[antiwar-van] Tues. Oct. 19: Songs of Love & Hope Fundraiser & New Campaign Launch for the 5 Cuban Heroes!

[Tamara Hansen]

* Please Forward Widely *

* YEAR OF THE CANADA CAMPAIGN TO FREE THE 5 *

NEW CUBAN 5 HEROES CAMPAIGN LAUNCH IN VANCOUVER, BC!

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SONGS OF LOVE & HOPE 

Cultural Night & Fundraiser with Legendary Musical Guest:

* THOMAS P. RADCLIFFE *

Thomas Radcliffe is an incredible traveling folk artist. He is a Vietnam era American War Resister and Conscientious Objector living predominately in Victoria, BC, but always on the move throughout BC and the U.S. with his musical message of love and peace. He has become over the passed 3 decades an anti-war and social justice icon who has contributed to the cause of humanity with his music and social activism.


TUESDAY 
OCTOBER 19, 2010
7pm-9:30pm
Joe’s Café (Large North Hall)
1150 Commercial Drive at William Street


Recently a new campaign was launched for the 5 Cuban Heroes in the U.S. The campaign launched by the National Committee to Free the Five is directed to raise $62,000 in order to purchase a full page advertisement in the Washington Post newspaper, the major newspaper in the U.S. capital, demanding the immediate release of the 5 Cuban Heroes.  

The Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver is launching activities in Vancouver to help in the important cause to raise the necessary funds for the Washington Post advertisement and add international support to the U.S. campaign to free the 5 Cuban Heroes. This event will also mark the beginning of a special month in Vancouver of solidarity with the Cuban 5 in which a series of events across B.C. will be organized on university/college campuses, high schools and in the streets for an educational campaign for the 5 Cuban Heroes. 

The Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver is inviting you to enjoy a night of beautiful folk music performed by Thomas P. Radcliffe, and assist in the raising of the money needed to help break the media blockade against the 5 Cuban Heroes in the U.S. All donations and proceeds collected at the events will be donated to the National Committee to Free the Five in the U.S. for the campaign for the full-page Washington Post advertisement.

To see the poster for the Songs of Love & Hope cultural night and fundraiser please visit:
http://www.freethe5vancouver.ca/posters/2010/101019cuban5fund.pdf

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WHO ARE THE 5 CUBAN HEROES?

Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González, also known as the Cuban 5, are currently serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively in United States jails. They were wrongly accused and convicted in U.S. federal court of “Conspiracy to commit espionage” and other related charges. The Cuban 5 were not spies. They were involved in monitoring Miami-based terrorist organizations which since 1959 have been responsible for the deaths of over 3,400 people in Cuba, including one resident of Canada, Fabio di Celmo, in 1997. Through their important work, these 5 men were able to prevent further deaths in Cuba.
 
These 5 Cuban Heroes harmed no one and are in prison for giving information they had collected to the U.S. government about these groups, hoping that the U.S. would intervene and jail the terrorists. However, instead of thanking the anti-terrorist Cuban 5, the U.S. Government put them in prison and in some cases even denying them the right of family visitations, while the terrorist responsible for murdering 73 innocent passengers on a Cuban airline in 1976 walks free in Miami. 

September 12, 2010 marked the 12th year of the unjust imprisonment of the Cuban 5. It is time to put an end to their unjust imprisonment, please join us!

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Organized by:
Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver
604-719-6947 | cuban5_van at yahoo.com 
http://www.freethe5vancouver.ca/