To build support to free Cuban 5
‘Mission Against Terror’ documentary goes on tour
By
Frank Velgara
Published Feb 14, 2006 8:13 AM
Following are excerpts.
The Martin
Luther King, Jr. Labor Center of 1199/SEIU of the National Health Care and
Hospital Workers Union was the venue for a presentation by Bernie Dwyer,
co-director of the documentary “Mission Against Terror” (an
Irish/Cuban co-production) and Father Geoffrey Bottoms, executive member of the
U.K. Cuba Solidarity Campaign and coordinator of the U.K. National Campaign to
Free the Cuban 5 on Feb. 4 in New York City.
This acclaimed documentary
regarding the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio
Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez, five Cubans unjustly imprisoned
in the United States for working to prevent terrorist attacks against Cuba, will
be shown in a number of East Coast cities.
The Cuban 5 have been illegally
held in U.S. jails since 1998 and denied family visits and bail after nearly two
years of being in solitary confinement.
A U.S.-based coalition of Cuba
solidarity, civic, cultural, and religious organizations active in the
international campaign to free the Cuban 5 are hosting the tour as part of
renewed efforts to obtain justice and freedom for these imprisoned Cuban
patriots.
Hundreds gathered at the labor center to join filmmaker Dwyer
and Father Bottoms at a screening of the documentary. Cuban Ambassador to the
United Nations Rodrigo Malmierca provided an update on the case and expressed
appreciation for the growing solidarity movement. Information regarding the
initiatives underway to secure the freedom of these 5 Cubans was shared with
participants.
In Boston, “Mission against Terror” will be
presented by Professor Noam Chomsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) on Feb. 8 and other venues including Washington, D.C., Rhode Island and
Maine.
For more information about the case, the ongoing campaign to free
the Cuban 5, and/or to purchase the DVD of “Mission Against Terror”,
contact:
* [email protected]
* National Committee to Free
the Five
2489 Mission St., #24,
San Francisco, CA
94110
www.freethefive.org
[email protected]
(415)
821-6545
* NY Committee to Free the Cuban 5
39 West 14th St., Suite
206,
New York, NY 10011
(212) 633-6646
[email protected]
*
Popular Education Project
to Free the Cuban 5
2824 University Ave.,
Bronx, NY
10468
www.freethecuban5.com
[email protected]
(718)
601-4751
The writer is a member of the New York Organizing Committee
for the tour.
Articles copyright 1995-2012 Workers World.
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is preserved.
Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011
Email:
[email protected]
Subscribe
[email protected]
Support independent news
DONATE