[Netnews-action] 14 June: Mission against Terror - film and Cuban speaker

[Michael]

>From: "Manchester Cuba Solidarity Campaign" <csc.mcr at poptel.org>
>Organization: Cuba Solidarity Campaign:  Manchester Group



>On 14 June we'll be showing the new  documentary, Mission Against 
>Terror.  The film will be introduced by  Luis Marron from the Cuban 
>Institute of International Friendship  (Havana).
>This will be at Friends Meeting House, Mount St, Manchester at 7.30.
>All welcome, but please note we can only accommodate 30 or so people.
>Mission Against Terror (2004, 48 minutes) was co-produced by Radio Havana 
>Cuba reporter Bernie Dwyer, and Cuban TV producer, Roberto Ruiz Rebo.  It 
>follows the case of the Cuban Five- five men from Cuba who are unjustly 
>imprisoned in the U.S. for doing nothing more than preventing terrorism 
>against the Cuban people. They were arrested on September 12, 1998 by the 
>FBI and have been in prison ever since. The men, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón 
>Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, René González, and Fernando González, were 
>sentenced in Miami federal court to four life terms and 75 years 
>collectively. Their case is on appeal before the 11th Circuit Court of 
>Appeals.
>"Mission Against Terror" shows historical footage of terrorism against 
>Cuba and provides a moving depiction of the case of the Cuban Five. It 
>features interviews with Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo 
>Alarcón, former CIA agent Philip Agee, attorney Leonard Weinglass, Cuban 
>activist from Miami, Andrés Gómez, Geoff Bottoms, Chair of the CSC Miami 
>Five Campaign Group, and family members of the Cuban Five.
>Filmmaker Dwyer is an Irish woman who lives and works in Havana as a 
>journalist with Radio Havana. She has worked there for the past four 
>years. Dwyer was previously a lecturer in Women's Studies at University 
>College in Dublin. She and Ruiz Rebo have made four documentary films 
>together. Their documentaries have been screened throughout Europe and at 
>the Havana Film Festival. They have won several filmmaking prizes in Cuba.
> From Cuba Solidarity Campaign:
>Manchester Area group
>email:  csc.mcr at pop3.poptel.org.uk
>37 Chandos Rd South, Manchester M21 0TH
>Tel: 0161 881 6887
>Manchester CSC website -  http://www.cubasol-manch.org.uk
>Regular Meeting:  every first Monday of the Month,  7.30 pm,  at the Hare 
>and Hounds Pub:  Shude Hill