Despierta Boricua WBAI/Black, Cuban and Boricua Solidarity

The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign
http://www.ProLibertadWeb.com
ProLibertad@hotmail.com and ProLibertad.Campaign@gmail.com
ProLibertad Hotline: 718-601-4751
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Despierta Boricua is ProLibertad's Weekly Segment on WBAI's Friday
Morning Wake Up Call on WBAI 99.5fm  http://www.wbai.org at 6:45am
(EVERY WEEK EVEN IF YOU DONT GET AN EMAIL ALERT)

This week's segment features an interview with the Welfare Poets;
we'll be discussing thier European Tour, and the Freedom Album
Project for the Puerto Rican Political Prisoners.

Listen in and learn how you can support the Welfare poets newest
initaitve (along with ProLibertad, Boricuation, and La Raza)!!

Friday Oct. 26th, 2007 at 6:45am
WBAI 99.5fm
http://www.wbai.org (not in NYC listen in via webstream)
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Support the work to free the San Francisco 8, the Cuban 5 and THE PUERTO
RICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS!!
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30 Years Commemoration of the Takeover of the Statue of Liberty.

W/Mickey Melendez (author, We Took theStreets) & Vicente Panama Alba. For
the cause of the independence & liberation of the Puerto Rican political
prisoners & to welcome Francisco "Cisco" Torres of Panther 8.

THursday 10/25 THU, 7 pm At Cemi Underground
1799 Lexington Ave (at 112th St, 6 to 110th St).
$7 donation

Info:212-860-2820, info@cemiunderground.com &
http://www.CemiUnderground.com &
http://www.myspace.com/cemiunderground
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PLANNING MEETING FOR THE NYC CUBAN 5 ORGANIZER'S CONFERENCE

Join us on Monday October 29th, 2007 at 7pm Hunter College Center for PR
Studies East Building 14th floor Room 1441 E68th St. and Lexington Avenue 6
train to 68th St. Stop

Inspired by the upcoming Cuban 5conference on November 9th-11th in Canada,
the Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 feels it is important that
such an event occurr in New York City in the Spring 2008. Now is the time
to begin planning for a powerful conference that will inspire, educate, and
mobilize people to do work around our five heroes.

The Project is calling on all supporters of Cuba, the work to free the Cuban
5 and all freedom loving people to come together to begin the planning of a
New York City/East Coast Organizer's conference to further build and
stregthen work to free the Cuban 5.

CUBA NEEDS US! THE CUBAN 5 NEED US! WORK TO FREE THE CUBAN FIVE!

Benjamin Ramos
Frank Velgara
The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5

Who are the Cuban 5?

The Cuban 5 were arrested in September 1998, spent 17 months in solidarity
confinement, and were convicted in June 2001 in a U.S. federal court for
defending their country of Cuba from terrorists based in Miami. They were
convicted after a politically charged trial in Miami, in which the U.S.
government charged them with threatening national security and conspiracy to
commit espionage. 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. The Cuban 5 shared the information with U.S. officials when
dangerous actions were planned by these terrorist organizations. The judge,
prosecution and U.S. government officials suppressed defense evidence and
made sure that key witnesses for the defense would not testify. No
espionage evidence was ever introduced and it was found that the information
that the Cuban 5 had was public information that did not threaten national
security. The Cuban 5 are not terrorists they are patriots defending their
homeland, Cuba!

Join the international movement to free these innocent men!!

For more information go to: www.freethecuban5.com
Email us at: freethecubanfive@hotmail.com or call us at 718-601-4751
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Celebrate and defend the legacy of the Black Panther Party:

Drop the charges against the SF-8

NYC, Friday, November 30, 7 pm
Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center
310 W. 43rd Street (between 8th & 9th Ave.) NYC

Speakers Include: Gil Noble, respected producer and host of ABC-TV's Like It
Is Francisco Torres, Harold Taylor and other SF-8 defendants
Soffiyah Elijah, Esq., lawyer on the SF-8 case
Performing: alixa + naima/Climbing Poetree

The San Francisco 8 are eight former "original" Black Panther Party members
and active supporters (ages 56 to 72), who were arrested last January in
California, New York and Florida on charges related to the 1971 killing of a
San Francisco police officer. Some of these men faced virtually identical
charges almost 35 years ago—charges that were dropped after it was revealed
that police torture had extracted "confessions."

But that was in 1973. Now that torture has been made acceptable in this
country, the case is back on—based on the same flawed evidence.

The judge has released the 6 bail-eligible defendants on bond, suggesting to
legal experts that this case is a shaky one.

Two of the 8 defendants—political prisoners Herman Bell and Jalil
Muntaqim—are not eligible for bail. They remain in jail in San Francisco,
having already served more than 34 years in New York state prisons. This new
case charges them again with actions for which they are already doing time.

Learn more about the case and welcome home defendant Cisco Torres, released
on bail, now back with his family in Queens, New York.

For Information Contact: Committee to Free the SF-8 (freethesf8.org), Local
1199 (Michael@1199.org), (Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (mxgm.org)
The Jericho Movement (thejerichomovement.com) or call: (718) 254-8800 or
(646) 246-0770

Come support the SF-8—and defend the history of all struggles for justice.

Sponsors so far: SEIU Local 1199, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, NY State
Taskforce for Political Prisoners, the Jericho Movement, Resistance in
Brooklyn, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Pro Libertad, Frances Goldin,
Safiya Bukhari-Albert Nuh Washington Foundation, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Coalition (NYC), Black Panther Commemoration Committee (NY), Malcolm X
Commemoration Committee, NYC Anarchist Black Cross, Gabriela Network USA