Help to break media silence on the Cuban Five!

Cuba Solidarity Campaign in Great Britain helps to break media silence on Miami 5

Cuba Solidarity Campaign in Great Britain helps to break media silence on Miami 5

CubaUpdate

2007-07-04

Cuba Update, Tuesday 3 July 2007

1. CSC helps to break media silence on Miami 5
2. Big Cuba Fiesta and El Barrio Latino at the Rise Festival
3. Please ask your MP to sign EDM 1408 on Cuba

1. CSC helps to break media silence on Miami 5

"The BBC World Service yesterday broke new ground in broadcasting the first media interview by phone with Gerardo Hernandez from his maximum security prison in Victorville, California. The programme "Newshour" reaches a wide audience not only throughout the world but also in the US where the British broadcaster is well respected.

"Internet and international press coverage of the programme has helped to give maximum publicity to the case during the weeks leading up to the next stage of the appeal on 20th August in Atlanta and this is due in no small part to the relentless campaigning work of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in Britain. In terms of breaking the media silence surrounding the case of these five Cuban political prisoners this is nothing short of a coup."

Geoff Bottoms, CSC

Read full transcript of the interview at:

http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news.asp?ItemID=1105

Listen to the broadcast:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/ondemand/rams/nh27166____2007.ram

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2. Big Cuba Fiesta and El Barrio Latino at the Rise Festival

London's biggest free music festival, Rise, returns to North London on Sunday 15 July this year and CSC will again be running the hugely successful Big Cuba Fiesta packed with all the vibrancy of Cuban and Latin American music, dance and culture with a political message.

Sunday 15 July, Finsbury Park, London, Midday to 8pm, Free

For full updated listings artists and running times at:

http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/events.asp?EventID=123

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3. Please ask your MP to sign EDM 1408 on Cuba

Please ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion (EDM) 1408 on US Extra-territorial Legislation by going to:

http://www.writetothem.com today.

In response to pressure from the US, Barclays Bank and Hilton Hotels have taken measures to exclude Cuban customers from their services. EDM 1408 calls on the British government to make its objections clear to the US administration.

Please write to your MP today at:

http://www.writetothem.com or for more information and suggestions for key points to make in your letter go to:

http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/news.asp?ItemID=1072

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