.

Thank you!

 

Cuban Revolution, LGBT, Mariela Castro

Mariela Castro on Ending the Embargo – Swapping Cuban Five – Jailed U.S. Contractor Alan Gross

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By DemocracyNOW – Amy Goodman

Mariela Castro, daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro, calls on the U.S. to release five Cubans jailed for spying on anti-Cuban militants in Florida in exchange for Alan Gross, a U.S. citizen jailed in Cuba. The Cuban Five were convicted in 2001 for committing espionage in southern Florida. They say they weren’t spying on the U.S., but trying to monitor right-wing violent Cuban groups that have organized attacks on Cuba. “I want the Cuban Five to go back to Cuba and for Alan Gross to go home,” Castro says. “I want an end to the financial, commercial and economic blockade that violates the human rights of the Cuban people, and the normalization of relations between both countries.”

Puerto Rico Struggle, The Cuban Five

Casa in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican people on the Annual Parade – NYC

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Nancy Cabrero, President of Casa de las Américas and Jaime Mendieta, Vice President along with other members join in Solidarity with the Puerto Rican people for the NYC annual parade.

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Los 5 En La Parada Puertorriqueña -The 5 in the Puerto Rican Day Parade

Compañeros y Compañeras,

Un pequeño resumen:

Aqui les envio unas fotos del desfile Puertoriqueno que se llevo acabo el Domingo 10 de Junio de 2012. Comenzamos en la Calle 44 de la Quinta Avenida y terminamos en la Calle 79. Gracias a las gestiones de Luis Matos, nosotros en Casa y companeros del 26 de julio pudimos desfilar con el contingente del sindicato 1199. En la foto puedes ver a Mendieta, Luis y a mi cargando la pancarta de Los Cinco con los prisioneros politicos de PR. Franklin, Villa y Jason repartieron informacion de los Cinco a las personas presenciando este. Radhames Morales y su esposa se turnaron cargar una bandera del Che y tomaron las fotos.Tambien podras ver cuando le hago un acercamiento a Gerardo Rivera, un periodista de television puertoriqueno de FOX News para darle un pamfleto de los Cinco preguntandole cuando FOX va hacer un reportaje sobre el caso de los Cinco. Tambien se le hizo un acercamiento a Michael Mulgrew el presidente del sindicato de los maestros de NY. Tambien abordamos a Ben Jealous, Chairman del NAACP que se mostro muy interesado en el caso.

Una Cuba para todos.

Saludos. Abrazos,

Nancy Cabrero
Casa, NYC

The Cuban Five

Cuban official talks about Alan Gross

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzQP4YiF0k

Josefina Vidal of Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, clarifies issues regarding Alan Gross, and the Cuban Five
CNN Interview of Thursday, May 10
on “The Situation Room”

Dear Friends of the Cuban Five:

The U.S. government and media have distorted the facts surrounding the case of Alan Gross, who was arrested in Cuba in December 2009 while carrying out destabilization efforts inside Cuba, as an employee of the CIA-front organization U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Gross is serving a 15-year sentence.

After Wolf Blitzer of CNN conducted a May 9 telephone interview with Alan Gross, in which false claims were made against Cuba, Cuba’s ambassador to the United States in Washington DC, Jorge Bolaños, issued a letter calling for an opportunity for Cuba to state its position, as well as Cuba’s willingness to dialogue on all issues with the U.S. government.

On Thursday, May 10, Josefina Vidal, director of the North American department of Cuba’s Foreign Ministry, was interviewed on CNN’s Situation Room, by Wolf Blitzer. Vidal’s answers to Blitzer’s questions on various themes related to U.S.-Cuba relations, are enlightening and informative.

Written by National Committee To Free The Cuban Five