Mission Againt Terror" Feb 4 NYC

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Screening of "Mission Against Terror"

Saturday, February 4, 2006: 1:00 p.m. Reception, 2:00 p.m. Program.

Martin Luther King Labor Center Auditorium 310 W. 43rd Street (Between 8th and 9th), New York

Here is how you can support:

1) Attend the Feb. 4 event with Special Guests from the Cuban Mission and International Guests Father Geoffrey Bottoms from England and Irish filmmaker Bernie Dwyer. Information including BIOS follow.

2) There is still room in their schedule. If you are a student or union activist or a member of a church, mosque or synagogue and can invite Ms. Dwyer or Father Bottoms to an event please call us ASAP. They will be in town from Feb. 1 to Feb. 6 but there are other flexible times so PLEASE call.

FEBRUARY 4 EVENT

If you missed MISSION AGAINST TERROR the first time here is your chance to see it again. And if you did see it the first time, come hear an update on the case of the Five.

Federal Prosecutors have requested and were granted an appeal before the entire eleven judge panel despite the important decision in favor of the case made last year by three judges of that panel. This next hearing is scheduled for the week of Feb. 13.

TOUR OF BERNIE DWYER PRESENTING THE DOCUMENTARY MISSION AGAINT TERROR

Saturday, February 4, 2006: Screening of "Mission Against Terror" at the Martin Luther King Labor Center Auditorium � 1:00 p.m. Reception, 2:00 p.m. Program. 310 West 43rd Street (Between 8th and 9th), New York City

Speakers to include Bernie Dwyer, Co-Director MISSION AGAINST TERROR and Fr. Geoffrey Bottoms, British Cuba Solidarity Campaign, President UK Free the Five Committee. Special Guest: Representative of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations

Convenor and Endorsers: Ministry of Solidarity with Cuba, Church of San Romero de las Americas, National Committee to Free the Five, New York Committee to Free the Five, Popular Education Campaign to Free the Cuban 5, Venceremos Brigade, Casa de las Americas, Cuba Solidarity New York, IFCO-Pastors for Peace, ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, International ANSWER, International Action Center, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Fuerza de la Revolucion Dominicana, Workers World Party, Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico-NY (list in formation).

BIOS ON FATHER BOTTOMS & MS. DWYER:

Fr Geoff Bottoms - Fr Geoff Bottoms is a Catholic priest in the UK with a wide experience of work on peace and justice issues. He is an executive member of the British Cuba Solidarity Campaign and President of the UK Free the Cuban Five Committee in which capacity he regularly visits two of the political prisoners in California and Texas and all their families in Havana. He is also a member of the British trade union AMICUS and an executive member of his local Trades Council in his home town of Blackpool in the North West of England.

Having served on the Lancaster Diocesan Faith and Justice Commission for five years from 1992 - 1997 he is now Vice-Chair of the Blackpool Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Fr Geoff is an active adherent of liberation theology and lectures on the relationship between Marxism and Christianity.

Bernie Dwyer - Radio Journalist and Filmmaker. Filmmaker and journalist Bernie Dwyer is an Irish woman who lives and works in Havana as a journalist with Radio Havana Cuba. She has worked there for the past five years. Dwyer was previously a lecturer in Women's Studies at University College in Dublin.

She and Ruiz Rebo have made four documentary films together:

1999: �Che: The Irish Legacy� (Che Guevara's Irish links)

2001: "Che in Ireland" (Che Guevara's visit to Dublin in 1964)

2002: �The Footprints of Cecilia McPartland� (Irish mother of Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella)

2004: �Mission Against Terror� (Case of the Cuban Five) * ================================================================ NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us ================================================================

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