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</font><font face="Tahoma" size=6><b>International Committee for the
Freedom of the Cuban 5 <br>
</font><font face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica" size=4>Postcard Campaign
Generates Worldwide Interest<br>
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Last year the US Supreme Court ignored an unprecedented number of amicus
briefs from all over the world in support of the Cuban Five. In keeping,
the Obama administration also continues to ignore messages coming in from
all over the world in different shapes and forms asking for the release
of the Five and the right of family visits. But the lack of their
responses will not deter the strong international solidarity movement
that is growing in their support. We know that the US government is fully
aware of the case and the pressure that our movement puts on it has to be
relentless.<br>
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In January our committee launched a postcard campaign directed to
President Obama with the list of 10 Nobel Prize who support the freedom
of the Five urging him to act by saying "we are waiting for your
signature." <br>
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Right away support poured in from all over the world and the United
States. The idea of the postcards captured the imagination of many who
knew about the case and we sent them to Argentina, Austria, Botswana,
Canada, Cuba, Italy, Lebanon, México, Peru, Panama, Puerto Rico, Quebec,
Ukraine, Russia, South Africa and Spain. Committees and individuals
in solidarity with the Cuban Five took the campaign even further by
requesting PDF's to print the postcard in their own country and language.
These countries included Germany, Spain, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Cuba,
El Salvador, France, México, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela.<br>
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Inside the United States we received orders from many states including
Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Oregon, New México, Minnesota, New York, Texas, Washington DC and
Wisconsin. In California the requests for postcards came from Banning,
Berkeley, Chula Vista, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Paso Robles,
Redwood City, San Diego, San Francisco, San José, Santa Barbara and Santa
Rosa. <br><br>
We are planning a number of public activities in the upcoming months and
we will need thousands more postcards to distribute. And while the orders
continue to come in we have completely run out of the original print run.
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Thanks to the solidarity of friends and committees we have covered the
cost of the first run. We were able to send postcards free of charge to
committees in Latin America that lack economic resources. But in response
to the demand from the United States and abroad, we need to place a new
order of 20,000 postcards, and to do that, we need your support. Any
amount will help and be appreciated. <br>
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We urge you to keep the orders coming in and we thank you in advance for
your help. We know that the Obama Administration will not be able to
ignore the thousands of postcards arriving at the postal room of the oval
office, every day, from all over the world. <br>
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We need to continue to raise the just demand for the freedom of our
brothers. It will soon be 12 years that Rene, Gerardo, Fernando, Antonio
and Ramon have been held in US prisons for opposing terrorism.
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Despite the silence from the Obama administration, we know that people
working together from all over the world are making an impact and the
government is gauging our strength. At the re-sentencing hearing for
Antonio in Miami last October the US prosecutor recognized the
international support for the Cuban Five when she agreed with the
reduction of his sentence because "We need to calm the water of
contentiousness that swirls around this case." <br>
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We need to keep making waves of solidarity that go over the current
campaign of slander being orquestrated by Europe and the United States
against Cuba. This is nothing more than an attempt to confuse and
undermine our solidarity and to silence the case of the Cuban Five<b>.
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Everything that our movement does is crucial in the face of so many lies
and the shameful silence about the Five; let us redouble our
solidarity.<br>
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</font><font face="Century Gothic, Avant Garde" size=3><b>Donate to the
Postcard Campaign <br>
ALL DONATIONS IN THE U.S. ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE</b> <br>
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WRITE YOUR CHECK TO: <b>International Committee</b> <br>
Send your donation to<br>
International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five<br>
P.O. Box 22455<br>
Oakland, CA 94609<br>
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TO MAKE A DONATION BY WAY OF A WIRE TRANSACTION, FROM ANY COUNTRY WRITE
TO US to: info@thecuban5.org and we will send you the necessary
information to make the transaction. <br>
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