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dipsydoodle

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Sat Feb 18, 2012, 01:36 PM Feb 2012

US Activists Support Freedom of Cuban Five

Washington, Feb 18 (Prensa Latina) With a call to support the campaign for the liberation of the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters in prison in the US, mostly known in the world as the Cuban Five, US movement Occupy Wall Street supported the cause of the Cuban Five Friday.

Members of Occupy Oakland (California), one of the branches of OWS, a group spread to the whole US, convoked for Monday, February 20 to a National Occupation Day for the Cuban Five, close to the prison of San Quentin, north of the city of San Francisco, California.

The National Committee for the Release of the Cuban Five exhorted all the solidary people with the cause of the five anti-terrorist fighters to join the national protest, under the slogan "Free the Cuban Five and All Political Prisoners. End Massive Imprisonment. No to Death Penalty."

The convoking at the website of the organization said that for the national protest, they will count on a declaration by the Cuban Five themselves, to be distributed criminal massive imprisonment and support the campaign for the release of political prisoners.

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=479261&Itemid=1

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