[antiwar-van] Dec. 5th: 85th Monthly Protest to Free the 5 Cuban Heroes! (Vancouver, BC)

[Tamara Hansen]

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FREE THE 5 CUBAN HEROES NOW!

85th MONTHLY PROTEST ACTION IN VANCOUVER, CANADA!

5th OF EACH MONTH FOR THE CUBAN 5!

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Please join the Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver for our 85th
monthly picket action in front of the U.S. Consulate to demand:
>>>FREE THE 5 CUBAN HEROES NOW!
>>>RELEASE ANTONIO, FERNANDO, RAMON & GERARDO FROM U.S. PRISONS NOW!
>>>LET RENÉ GONZÁLEZ RETURN TO CUBA NOW!
>>>GRANT VISAS TO OLGA SALANUEVA & ADRIANA PEREZ NOW!

WEDNESDAY
December 5, 2012
4-5pm
U.S. Consulate (Downtown, Vancouver)
1075 W. Pender St. @ Thurlow

To see the poster for the protest action please visit:
http://www.freethe5vancouver.ca/posters/2012/121205-free-the-cuban-5-picket.pdf


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NEWS ON THE CUBAN 5!

The Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver and Vancouver Communities in
Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) currently have a delegation in Holguín,
Cuba participating in the 8th International Colloquium for the Freedom
of the 5 Cuban Heroes. Below is an article about this important
international event.

Colloquium for the Five in Holguín
Written by: Leonardo Pupo Pupo
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/22novi-Colloquium%20for.html

HOLGUÍN.— More than 340 delegates from 47 countries, as well as
ambassadors from the Spanish-speaking nations of ALBA and Haiti, are
taking part in the 8th International Colloquium for the liberation of
the five Cuban heroes and against terrorism, from November 28 through
December 1 in this eastern city, AIN reports.

The diplomats will speak at the Holguín event, which brings together
friends from various countries in solidarity with the cause of the
Cuban Five unjustly imprisoned or detained in the United States for
preventing acts of terrorism against their people.

This was announced at a press conference by Amaury Torno, Cuban
Friendship Institute official in Holguín.

This year, the largest delegations are from Russia, Bulgaria, Italy,
Venezuela, Canada, Spain and the United States, Torno confirmed.

As is the case in each event, this 8th Colloquium will become an
international forum to denounce the injustices committed against
Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, René González, Antonio Guerrero
and Ramón Labañino.

Participants will bring their solidarity to the residents of five
Holguín municipalities damaged by Hurricane Sandy as it passed over
eastern Cuba on October 25.

René, Ramón, Gerardo, Fernando and Antonio were victims of a biased
and irregular trial in the United States and unjustly sentenced to
long prison terms in that country where, risking their own lives, they
obtained information about terrorist groups operating there in order
to warn of and avert acts of violence against the Cuban people.


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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
outrageously long sentences including even a double-life sentence plus
fifteen years. They were wrongly accused and convicted in a U.S.
Federal Court of “conspiracy to commit espionage” and other fabricated
charges. The 5 were actually unarmed men 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.

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

For more information:
http://www.antiterroristas.cu/
http://www.freethefive.org/
http://www.thecuban5.org/

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Free the Cuban 5 Committee-Vancouver
604.719.6947 | freethe5vancouver at gmail.com
http://www.freethe5vancouver.ca/