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By Ziva Sahl, on December 9, 2011, at 1:59 pm
Gorki Aguila Carrasco, Yoani Sanchez, and others on Twitter and Facebook report that popular Porno Para Ricardo guitarist Ciro Diaz has been arrested in Cuba.
Also rounded up on eve of Human Rigts Day, Guillermo Fariñas, Antúnez and his wife Yris Perez, Darsi Ferrer and his wife, Librado LInares, Angel Moya, José Ferrer, Jorge Cervantes, and many many [...]
By drillanwr, on October 18, 2011, at 11:32 am
After being held hostage in Gaza for five years Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is finally released and returning home to his devoted family in Israel.
Apparently the deal involved a prisoner exchange with Palestinians.
One IDF soldier for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners (terrorists).
TEL NOF AIR FORCE BASE, Israel — Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returned to Israel [...]
By drillanwr, on August 22, 2011, at 3:46 pm
Frances Martel at Mediaite has written a lengthy article interviewing CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Havanna, Cuba. Dr. Gupta is in Cuba to investigate for himself the facts about Cuba's healthcare system that everyone seems determined to hold up as a prime example of a successful government/state-run system. Democrats, Hollywood celebrities such as Michael Moore [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on June 3, 2011, at 7:37 pm
From The Americano:
I write this short introduction for I know both Ernesto Fernández Travieso, the Jesuit priest who presents what his brother Tomás Fernández Travieso witnessed as a political prisoner in Cuba when he was 18 years old. I knew their mother who protected me while worrying about her two sons. This is a tale [...]
By George Moneo, on March 14, 2011, at 4:44 pm
It's exciting as hell. Literally.
As Jewish American Alan Gross remains in a Cuban jail, held hostage by the Castro regime, Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.) gave a presentation on Sunday about how Cuba is “an exciting country” to visit and that all remaining restrictions on travel to Cuba should be lifted.
“Sharing a glimpse [...]
By Marta Darby, on March 14, 2011, at 3:57 pm
My daughter and I were privileged to be invited yesterday to a luncheon honoring recently released Cuban prisoner, Ariel Sigler Amaya and hosted by Asamblea de la Resistencia Cubana and commemorating the 8th anniversary of the Cuban Black Spring. Organized by former political prisoner, Fernando Marquet and our very own Ziva, it was a wonderful [...]
By drillanwr, on March 11, 2011, at 6:51 pm
Well, he wanted to be just like his idol castro ...
It’s been two weeks, and Villca Fernández has not had a thing to eat.
Fernández, who is 28, is one of about 16 college students and professors in Venezuela who is on a hunger strike – the latest of several hunger strikes in the South [...]
By drillanwr, on March 9, 2011, at 2:22 pm
Slavery still exists. Of that there isn’t much dispute, if any. But how widespread is what many experts call modern-day slavery?
Estimates range from about 10 million to 30 million, according to policymakers, activists, journalists and scholars.
The International Labour Organization, an agency of the United Nations that focuses on, among other things, labor rights, put the [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on March 4, 2011, at 3:16 pm
Por la libertad de Cuba, Zapata Vive y el Asesinato de Hermanos al Rescate
(Click twice to enlarge)
Friends from the Los Angeles based Cuban run periodico, 20 de Mayo, serving the local community since 1969, created the wonderful collage of photos shown above. The link to this weeks fine edition is here.
If you look close you´ll see yours [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on January 26, 2011, at 5:13 pm
Para conmemorar el 8vo Aniversario de los arrestos masivos de opositores en Cuba y su condena a largos años de prisión, se llevará a cabo un almuerzo patriótico en Los Angeles en apoyo a los presos políticos y a la oposición interna en nuestra Patria.
Asistirán a este acto dos valientes presos políticos recientemente excarcelados. Ellos [...]
By drillanwr, on January 21, 2011, at 12:05 am
The mega A-List at last night's White House State Dinner for China's President Hu:
Celebrity star power arrived in the form of singer Barbra Streisand, her hubby-actor James Brolin and action film star Jackie Chan. Big business turned out in force, too, including Microsoft's Steven Ballmer and JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon, among others. Among the big [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on January 10, 2011, at 2:34 am
Via Pinceladas de Cuba, with English subtitles a landmark documentary which screened this past summer in Miami on the life and activism of Orlando Zapata. It's the first such project from the Institute (Facebook), that includes coordination with an opposition organization in Cuba, Plantados hasta la Libertad en Cuba.
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By Ziva Sahl, on November 11, 2010, at 12:35 pm
Just released: Powerful video interview with Ladies in White leader, Laura Pollan asking for support for true freedom for Cuba's political prisoners. (Tissue warning)
From Human Rights Foundation:
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By Ziva Sahl, on October 21, 2010, at 11:26 pm
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet González, a devout Christian, follower of the philosophies of Henry David Thoreau, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, was arbitrarily detained 26 times from June 1998 to November 1999. This Cuban physician, a prisoner of conscience, has been mistreated physically and psychologically and has suffered beatings, threats, [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on October 18, 2010, at 12:10 pm
The repression in Cuba continues unabated. Here is a sampling from a Cuba Fact Sheet published by the Cuban Transition Project:
The recent talks between General Raul Castro and Cardinal Jaime Ortega were seen by many as a gleam of hope for the political prisoners and dissident movement on the island. This signified the first time in five decades [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on September 15, 2010, at 1:48 am
By Ziva Sahl, on August 19, 2010, at 2:30 pm
Where: Manuel Artime Theatre 900 SW 1st St, Miami, FL 33130-1156
When: Sunday, August 22 from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
No RSVP is needed and the event is open to the public. Please spread the word and bring as many friends and family to the screening as possible!
Oscar's Cuba, produced by the Pan-American Development Foundation and In Altum [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on August 14, 2010, at 12:46 pm
Dear Sir or Madam:
We write to you worried about the police and paramilitary harassment denounced from Banes, a small town in the Cuban province of Holguín, by Reina Luisa Tamayo. She is the mother of Orlando Zapata Tamayo the prisoner of conscience who died on 23 February after a prolonged hunger strike that up to [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on July 20, 2010, at 5:58 pm
Cardenal Ortega is certainly looking out for his lord and master, castro, inc. After Cuban state thugs beat the defiant and now paraplegic former political prisoner, and that negative news hit the Internet, the Cardinal helped the regime see the error of their ways, and now they've had a change of heart. Bastards, the only reason he needs [...]
By Ziva Sahl, on July 20, 2010, at 11:32 am
First the lying dictators said there were no political prisoners in Cuba; then they announced they were releasing them. Where are they? Still in prison, behind bars, or the prison of forced exile.
Today is Dr. Oscar Biscet's birthday, he is 49 years old. Why isn't he free?
We demand the unconditional release of all Cuban political [...]
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