Colombia Support Network

REMINDER OF THE UPCOMING MOVIE SERIES ON COLOMBIA

Thursday December 1 : MARMATO Red Gym at 4:45 p.m
Chronicles how the townspeople confront a Canadian mining company that wants the $ 20 Billion in gold beneath their homes

Throughout the day thousands of Cubans in Havana joined long lines to pay tribute at the Jose Marti Memorial, where a display showing a young Fidel in military uniform was perched among flowers. The Plaza de la Revolucion is the same place where Fidel once delivered rousing, marathon speeches over half a century.

A caravan carrying Fidel’s ashes will depart Havana Wednesday en route to the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, his final resting place, in a reversal of the leader’s historic journey from Santiago de Cuba to Havana in 1959 to mark the triumph of the Cuban revolution which ousted the U.S.-backed military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

The four-day procession will conclude with a mass event and a state funeral in Santiago de Cuba, where Fidel’s ashes will be put to rest at the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, which houses the remains of Cuban independence hero Jose Marti and other national heroes. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/index.html

Crowds in Havana bid farewell to Comandante Fidel. | Photo: Reuters

http://fightfor15.org/november29/

Hundreds of arrests in hundreds of cities so far today. We won’t back down. We won’t back up. Tune-In: http://www.fightfor15.org  #FightFor15

From Jennifer Meeropol, Executive Director of the Rosenberg Fund For Children: http://www.rfc.org/

On December 1st, my father and uncle will travel to the White House to make a public plea to President Obama to exonerate my grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg, and to deliver our petition with your signature and that of over 40,000 other people.

I’m proud that my Congressman, Jim McGovern (MA 2nd District), is suporting this effort, and is sending his own letter to the President this week urging him to act. My father and uncle have asked other legislators in their home states of Massachusetts and New York to join Congressman McGovern in backing this campaign and contacting the White House. My family was also very encouraged that The Boston Globe ran a stunning, fulll-page editorial on Thanksgiving Day, calling on President Obama to act.

Will you help, by calling these members of Congress and asking them to support the campaign to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg?

Here’s a suggestion of what to say: “A huge body of evidence shows Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy and our government knew that but executed her anyway. Please join Congressman Jim McGovern and The Boston Globe, and issue a public statement supporting the petition to exonerate Ethel (found at www.rfc.org/ethel). I also urge you to contact President Obama to ask him to act on the request that Ethel’s sons Robert and Michael Meeropol have submitted.”

• Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA): (617) 565-3170
• Senator Ed Markey (MA): (202) 224-2742
• Representative Richard Neal (MA, 1st District): (413) 785-0325

Momentum is growing and time is running out. Please help with this urgent request now, and reply to this email to let me know the response you get to your calls.

http://www.rfc.org/

ARTICLE BY Abayomi Azikiwe of the Pan-African News Wire: http://bit.ly/2gEdOgl

No other political figure outside of Africa symbolized global solidarity with the aspirations of the people from the northern regions to the sub-continent than Comandante President Fidel Castro Ruz of the Republic of Cuba.

Historical, political and cultural ties between the people of Africa and Cuba extend back for over five centuries. Cuba was colonized by European empires utilizing the labor of enslaved Africans whose super-exploitation laid the basis for the rise of world capitalism and imperialism.

In a speech delivered by President Castro on April 19, 1976 in Havana commemorating the 15^th anniversary of the heroic victory over exiled mercenaries coordinated by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs), the Cuban leader said: “We are a Latin African people – enemies of colonialism, neocolonialism, racism, apartheid, which Yankee imperialism aids and protects.” (http://www.rhodesia.nl/giron.htm)

http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/

The Pan-African News Wire is an international electronic press service designed to foster intelligent discussion on the affairs of African people throughout the continent and the world. The press agency was founded in January of 1998 and has published thousands of articles and dispatches in newspapers, magazines, journals, research reports, blogs and websites throughout the world. The PANW represents the only daily international news source on pan-african and global affairs. PANW editor Abayomi Azikiwe is often solicited by various newspaper, radio and television stations for comment and analysis on local, national and world affairs. He serves as a political analyst for Press TV and RT worldwide satellite television news networks as well as other international media in the areas of African and world affairs. He has appeared on numerous television and radio networks including Al Jazeera, CCTV, BBC, NPR, Radio Netherlands, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, South Africa Radio 786, Belgian Pirate Radio, TVC Nigeria and others.

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