[antiwar-van] Thurs. April 9: Protest to Free the Cuban 5 + Update on Family Visitation Rights!

[Tamara Hansen]

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Vancouver & Montreal Monthly Protest to Free the 5 Cuban Heroes!

>>Vancouver Picket Action
THURSDAY
April 9
4-5pm
U.S. Consulate (1075 W. Pender St.) 
Downtown Vancouver


To all human loving, peace activists & advocates for justice,
On April 10th family members of the 5 Cuban Heroes, Adriana Perez (wife of Gerardo) and Olga Salanueva (wife of Rene) will be requesting Visas to visit their loved ones in prison. These two women have previously been denied Visas 9 times by the U.S. government to enter the U.S.

Join the Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver for our monthly protest to demand freedom for the 5 Cuban Heroes and Visas for their family members. There will be postcards ready to sign addressed to the U.S. government demanding Visitation rights for the family members of the Cuban 5 at the Vancouver protest action.

The Thursday April 9 picket protest action will be the 40th picket organized in Vancouver.

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The Case: 10 Years of Injustice
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Between 1994 and 1995, Cuba sent five unarmed men, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and René González on a mission to infiltrate and expose Miami-based terrorist groups such as Alpha 66, Omega 7, Brothers to the Rescue and the Cuban American National Foundation. These groups and others are responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks which, according to Radio Habana, have taken the lives of more than 3,400 people in Cuba since 1959. An important example of these attacks was the bombing of the Lincoln Center in 1978 after a Cuban ballet performance. Another, and one of the most horrendous attacks, was the bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, which took the lives of 73 people. The 5 Cuban Heroes were 
gathering evidence to expose the terrorists responsible for these crimes against Cuba and humanity. Cuba released all the information that the 5 collected to the FBI. However, on September 12th 1998, the FBI arrested the Cuban 5 and threw them in solitary confinement for 17 months. The 5 Cuban Heroes have been unjustly held in US 
prisons for over 10 years. 

Please join us on Thursday April 9th in front of the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver & Montreal to demand:
->Free the Cuban 5 Now!
->Visas for their Families!

Organized in Vancouver by:
Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver
604.719.6947 | cuban5_van at yahoo.com
http://www.vancubasolidarity.com/freethefivevan.html

Organized in Montreal by:
Table de Concertation de Solidarité Québec-Cuba
Comité Fabio Di Celmo pour les 5
514-728-7222 | info at tcsqc.ca
http://www.solidaritequebeccuba.qc.ca/




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