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SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER: RALLY FOR THE CUBAN 5

Rock around the Blockade | 03.09.2008 18:24 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | London

Marking ten years since their unjust imprisonment

12-3pm, Trafalgar Square (north pavement)

September 2008 marks 10 years since the arrest and incarceration of the Cuban
5, five men wrongly convicted in the US after peacefully defending Cuba from
terrorist attacks planned in the United States.

Come and show your solidarity for the Five and spread the word. Bring placards, stalls, whistles, drums and banners for a lively
demonstration, including street theatre and speeches to inform the British
public about the case.



12-3pm, Trafalgar Square (north pavement), Saturday 13 September

September 2008 marks 10 years since the arrest and incarceration of the Cuban
5, five men wrongly convicted in the US after peacefully defending Cuba from
terrorist attacks planned in the United States.

Come and show your solidarity for the Five and spread the word. Bring placards, stalls, whistles, drums and banners for a lively
demonstration, including street theatre and speeches to inform the British
public about the case.“If preventing the deaths of innocent human beings, defending our two
countries from terrorism and preventing a senseless invasion of Cuba are the
reasons I am being sentenced today, then I welcome that sentence! I will wear
the prison uniform with the same honor and pride with which a soldier wears his
most prized insignias!” -Ramón Labañino, one of the Five

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free gorki aguila!

03.09.2008 19:26

At his home on Monday morning 25 August 2008. Gorki Aguila, founder member and vocalist with the Cuban punk band Porno Para Ricardo was arrested(yet again) at his home.

The Cuban state’s harassment of Gorki Aguila and other Porno Para Ricardo members has been relentless ever since the group first emerged. Back in April this year we issued an appeal for “Urgent solidarity with young alternatives and the anarcho-punk movement in Cuba”, concentrating our attention on the Castroist authorities’ relentless harassment of the Porno Para Ricardo band and of Gorki Aguila in particular. And asking freedom lovers around the world to show active solidarity with the alternative and counter-cultural scene within Cuba and adding our voice to the campaign by the promoters of the Cuba Underground project in defending the physical well-being of the members of Porno Para Ricardo, as well as their relatives, friends and colleagues.

Today we reaffirm our unconditional support for all young anti-authoritarians who face in their daily lives oppression and exploitation at the hands of the bourgeois nationalist dictatorship which has been governing Cuba along absolutist lines for the past half century and we are launching the International Campaign for the Immediate Release of Gorki Aguila, calling for demonstrations outside Cuban embassies and consulates around the world and demanding his release and an end to the current witch-hunt against young alternatives and the anarcho-punk and anti-authoritarian movement on the island of Cuba.

We hope that this call will be taken up as it deserves to be by the international punk and anarchist movements.

For a free libertarian Cuba!

For Anarchy!

 http://www.londonclasswar.org/newswire/index.php?itemid=297

darren redstar
- Homepage: http://www.londonclasswar.org


free gorki aguila!

03.09.2008 19:29

At his home on Monday morning 25 August 2008. Gorki Aguila, founder member and vocalist with the Cuban punk band Porno Para Ricardo was arrested(yet again) at his home.

The Cuban state’s harassment of Gorki Aguila and other Porno Para Ricardo members has been relentless ever since the group first emerged. Back in April this year we issued an appeal for “Urgent solidarity with young alternatives and the anarcho-punk movement in Cuba”, concentrating our attention on the Castroist authorities’ relentless harassment of the Porno Para Ricardo band and of Gorki Aguila in particular. And asking freedom lovers around the world to show active solidarity with the alternative and counter-cultural scene within Cuba and adding our voice to the campaign by the promoters of the Cuba Underground project in defending the physical well-being of the members of Porno Para Ricardo, as well as their relatives, friends and colleagues.

Today we reaffirm our unconditional support for all young anti-authoritarians who face in their daily lives oppression and exploitation at the hands of the bourgeois nationalist dictatorship which has been governing Cuba along absolutist lines for the past half century and we are launching the International Campaign for the Immediate Release of Gorki Aguila, calling for demonstrations outside Cuban embassies and consulates around the world and demanding his release and an end to the current witch-hunt against young alternatives and the anarcho-punk and anti-authoritarian movement on the island of Cuba.

We hope that this call will be taken up as it deserves to be by the international punk and anarchist movements.

For a free libertarian Cuba!

For Anarchy!

 http://www.londonclasswar.org/newswire/index.php?itemid=297

darren redstar
- Homepage: http://www.londonclasswar.org


free already

03.09.2008 20:16

He's free already. He got a fine for playing music too loud. I guess it's like the Cuban equivalent of an ASBO. Big deal. No need to attack a country that's trying against all odds to build a more just society. When you start putting libertarian ideals above everything else you end up siding with the imperialists and the anti-Cuban mafia in Miami.

Patria O'Muerte