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STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT'S CUBA ANNOUNCEMENT

The Minnesota Cuba Committee applauds President Obama's announcement yesterday restoring the rights of Cuban Americans to travel freely to Cuba.

Nevertheless, we urge the President to now push forward in restoring the right of ALL Americans to travel. A bipartisan bill doing exactly that (S. 428 and H.R. 874) has been introduced in Congress with 121 sponsors in the House of Representatives and 20 sponsors in the Senate. It includes five members of Minnesota's congressional delegation.

Looking to the Summit of the Americas this week-end, we also ask the President to end the decades-old policy of the United States dedicated to undermining the Cuban right to self determination. President Obama should further:

1) instruct the State Department to issue visas for Cubans wishing to visit the US for academic, cultural, professional and people-to-people dialogue purposes

2) withdraw US objections to Cuba's participation in the Summit in whatever status is appropriate to its current non-membership in the OAS;

3) use his executive authority to partially lift the U.S. trade embargo for humanitarian reasons, allowing Cuba to purchase construction and agricultural supplies and equipment needed because of hurricane damage, and authorizing a general license for US organizations and individuals who wish to donate such supplies

4) respond favorably to President Raul Castro's suggestion of mutual gestures to resolve the problem of people imprisoned in each country which the other considers political, including the "Cuban Five," imprisoned in US federal prison for monitoring terrorist activity by Miami exiles;

5) take steps to remove Cuba from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism

Contact Greg Klave, 763 228-2899
Legislative Co-Chair, Minnesota Cuba Committee
http://www.MinnesotaCubaCommittee.org

Posted on Apr 15, 2009 by Minnesota Cuba Committee

Resolution for Release of The Five Cuban Patriots

Considering that:

---Ten years since their arrest, the US government has failed to produce any convincing evidence against the 5 Cubans, accused of conspiracy to communicate to Cuba information related to the United Sates national defense, because no action by the defendants led them to a position where they could obtain such information,

---Their long, cruel and illegal incarceration, has been motivated by punitive and political reasons. The five Cubans were trying to protect their country from terrorism hatched in US soil and they came to the United States as a consequence of terrorist actions that were being carried out against their country,

---The deaths,injuries,and material damages caused by the terrorists could not have been possible, if they were not combined with the inaction of the US authorities, who ought to have observed their obligations to the Neutrality Act and prevent such crimes,

The Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27 in order to stop the travesty of justice perpetrated against the Five Cuban patriots is joining the growing international demand for their freedom and authorizes Ev Kalambokidis to seek also the endorsement of the Delegates of The Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers (MAP) of the following Resolution:

"The Council of Delegates of the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers is joining the growing international demand for the release from the US prisons of the Five Cuban patriots:

Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez,

who came from their country to uncover the plans of terrorist groups based in Miami and report on any dangers back to Cuba; groups which had already planned and executed horrendous criminal terrorist acts against the Cuban people and the Cuban economy.

Let this resolution be communicated extensively to the press, government, and peace and justice organizations."

Minneapolis June 10, 2008

For further information contact:
Ev Kalambokidis
Vets for Peace, Ch 27
website http://www.twincitiesvfp.org/
email: Vanka485@aol.com

See also (Word Document): Map President's letter on behalf of The Cuban Five
http://mapm.pjep.org/uploads/resources/1217188594.doc

Posted on Sep 10, 2008 by Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27


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MAP Resolves to Request Repeal of US Embargo Against Cuba

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"The Delegates representing the Member Organizations of MAP resolve that the US Government must expeditiously repeal the illegal, punitive, unprovoked, cruel embargo against Cuba. Such an Act will bring about a climate of peaceful, neighborly, mutually beneficial coexistence between Cuba and the United States and contribute to the promotion of peace in the broader region. "
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