From: NY Transfer News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] Report-Back on Anti-FTAA Meeting, Nov 28, Los Angeles Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Report Back from Havana Hemispheric Conference on Free Trade with Americas Treaty Wednesday, November 28, 7pm Peace Center Building, 8124 W. 3rd Street, half block west of Crescent Heights Boulevard Speaker: Adalila Zelada, Los Angeles conference particiant and Member of the National Lawyers Guild. Sponsor: Los Angeles Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba Held November 13-16, the Hemispheric Conference drew over 800 activists from across the Americas to discuss the devastating impact of Washington's new plan to pillage the region, to map protests of such super-exploitation, and demand a vote on the accord by the peoples affected by it, to reject the FTAA. Adalila will report on the conference, its debates, Fidel Castro's closing remarks, Cuba's plans to recover from Hurricane Michelle and other issues, including discussion on the current U.S. war in Afghanistan. After the discussion you're invited to help finalize plans for the December 5-9 Los Angeles tour of Andres Gomez, national coodinator of the Miami-based Antonio Maceo Bridgae, who will be speaking in defense of the five Cuban patriots unjustly incarcerated in federal detention awaiting sentences for "conspiracy to commit espionage" charges. Gomez will keynote events December 8 at Loyola Law School in defense of civil liberties and the Miami 5, with speakers from the ACLU, Cuban Americans for the Sovereignty of Cuba, National Lawyers Guild, CARECEN, Michel Shehadeh of the American Arab Anti-discrimination Committee; Gloria La Riva of the National Committee to Free the Five; Kathy Masaoka of Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress, and others. For more information call: (310)419-2983, (213)383-9283 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
