[Marxism] Cuba highlights international campaign on behalf of anti-terrorist fighters

["Michael Briguglio" <mikes_beat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

      Havana.  September 13, 2007
     

     
      Cuba highlights international campaign on behalf of anti-terrorist 
fighters 

      http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/septiembre/juev13/38destacac5.html

      HAVANA, Sept. 13 (PL). - Thousands of people in the world are 
participating today in a renewed campaign on behalf of the Cuban Five, the 
anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States after a markedly 
political trial.

      The previous day, on the ninth anniversary of the arrest of Gerardo 
Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, René González and Fernando 
González, grassroots demonstrations and initiatives demanding their freedom 
were reported in 50 countries. 

      They were given prison sentences ranging from 15 years to two life terms 
after thwarting crimes against humanity organized against their country by 
extreme right-wing anti-Cuban forces based in Miami, Florida. 

      On the first day of this renewed campaign for the Cuban Five, as they are 
known among their supporters around the world, particularly important actions 
took place in the United States led by the National Committee to Free the Five. 

      It was reported that the celebrated actor Danny Glover sent a message 
saying that the Five were sentenced to unusual and cruel punishment for 
exercising their moral obligation to defend themselves. 

      The United States failed to prevent deadly terrorist attacks repeatedly 
launched from its own territory for many decades against the sovereign nation 
of Cuba, Glover noted. 

      And reports were coming in from many other countries, including the 
Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Mexico, Angola, Brazil, 
Peru, Puerto Rico, Lebanon, Italy, Ukraine, Russia, Japan, China and the 
Philippines, regarding the reinvigoration of the movement in solidarity with 
these five Cubans. 
       
     
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