Support the Cuban 5

In solidarity with the Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5
and the Cuban 5, we are forwarding the announcement  for the Sept.
12th demonstration and the International Call for the "Free the Five
Month."

FREE THE CUBAN 5!!  FREE THE PUERTO RICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS!!
The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign


The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5
http://www.freethecuban5.com
freethecubanfive@hotmail.com
Free the Cuban 5 Hotline: 718-601-4751

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FREE THE CUBAN 5!! Rally and March to demand the freedom of the Cuban 5

TUESDAY SEPT. 12TH AT 4PM!!
GATHER AT TIMES SQUARE U.S. MILITARY RECRUITMENT CENTER (42nd St. and Times
Square) AND THEN MARCH TO THE DAG HAMERSKJOLD PLAZA (E47th St. and 1st Ave.)

Bring your flags, banners and noisemakers!!

On Sept. 12th, 1998, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino Fernando Gonzalez,
Rene Gonzalez, and Antonio Guerrero were arrested and spent 17 months in
solidarity confinement!! They were convicted in a politically charged trial
in Miami in June 2001 for engaging in espionage and threatening national
security.

Nothing could be further from the truth!! The Cuban 5 infiltrated
Cuban-American right-wing terrorist organizations based in Miami to monitor
their actions and to protect the national sovereignty of their homeland Cuba
and to safeguard the American people from terrorist actions within the
United States.

Join us on Tuesday Sept. 12th as we demand the freedom of these innocent
men!!

Demand Visitation Rights for the Cuban 5!!

Extradite CIA Agent Luis Posada Carriles!!

For more information on the Cuban 5 Rally/March call 718-601-4751 or email
freethecubanfive@hotmail.com

The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5, IFCO/Pastors for
Peace, Casa de Las Américas, Jericho New York City, The ProLibertad
Freedom Campaign, The Venceremos Brigade, Jane Franklin, Cuba
Solidarity New York, The Free Jeff Luers Support Group, Puerto Rican
Alliance of Los Angeles , US Women & Cuba Collaboration, Queers
United In Solidarity with Latin America & the Caribbean, New York
Comittee to Free the Cuban Five, Iglésia San Romero de Las
Américas-UCC, Padre Luis Barrios, Dr. James D. Cockcroft, World
Council of UNESCO-Sponsored José Martí World Solidarity Project,
Comité Fabio Di Celmo pourles 5 (Montréal), Intellectuals and Artists
in Defense of Humanity, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition NYC, Alberto
Loveria, Bolivarian Circle, Bay Area Jericho Amnesty Movement,
Caribbean & Latin American Support Project, New Paltz, NY, Latin@s
For/Por Mumia, All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC)Pan
African Roots, ANSWER Coalition, Young Socialists, Amina & Amiri
Baraka, and Harry Nier, Esq., Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico,
Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico – Comité de Nueva York, Socialist
Worker’s Party, Mariana Nogales Molinelli, Humacao, Puerto Rico,
Kirby MacLaurin, Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha Chairman, We The People
United Bangladesh, Enrique Ferro, Peace Activist for a Just Peace in
the Middle East, Belgium, Action Center For Justice, Charlotte, NC
28210, GUYANESE-AMERICAN WORKERS UNITED, Dick Meyer (Individual), M.
Alexander (Individual), Jeffrey Segal, Louisville, Ky, KarEn
Presidency, Tina Flores of Quality Medical Relief International-World
Wide Medical Team, Dr. Carl F. Selnes (MSgt Ret.), Walla Walla, WA,
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Southern California District, Cindy
McCallum, National Director, Canadian Union of Postal Workers,
Prairie Region, he Philadelphia Committee to Free the Five, Emily
Coffey, Denver, Colorado, Free People's Movement & Revolutionary
Youth, Michael Parenti, Ph.D., Zarah Little, Professor Hernan
Lopez-Garay, University of Los Andes Venezuela, Zig Zag Young Women’s
Resource Centre Inc. Australia, Eugene Hernandez, Dorinda Moreno,
hitec aztec communications/elders of 4 colors 4 directions, John
Gilbert, U.S. Citizens Against War (Florence, Italy) RSU and FLC-CGIL
University of Florence, Peoples Video Network, Sue Harris producer of
Poison Dust, LEONARD D. SANFORD , JR. Waldorf MD, Workers
International League, The Western MA International Action Center,
Shel and Millie Plotkin, Sociologists without Borders – US, Erica
Anthony-Benavides, Trinity University alumnus, Günter  Belchaus,
Germany, PoetsWest J. Glenn & Barbara Evans, Seattle, DR. D. K.
CINQUEMANI, LARGO, FL, Michael Briguglio, Malta, Leslie Feinberg,
Steering Committee of LGBT Caucus, National Writers Union/UAW, The
American-Iranian Friendship Committee, Michael Kuzma, Esq, Leonard
Peltier's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Michael McIrvin, The
British Columbia Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines,
Veterans for Peace Chapter 32 in Miami, Florida, Ricardo Corrales
Sáenz, Erica Anthony-Benavides, Trinity University alumnus, Roger
Dittmann California State University/Fullerton, Los Angeles Friends
of Monthly Review, Nicholas Camerota, Prof. of Philosophy & Political
Theory, Springfield (Mass.) Technical Community College, Laura Beach,
Healdsburg, CA , DR. D. K. CINQUEMANI LARGO, FL , West 104 Street
Tenants Assn, Canadian Section of the Women's International League
for Freedom (WILPF) Terry McClain, Oakland, CA, Patrick Henry
Democratic Club, and The New Black Panther Party (LIST IN FORMATION)

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To the Movement in support of Justice and Freedom,

Endorsers list a tthe bootm of the Call!!

Please send your endorsement to: FreetheCubanfive@hotmail.com and circulate
this call widely. PLEASE LET US KNOW WHEN YOU CAN SCHEDULE YOUR EVENT
BETWEEN SEPT. 12TH-OCT. 6TH, 2006.

JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR JUSTICE FOR THE CUBAN 5 AND THEIR FAMILIES
SEPTEMBER 12 – OCTOBER 6, 2006

Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and
Rene Gonzalez, have been unjustly imprisoned in U.S. federal penitentiaries
since the fall of 1998. Their crime? Fighting terrorism.

Since 1998 their imprisonment has been determined to be arbitrary and
illegal by a unanimous decision of a five member panel of U.N. human rights
experts. Their convictions were reversed by a unanimous decision of three
judges of the Atlanta Court of Appeals. Those decisions were announced in
May 2005 and August 2005, but the Five Cubans are still in prison subjected
to cruel and unusual treatment with severe violations of their human rights,
including the denial of visas to the wives of Gerardo and Rene.

Three federal judges for 16 months examined the prejudicial and illegal
practices that characterized their trial in Miami. In their 93 page decision
they concluded unanimously that Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon
Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Rene Gonzalez were victims of an
unprecedented bias, which denied them their fundamental right to a fair
trial. Their ruling set aside each and every one of their convictions. It
was a great victory, but not one that Washington and its friends in Miami
could accept. Such a powerful statement by one of the highest - if not the
most conservative - courts in the United States outraged those ordinarily
unchallenged makers of Cuban policy and compelled them, in desperation, to
resort to a rarely used legal tactic to appeal the decision.

We are now awaiting word on whether or not the federal appellate court in
Atlanta will hold firm to its' initial determination.

Two months ago, Ricardo Alarcon, the President of the Cuban Parliament,
urged that a period starting September 12th and ending October 6th be used
to break down the silence surrounding the case of the Cuban Five as well as
to condemn all terrorism and demand justice for its victims.

Whether it was sending medical brigades, sending scientific experts, or
training future physicians, Cuba has always responded to the needs of the
international community. Now, it is our turn to stand in support of Cuba
and its call to Free the Cuban 5.

We call upon all of you to join in the international campaign against US
sponsored terrorism from September 12 to October the 6, 2006, by:

• Endorsing this call for a period of activities from September 12th to
October 6th of this year to educate and rally public support for the freedom
of Fernando Gonzalez, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero
and Rene Gonzalez and to demand that their families be allowed to visit
them; ADD YOUR ORGANIZATION TO THE LIST BELOW!!

• Discuss scheduling an event in your church, school, political
organization, solidarity group, or community organization during The Free
the Five Month; we need to fill this 25 day period with activitres
throughout NYC and throughout the United States.

• Contact The Free the Cuban 5 Organizing Committee for resources, which can
help to organize your event and to coordinate with others building the
Freedom Calendar for the 5.

Please send your endorsement to: FreetheCubanfive@hotmail.com and circulate
this call widely. PLEASE LET US KNOW WHEN YOU CAN SCHEDULE YOUR EVENT
BETWEEN SEPT. 12TH-OCT. 6TH, 2006

The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5, IFCO/Pastors for
Peace, Casa de Las Américas, Jericho New York City, The ProLibertad
Freedom Campaign, The Venceremos Brigade, Jane Franklin, Cuba
Solidarity New York, The Free Jeff Luers Support Group, Puerto Rican
Alliance of Los Angeles , US Women & Cuba Collaboration, Queers
United In Solidarity with Latin America & the Caribbean, New York
Comittee to Free the Cuban Five, Iglésia San Romero de Las
Américas-UCC, Padre Luis Barrios, Dr. James D. Cockcroft, World
Council of UNESCO-Sponsored José Martí World Solidarity Project,
Comité Fabio Di Celmo pourles 5 (Montréal), Intellectuals and Artists
in Defense of Humanity, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition NYC, Alberto
Loveria, Bolivarian Circle, Bay Area Jericho Amnesty Movement,
Caribbean & Latin American Support Project, New Paltz, NY, Latin@s
For/Por Mumia, All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC)Pan
African Roots, ANSWER Coalition, Young Socialists, Amina & Amiri
Baraka, and Harry Nier, Esq., Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico,
Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico – Comité de Nueva York, Socialist
Worker’s Party, Mariana Nogales Molinelli, Humacao, Puerto Rico,
Kirby MacLaurin, Mohammad Basirul Haq Sinha Chairman, We The People
United Bangladesh, Enrique Ferro, Peace Activist for a Just Peace in
the Middle East, Belgium, Action Center For Justice, Charlotte, NC
28210, GUYANESE-AMERICAN WORKERS UNITED, Dick Meyer (Individual), M.
Alexander (Individual), Jeffrey Segal, Louisville, Ky, KarEn
Presidency, Tina Flores of Quality Medical Relief International-World
Wide Medical Team, Dr. Carl F. Selnes (MSgt Ret.), Walla Walla, WA,
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Southern California District, Cindy
McCallum, National Director, Canadian Union of Postal Workers,
Prairie Region, he Philadelphia Committee to Free the Five, Emily
Coffey, Denver, Colorado, Free People's Movement & Revolutionary
Youth, Michael Parenti, Ph.D., Zarah Little, Professor Hernan
Lopez-Garay, University of Los Andes Venezuela, Zig Zag Young Women’s
Resource Centre Inc. Australia, Eugene Hernandez, Dorinda Moreno,
hitec aztec communications/elders of 4 colors 4 directions, John
Gilbert, U.S. Citizens Against War (Florence, Italy) RSU and FLC-CGIL
University of Florence, Peoples Video Network, Sue Harris producer of
Poison Dust, LEONARD D. SANFORD , JR. Waldorf MD, Workers
International League, The Western MA International Action Center,
Shel and Millie Plotkin, Sociologists without Borders – US, Erica
Anthony-Benavides, Trinity University alumnus, Günter  Belchaus,
Germany, PoetsWest J. Glenn & Barbara Evans, Seattle, DR. D. K.
CINQUEMANI, LARGO, FL, Michael Briguglio, Malta, Leslie Feinberg,
Steering Committee of LGBT Caucus, National Writers Union/UAW, The
American-Iranian Friendship Committee, Michael Kuzma, Esq, Leonard
Peltier's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Michael McIrvin, The
British Columbia Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines,
Veterans for Peace Chapter 32 in Miami, Florida, Ricardo Corrales
Sáenz, Erica Anthony-Benavides, Trinity University alumnus, Roger
Dittmann California State University/Fullerton, Los Angeles Friends
of Monthly Review, Nicholas Camerota, Prof. of Philosophy & Political
Theory, Springfield (Mass.) Technical Community College, Laura Beach,
Healdsburg, CA , DR. D. K. CINQUEMANI LARGO, FL , West 104 Street
Tenants Assn, and The New Black Panther Party (LIST IN FORMATION)