U.S. Hands off Cuba! Free the Cuban 5!
End the U.S. blockade!
Freedom to travel to Cuba for U.S. residents
DEMONSTRATE - Bring signs and banners
Sunday, Feb. 24, 9 am until ?
2630 16th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
(nearest metro, Columbia Heights Metro-Green line, 14th & Irving - 4 blocks)
Join us in Washington, D.C. on Sunday,
Feb. 24 at 2630 16th St. NW, (near the
corner of Fuller just south of Columbia
Rd.) for a demonstration to confront an
anti-Cuba protest by demanding: “U.S.
hands off Cuba! Free the Cuban 5 from
unjust U.S. imprisonment. End the brutal and illegal blockade of Cuba. End the
trade and travel ban.”
photo: NoWaronCuba.org
Be there by 9 a.m. and stay for the daylong action, or just stop by for awhile.
February 24 is an important day in revolutionary Cuban history:
• In 1895 an anti-colonial war of independence began near Santiago, only to be
cut short by U.S. military occupation known as the Spanish-American War.
• On Feb. 24, 1996, Cuba defended its sovereignty, shooting down two of three
planes organized by violent Florida-based paramilitaries who frequently, intentionally and provocatively violated Cuban airspace -- even dangerously
dropping materials over cities. Cuba’s justifiable defense was twisted by the
Miami courts to falsely charge Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban 5, railroading him to a double-life plus 15 years prison term. The Cuban 5 are unjustly held in the U.S., hostages to 50+ years of hot and cold U.S. war against
Cuba’s independence.
This united defense of the sovereignty of the Cuban revolution is led by DC-area Cuban Solidarity groups including: No War on Cuba Movement, DC-Metro Coalition to Free the Five,
FMLN, Venceremos Brigade, Pastors for Peace, All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party (GC),
All-African Peoples Revolutioanry Party, Socialist Workers Party, Communist Party-USA,
ANSWER Coalition, International Action Center, Green Party, Workers World Party and a host
of other church, student and community organizations. (labor donated)