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A Call for National Actions in
New York City and Los Angeles
Saturday, APRIL 7, demanding: -->
End Washingtons Economic and Political War Against Cuba!
End Threats and Sanctions Against Venezuela and Bolivia!
Freedom for the Cuban Five!
End U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico!
Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners!
--> in New York Gather: 10 am-12 noon: Bryant Park, 42nd St./ 6th
Ave.
March: Past New York Times up 8th Ave. to Central Park
Rally: at the statues of Simon Bolivar and Jose Marti,
59th St. & 6th Ave., (south end of Central Park)
-->Reception (Time TBA):
M.L.King Labor Center, 1199/SEIU Building,
310 West 43rd St. (betw. 8th & 9th Ave.)
in Los Angeles Gather: 6:30 p.m.: Hollywood Highland
By the Red Line Metro Station
For More Info: (213) 383-9283 or (323) 556-1932
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Over the course of 2006 the George W. Bush Administration pushed hard to
isolate and subvert Cuba , Venezuela , and Bolivia as the centerpiece of a
Latin American and Caribbean policy of economic, financial, and political
domination. However, 2006 ended with the largest ever vote in the United
Nations condemning the US economic sanctions against Cuba on October 8 and with
the resounding re-election of Hugo Chavez as President of Venezuela on December
3.
Class and social polarization is deepening throughout the Americas as popular
consciousness and resistance mounts against Washington-promoted policies of
austerity, privatization, cutbacks in already paltry health care and education
programs, and unequal trade and commercial exchange as codified in the
so-called Free Trade in the Americas Agreement (FTAA), which is now derailed.
As 2007 begins Washington and the big-business press is stepping up strident
propaganda against Bolivia and Venezuela as those sovereign nations implement
polices of land reform and nationalization of privatized resources in the
interests of the vast majority.
The recent electoral defeats of the Bush Administration and Republican Party
in US Congressional elections register the growing crisis of US foreign policy
in general. US public opinion has turned sharply against the Iraq war, although
the war continues and escalates with bipartisan support and acquiescence on
Capitol Hill. The virtual collapse of the Bush Administrations credibility and
authority, driven by the Iraq war, is heightening the crisis of US policy in
Latin America . This may create openings for US solidarity activists to press
for an end to Washington s bipartisan policies of hostile propaganda,
sanctions, pressure, and subversion against Cuba , Venezuela , and Bolivia .
Congressional hearings are scheduled this spring on various aspects of
anti-Cuba policies, including economic sanctions, travel restrictions, and the
notorious corruption endemic to the large-scale US dispersal of tens of
millions of dollars to so-called dissidents in Cuba . These funds
largely end up in the private pockets of right-wing Cuban-American outfitsa
shrinking minority of Cuban-Americanswith a long history of terrorist actions,
organized from US soil and often in complicity with US intelligence
organizations, against Cuba.
2007 marks the ninth year of incarceration for the anti-terrorist fighters
known as the Cuban Five. The gross injustice represented in their case has been
condemned around the world, including in a thorough and devastating report
issued by the United Nations Panel on Arbitrary Detention which concluded that
their imprisonment was illegal and capricious. Two months later on August 9, a
three judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta made a ruling
on the defense attorney's claim that the 2001 trial venue in Miami, bastion of
violent anti-Cuba groups, was clearly biased against their clients. The panel
unanimously ruled in favor of a new trial outside of Miami. At the beginning of
2007 Cuban student and youth organizations issued a call for a worldwide
campaign concentrated on the period from January 10 through April 30, 2007. The
April 7 Coalition embraces this campaign and demands freedom for the Cuban
Five!
The April 7 Coalition is uniting with Puerto Rican solidarity organizations
who were organizing protests for April 7, 2007, the 30th anniversary of the
incarceration of Puerto Rican independence fighters. In the past year, the
cold-blooded FBI murder of Filiberto Ojeda Rios has set off significant
protests in Puerto Rico and the US highlighting growing discontent with US
colonial rule. Puerto Rico is certainly not separate from the wave of
progressive struggles and demands sweeping all of the Americas. The April 7
Coalition is pleased to organize a united action for April 7 in New York and
Los Angeles.
On May 20, 2006 , 700 people marched in Washington , DC demanding US Hands
off Venezuela and Cuba . This was the first national demonstration responding
to Washington s stepped-up belligerence, led by the Bush Administration,
against the governmentsand examplesof Cuba and Venezuela . The May 20, 2006
DC action, while modest in size, registered an important advance in organizing
a united front for solidarity action. Over 150 national and local
organizations, and prominent individuals, endorsed the May 20 action. The
Coalition that came together for the May 20, 2006 action is reconstituting
itself to call for a national action on Saturday, April 7, 2007.
Now is the time to take to the streets to press Congress and the White House
to end all sanctions and threats against Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia! Join
us for a powerful day of protest and solidarity on Saturday April 7!
US HANDS OFF VENEZUELA, CUBA, AND BOLIVIA!
FREE THE CUBAN FIVE!
---> This Call for the April 7 Action has been initiated by:
National Network on Cuba
Venezuela Solidarity Network
Bolivarian Circles (listed by city)
US/Cuba Labor Exchange
Cuba Solidarity New York
Please visit the endorsers page, for a full list of endorsers.
List yourself or your organization, as an endorser.
Initial Endorsements:
ANSWER Coalition
Haiti Support Network
International Action Center
Jericho
Latin American and Caribbean Alliance ( Washington, DC )
Party for Socialism and Liberation
ProLibertad
Socialist Front of Puerto Rico
Socialist Workers Party
Venceremos Brigade
Workers World Party
Young Socialists
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For more info, write call or email to:
April 7 Coalition
P.O. Box 423
New York, NY 10044
phone: 917-887-8710
email (correo electronico): april7safewebmail.com
web page (pagina web): www.april7coalition.org pagina web:
www.april7coalition.org/spn.shtml -->
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