Latin America

VIGIL FOR OSCAR LOPEZ RIVERA and NORBERTO GONZALEZ CLAUDIO!

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Vigil and Community Speak out for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Oscar Lopez Rivera and NORBERTO GONZALEZ CLAUDIO!

Wednesday May 29th is the 32nd anniversary of the arrest of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera!

Community Vigil at the Puerto Rican Political Prisoner mural on E. 107th St. between Lexington Ave. and 3rd Ave.Take the 6 train to E. 103rd St. and walk up 4 blocks uptown on Lexington Ave.

Despite 32 years of psychological and physical torture, Oscar’s and Norberto’s revolutionary spirit has never been broken! Both men continues to be a powerful voice calling for Puerto Rican Independence!

Join The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign as we honor Oscar’s life, work and sacrifice! Join us for a community vigil at the Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Mural in El Barrio!

Bring flags, candles, instruments, flowers or art so we can place them at the foot of the mural!

The Cuban Five

Freedom Ride For THECUBAN FOUR 2013

FREEDOMRIDE_june2013_2Be a Freedom Rider for The Cuban Four and Get on the Bus to Washington, DC!

$5.00 Round trip

For more information call
347-201-3728 (9am-5pm)
Freedom Ride Hotline
718-676-0106 (24/7)

Organizers of the Freedom Ride for the Cuban 4 include: Local 372-DC 37 ASFCME, 1199 SEIU, the July 26 Coalition, Casa de las Americas, Venceremos Brigade and Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5, IFCO-Pastors for Peace, Workers World, and International Action Center (IAC).

The Rally on June 1st at 1:oopm in front of the White House is part of the “5 Days for the Cuban 4 in Washington DC” initiated by the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5.

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The Cuban Five

Danny Glover Prevented from Visiting Gerardo Hernandez

Originally posted by International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5

Actor Danny Glover Prevented from Visiting Gerardo Hernandez, One of the Cuban 5 Imprisoned in the U.S.

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Oakland, CA April 8th(IC)

Yesterday another incident of injustice against one of the Cuban 5 took place at the Victorville Penitentiary in the high Mojave desert of California.

In a planned visit well known actor and social activist Danny Glover was prohibited from visiting Gerardo Hernandez. Glover, who has visited Gerardo on 9 different occasions since 2010, was told that he would not be admitted because they did not know he was coming. This is an arbitrary decision; any person who is on a prisoner’s list has a right to visitation. Glover had flown yesterday morning from Northern California and then rented a car to reach the remote location of the prison 10 miles outside of Victorville only to have to turn around and go back without having seeing his friend. Undaunted Danny Glover has made it clear that he will return to Victorville soon.

Isolating Gerardo from his friends and family has been a pattern of the US government for almost 15 years. Over that period of time his wife Adriana Perez has been consistently denied visa to visit her husband on a regular basis.

The International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 thanks Danny Glover for his continued effort to support Gerardo and his four brothers in the struggle for their freedom.

Latin America

The Legacy of Hugo Chavez Lives On

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“The Legacy of Hugo Chavez Lives On”
A Conversation with Venezuela’s Ambassador to the UN

Dear Friend,
On Sunday, April 14 (just a few days away) the people of Venezuela will vote for a new president to succeed the late Hugo Chavez.

This election will be enormously significant, not just for Venezuela, but also for the entire Latin American and Caribbean region; indeed, in many respects, crucial to the destinies of many countries in the developing world.

There are reports circulating today that Washington is busy interfering in the election campaign with the objective of determining an outcome that will serve its imperial interests in the Americas.

I hope you can join me, and many others, in demanding that the State Department and the CIA stay out of the Venezuelan people’s internal affairs.

I also hope you can take a few minutes to watch a video interview that I conducted recently with Julio Rafael Escalona, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations. The video is entitled “The Legacy of Hugo Chavez Lives On” and in it the ambassador speaks movingly about what Chavez and the ‘Chavista Movement’ means to the peoples of Venezuela, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr2Yr-_DwQk&feature=youtu.be

He also addresses the future of Venezuela’s international initiatives such as PetroCaribe, CELAC, ALBA , the heating oil assistance program in US cities like New York, Boston and Detroit etc. in the post-Chavez period.

If you like the video, feel free to post it to your Wall and share it with your Facebook friends and with those in your other networks, and if you have a Web site or blog please consider posting it there, as well.

Thanks.
In solidarity,
Don Rojas