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Post article
creates space for others
to write about the Five
BY Jean-Guy Allard
 FOR
people in the United States in solidarity with the
Five, the Washington Post article on the case
of these anti-terrorist Cuban fighters held in U.S.
prisons brings important encouragement, after such a
long struggle to win space in the U.S. media.
"Just imagine. I was in Washington this weekend
when I bought the newspaper and saw the article.
What a surprise!" commented Gloria La Riva,
coordinator of the U.S. National Committee to Free
the Five (www.freethefive.org).
What is the significance of the article? "It is
the first time that a nationally important
newspaper has written on the Five. And it did so in
a very profound way... The other U.S. daily that is
as politically important, The New York Times,
has virtually ignored the case so far," La Riva said,
adding, "Of course, the Post is also the main
Washington daily, so it should have an impact," La
Riva added.
The Post has a large circulation: the most
recent figure is 690,700.
"The article is very long. It starts on the front
page and is about 120 centimeters long. It is
illustrated with a photo taken in Cuba of a poster
that includes the word ‘VOLVERAN,’" Gloria said,
explaining that the group she coordinates has been
distributing copies of the article to journalists
both locally and nationwide, urging them to cover
the case.
"I think that the Post article has created space
for others to write about the Five and for
politicians in Washington to think about the case,"
she noted.
"The article’s tone is objective, and it gives
space to Cuban leader Ricardo Alarcón; moreover, the
writer treats the mission of the Five as a
legitimate issue, something unusual here," the
solidarity activist commented.
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-- Russian Nobel
laureate for freedom for the Five
May 4, 2006
THE winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics,
Zhores Alferov, affirmed on Wednesday, May 3 that
the battle to free the five Cubans imprisoned in the
United States for combating terrorism is a difficult
one, but will triumph because it is just.
--
Free the Five
action in
Dominican Republic
March 4, 2006
SANTIAGO,
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.—Five people, handcuffed and
wearing prison uniforms, flanked by young people
carrying placards drawing attention to a rigged tria,
paraded in the closure of the Santiago de los
Caballeros Carnival to call for the release of the
five Cuban patriots incarcerated in the United
States for combating terrorism.
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10,000-plus Britons ask the U.S.
Attorney General to release the Five
February 10, 2006
LONDON, February 8.—Nobel
Literature Prize laureate Harold Pinter, 110 MPs and
15 general secretaries of the principal UK trade
unions are among thousands of names included in an
open letter sent by the British Cuba Solidarity
Campaign to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzáles,
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