[Ppnews] Cuban 5 Campaign Generates Worldwide Support

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International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
Postcard Campaign Generates Worldwide Interest

Last year the US Supreme Court ignored an 
unprecedented number of amicus briefs from all 
over the world in support of the Cuban Five. In 
keeping, the Obama administration also continues 
to ignore messages coming in from all over the 
world in different shapes and forms asking for 
the release of the Five and the right of family 
visits. But the lack of their responses will not 
deter the strong international solidarity 
movement that is growing in their support. We 
know that the US government is fully aware of the 
case and the pressure that our movement puts on it has to be relentless.

In January our committee launched a postcard 
campaign directed to President Obama with the 
list of 10 Nobel Prize who support the freedom of 
the Five urging him to act by saying "we are waiting for your signature."

Right away support poured in from all over the 
world and the United States. The idea of the 
postcards captured the imagination of many who 
knew about the case and we sent them to 
Argentina, Austria, Botswana, Canada, Cuba, 
Italy, Lebanon, México, Peru, Panama, Puerto 
Rico, Quebec, Ukraine, Russia, South Africa and 
Spain.  Committees and individuals in solidarity 
with the Cuban Five took the campaign even 
further by requesting PDF's to print the postcard 
in their own country and language. These 
countries included Germany, Spain, Belgium, 
Belize, Bolivia, Cuba, El Salvador, France, 
México, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, 
Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Inside the United States we received orders from 
many states including Arkansas, Colorado, 
Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, 
Massachusetts, Oregon, New México, Minnesota, New 
York, Texas, Washington DC and Wisconsin. In 
California the requests for postcards came from 
Banning, Berkeley, Chula Vista, Long Beach, Los 
Angeles, Oakland, Paso Robles, Redwood City, San 
Diego, San Francisco, San José, Santa Barbara and Santa Rosa.

We are planning a number of public activities in 
the upcoming months and we will need thousands 
more postcards to distribute. And while the 
orders continue to come in we have completely run 
out of the original print run.

Thanks to the solidarity of friends and 
committees we have covered the cost of the first 
run. We were able to send postcards free of 
charge to committees in Latin America that lack 
economic resources. But in response to the demand 
from the United States and abroad, we need to 
place a new order of 20,000 postcards, and to do 
that, we need your support. Any amount will help and be appreciated.

We urge you to keep the orders coming in and we 
thank you in advance for your help. We know that 
the Obama Administration will not be able to 
ignore the thousands of postcards arriving at the 
postal room of the oval office, every day, from all over the world.

We need to continue to raise the just demand for 
the freedom of our brothers. It will soon be 12 
years that Rene, Gerardo, Fernando, Antonio and 
Ramon have been held in US prisons for opposing terrorism.

Despite the silence from the Obama 
administration, we know that people working 
together from all over the world are making an 
impact and the government is gauging our 
strength. At the re-sentencing hearing for 
Antonio in Miami last October the US prosecutor 
recognized the international support for the 
Cuban Five when she agreed with the reduction of 
his sentence because "We need to calm the water 
of contentiousness that swirls around this case."

We need to keep making waves of solidarity that 
go over the current campaign of slander being 
orquestrated by Europe and the United States 
against Cuba. This is nothing more than an 
attempt to confuse and undermine our solidarity 
and to silence the case of the Cuban Five.

Everything that our movement does is crucial in 
the face of so many lies and the shameful silence 
about the Five; let us redouble our solidarity.

Donate to the Postcard Campaign
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International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five
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