Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin, Code Frustrated Lesbians Pink and other prominent Useless Tools will be traveling to Cuba next week to protest Gitmo, hold press conferences in Havana and quite possibly enjoy a Jinete or three:
The group, organizing by US groups CODEPINK: Women for Peace and Global Exchange, will hold a press conference in Havana on January 9, a conference in Guantanamo on January 10 on prison conditions and international law, and then on January 11 will march from the center of Guantanamo to the security gate of the US Naval Base where the prison is located to hold an interfaith service and call for the closing of the prison. The group will then travel to Havana to debrief the press on January 13. A smaller group will then travel to the US to lobby Congress to shut the prison, restore Habeas Corpus, repeal the Military Commissions Act, and give all detainees fair trials or release them. In both Guantanamo and Havana, the award-winning film Road to Guantanamo will be screened, with a post-showing dialogue with e film co-producer Mat Whitecross and former prisoner Asif Iqbal, whose horrific story of detention is portrayed in the docu-drama.
Of course, this group of fucktards will not be visiting the Kilo Ocho prison or any of the other Cuban prisons shown in this pamphlet. They wont be visiting Oscar Elias Biscet or any of the other prisoners of conscience held in castro’s gulags.
Nope. They’ll be visiting Gitmo, where the detainees live better than the average Cuban citizen.
Here’s some useful contact information for your use:
You can contact your State Representative here.
Senators – here.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart here.
US Customs here.
Also contact the Office of Foreign Assets Control and report them at:
Email: ofac_feedback@do.treas.gov
Contacts
Compliance Hotline (202) 622-2490
Licensing Division (202) 622-2480
Cuban Violation Hotline – OFAC Miami (305) 810-5170
OFAC Fax-on-Demand Service (202) 622-0077
Dana (at) codepinkalert.org. You can also reach Dana by calling the CODEPINK office at (310) 827-4320.
Senators – http://www.senate.gov/
For South Florida Residents
Senator Mel Martinez
317 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3041
martinez.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactInformation.ContactForm
Senator Bill Nelson
716 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5274
billnelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm#email
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
2160 Rayburn H.O.B.
Washington, DC 20515-0918
Telephone: 305-275-1800 or 202-225-3931
Fax: 305-275-1801
http://www.house.gov/ros-lehtinen/
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
2244 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-4211 OR (305) 470-8555
http://diaz-balart.house.gov
Mario Diaz-Balart
313 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Telephone: (202) 225-2778 OR (305) 225-6866 OR (239) 348-1620
http://www.house.gov/mariodiaz-balart/
Kendrick Meek
1039 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-4506 OR 305-690-5905 OR 954-450-6767
http://kendrickmeek.house.gov
And dont forget to send Medea “I Love fidel” Benjamin your thoughts: medea@globalexchange.org.
The competition for most idiotic useful idiot is mighty stiff, but it’s hard to beat London mayor “Red Ken” Livingstone. Apparently, this cretin has actually said that “prior to the revolution of 1959, under political figures supported by the US government, up to one in three Cuban women was forced into prostitution.” One could speak volumes about this preposterous, grotesque lie, but it pretty much speaks for itself and its deeply contemptible source. London, and by extension all of England, should be deeply disturbed and not a little ashamed by the magnitude of this outrageous defamation. If there are any lawyers out there, you’ve got one hell of a case here.
asmobra,
because the best way to win any argument, when you have absolutely no way of beating your opponent with facts and data, is to call his mother a whore.
/sarcasm
BARRRRRFFFFFF ALERT!!!!!! I’m gonna do my part on this, this makes me wanna hurl. Here is one more link:
I might be offbase, but isn’t it against the law for those…ummm…people to go to Cuba? Isn’t there some kind of ban or some such thing?
I just posted a mini-tribute of sorts to true women of courage, the Ladies in White. Cindy and friends could learn more than a few things from them.
http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2007/01/true_women_of_c.html