Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five extends around the world

An extraordinary mobilization of Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five is extending around the world.

To read and sign on to the call, visit www.freethefiveny.org and look for the rainbow. Individuals and organizations are urged to help circulate the call far and wide.

The five political prisoners—Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, and René González—are serving long sentences in U.S. penitentiaries for the “crime” of infiltrating CIA-backed fascist commando groups in order to halt terror attacks against Cuba from U.S. soil.

The Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five call demands a new trial and freedom for these political prisoners, defense of Cuban sovereignty and self-determination and a halt to the illegal U.S. acts of war against Cuba—including the economic blockade and CIA-trained, funded and armed attacks by mercenary “contra” armies operating from this country.

The solidarity initiative has inspired self-motivated grass-roots organizing by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans (LGBT) and other activists who fight oppression based on sexuality, gender expression and sex.

Individuals and organizations from more than 32 countries and 43 states in the U.S. have signed on.

Volunteers have translated the introduction to the initiative and the call itself, so that it is now available in Spanish, English, simplified and traditional Chinese, Farsi, Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, French and German.

ASWAT—the Palestinian lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersexual organization—is translating the introduction and call into Arabic.

LGBT and feminist activists in Croatia are translating and circulating the call.

Translations and downloadable leaflets and petitions are constantly being updated on the www.freethefiveny.org Web site.

More information about the Cuban Five is available on that Web site or at www.freethefive.org.