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Monday, June 13 * No Asylum for Regional demonstration in El Paso, TX Locally coordinated protests See below for details Momentum is building for the June 13 National Day of Action to demand the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela for trial. On this day, he will go before an immigration judge for a hearing in El Paso, Texas. Demonstrations will take place outside of his immigration hearing in El Paso, and in cities and towns across the U.S. and Canada, including Miami, Washington DC, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Rochester, Chicago, Charlotte, Hackensack, Minnesota, Milwaukee and Vancouver. Cuba solidarity and antiwar activists are coming together for the local protests around the country. Among the keynote speakers at the Los Angeles demonstration will be Francisco Letelier, the son of Orlando Letelier, the former ambassador, foreign minister and defense minister under the government of Salvador Allende in Chile, who was killed in a terrorist car bombing in Washington DC in 1976. New CIA and FBI documentation shows that Posada was in the meeting to plan that bombing. The Washington DC protest will be joined for Wayne Smith, former Chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba, from 1979-1982; Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University; and longtime Cuba specialist. The New York City protest will include members of the family of Raymond Persaud, the young 19-year-old man who was killed in the terrorist bombing of Cubana Airlines Flight 455. Raymond was on his way from Guyana to Cuba to study medicine there. In El Paso, Mexican organizations from Juarez and El Paso will be participating, along with antiwar and Cuba solidarity activists from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and other cities. Scroll down for details:
On April 12 Luis Posada Carriles, the notorious anti-Cuba terrorist and killer, appealed for asylum in the United States through his attorneys in Miami. After living openly in Miami for over a month, the federal government, bowing to intensifying public pressure, detained Posada on May 17 and charged him with illegally entering the United States. On May 19, it was announced that he will go before an immigration judge for a hearing on June 13 in El Paso, Texas (please stay tuned in case the venue of the hearing changes). At that hearing, Posada's lawyer plans to resubmit his petition for asylum and argue that he should be considered a U.S. resident and allowed to remain in the country. Venezuela has formally requested extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, to be tried for the bombing of Cubana Airlines flight 455, in which 73 people were killed on October 6, 1976. The Bush administration is so far refusing to honor the extradition treaty between the U.S. and Venezuela, due to the U.S. government's long-standing support for anti-Cuba terrorists. Posada Carriles was a CIA agent, trained in assassination, explosives and sabotage. Posada's terrorist history extends for decades. It is time for justice for his victims. In the past month more than 20,000 letters have been sent to Bush and Congress as part of the "No Asylum for Posada - Extradition to Venezuela" campaign initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, and major press conferences have taken place on April 21 in Miami and on May 13 in Washington DC, helping to break through with mainstream media coverage of the case. This public pressure campaign has effectively ripped away the mask the Bush Administration wears on the issue of "terrorism." The transparent discrepancy between the official position that any country that harbors a terrorist is equally culpable for terrorist activities, and the Bush administration's support and coddling of Posada and other anti-Cuban terrorists, has made plain for many people in the United States the reality of Bush's so-called "war on terrorism." It is now more important that ever to oppose Posada being granted asylum in the U.S., to demand his extradition to Venezuela for trial, and call for an end the U.S. government's 45-year war against Cuba. Monday, June 13 - the day of Posada's hearing - will be a National Day of Action.
Call to Action initiated by the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. Co-sponsors of the national call and local actions: Co-sponsors of the national call and local actions: Antonio Maceo Brigade, National Lawyers Guild, la Alianza Martiana, la Alianza de Trabajadores de la Comunidad Cubana, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, la Asociación de Mujeres Cristianas, Action Center For Justice, Tejanos For Truth, Queers United In Solidarity with Latin America & the Caribbean, Partnership for Civil Justice, Philadelphia Committee to Free the Five, Vancouver Communities In Solidarity With Cuba, Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA), Now War on Cuba Movement, CISPES DC (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), FMLN Maryland, Maryland-Cuba Friendship Coalition, Anglicans/Episcopalians and others for Free Religious Exchange with Cuba, Al-Awda-Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, A.N.S.W.E.R. New York, Rev. Luis Barrios PhD - John Jay College, Caribbean & Latin America Support Project, Casa de las Americas, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Rev. Earl Cooperkamp - St. Mary’s Episcopal Church*, Cuba Solidarity New York, Dominican Friends of Cuba, Jane Franklin - Historian and author of Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History, Freedom Socialist Party, Fuerza de la Revolución, Haiti Progres Newspaper, Haiti Support Network, Harlem Tenants Association, Iglesia San Romero de las Americas-UCC, International Action Center, International Socialist Organization, Jericho Movement, Latin@s for Mumia, Marxist Leadership Collective, Movimiento Revolucionario Nueva Patria, National Network on Cuba, New Jersey Solidarity, New York Committee to Free the 5, New York Communist Party, Parti Populaire National, Party for Socialism and Liberation, People’s Organization for Progress, Popular Education Project to Free the Cuban 5, ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, Queers United in Solidarity with Latin America & the Caribbean, Radical Women, Rosemary Mealy & Sam Anderson - Malcolm X Museum Advisory Board NY, Sandra Levinson - Director of Cuban Art Space*, Socialist Front of Puerto Rico - New York Working Group, Venceremos Brigade, Rev. Lucius Walker - IFCO/Pastors for Peace, Workers World Party, A.N.S.W.E.R. Los Angeles, Latino Movement USA, Santa Monica College Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba, Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, African Awareness Association, Bergen County Hands off Cuba Committee, Minnesota Cuba Committee, Rochester Committee to Extradite Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela, WI Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, Toronto Forum on Cuba, Milwaukee Committee to Free the Five, Wisconsin Committee for Peace and Justice, A.N.S.W.E.R. Chicago, Chicago Cuba Coalition, National Network on Cuba, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five, The Nicaragua Solidarity Committee, National Lawyers Guild, 8th Day Center for Justice, Mexico Solidarity Network, National Boricua Human Rights Network, Gay Liberation Network, IFCO Pastors for Peace, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Chicago Organizing Group to Say No to the National Endowment for Democracy, Socialist Workers Party, Palestine Aid Society, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Philippine Solidarity Committee, Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America, Venceremos Brigade and Delegation to the 16th Festival of Youth and Students in Caracas, Venezuela in August 2005, A.N.S.W.E.R. - Bay Area, Bolivarian Circle International Cyber Solidarity, SF Bay Area Friendshipment, Casa Cuba Resource Center, Socialist Action, South Bay Committee in Solidarity with Cuba, Global Exchange, Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee, US Women and Cuba Collaboration, St. Pete for Peace, Phil Berrigan Institute for Nonviolence, Swiss Peace Movement, Puerto Rican Alliance of LA, WildGrassroots Collective - Norfolk VA, Interpretive Social Science Research, Free the Cuban Five Committee - Vancouver, and many more.
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View local protests taking place nationally CALIFORNIA Los Angeles, CA San Diego, CA DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington DC FLORIDA Miami, FL MINNESOTA Minneapolis, MN NEW JERSEY Hackensack, NJ NEW YORK New York City, NY Rochester, NY NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte, NC ILLINOIS TEXAS El Paso, TX WASHINGTON WISCONSIN CANADA Vancouver
Organize a local protest in your city or town, if possible at a Federal Building or Federal Courthouse. To list the protest in your city, fill out the Event Listing Form. For assistance in organizing a protest in your area, contact the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition at 202-544-3389 or 415-821-6545, or email info@internationalanswer.org. Click here for a flyer containing a box for you to add in your local rally information.
Details on the regional demonstration in El Paso, TX Download El Paso flyer: English Spanish Attend the regional demonstration in El Paso, Texas Contact the West Coast Regional Office of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition at 415-821-6545 or sf@internationalanswer.org for additional details. Important notes:
Please see the below information and links for what you need to know if you're traveling to El Paso: Airport: Public transportation in El Paso: Hotels in the area (of the airport and rally site): EconoLodge Quality Inn Travelodge La Quinta For transportation from Albuquerque, New Mexico to El Paso, email albuquerquetransport@internationalanswer.org, or call 505-344-5049 or 505-268-9557. If you can organize a car caravan, van and bus from your city to El Paso, fill out the Transportation Form to help spread the word.
Send emails to your contacts, listserves you are on, friends, family, co-workers, etc. See above for downloadable flyers (including for local protest, the regional protest in El Paso, and an adaptable local flyer) that you can copy to hand out or post up.
Funds are urgently needed. Over the last month, the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition has played a key role in pressuring the U.S. government to finally detain the anti-Cuba terrorist and longtime CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles. Many of you have taken an active part in this effort.
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