[MKE - Indymedia] WI Cuba Coalition Meets Tues., 7pm; Right to Travel Campaign & Fedl. elections in WI; Nov. 9 Benefit/Program on Guantanamo

[WI Cuba Coalition]

News issued by: Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba
633 W. Wisconsin Ave. Suite 1410, Milwaukee, WI 53203
(414) 273-1040 ext. 12; cubawifriends at mindspring.com
Check out our website: http://www.wicuba.org



Tuesday August 10, 2004

Coalition meeting

Regular meeting, 7pm at the Central United Methodist Church, 639 N. 25th
St.(at Wisconsin Ave).



Proposed Agenda/Discussion items:



1. Our Cuba travel petition campaign is nearing the "finish line."  Can you
help?

[We still need a few 100 signatures, to reach at least 1,000 to present to
President Bush or his campaign by the election! -- Can you print & try to
fill up a sheet in the the next 10 days (18 signatures per page)?  Just
click on http://www.wicuba.org/ftt%20petition.doc; we'll also post an info
flyer to share with people!]



2. Other impact on Presidential/VP campaign & Congressional races in
Wisconsin: we had a very successful 4th Congl. Dist. Candidates Forum in
August. Now we'd like to quickly send a survey to each candidate re key
U.S./Cuba issues.



3. Our Nov. 9th Program/Benefit: at 7pm at CUMC,  A multimedia presentation
based on the book Guantanamo: What the World Should Know, by Michael Ratner,
President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, and featuring the
Australian feature documentary (2004) "The President vs. David Hicks." (You
can also view/tape that film if you have access to Sundance channel 440 on
Warner Cable in Milw., Tuesday Oct 12 at 6pm Central time; details below.)
Flyer is attached, and its text is below. All proceeds will go for Hurricane
relief in Haiti & Cuba.



4. A short report from the National Network on Cuba (NNOC meeting in
Washington, D.C. on Oct. 2-3rd)



5. If possible, a financial report.

6. Other items as suggested.

Below:  A. Text of flyer for the November 9th program

            B. info on feature documentary: THE PRESIDENT VERSUS DAVID HICKS

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A. Flyer text for the November 9th program:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, asks Americans:

"Is this something you want done in your name? Isn’t it time there was the
same sense of outrage that people had about apartheid? That people should
have had about the Holocaust? What would happen if it was Americans held by
another country in these conditions?"

A multimedia presentation based on the book Guantanamo: What the World
Should Know, by Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional
Rights, and featuring the Australian feature documentary (2004) "The
President vs. David Hicks." Mr. Hicks, a young Australian, was held in
Guantanamo without charges for over two years, and now faces a US military
tribunal.

at Central United Methodist Church
639 N. 25th Street (25th & Wisconsin Ave.)
with free off-street parking south of the church

A benefit for Hurricane relief in Haiti & Cuba (by donation).

For more information, visit our website: www.wicuba.org

Sponsored by the Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba
www.wicuba.org, Peace Action WI www.peaceactionWI.org, and Nat’l. Lawyers
Guild Milw. www.nlg.org/milw

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B. THE PRESIDENT VERSUS DAVID HICKS
directed by Curtis Levy (Australian, 2004, 81 MINS, Color)
Showing: Tuesday Oct.12, 2004, 6:00 PM (central time)

This is Sundance's description: The father of a young Australian who
embraced fundamentalist Muslim ideals, and came to be labeled a "unlawful
combatant" by President Bush, retraces his son's journey from Adelaide to
Guantánamo Bay in this compelling documentary by Curtis Levy. With excerpts
from letters to family and friends and interviews with a former Guantánamo
detainee and a Northern Alliance commander, this disturbing and
thought-provoking film contemplates the transformation of a naïve horse
trainer and rodeo rider into an anti-Semitic acolyte.

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