[van-announce] 'PLAN COLOMBIA' Film Screening! November 7th at 6:30 PM

[Mike Krebs]

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‘PLAN COLOMBIA: CASHING IN ON THE DRUG WAR 
FAILURE' 
A Film by Free-Will Productions 

Friday November 7th at 6:30 PM 
Bonsor Recreation Centre, Burnaby 
(Two blocks east of Metrotown Skytrain Station, 
on the corner of Central Blvd and Bonsor) 

Free Admission. 

Organized by the Free the Cuban Five Committee 
Vancouver. 

In July 2003, a number of Vancouver activists 
formed the Vancouver chapter of the Free the 
Cuban Five Committee. Part of the Committee 
activities have included organizing events in 
solidarity with the Cuban Five and with 
organizers in the US. Since the formation of this

committee members have been able to collect 
hundreds of signatures in defense of the Cuban 
Five through petitioning in Vancouver. At the 
“Plan Colombia” screening we will also screen a 
short film featuring the story of the Cuban Five.


To get involved in the Free the Cuban Five 
Committee Vancouver, please call (604) 
831 - 9821 or (604) 322 - 1764 or email 
cuban5_van at yahoogroups.com 

WHO ARE THE CUBAN FIVE? 
They are political prisoners currently serving 
time in the US for simply defending their country

of Cuba from terrorist acts by extremist 
right-wing groups in Miami. They were sentenced 
from 15 years to two life sentences. 
They never harmed anyone, yet they are in prison 
while the anti-Cuba extremists whom they tried to

stop are walking freely in Miami. The Cuban 5 
monitored the terrorists’ actions and informed 
Cuba of impending attacks by those extremist 
groups. 
The US government claimed they were engaged in 
espionage on US military bases and threatened 
“national security.” The espionage charge and 
related charges are a complete fabrication. In 
14,000 pages of transcript, no espionage evidence

was ever introduced. 
The five Cubans were strictly involved in 
monitoring the actions of terrorist right-wing 
groups in Miami. For more than 40 years, 
anti-Cuban right-wing groups in Miami have 
engaged in countless terrorist activities against

Cuba including hotel bombings, biochemical 
warfare and the planted bombing of a Cubana Air 
flight. Those organizations were established with

the financing, training and backing of the CIA in

the early 1960s. Their sole aim was to sow terror

and violence against the people of Cuba after 
they had successfully ousted hated dictator 
Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and begun to build a 
new society. 
The trial of the Cuban Five, held in Miami with a

tainted jury, was a great mockery of justice. 
Today over 150 “Free the Cuban Five” Committees 
have sprung up the world over in solidarity with 
the political prisoners and with the people of 
Cuba. 



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