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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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:46:47 -0400
From: International Action Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 4/7 : Hands Off Cuba, Venezuela &
Bolivia! ¡Manos fuera de Cuba, Venezuela y Bolivia!
April 7: Hand Off Cuba, Venezuela & Bolivia!
ABAJO: 7 de Abril:
¡Manos fuera de Cuba, Venezuela y Bolivia!
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
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!
This Call for the April 7 Action has been initiated by:
* National Network on Cuba
* Venezuela Solidarity Network
* Bolivarian Circles
* US/Cuba Labor Exchange
* Cuba Solidarity New York
for more information, visit: http://www.april7coalition.org
Acciones Nacionales en
Nueva York y Los Angeles
Sábado, 7 de Abril, demandan:
* Alto a la guerra económica y política de Washington en contra de Cuba!
* Alto a las amenazas y las sanciones en contra de Venezuela y Bolivia!
* Libéren los 5 cubanos!
* Alto al colonialismo en Puerto Rico!
* Libéren los presos políticos puertorriqueño!
en Nueva York
Concentración: 10 am-12 mediodía: Parque Bryant
Calle 42 y Sexta Avenida
Marcha: Al New York Times a Parque Central
Concentración: Calle 59 y Sexta Avenida
(lado sur de Parque Central)
Recepción: 6:30 pm
M.L.King Labor Center, 1199/SEIU Building,
310 West 43rd St. (8th & 9th Ave.) en Los Angeles
Concentración: 6:30 p.m.: Hollywood Highland
cerca de la estación de la Linea Roja del Metro
Para más información: (213) 383-9283
o (323) 556-1932
La administración Bush continúa sus intentos de
aislar y derrocar a Cuba, Venezuela y Bolivia
como punta de lanza de una política bipartidista
estadounidense de dominio económico, militar y
político sobre Latinoamérica y el Caribe.
Washington busca dividir y descarrilar la
creciente conciencia popular y las luchas por la
independencia política, la integración económica
y financiera y la solidaridad social e igualdad
por las Américas. Este es el momento de presionar
a Washington para que cese sus amenazas y cese
todas las sanciones contra Cuba, Venezuela y
Bolivia. Este es el momento de exigir la libertad
de los Cinco de Cuba, verdaderos combatientes
anti-terroristas actualmente en su noveno año de
injusta encarcelación. ¡Únase a centenares de
organizaciones nacionales, regionales y
neoyorquinas en un poderoso día de protesta y solidaridad el 7 de abril!
Esta acción iniciado por:
* National Network on Cuba
* Venezuela Solidarity Network
* Bolivarian Circles (listed by city)
* US/Cuba Labor Exchange
* Cuba Solidarity New York
para m¡ás información: http://www.april7coalition.org
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