Harold Pinter: Free the Cuban Five...
posted by F Espinoza | 12.11.2007 14:34 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | London
British dramatist and political activist Harold Pinter, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005, added his voice to the demand for liberation of the antiterrorist Cuban Five imprisoned in the US for more than nine years.
Harold Pinter: Free the Cuban Five
Nov. 9, 2007
Reprinted from Prensa Latina
Havana, Nov 9 (Prensa Latina) British dramatist and political activist Harold Pinter, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005, added his voice to the demand for liberation of the antiterrorist Cuban Five imprisoned in the US for more than nine years.
Seven Nobel Prize winners have joined the call for their release, signing a document issued October 12 by Red de redes in defense of humanity.
The document demands the freedom of Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González, sentenced to harsh prison terms in a political trial held in Miami.
Besides Pinter, the document is signed by Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer and Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prizes in literature), Zhores Alfiorov (physics), Timor Leste President Jose Antonio Horta Ramos and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Nobel Peace Prize)
Some 3,500 signers -among them musicians, academics, actors, writers and philosophers- endorse the text with their signature, which has generated an increasing wave of adhesions.
The Five, as they are internationally known, helped to control organized terrorist plans against Cuba from Florida, carried out by extreme right anti-Cuban groups.
A panel of three judges who examined the case for the Atlanta Court of Appeals unanimously decided to declare the trial invalid and ordered the sentences revoked.
Despite that, they have remained isolated in prisons of maximum security.
The Call has also been signed by more than 200 organizations and institutions from various parts of the world, including the United States, Spain, Argentina, France, Brazil and other Latin American nations.
Among notable signers appear the US Alice Walker, Lucius Walker, James Cockcroft, Mumia Abul Jamal and Howard Zinn, Spain's Isaac Rosas and Belén Gopegui, French Jean Marie Binoch. Uruguayan Mario Benedetti and Hispanic-French Manu Chao also signed the document.
http://www.freethefive.org/updates/CubanMedia/CMPinter110907.htm
To sign the Campaign:
http://www.liberenlos5.cult.cu
Visit also:
http://www.freethefive.org
http://www.antiterroristas.cu
http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/informe2007/index.html
http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/
http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2007/eleccionescuba.htm
http://www.cubainformacion.tv/
http://www.cubanradio.cu
Videos:
"Mission against Terror":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CCdGdpeNps8
http://es.arcoiris.tv/modules.php?name=Unique&id=824
"Bacardi, the bat's secret":
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=5416850335187952791
http://es.arcoiris.tv/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=v...ter=E
Nov. 9, 2007
Reprinted from Prensa Latina
Havana, Nov 9 (Prensa Latina) British dramatist and political activist Harold Pinter, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005, added his voice to the demand for liberation of the antiterrorist Cuban Five imprisoned in the US for more than nine years.
Seven Nobel Prize winners have joined the call for their release, signing a document issued October 12 by Red de redes in defense of humanity.
The document demands the freedom of Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González, sentenced to harsh prison terms in a political trial held in Miami.
Besides Pinter, the document is signed by Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer and Wole Soyinka (Nobel Prizes in literature), Zhores Alfiorov (physics), Timor Leste President Jose Antonio Horta Ramos and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Nobel Peace Prize)
Some 3,500 signers -among them musicians, academics, actors, writers and philosophers- endorse the text with their signature, which has generated an increasing wave of adhesions.
The Five, as they are internationally known, helped to control organized terrorist plans against Cuba from Florida, carried out by extreme right anti-Cuban groups.
A panel of three judges who examined the case for the Atlanta Court of Appeals unanimously decided to declare the trial invalid and ordered the sentences revoked.
Despite that, they have remained isolated in prisons of maximum security.
The Call has also been signed by more than 200 organizations and institutions from various parts of the world, including the United States, Spain, Argentina, France, Brazil and other Latin American nations.
Among notable signers appear the US Alice Walker, Lucius Walker, James Cockcroft, Mumia Abul Jamal and Howard Zinn, Spain's Isaac Rosas and Belén Gopegui, French Jean Marie Binoch. Uruguayan Mario Benedetti and Hispanic-French Manu Chao also signed the document.
http://www.freethefive.org/updates/CubanMedia/CMPinter110907.htm To sign the Campaign:
http://www.liberenlos5.cult.cu Visit also:
http://www.freethefive.org http://www.antiterroristas.cu http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/informe2007/index.html http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/ http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2007/eleccionescuba.htm http://www.cubainformacion.tv/ http://www.cubanradio.cu Videos:
"Mission against Terror":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CCdGdpeNps8 http://es.arcoiris.tv/modules.php?name=Unique&id=824 "Bacardi, the bat's secret":
http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=5416850335187952791 http://es.arcoiris.tv/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=v...ter=E
posted by F Espinoza
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Free all Cubans
14.11.2007 01:07
Where is the Havana Indymedia site?
simon
Free ?
15.11.2007 20:01
Filmed on the bus to the train station,
Filmed in the train station , whilst being bombarded with droning tones of a female voice telling me how security services will destroy my belongings if i leave them for a moment, whilst also reminding me that we are under constant attack from men with beards laden with nasties.
I took a flight a while ago and had my bottle of water taken from me on entering the departure area , where of course there was more water being sold at stupid prices.
Had my shampoo , deoderant , aftershave and a few other things taken whilst standing barefoot with beltless jeans, arms spread , legs apart and of course being filmed.
I used to vote for a person who was airlifted into his safe seat by one of 3 indistinguishable parties and was convinced that i was voting in "free" and fair democratic elections.
I am told where to smoke , how much is safe to drink and eat and could even be prosecuted for doodling some poetry at work.
I heard a about a brown fella who had 7 bullets pumped into his head at point blank range whilst sat on public transport... apparantly it was a mistake.
I hear you,ll soon be locked up without defence , representation or charge for 58 days if certain people decide so.
If i want to protest i must ask the police for permission , and if they sgree will be filmed and harrassed in the process.
But then, just sometimes , i switch on my computer and fire up indymedia , forget about all the above nonesense and realise just how free i am to be able to so.
Those poor , poor Cubans.
daggle
Took a flight
16.11.2007 06:41
Daggle, the UK is not perfect but at least you aren't required to march up and down your local high street grinning like a Cheshire Cat waving the Union Jack while government photograpers take photos of you to show to gullible westerners.
Where is the Cuba Indymedia site?
simon
U K not perfect?
16.11.2007 15:17
Give me a clue.
Are you an activist in the UK?
Are you anarchist , liberal , tory , green ... What are you after Simon?
daggle
Not after anything Daggle
16.11.2007 19:59
Take a look here.
When Castro tells you to get out on the streets, smile, and wave the national flag you get out on the streets, smile and wave the national flag if you know what's good for you.
Where's the Havana Indymedia site?
simon