New York forum for the Cuban Five
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Attorney Martin Garbus, at the podium, lead attorney in the case of the Cuban 5, along with civil rights attorney Michael Warren (center) explain the legal aspects of the of the U.S. government frame-up of the five Cuban heroes, imprisoned in the United States for alleged espionage. The event took place at Columbia University in New York on March 29. Recent information has come to light showing that a large part of the $37 million annual budget of Washington’s counter-revolutionary propaganda arm, Radio Marti, was used to pay journalists in various news organizations to disseminate false information in The attorneys highlighted many of the irregularities in the initial trial and subsequent appeals, and Washington’s continued pressure and intervention in the case, which began during President Clinton’s Also in attendance were Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez, the Cuban ambassador to the UN; Venezuelan Deputy Ambassador Julio Escalona; Nancy Cabrero, director of Casa de las Americas; Puerto Rico independence fighter Luis Rosa, and student and solidarity groups. About 200 people attended, while another 100 or so were refused entrance due to Columbia University’s bureaucratic pre-registration Miami and nationally at the time of the trial.
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... Environment (continued from page 8: “Capitalism damns the environment”) clear power plants in Japan.
The “accident,” which might have led to a new and deadly release of radiation into the atmosphere, dramatically raised the temperature of the cooling pools that stored 8200 spent-fuel-rods, causing a blackout at the reactors that have yet to be fully re paired and secured following the catastrophic tri ple meltdown of March 2011. Yet the Japanese cap italists, as with their Chinese counterparts, pressed by a paucity of fossil fuels, have every intention of pressing on with their nuclear-power projects.
As the above instances demonstrate, the drive for poisonous but profitable energy sources takes in creasingly deadly forms. From the race to re-colo Tony Savino / Socialist Action nize Africa to secure its oil and mineral reserves to the endless wars in the Middle East and beyond— the “oil wars”—to the conscious ruin or subordi nation of promising sustainable technologies, capi talism cannot be other than the grim reaper, the personification of death and destruction until it is forever abolished by the conscious action of the bil lions that it exploits and oppresses.
There is but one alternative, a society based on the collective satisfaction of human needs as dem ocratically determined by the world’s producers, the working classes determined to live well and prosper in the course of building a new world that preferences the health, well-being, and full devel opment of all as against the profits of the rapacious few.
This is the socialist credo and is well worth fight ing for. n
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