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  • Video: Close Gitmo, End Torture Demonstration at U.S. Justice Department
    12 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 11, 2011, scores of Human Rights activists demonstrated outside the U.S. Justice Department, in Washington, D.C. They were staging “a day of action,” directed at closing Gitmo and ending torture. There were no arrests. Featured in this video are: Author Andy Worthington; activists Ruth Hooke and Ray McGovern; and Peace Poet, Luke Nephew. To learn about the moral and legal reasons for this protest action, please go to: http://www.witnesstorture.org/ To check out a (…)

  • Slideshow of 25 photos from the Close Gitmo rally, at the U.S. Justice Department
    12 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Here’s a slideshow of 25 photos from the anti-torture, close Gitmo rally, at the U.S. Justice Department, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 11, 2011.

  • letter of january to Obama.
    1 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mister President Obama
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and René González, have not yet been liberated, they are still rotting away in prison in your country.
    You have already, as is the custom at Christmastime, granted a pardon to several convicts – drug traffickers and individuals who have committed fraudulent acts. You haven’t lifted a finger for the five (…)

  • letter of december to Obama.
    1 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mr. Barak Obama, President The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    Last October 8th, on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Lui Xiaobo, from China, you declared – “Fundamental human rights must be respected for every man, woman and child”. How can you, Mister President, make such a remark and at the same time fail to respect these rights in the country that you govern? This same October 8th, two Cuban women, (…)

  • letter of november to Obama.
    2 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mister President Obama November 2nd, 2010 The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    In a previous letter, I wrote to you: “The United State’s hypocrisy is flagrant; it condemns the Cuban government’s actions while sweeping their own crimes under the rug”. This is not an unfounded accusation, I have been striving to show this in every letter that I’ve been sending you every month.
    While the five Cuban patriots, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio (…)

  • letter of october to Obama.
    6 October 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    The letter that I’m sending you this month is rather special.
    Because, since last September 12th, the five Cubans - René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González et Antonio Guerrero – have started their thirteenth year of imprisonment in your country. (…)

  • letter of september to Obama
    1 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Barack H. Obama
    The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    Last August 13th, nineteen mountain climbers from the Southwest of France scaled the highest summit of our Basque-Bearn Pyrenees, the Auñamendi Mountain (2,504 m).
    We were demanding, by this symbolic act, in the name of their many friends in our region, the liberation of five Cubans – (…)

  • the "Five" to the mountain
    18 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is a little video (8 mn) of the mounted to the "pic d’Anie" (Pyrénées, France), for the five Cubans Gerardo, Fernando, René, Antonio, y Ramon, in prisons in USA.

  • letter(s) of august to Obama
    2 August 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wrote two letters. Learning the second, you’ll understand why.
    August 2nd 2010
    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    We’re coming into the twelfth anniversary of the incarceration of the Cuban Five -René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero- these patriots are still behind bars in your country.
    And yet, just a little reflection leads us to realize the (…)

  • the letter of march to Obama
    3 March 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    March 1st, 2010
    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    (Translate by William Peterson)
    Mister President, When you receive this letter, five Cubans: Fernando González, René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández and Antonio Guerrero, will have been imprisoned in your (…)