Month: March, 2012
Watch this and be inspired! Communist party of India massive rally
| March 23, 2012 | 11:44 pm | Action | Comments closed

See http://www.communist-party.org.uk/ and click on ‘Huge rally in India’

Feds to investigate killing of Trayvon Martin
| March 22, 2012 | 8:33 pm | Action | Comments closed

Check out this link:

http://www.peoplesworld.org/feds-to-investigate-killing-of-trayvon-martin/

Communists to tackle right wing extremism at nationwide conference
| March 22, 2012 | 8:28 pm | Action | Comments closed

Check out this link

http://www.peoplesworld.org/communists-to-tackle-right-wing-extremism-at-nationwide-conference

U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT DENIES PERMISSION FOR CUBAN DIPLOMATS TO TRAVEL TO NEW YORK CITY FOR THE LEFT FORUM
| March 20, 2012 | 9:10 pm | Action | Comments closed

STATEMENT BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF MLTODAY.COM
ON THE STATE DEPARTMENT’S DENIAL OF PERMISSION FOR
CUBAN DIPLOMATS TO TRAVEL TO NEW YORK CITY FOR THE
LEFT FORUM, March 16-18th

The Editorial Board of MLToday.com strongly protests the State
Department’s refusal to grant two Cuban diplomats in Washington, DC
permission to travel to New York City to participate in The Left Forum
the week-end of March 16-18th.

Patricia Pego, First Secretary, and Juan Lamigueiro, Deputy Chief of
the Mission, at the Cuban Interest Section in Washington were slated
to participate in a panel sponsored by MLToday.com on New Developments
in Cuba and a second panel on The Cuban Five.

Cuban diplomats based in Washington, DC and at the United Nations in
New York cannot travel outside a 50 mile radius without first
obtaining permission from the State Department

Founded as the Socialist Scholars Conference, The Left Forum is the
largest annual gathering of left academics, students, labor and
community activists. Held this year at Pace University in New York
City it attracted over 5,000 registrants.

The MLT Editorial Board wishes to thank the Cuban diplomats, based at
Cuba’s United Nations Mission, who did such an excellent job on very
short notice, filling in for their Washington colleagues. They were
received with gratitude and appreciation by a crowd so anxious to hear
their presentation that it overflowed the assigned room.

For more than 50 years the U.S. government has maintained an illegal
and criminal blockade of Cuba that has caused untold damage and injury
to Cuban citizens and Cuban society. But it is now very clear that
the illegal blockade is also used to deny American citizens the
freedom to hear Cuba?s point of view.

With the Obama Administration stepping up enforcement of the blockade
itself; with the administration trying to prevent Cuba from being
invited to the Summit of the Americas in Colombia next month; and with
the U.S. government attempting to prevent Americans from hearing first
hand from Cubans themselves, it is reasonable to ask ?Why is the
American government afraid of Cuba??

We urge all our friends and supporters to answer that question and
then call your congressperson to protest

March 19, 2012

www.MLToday.com

BEYOND THE FRAME: MAJOR EXHIBITION OF CUBAN ART IN SUPPORT OF THE MIAMI FIVE
| March 20, 2012 | 8:51 pm | Action | Comments closed

In April and May 2012 the Cuba Soldiarity Campaign will host Beyond the Frame, a major exhibition by 26 of Cuba’s leading artists in support of the campaign for Justice for the Miami Five. The exhibition will also feature the work of renowned British and international artists, all of whom have donated their work for free to raise awareness and funds in support of the Miami Five campaign.

Paintings by Antonio Guererro and cartoons by Gerardo Hernandez, two of the Miami Five, will also be on show.

For full details of Beyond the Frame exhibitions in London and Glasgow and associated events see:

http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news.asp?ItemID=2153

EXCLUSIVE – ENGLISH INTERVIEW WITH RENE GONZALEZ
| March 20, 2012 | 8:45 pm | Action | Comments closed

Shortly following his release in October 2011, Miami Five prisoner Rene Gonzalez recorded an interview for the Cuba Solidarity Campaign and Unite the union’s new campaigning DVD on the Miami Five.

Watch the interview and the new campaign films here:

http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news.asp?ItemID=2209

RENE GONZALEZ IS GRANTED PERMISSION TO VISIT BROTHER IN CUBA
| March 20, 2012 | 8:11 am | Action | Comments closed

In a massive victory for Miami Five campaign supporters, Rene Gonzalez has just
received permission to travel to Cuba for two weeks to visit his critically ill
brother in hospital.

Read the full story and US court ruling here now:
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news.asp?ItemID=2210