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<td>This Sunday, April 3, Steel Hall, 2:30 pm.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span><font
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt">Help us give a warm welcome to<br>
Gerardo Hernández, one of the ‘Cuban Five’</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Gerardo
Hernández is one of the three of the Cuban Five who were
still behind bars since their 1998 arrest, until U.S.
President Obama announced their release on December 17,
2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The freeing
of the three Cubans was part of the agreement negotiated
between the U.S. and Cuban government representatives
concerning future relations between Cuba and the United
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Two of the
Cuban Five, René González and Fernando González were
released in 2011 and 2013 after serving their full
sentences. Cuba maintained its absolute insistence that the
remaining three prisoners be freed and as the international
protests continued to grow, freedom for Gerardo, Ramón and
Antonio became a vital issue in the negotiations.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">A determined
and expanding worldwide movement protested the U.S. vendetta
against the Five, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>framed
up for “conspiracy to commit espionage” and in Hernández’
case “murder”, and unjustly imprisoned for more than 16
years. Family members of the Five criss-crossed the globe
tirelessly to speak out against their victimization.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Demonstrations by the
Cuban people and worldwide actions and appeals by presidents
of other Latin American countries, unions, student
organizations, artists, civil liberties groups, faith-based
organizations, Nobel prize recipients, elected politicians
and others ― thousands upon thousands of people including
many Canadians joined in calling for freedom for the Five.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">On December
17, 2014 work stopped and church bells rang across the
island as the people of Cuba, in an outpouring of joy,
welcomed home the last of their five heroes, people who had
acted selflessly to prevent more terrorist attacks against
Cuba from U.S. soil. The Five steadfastly refused to
renounce their mission, despite the heavy price that they
were made to pay for defending their country’s sovereignty.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Following
Gerardo’s presentation on Sunday there will be time for some
Q&A. Gerardo is in Canada at the invitation of the
United Steelworkers, Canada. He will attend the union’s
policy conference in Montreal next week.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span><font
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Featured speaker:<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Gerardo
Hernández</font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span><font
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Sunday, April 3, 2016</font></span></b><font
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span> at </span></b></font><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span><font
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">2:30 p.m.</font></span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span><font
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">United Steelworkers hall, </font></span></b><font
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span>25 Cecil Street</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span>, </span></b></font><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span><font
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Toronto</font></span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">2½ blocks
east of Spadina; 1 block south of College</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Sponsored by:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">United
Steelworkers, Canada</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Co-sponsored
by:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Worker to
Worker, Canada-Cuba Labour Solidarity Network</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Canadian-Cuban
Friendship Association, Toronto</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Friends of
Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">For
information, contact Heide Trampus, 416-431-5498; or
Elizabeth Hill, 416-654-7105</p>
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