[MKE - Indymedia] Cuban/Irish film on terrorism premieres in Milw. on Feb. 8 & 9

[Art Heitzer]

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: www.wicuba.org 
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Cuban/Irish Film on terrorism premieres in Milw. on Feb. 8 & 9 
Irish Co-director to speak at screening of documentary on the "Cuban 5"

Please download (in .pdf format) and distribute the flyer for this event!

A documentary film from Cuba entitled "Mission Against Terror," will have its Midwest premiere in Milwaukee on February 8th and 9th, featuring a special appearance by one of its directors, an Irish journalist who works in Cuba. 

The movie tells the story of five Cuban nationals who monitored extremist groups in Florida some ten years ago to try to protect their homeland from terrorism, which has claimed over 3,000 lives in the last 45 years. The "Cuban 5," as they are known internationally, are currently serving their seventh year in U.S. federal prisons, including Fernando Gonzalez in Oxford, WI.

The first screening will be on Tuesday, February 8, at 7pm at the Central United Methodist Church, 639 N. 25th Street. A second showing, also at 7pm, will take place the following day, on Wednesday, February 9th, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union in the East Wisconsin Room, 2200 E. Kenwood Ave. Admission to both events is by donation, with $5-$10 suggested.


Milwaukee will hold this Midwest premiere in part because of one of the "Cuban 5" remains in prison in Wisconsin, serving a 19 year sentence for his nonviolent efforts to discover and prevent terrorist acts planned and financed in Florida. 

The premiere features a special appearance by the film's co-director Bernie Dwyer, an Irish woman who has lived and worked in Havana for the past four years as a journalist with Radio Havana. Dwyer was previously a lecturer in Women's Studies at University College in Dublin. This is the fourth documentary film she has made with Cuban producer Ruiz Rebo, including three prior films on the Irish heritage of Che Guevara and the Irish influence on the Cuban revolution: 1999: "Che: The Irish Legacy" (Che Guevara's Irish links); 2001: "Che in Ireland" (Che Guevara's visit to Dublin in 1964); and 2002: "The Footprints of Cecilia McPartland" (Irish mother of Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella).


Sponsors for this visit and screening include the Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, Milwaukee Committee to Free the Five, Peace Action - Wisconsin, National Lawyers Guild - Milwaukee Chapter, Milwaukee Coalition for a Just Peace, and YCL Milwaukee.


For further information, call (414) 273-1040, ext. 12, or visit www.wicuba.org or www.freethefive.org.
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