http://www.thecuban5.org/wordpress/index.php

This July 5, the actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Mike Farrell, joins the international campaign of the 5th of each month for 5 Cubans and today sent by postal mail to President Obama the following letter:

July 5, 2012

Dear President Obama,

Though I fear your staff protects you from letters such as this, I write in the hope that one of our voices leaks through.  I am one of thousands of people around the world who ask that you make a humanitarian gesture that is also a meaningful step to reduce international tensions: grant Executive Clemency and cause the release of the Cuban 5, who have been wrongly held in our prisons for nearly 14 years.

Together with a number of colleagues in the arts who speak as Actors and Artists United for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, I ask for the release of these five men: Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Ramón Labañino Salazar, Rene González Sehwerert, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernando González Llort.

Release them because they are sons, husbands, brothers, poets, pilots, college graduates and artists who have committed no crime against the United States.

Release them because they came to this country unarmed and never posed a threat of any kind to US National Security.

Release them because they came here only to monitor the activities of violent Cuban exiles who, operating from bases in Miami of which our government is well aware, were planning violent actions against innocent people in Cuba.

Release them because they were trying to prevent more brutal acts against their country and save innocent lives.

As you’re aware, Mr. President, yesterday was our Independence Day, a day many politicians use to celebrate our nation’s laws, its history, and its people.  For many of these same politicians, supporting the so-called “war on terror” is used as a way to demonstrate their patriotism.

That being so, it is an act of profound hypocrisy for our government to continue the incarceration of these heroic men who put themselves at risk to stop the very terrorism we claim to find so abhorrent.

Therefore, I respectfully ask that you to reverse this mockery of justice and use the power conferred on you by our Constitution to do the right thing and allow the Cuban 5 to return home to their loved ones.

Sincerely,

Mike Farrell

Mike Farrell is a member of U.S. Actors and Artists United for the Freedom of the Cuban 5.

###

http://www.thecuban5.org/wordpress/index.php

On Thursday, July 5 call the White House to join the worldwide demand for the freedom of the Cuban Five.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO REACH THE WHITE HOUSE 

By phone: 202-456-1111
If calling from outside the United States, dial first the International Area Code
+ 1 (US country code) followed by 202-456-1111
By Fax: 202-456-2461
If fax is sent from outside the United States, dial first the International Area
Code + 1 (US country code) followed by 202-456-2461

To send a telegram:
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20500
EE.UU.

To send an electronic message write to: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

###

http://action.workingfamiliesparty.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6276

###

http://occupywallst.org/

###

We Demand:
**Good jobs for all! Economic justice now — Make the banks and corporations pay for their crisis!
**Money for education, health care, housing and all human needs, not for war and incarceration!
**Justice for immigrants and all oppressed peoples! Stop the raids and deportations!

http://www.facebook.com/events/354685371252793/

http://wallstsouth.org/

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/WallStSouth

FLYER: http://wallstsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/WallStSouthflier.pdf

###

Occupy National Gathering in Philly, June 30-July 4 (Schedule):

http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-national-gathering-schedule/

###

More info: http://davidrovics.com/

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

###

http://tinyurl.com/87gkrpn

Sign the petition: http://signon.org/sign/tell-palermos-pizza-stop

More info: http://vdlf.org/

On Twitter: http://twitter.com/PalermosStrike

—

Palermo Workers Union Picket Line Hours:

Monday to Friday, Sunday / 1 pm – 4 pm, 7:45 pm – 9:45 pm /

Saturday / 10 am – 1 pm (3301 W Canal St., Milwaukee).

Palermo’s workers and supporters on the picket line June 11, 2012.

###

http://wecanendaids.org/index.html

###

The Rhode Island Tenants and Homeowners Association & Rhode Island Peoples Assembly rallied at the home of Joann Manning on Thursday, 6/28 at 4:00 pm to protest her impending eviction. Joann’s family has been robbed of their home through foreclosure, but she wants her family to be able to stay in their home by paying rent. The bank owns the house and is trying to sell it for an obscene amount, so no one has purchased it. It will sit vacant if they get evicted.

The bank is not working with the Manning family and is planning to evict them next week.

Her eviction date is set for next week.

This is a small window of opportunity to pressure the banks to allow this family to stay in their homes! It’s unacceptable that families are working hard to keep their homes and banks are kicking them to the curb. Housing is a human right!

You can help by:

Calling Midfirst Bank – (Midland Mortgage is their mortgage division.) on Thursday. The contact we’ve been working with is Mary Hensley in the customer service department. Folks can reach her at: 1 (800) 654-4566 Ext. 1204. The demand for Joann at this point is for her to be allowed to stay in her home – 222 Vermont Avenue in Providence – and pay rent to the bank.

Home defense at Hensley home in Providence, Rhode Island June 28, 2012.

###