http://www.thehavananote.com/2011/04/will_real_terrorist_please_stand_indeed Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up, Indeed!<http://www.thehavananote.com/2011/04/will_real_terrorist_please_stand_indeed> Lawrence Wilkerson Apr 11, 2011 [image: Photo courtesy of Flickr/2sirius, http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterv/578993827/]
*(A billboard in Cuba which reads, "What barbarians. They have liberated a terrorist. The billboard pre-dates Posada's April 2011 acquittal, and is more likely in reference to a 2004 pardon he received for the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro. The pardon was granted by former Panamanian president, Mireya Moscoso under pressure from the United States.)* Several nights ago (6 April), I watched Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up at the West End Cinema in Washington. Six months ago, Saul Landau, the filmmaker, had given me an earlier rough-cut version on DVD that I had watched, but I was not prepared for the final version with all of the added footage gained by Sauls recent sojourn in Cuba itself and the slap-in-the-face showing on the large screen. But the added footage from the island and the bigger screen were not all that made the final version more electrifying. It was, all in all, the *pro *-Cuba aspect of the film that stunned me. And it was clear that this pro-Cuba aspect was not conjured by the filmmaker but by history. Perhaps, I told myself, I knew much of this history, intellectually, academically. But I had never seen it so graphically put before me, in such a tight, cinematic package that seemed to leap off the screen almost in synch with the beating of my pulse. The backdrop of the film was the U.S.-Cuba relationship from the 1959 revolution to the present. That relationship was portrayed quite accurately, leaving no doubt why Theodore Roosevelt referred to the island as that infernal little Cuban Republic even though TR pre-dated the revolution by a generation-plus. That is chiefly because the one-sided nature of U.S. policy has been the same from 1823 to the present. TRs remark demonstrated well before the Cuban revolution, well before the dictator Fulgencio Batista, well before the U.S. mob took over Havana, well before Fidel Castro shouted ¡*Bastante*! from the Sierra Maestra, well before Jesse Helms displayed his latent racism toward Cubans, just how badly the U.S. had treated its island neighbor since the beginning of our republic. So badly, in fact, that the portrayal of it, however evanescently, by a master filmmaker made one want to weep for his country and its policies. I doubt there was a single person in the audience that night who felt any differently, except perhaps the several Cubans who were present who, indeed, probably wept for *el coloso del norte* as well but for different reasons. And then there was the main point, the point embodied in the films title. * ********************************************************************************************************************* * *Premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area of the New Documentary* * "Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up" also Music by the Cuban Cowboys Saturday April 16, 7:00PM La Brava Theater 2781 24th Street, San Francisco Doors will open at 6pm Tickets $15.00 Organized by the Int'l Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 **www.thecuban5.org* <http://www.thecuban5.org/> *Int'l Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 P.O. Box 22455 Oakland CA 94609 United States* ** * **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* * * *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** * Will the Real Terrorists Please Stand Up? by The Cuban Cowboys <http://www.facebook.com/cubancowboys> *16:34* *A long-form movie trailer* http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=148672096837 * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * http://thecuban5.org/wordpress/2011/04/06/new-documentary-on-terrorism-against-cuba/ *This page is also available in: **Spanish*<http://thecuban5.org/wordpress/2011/04/06/nuevo-documental-sobre-terrorismo-contra-cuba-y-las-razones-de-los-5-cubanos/?lang=es> *Saturday April 16, Brava Theater, San Francisco* *Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up! and music by The Cuban Cowboys* *Q & A by Saul Landau Reception will follow* *In April 1961, the CIA sent a force of Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban government. This resulted in the Bay of Pigs Fiasco. Fifty years later, a new documentary shows that US-backed violence against Cuba continued for decades. The new film, with Danny Glover, anti-Cuba terrorists, and Fidel Castro himself (filmed recently) is combined with fascinating archival footage and a rare recorded interview from prison with one of the Cuban 5. These men are serving long sentences in US prisons for trying to stop terrorism against tourist sites in their country.* *Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up!provides every professor and specialist with an invaluable teaching and learning tool about US-Cuba policy and the history of terrorism in that policy. It also explains the story of and context for the Cuban 5, the Cuban agents who penetrated Miami exile groups to stop their plans for violence against the island, and ended up in US prisons. Julia Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.* *Its a real Whos Who of key figures in the more than half-century-long grudge match over Cuba. Tracey Eaton former Dallas Morning News Bureau Chief, Havana* *Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up! produced by Emmy-Award Winner Saul Landau, with live music from the Cuban Cowboys. Won loud applause at the Havana Film Festival.* *Saturday April 16, 7:00PM La Brava Theater 2781 24th Street, San Francisco* *Doors will open at 6PM Tickets $15.00* *For more information call 415-647-2822 To purchase tickets online go to * *www.brava.org* <http://www.brava.org/> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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