African-American civil rights activist Angela Davis to Attend World Meeting on Cuban

[Moorbey]

African-American civil rights activist Angela Davis to Attend World Meeting on Cuban Five




African-American civil rights activist Angela Davis will attend the 4th International Colloquium on the case of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States. The forum will be held in the eastern Cuban city of Holguin on November 7th and 8th.

Angela Davis will be accompanying a group of outstanding American intellectuals that will join hundreds of Cuba solidarity activists from 35 countries, as well as foreign youth studying in Cuba.

The event is organized by the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP) and will be hosted by the Expo-Holguin Exhibit and Conference Center.

Participants will demand the release of Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Rene Gonzalez, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino, better known as the Cuban Five. Relatives of the Five will take part in the event via the Internet. An exhibit of paintings by Antonio Guerrero will be displayed at the Conference Center.

The Cuban Five were framed and arrested by FBI agents in 1998. Following a biased trial held in the U.S. city of Miami, they were given harsh sentences. Their only "crime" had been to collect information on South Florida-based ultra-right, anti-Cuba terrorist organizations.

[Majadi]

I would have loved to have gone to this, and then sneak off and get an interview with Mama Assata, bring back the recording and play it on Assata Radio!!!