<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=4 PTSIZE=14 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Free the Cuban Five!<BR>
Let them go home now!<BR>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT>Hear an update from one of their lawyers after a three judge panel of <BR>
the appeals court threw out their convictions. Now the US government is <BR>
appealing the ruling to the full court.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Hear Rafael Rodriguez Cruz</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></B>, a Puerto Rican attorney, practicing law in <BR>
Hartford, Connecticut who is actively involved in the campaign to free <BR>
the Cuban Five and for the visitation rights of their relatives. He is <BR>
also a freelance journalist who writes on political struggles in Latin <BR>
America. He travels frequently to Cuba, Venezuela and Argentina.<BR>
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There will also be an update on Political Assassination of Filiberto <BR>
Ojedas in Puerto Rico last week.<BR>
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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>Thurs. Oct. 13th 7 PM<BR>
At the Harvard Democracy Center<BR>
To see the online calendar go :http://my.calendars.net/45mtauburn<BR>
45 Mt. Auburn St, Harvard Sq, Cambridge<BR>
$5 Suggested Donation</B><BR>
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Leonard Weinglass, an attorney for the defense, said that the appeal by <BR>
the U.S. attorney is an action that "has no adequate basis in legal <BR>
practice." He added, "The opinion that they [the prosecution] are trying <BR>
to challenge is the most extensive decision written on the theme of <BR>
venue (of a trial) in the history of the United States. They don't <BR>
consider the decision adequate, obviously for political reasons."<BR>
For their part, legal experts have recognized that the 3-judge decision <BR>
cites such an overwhelming amount of evidence, that there is nothing <BR>
that the prosecution can challenge factually.<BR>
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Who are the Cuban Five? They are five Cuban men who are in U.S. prison <BR>
for simply defending their country of Cuba from terrorist acts by <BR>
extremist right-wing groups in Miami. They were sentenced from 15 years <BR>
to two life sentences. They never harmed anyone, yet they are in prison <BR>
while the anti-Cuba extremists whom they tried to stop are walking <BR>
freely in Miami. How did the five Cubans try to stop them? By monitoring <BR>
the terrorists' actions and informing Cuba of impending attacks by those <BR>
extremist groups. They were convicted in U.S. federal court on June 8, <BR>
2001 in a politically-charged trial: the U.S. government claimed they <BR>
were engaged in espionage on U.S. military bases and threatened <BR>
"national security." The espionage charge - and related charges - are a <BR>
complete fabrication. In 14,000 pages of transcript, no espionage <BR>
evidence was ever introduced.<BR>
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Copies of this flyer can be down loaded at <BR>
http://users.rcn.com/c.welch/Cuban_5_RR.doc<BR>
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