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The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5
FREE THE CUBAN 5!!
The Cuban 5: Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labańino and Fernando
Gonzalez
The Project's Ongoing Campaigns:
Justice for the 5! Newsletter January 2011 Edition is available for downloading Click here
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the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights Click Here
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UPDATES ON THE CUBAN 5:
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THE 5th OF EACH MONTH
Lets raise our voices for the Heroes
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 To friends from all over the world who believe in justice, With the beginning
of a new year and in coordination with committees and friends from other countries, we propose to start a new and steady campaign
on behalf of the Cuban 5: THE 5th OF EACH MONTH FOR THE
5.
This Wednesday January 5th, from 9AM to 5PM (Eastern
Time), LETS CALL, OR SEND FAXES, OR SEND E-MAILS, OR TELEGRAMS to the WHITE HOUSE to demand President Obama free the
5 Cuban Patriots imprisoned in the United States for defending their homeland.
On the months when the 5th falls on the weekend, we suggest you
contact the White House on the following Monday. On our part we will remind you a few days before each 5th comes around.
President Obama has more than enough proof of the innocence of the Cuban 5. He knows that they never were
a threat to US National Security, that they carried no guns and that their only objective was to monitor terrorist organizations
based in Miami to avoid the death of more innocent people.
Lets demand President Obama
this January 5th, to make use of the rights conferred upon him by the US Constitution, as a lawyer, as a father, as a son,
as a husband, as a decent justice loving person, and as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, to END THIS COLOSSAL INJUSTICE
AND TO FREE THE 5 NOW!!!
DIFFERENT WAYS TO REACH THE WHITE
HOUSE
By phone: 202-456-1111
If calling from outside the United States, dial first the International Area Code + 1 (US
country code) followed by 202-456-1111
By Fax: 202-456-2461
If fax is sent from outside the United States, dial first the International Area Code + 1 (US
country code) followed by 202-456-2461
To send an electronic
message write to: HTTP://WWW.WHITEHOUSE.GOV/CONTACT
To send a telegram
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20500
EE.UU.
THIS COLLECTIVE ACTION WILL ONLY BE EFFECTIVE IF PEOPLE FROM
THE US, AND ALL OVER THE WORLD, CALL, OR SEND FAX, E-MAILS OR TELEGRAMS, ON THE 5TH OF EACH MONTH. IF YOU CAN NOT
REACH ANYBODY BY PHONE, PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE.
TOGETHER
WE CAN DO IT!!!
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Alarcon: Unrelentingly demanding that President Obama free the 5 will be
our promise of the New Year
Alarcon: Unrelentingly demanding that President Obama free
the 5 will be our promise of the New Year
Excerpt from a speech by the President of the National Assembly of
the Republic of Cuba, Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Cuban Institute of Friendship
with the Peoples (ICAP)
…with the power that the imperialists have they have been
able to practice against the Cuban population the most prolonged genocide in history. In the meantime, they provide shelter
for their worst assassins such as the one who lives in Miami and recently published an infamous book where he boasts
of his crimes. At the same time they unjustly imprison 5 Cubans who sacrificed their lives to save their fellowmen
from the evil deeds of terrorists that Washington has tacitly tolerated and granted impunity.
Now, the day is coming when the US has to respond to the petition
of Habeas Corpus on behalf of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, which is his last legal recourse. At the same time the media in Miami
is miserably and cowardly slandering him and trying to deceive and diverting attention to confuse the solidarity movement.
Other from the right of Cuba to defend its sovereignty, there was not any evidence produced to directly link Gerardo
Hernandez to the alleged crime. At this juncture they are trying to trick us and make us forget that in May 2001, in a dramatic
and urgent demand before the Court of Appeal, the prosecutors recognized that they were lacking proof of direct knowledge
and requested to modify the original accusation presented against our compańero. Despite that, he was sentenced to an extraordinary
amount of time for a crime that he did not commit or could have physically carried out. It is hardly possible to
find a similarly planned injustice.
We have made a call to the solidarity movement and to all honest people
to raise their voices in defense of Gerardo. The United States government knows he is innocent and that they never had any
proof to accuse him. We have to demand that they free him now. To free him and also Ramon, Antonio, Fernando and René, five
Heroes of the Republic of Cuba. President Obama can and should free them right now, without conditions, immediately. All of
them and each and every one of the Five without exception.
Unrelentingly demanding that President Obama free them will be our
promise for the New Year. Let the whole world continue to ask President Obama to free them. He knows that he can
and that he should do it.
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