SIGN THIS PETITION AND FORWARD OUT THIS MESSAGE WORLDWIDE!
The Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5 has drafted a petition asking President Obama to grant Visas to the families of the Cuban 5. With his recent decision to close Guantanamo Prison and his public statements in support of changing travel restrictions on Cuban Americans, we feel now is a good time to bring up the US government´s continual denial of visas for the Cuban 5 families; which has kept both Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez from seeing their wives for the past ten years. If President Obama is really pro-family and wants to improve the reputation of the United States, as a "beacon of justice and democracy", then then we need to demand he end this horrible separation of families and this psychological torture. Please sign this petition and forward this link to all your friend and families. We will be emailing this petition and mailing it in hard copies to President Obama every time we reach a 100th milestone.
SIGN IT AND FORWARD IT OUT FOR THE CUBAN 5:
http://www.petitiononline.com/ObamaC5V/petition.html,

To all honorable journalists everywhere
AS asked to do by the current U.S. government, the Supreme Court of that country has refused to consider the petition to review the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorists as submitted by their defense team. Beyond the arbitrary elements of the proceedings, the decision entails a profound disdain for the sentiments of the Cuban people, who, with good reason, consider the Five to be their self-sacrificing and heroic sons who were protecting them from acts of terrorism. In its response to the unanimous demand for justice that has spread throughout the world, the U.S. government has thus revealed its decision to favor the demands of the anti-Cuban extreme right established in the pro-annexation enclave of Miami, where for half a century that group has manifested a violent intolerance against anything related to the ideas of our Revolution. The media has not been indifferent to that confrontation. On the one hand, there is a powerful system of radio and television aggression against Cuba, led by broadcasters owned by the federal government, commercial ones and shortwave counterrevolutionary ones based in Florida that transmit 1,955 hours weekly over 31 frequencies on medium wave, AM, FM and television, which moreover have had at their disposition specialized planes and satellites. Of course, not one minute nor one cent of the $34 million approved for these transmissions in the U.S. budget for this year will be invested in broadcasting a single opinion coinciding with the demand for justice for the Five.But what hurts just as much or even more is the additional condemnation dictated by the transnational hegemonic media, champions of freedom of the press, against the anti-terrorist fighters, and it is their silence, censorship or indifference in the face of their situation, despite the exceptional nature of many scandalous aspects of the trial that would make it sensational news on the prime time programs of the major networks. On the side of human decency is the so-called alternative press, comprising thousands of popular networks, community radio stations, and organs of social and trade union movements, those in solidarity with Cuba and of progressive governments, which have embraced the cause of freedom for the Five as a permanent, priority issue. The general reaction of these apparently small media to the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court has been to publicly call upon the initial rhetoric of that country’s new administration, which has so often mentioned the word "change." That media, without the economic or financial interest of big capital behind it, will remain faithful to truth and justice, together with the Cuban journalists in this legal battle with its political backdrop, to ensure that these patriots of humanity return home. The sister people of the United States has the right to know the truth about the five Cuban heroes. The corporate media of that empire, if it wishes to make a genuine contribution to the fight against terrorist, has the obligation not to remain silent for one minute more in the context of the injustice and cruel imprisonment of Gerardo, Fernando, Ramón, Antonio and René.
-National Presidency Union of Journalists of Cuba

Another Supreme Infamy
Message from Ramón Labañino, one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States, to brothers and sisters in solidarity throughout the world:

My dear brothers and sisters of the world:
With the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, we can see once again the manipulation, superlative injustice and double standards of this country in its supposed war on terrorism.Nobody should have the slightest doubt that this is a completely political case. Even with the new administration of Mr. Obama, nothing has changed. With this supreme infamy, not only are they closing the doors to the truth about Cuba, they are also pretending not to hear or see the international demands and those of so many prominent individuals.Far from being daunted, we feel stronger and more impassioned in this fight, all of us united together to do combat until the final victory.Our strength and optimism does not lie in the courts of this country but in our peoples, in their gigantic solidarity and in the just cause that we are defending: that is why we are invincible.We five have a duty to our peoples, and despite all the setbacks, we will continue fighting against terrorism, against war, in defense of Cuba and of all the peoples of the world, including the people of the United States itself, even against the will of its government, whose prime mission should be precisely what we are defending.Today more than ever, our freedom is in the hands of each one of you, of your indispensable international solidarity and the political battle. We trust in everyone, convinced that we shall overcome. It is time to demonstrate the power of our truth and the uncontainable strength of our people. It is time for us to speak out and demand from Mr. Obama that he truly show his desire for change by granting freedom to the united Five.Let us speak out as a tight team, never permitting the infamy of cruelly isolating our brother Gerardo Hernandez, and to make injustice tremble.The battle continues, it will only be over when we achieve freedom for all and that is what will happen.Thank you, brothers and sisters, for existing. Freedom is in your hands.

¡Hasta la victoria siempre!

-Ramón Labañino Salazar, June 22, 2009, USP. McKreary,United States


US Personalities React to Supreme Court Decision not to Review the case of the Cuban Five

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Gayle McLaughlin,Mayor of Richmond, California“It is an outrage that these five men continue to be unjustly imprisoned for peacefully protecting their country against terrorist attacks, while our judicial system turns a blind eye. It is essential that the people of the United States become more aware of the profound disregard by our government for examining the facts of this case. It is essential for the freedom of the five, but also essential for the preservation of justice for all.”============================Peter PhillipsProfessor Sociology/Director Project CensoredSonoma State University, CA“The Supreme Courts failure to review the case of the Cuban Five is justice denied! The US corporate media's coverage of the decision was nothing more than hyperreal propaganda. Together they represent the continuation of overt repression inside the US global empire.”============================Antonio GonzálezPresident of William C Velásquez Institute "I was saddened to learn that the Supreme Court has declined to review the case of the Cuban Five. Once again, the Court has deepened the gap between observance of America's best values of fairness and equality versus in -practice tolerance and/or impunity for real-life practitioners of terrorism. While the Cuban Five unfairly rot in American jails, known members of the Miami exile community continue to conspire to commit acts of illegal violence in Latin America and proven terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles go unpunished.It is my hope that over the next period incoming Supreme Court Justices will resolve this unbearable contradiction in American democracy in favor of victims like the Cuban Five, and Congress and the President in their wisdom will finally heal the generations old wound that is US\-Cuban relations by normalizing relations between our two noble peoples." ============================Noam ChomskyAmerican Linguist, philosopher, author and lecturer"It is shameful, but regrettably not surprising, that the US Supreme Court has refused to review the disgraceful punishment of the Cuban five for the "crime" of discovering plans to carry out terrorist acts against Cuba, and informing US authorities of these criminal conspiracies on US soil".============================Marjorie CohnPresident of the National Lawyers Guild“Justice has suffered a severe blow with the Supreme Court's denial of review in the Cuban Five case. This exemplifies the United States' double standard on terrorism. The U.S. government protects real terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles, who is responsible for the=2 0first in-air bombing of a commercial airliner, while punishing those - like the Cuban Five - who seek to prevent terrorism.”============================Piero GleijesesAuthor and Lecturer“My heart goes out to the Five. I deeply admire the courage and the dignity they have shown through these years of ordeal, and I have no words to express my disgust at this gross miscarriage of justice by the US courts”============================Michael Parenti, Ph.D., Author and Lecturer“The Cuban Five have been incarcerated under false charges. Far from being "terrorists" they devoted their efforts to uncovering acts of terrorism directed against their country. They stole no government documents or secrets and they committed no unlawful acts. The unwillingness of the US Supreme Court to grant them a fair day in court is a measure of the political dishonesty of this supposedly exalted institution and the dismal lack of fair play in the US juridical system. For the sake of justice and for better relations with Cuba and Latin America, the five men should be released and allowed to return to their families in Cuba.”============================ Rev. Lucius WalkerExecutive Director IFCO/Pastors for Peace "President Obama has a lot of soul-searching to do behind his administration's posit ion, and the Supreme Court's decision, to not review the case of the Cuban Five. The reason the Five have been in US prisons for more than 10 years is that the US government doesn't want to own up to the fact that countless right-wing terrorist attacks have been launched against Cuba from US soil over the last five decades. While the infamous terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who was responsible for bombing a Cuban airliner and killing 73 people, is walking free in Miami, it is hard to understand that the five Cubans -- who were not spying on the US government, but rather infiltrating those very same US-based terrorist groups to protect their own people from similar attacks -- should not at least have their case reviewed.”

El terrorismo internacional recibió el respaldo oficial de Washington el pasado 15 de junio
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Holiday Blues in Times of Crisis
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Otro socialismo posible
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