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EVENTS & GROUPS

Upcoming Events
Below are some activities you’re invited to, along with contact information for a range of local organizations (many of them NNOC members, though not all). Use the list to the right to jump to your location in North America or just scroll down. (Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and South America contact information is in the 'International Solidarity' category of the links section.)

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updated Tuesday 20 February 2007

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

Canadian Network on Cuba National Meeting
Saturday/Sunday/Monday, August 30 – September 1
Toronto

The Canadian Network on Cuba is having its AGM/convention in Toronto for the member organizations from across Canada.
For more info and for CCFA Toronto members or members of other groups who belong to the CNC, who want to attend, please contact Sharon– 905-951-8499 or info(at)ccfatoronto.ca People are coming from across Canada plus a representative from the USA organization.

Demonstration at the Republican National Convention
Monday September 1st
Minneapolis, MN

Volunteers are needed to help get out information on the Cuban 5 at the Republican National Convention protest. There will be a large demonstration there, and this will give us an opportunity to reach thousands of new people about the case of the Cuban 5. If you are going and would like to help out, please call Stan Smith, 773-376-7521

Free the Five National Demonstration
Saturday, September 13th, at 10am, noon, and 2:30pm
Gather at Malcolm X Park, march to White House at noon, indoor rally (location TBA) at 2:30

Ten years of injustice is enough! The Five - Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, René González, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero - are serving the 10th year of their unjust prison sentence, which totals four life sentences plus 77 years. Their "crime?" Trying to prevent terrorist attacks planned and carried out from U.S. soil by ultra right violent organizations, through simply monitoring their activities and alerting Cuba about impending attacks.

September 13th marks the tenth year of their unjust imprisonment.

Over the decades, attacks by mercenary organizations based in Florida have resulted in the deaths of 3478 Cuban people and permanent injuries to 2099 people. At the same time self-confessed terrorist Posada Carriles, along with Orlando Bosch (another well-documented terrorist and both having a known history of working with such groups) masterminded the first act of aviation terrorism in our hemisphere, carried out the midair bombing of a Cubana airliner on Oct. 6th, 1976, which resulted in the deaths of all 73 people aboard.

The U.S. government had full prior knowledge of this plot and instead of alerting Cuba about this terrorist action in the making, it turned a blind eye. Now it is three years since Luis Posada Carriles was smuggled into the United States. The government of Venezuela has demanded his extradition to face justice for his crimes but, instead, he is walking free in Miami and uttering more threats against Cuba and other nations.

What's more, many of the Five’s relatives have encountered great obstacles in trying to visit them, particularly in the case of Adriana Pérez and Olga Salanueva, who have been denied visas to visit their husbands for ten years.

WE DEMAND

*Free the Five

*Extradite Posada Carriles to Venezuela

*Visitation rights for the families of the Five

ALL OUT FOR SEPTEMBER 13th!

Organized by: the National Network on Cuba, the National Committe to Free the Five, and scores of other national and local organization

Contact: 917.887.8710, website http://sept13freethecuban5.tripod.com/