Cuba/Palestine/El Grito De Lares

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Friday, September 14
Dinner: 7:00 pm/Program: 8:00 pm
Donation: $5 Forum/$5 Dinner
307 W. 36th Street (near 8th Ave.), 10th floor
(use north set of elevators). Manhattan
For info call (212) 629-6649 visit www.themilitant.com

The Militant Labor Forum presents: Free the Cuban Five!

Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino,
Fernando González, and René González were convicted and
sentenced on frame-up charges in a 2001 trial in Miami.
They were on a mission to monitor the activities of Cuban-
American counterrevolutionary organizations based in Miami
that have a history of carrying out violent attacks against Cuba
with the complicity of the U.S. government.

This forum is part of a month of public events organized by
supporters of the campaign to free the Cuban Five. Come to a
discussion to learn more about who they are, why they are in jail,
and how you can help win their release.

SPEAKERS:

Benjamin Ramos Rosado, Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban Five
Emily Paul, Young Socialists

There will be translation into Spanish
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Puerto Rico to Palestine: Uniting Struggles in Defense of the Land
SPEAKING AND FILM TOUR AUGUST 23-SEPTEMBER 21,2007

On April 20, '07 Puerto Rican Activist Tito Kayak scaled 10 story
Israeli Surveillance tower and unfurled Palestinian Flag as
Palestinian Film Journalist Emad Bornat documented the
action. The two will speak and show the documentary "Bil'in Against the Wall".

JOIN US TO:
*Strengthen ties between communities that are struggling in defense
of the land, environmentally, politically, for survival and for the
sake of justice.
*Explore parallels and examples of inspired resistance that will help
cross germinate ideas for nonviolent action that can be shared with
all struggles.
*See Emad Bornat's documentary film from Palestine,"Bilin Against the
Wall", including Tito Kayak scaling a tower in Palestine with the
Palestinian flag.

Saturday Sept. 15th, 2007 at 6:30pm
1199/Dr. Martin Luther King Labor Center
310 w43rd St. (Between 8th-9th avenues)

TO SPONSOR AN EVENT IN YOUR AREA CONTACT:
(607)273-7437 or 280-8797 cell —mgrady@lightlink.com
http://www.puertoricotopalestine.org.
TO MAKE DONATION SEND A CHECK TO
Ithaca Catholic Worker Vieques Support Group
514 N. Plain St./ Ithaca, NY. 14850

Saludos! Greetings! Salaam! Shalom!
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Join us Sunday, September 23rd in a march and rally for Puerto Rican
independence and self-determination.

Puerto Rico is the oldest colony on the planet, first invaded by
Spain in 1493, then in 1898 by the United States. After 109 years, it
continues under U.S. colonial rule.

Within those 500 plus years of invasion and occupation, the Puerto
Rican people have been engaged in anti-imperialist/ anti-colonial
resistance that continues to this day.

The Significance of the September 23rd date
September 23rd, 1868 is traditionally celebrated and commemorated as
the birth of the Puerto Rican nation, when Puerto Ricans rose up
against Spanish colonial rule in a revolt known as El Grito de Lares.
 By 1898, Puerto Rico had achieved a form of autonomous self-rule,
which came to an end later that year with the United States invasion
of the island during the Spanish- American War.  Puerto Rico has been
under the political rule of the United States ever since and has
continued to struggle throughout that time for its independence and
self-determination.

Well aware of this date's significance to the independence movement,
on September 23rd, 2005, U.S. FBI agents assassinated Filiberto Ojeda
Rios. Comandante Filiberto, who founded el Ejercito Popular Boricua
(the Puerto Rican People’s Army) – Los Macheteros, was a revered
revolutionary leader of the Puerto Rican liberation struggle.  The
assassination of Filiberto on this date was a clear attempt to kill
the spirit of the ongoing Puerto Rican liberation struggle.

Why the UN location?
In spite of their attempt to kill our spirit, the FBI assassination
of Ojeda Rios served to rally additional support for the independence
movement.  Since his death, the United Nations Special Committee on
Decolonization voted unanimously on a resolution calling for the
Decolonization of Puerto Rico. This resolution, in addition to
several declarations made on the colonial situation of the island
reiterates: “the Puerto Rican people constitute a Latin American
and Caribbean nation that has its own unequivocal national
identity.” If picked up by the UN General Assembly the Puerto Rican
status question will be addressed in September of 2008. This
historical decision would put Puerto Rico’s status issue on the UN
agenda for the first time since 1953. The September 23rd march will
rally national and international support so that the United Nations
will make it a priority to resolve the colonial situation in Puerto
Rico once and for all, through its natural right to be a free nation.

What, when and where?:
On Sunday, September 23rd of 2007:

12PM Begin gathering at Times Square (Broadway between 41st & 42nd)
1PM:  Begin marching towards the United Nations
2PM:  Rally at the UN- Dag Hammarskjold Plaza featuring speakers from
Puerto Rican and ally communities and live hip hop and bomba
performances.

For more information and march route/ program details visit:
www.September23.org

(212)696-6804