Gloria La Riva at Media Island

Start: Mar 21 2008 - 6:00pm

On March 21, Olympia gets the opportunity to see Gloria La Riva. She is the coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five and presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She will speak at Media Island (816 Adams St., across from the downtown Timberland library) on the current economic and political situation in Cuba and to update the community of the struggle to Free the Cuban Five, serving unjust sentences in U.S. prisons.

The event, free to the public, begins at 6 p.m. and there will be plenty of time for open discussion and questions. The event is sponsored by Olympia Movement for Justice and Peace (OMJP), Olympia Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES).

For more information about Gloria and the Cuban Five, please check out these websites:
http://larivaforpresident.blogspot.com/
http://www.freethefive.org/whoarethefive.htm
http://www.pslweb.org (the party website and also a great site for national, international news)

Here is information that will be posted on a flyer shortly around town: The Cuban elections, Fidel Castro, & the Cuban 5 Join a lively discussion about: What will take place in Cuba now, with Fidel stepping down?; What are Cuban elections like?; Who are the Cuban Five?; Why are they in U.S. prison for stopping terrorism?; How do people get to visit Cuba despite the travel ban? Come hear Gloria La Riva, longtime activist in the Cuba solidarity movement, and coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five. She has written extensively on the Cuban revolution, and spoke at the million-strong May Day rallies in Havana, 200 and 2002. She will speak in Olympia on the current economic and political situation in Cuba and to update the community of the struggle to Free the Cuban Five, serving unjust sentences in U.S. prisons. The Cuban Five are five men who came from Cuba to infiltrate the right-wing anti-Cuba terrorist groups in Miami, in order to stop their terrorist attacks. Those terrorist groups have caused much suffering to the Cuban people, killing over 3,400 and injuring over 2,000 people on the island. The Five (Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez, were wrongly charged and convicted by the U.S. government of "espionage conspiracy", but the Five were never engaged in any conspiracy against the United States. They were only monitoring the actions of the terrorists to stop those attacks and save the lives of innocent people. There is a worldwide campaign of supporters working to gain the Five's freedom: VISIT www.FreetheFive.org

Friday, March 21, 6 p.m.
Media Island, 816 Adams St., Olympia, WA
free to the public

To contact organizers of this event: 253-334-8781 or 360-867-1477