Picket Action
4:00 - 6:00 pm
NYC Federal Building
26 Federal Plaza, Lower Manhattan

Trains: R/W to City Hall or 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge or A/C/J/M/Z/1/2/3 TO Chambers

The July 26 Coalition invites you to join us once again to demand Freedom for the Cuban Five! Currently the US Supreme Court is considering whether or not they will review the case of the Cuban Five. Their decision is expected to be released sometime around June 15th. Following the successful June 8th Picket Action, we are asking all people who stand on the side of justice to be prepared to join us the day after the Court decision is announced.

Whether or not the US Supreme Court agrees to review the case of the Five, the struggle to free the Five will not be over! We must continue to fight against what has been over 10 years of injustice for Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González.

AP coverage of Supreme Court decision

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Urgent Action: Free the Cuban Five NOW!
Monday, June 8
3:30 - 6:30 pm
NYC Federal Building
26 Federal Plaza, Lower Manhattan

Trains: R/W to City Hall or 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge or A/C/J/M/Z/1/2/3 TO Chambers

The five Cuban heroes--Gerardo, Ramon, Rene, Fernando and Antonio--who have sacrificed so much to defend their homeland from terrorist organizations based in the U.S., need your help.

Since 1998 they have been wrongly imprisoned, tried and sentenced in the U.S. on fabricated charges ranging from espionage to conspiracy to commit murder, while the true criminals, such as those right-wing organizations they monitored, continued their activities unimpeded by the U.S. government.

Now their defense reaches another critical stage. Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to announce their decision on whether to hear an appeal of the case.

The trial has already been condemned by the U.N. Human Rights Commission, activists, legal scholars, and Nobel laureates, and world opinion is against their wrongful trial and continued imprisonment. In this context, the Supreme Court is to decide whether to hear an appeal on the basis of the racial discrimination during jury selection process, the partiality of the venue of the trial, and other issues. However, even now there is pressure on the Supreme Court, from sectors of the government, to deny the Five a hearing.

Organizations in solidarity with the Cuban Five are planning protests across the country in the days leading up to the Court's decision, to demand what is just: an immediate release of the Five.

The first of these protests in New York is Monday, June 8. Please join us, and stay tuned to information on further calls to action.

MORE INFO:

Cuba Denounces Injustices in Case of the Cuban Five in Geneva (Juventud Rebelde)

Release for the Five Cuban Antiterrorists Demanded in Peru (Juventud Rebelde)

Release of the Cuban Five Demanded in Ecuador (Juventud Rebelde)

Letter of German Representatives to US Congress on the case of the Cuban Five (antiterroristas.cu, 5/28/2009)

A MESSAGE FROM OUR FRIENDS:

Dear Compañeros

The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five has designed postcards to send to Condoleezza Rice.
[see images >> ]

We have launched the International Campaign to ask friends in the United States and around the world who support the Five and the right of family visits to join in this campaign.

So far, friends from the Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Ukraine, Spain, Peru, Argentina, and other countries in Latin America have joined in. We have translated the postcards in several languages. That way, Condoleezza Rice will receive hundreds of postcards from all over the world asking her to grant visas to Olga and Adriana.

We have printed 5,000 postcards in English, and I would like to ask you if you are interested in getting postcards from us, so you can use them in any public event that you are planning to organize or to attend to ask your supporters and any interested person, to sign the postcards, put their name and address and send it to Condoleezza Rice.

If you are interested in joining this campaign please let us know how many postcards would you like to receive, and the address where to mail them.

If you can make a contribution to cover the printing and mailing costs, any amount is welcomed.

If you can make a contribution, please write your check to: IFCO/Awareness Project and send it to:

Int'l Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
P.O. Box 22455
Oakland, CA 94609.

In solidarity,

Alicia Jrapko
Int'l Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
www.thecuban5.org

For more info, please visit www.thecuban5.org

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Rainbow Solidarity for the the Cuban Five
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Solidaridad Del Arco Iris Para Los Cinco Cubanos
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Cartoon:

Gerardo Hernandez cartoon on the 48th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution