[van-announce] Please Endorse Cuban Five Campaign/Upcoming Events

[Derrick O'Keefe]

*Please Forward Widely*

The Free the Cuban Five Committee - Vancouver is seeking endorsements
and support for its campaign for the release of the five Cuban
political prisoners being held in the United States.  Aleida Guevara
March and Irma Gonzalez were in Vancouver on October 4th to speak
about the case.  Video of this event can be found at:
http://www.workingtv.com/next.html

For more information on the case of the Cuban Five, check out:
www.freethefive.org

Please respond to cuban5_van at yahoo.com with group endorsements for
the release of the Cuban Five.

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The Free the Cuban Five Committee will be hosting a screening of the
film Plan Colombia on Thursday, November 13th in Burnaby, location
TBA.  Other upcoming events in solidarity with Latin America include:

-A public forum on Latin America's "People Power"

Friday, October 17, 7p.m.
I.W.A. Hall 2859 Commercial Dr.

featuring:

Blanca Flor Bonilla, Congresswoman FMLM
Tim Louis, Vancouver City Councillor
Bob Everton, SFU professor
Marta Harnecker, MEPLA Cuba, author
Alicia Barsallo, NDP Vancouver/Kingsway

short video, food & music

admission by donation

Sponsored by FMLN Vancouver Committee and CELSAN

Info: info at fmln.ca

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-A Leader of Brazil's Landless Peasants Movement (MST)
Joao Pedro Stedile
Tuesday, October 21, 7:00 PM.
Alice MacKay Room, Vancouver Public Library,

"The MST...is the most important and exciting popular movement in the
world" Noam Chomsky, 2003

Joao Pedro Stédile's Canadian Tour

On behalf of the Canadian Association for the Study of International
Development (CASID) and the Canadian Catholic Organization for
Development and Peace (DP), we are happy to inform you that Joao
Pedro Stédile, Main Coordinator for the Landless Rural Workers
Movement (MST) will be visiting Canada from October 20 to 25 to speak
about the challenges and dilemmas confronting Brazilian landless
peasants.

Mr. Stédile is a remarkable peasant activist who over the last two
decades has worked actively and passionately to promote changes in
the unjust Brazilian agrarian structure. Currently, the MST is the
largest and most influential peasant movement in Latin America. There
is an interesting interview in English with Mr. Stédile at the
following link:

http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR24904.shtml

http://www.mstbrazil.org

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Film: The Life of Che Guevara
October, 24,  6:30 PM

SFU Harbour Centre
515 W.Hastings, Room 1800

Che: Love, Politics and Rebelliousness

A film screening based on the historical book written by Italian journalist 
Lilliana Bucelis Islini which exposes Ernesto Che Guevara's life from his 
birth until his assassination in Bolivia.

Presented by: Amigos de Cuba, Circulo Bolivariano Internationalista de Van., 
Free the Cuban Five Committee - Vancouver, Proyecto Cultural Sur, SF PIRG.

Info: brigade at vcn.bc.ca

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