Crecen las voces en el mundo por la libertad de los Cinco cubanos antiterroristas
El próximo sábado, cuando se cumplan 11 años del injusto encarcelamiento en EE.UU. de los Cinco, igual cantidad de artistas y de diputados belgas pasarán cinco horas encerrados en celdas simbólicas en Bruselas
EL próximo sábado, cuando se cumplan 11 años del injusto encarcelamiento en EE.UU. de cinco antiterroristas cubanos, igual cantidad de artistas y de diputados belgas pasarán cinco horas encerrados en celdas simbólicas en Bruselas.
La acción de protesta tendrá lugar en una céntrica plaza frente al Palacio de Justicia de la capital de Bélgica, y podrá ser seguida en vivo a través del sitio web www.jointhecubanfive.org, informa el portal de la Cancillería de Cuba.
Los participantes se dirigirán posteriormente a la embajada de EE.UU. en Bruselas, y exigirán allí la inmediata liberación de los prisioneros y condenarán el bloqueo que Washington impone a la Isla.
Este miércoles la Asociación de Amistad Seychelles-Cuba reiteró su apoyo a la causa por la liberación de Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero y René González, y ratificó su apoyo a la campaña internacional por su excarcelación, en un comunicado emitido en Victoria, capital de ese Estado.
Durante la jornada, la Coordinadora Nicaragüense de Solidaridad con Cuba también demandó de organismos internacionales y gobiernos sumarse al clamor mundial por la liberación de los Cinco, refirió PL.

Press Conference Announces FOIA Lawsuit by the National Committee
Seeks to uncover more information about journalists who were covertly paid by the government before and during the trial of the Cuban Five
At a press conference this morning, the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five announced that the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund filed a lawsuit on its behalf today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Broadcasting Board of Directors (BBG) because it has "unlawfully failed to disclose specific U.S. government-paid contracts with journalists" who published materials that were negative to Cuba and prejudicial to the case of the Cuban Five.
The legal complaint states: "The public is entitled to know to what extent the U.S. government covertly paid journalists who wrote stories related to the case [of the Cuban 5] ... that were likely to reach and influence both the jury pool and the seated jury while the U.S. simultaneously carried out these prosecutions."
The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, under the Freedom of Information Act, submitted a request on Jan. 23, 2009 to the BBG seeking public disclosure of the BBG's funding of journalists including specifically identified contracts between the BBG and these journalists. The government is unlawfully refusing to produce these documents.
In 2006, a FOIA request filed by the Miami Herald newspaper disclosed for the first time the information that key South Florida journalists (pictured above) had been paid by the government. The FOIA request filed by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five has learned that some of those journalists were being paid before and during the trial of the Cuban Five, and has resulted in the disclosure of additional journalists who were on the government payroll. This lawsuit seeks to further amplify the information we have, and to further expose the role of the government in what amounts to jury tampering, biasing not only the jury pool but even the actual seated jury in a trial in which the jury was not sequestered, and subjected daily to a barrage of negative media coverage of the Five.
Today's press conference was attended by journalists from the Miami Herald, the Associated Press, ABC-TV, WBAI-Pacifica, Radio Havana Cuba, and Roundtable (Cuba).
NOTE TO PRESS: Interviews can be arranged upon request with Mara Verheyden-Hilliard or Gloria La Riva. Please email webmaster@freethefive.org or call 408-823-3391 (Steve Patt) with your requests.
! The lawsuit, Press conf. audio (mp3), Press conf. transcript, Miami Herald 2006 on http://www.freethefive.org,

Demandan a Radio Martí por pagar a periodistas para denigrar a los Cinco
http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2009/09/09/demanda-contra-radio-marti-por-pagar-a-periodistas-para-denigrar-a-los-cinco/,

Foro Interactivo Internacional por Los Cinco y contra el terrorismo
La Federación Estudiantil Universitaria (FEU) y la Federación de Estudiantes de la Enseñanza Media (FEEM) de Cuba, convocan al Foro Interactivo: «Jóvenes contra el terrorismo», este viernes 11, entre las 10:00 am y las 12:00 m. (hora de Cuba) por la siguiente dirección electrónica http://foro.jovenclub.cu

Philips confirma la denuncia de Fidel
http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2009/09/09/philips-confirma-la-denuncia-de-fidel/,

Cuban post offices OK'd for Internet access
-By WILL WEISSERT (AP) –
HAVANA — Cuba has authorized public Internet access at post offices across the country, though it has yet to apply what would be a landmark loosening of cyberspace rules in a nation where information is strictly controlled.
A decree posted on the Web site of the government's official gazette this week authorizes Empresa Correos de Cuba to "provide access to public Internet to all naturalized persons."
Many post offices already offer public computers, but they are linked to a national intranet — an extremely limited list of Cuba-only Web sites.
Cubans there can send and receive international e-mail, but direct access to the rest of the Web is blocked, limits far stricter than those imposed even in China or Saudi Arabia.
Internet supervisors at two Havana post offices said Wednesday that while authorities are preparing to apply the law and have even installed new, faster PCs in some locations, they did not know when the new rules will go into effect.
A spokesperson for the Cuban government was not immediately available for comment.
Even use of the national intranet is costly for locals: $1.62 per hour in a country where state workers are paid about $20 a month. It's not clear if full Internet access would cost more.
Few Cubans are able to pay the roughly $6.50 that an hour of Internet time costs at hotels meant for foreign tourists.
More common — but still rare — are those with access to Internet-enabled computers owned by government officials, academics, Communist Party leaders and foreigners who work on the island. Even there, the government often blocks sites it considers hostile — especially those of Cuban bloggers who criticize the communist system.
Sitting on a curb across from a post office amid the gracefully decaying colonial buildings of Havana's historic district, Fidel Danilo Gomez said he expected to wait two hours for chance to use a computer linked to the intranet.
"We Cubans are crazy for waiting. If there's no line in Cuba it's because the place is closed," said the 21-year-old university student majoring in French.
But he said the idea of logging into the real Internet was appealing: "If I am going to wait for hours, checking a Hotmail or Yahoo account sounds better than using a Cuban account that's good for nothing."
Gomez said that though expensive, Cuba's internal Web is simple and runs quickly, helping to limit the time users have to be connected. The full Internet would run slowly and be even more costly, he said.
"It is very expensive even now, and most people can't afford it," said salsa singer Alexi Perez, who was chomping on an unlit cigar as he waited near Gomez to crowd inside the dimly lit post office and e-mail a friend in Croatia.
Perez said he'd love to surf the Internet for information about music, but isn't sure how to do that.
"All I know how to do is sit down, write my letter and leave," he said. "And I'm a very slow typist."
Another potential problem is bandwidth. Cuban officials say they limit Internet access largely because the U.S. embargo forces them to rely on expensive satellite link to the Web rather than tapping into nearby American fiber-optic lines.
The government of Venezuela says it is nearing completion of a fiber-optic link that will greatly increase Cuba's Cyberspace capabilities. And the U.S. government recently relaxed restrictions on telecommunications cooperation with the island.

Farming in Cuba & Climate Change
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=13618,
AGRICULTURA-CUBA: Ciencia y surco frente al cambio climático
http://cubaalamano.net/sitio/client/report.php?id=1068,

Obama Administration Codifies US-Cuba Moves: How about Third Cousins?
http://thehavananote.com/2009/09/obama_administration_codifies.html,

Chomsky: What America's 'Crisis' Means to the Rest of the World
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/142471/chomsky:_what_america%27s_%27crisis%27_means_to_the_rest_of_the_world/,

Nuestra América se arma contra el Imperio
-Carlos Rivera Lugo
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=91226,

Un grupo en Facebook llama directamente a un Golpe de Estado en Venezuela para el 5 de junio de 2010
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=91234,