Letter from San Antonio Activists Supporting the Cuban 5
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Template:TOCnestleft Letter from San Antonio Activists Supporting the Cuban 5
The Letter
Oct. 2, 2011
The Honorable Jimmy Carter The Carter Center One Copenhill 453 Freedom Parkway Atlanta, GA 30307
Dear President Carter:
We actors, artists, writers, teachers, cultural workers and other activists in the struggle for peace and justice in San Antonio, Texas, have read the letter that twenty Actors and Artists United for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 wrote you on April 8. We agree with the contents of that letter, which we have copied below, and we wish to add our names as signers to that letter.
We are sending a copy of this letter to President Barack Obama, to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to the five Cuban anti-terrorists who are in U.S. prisons, to the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and to the U.S. office of the International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5.[1]
Signatories
- Florinda Avalos, Fuerza Unida
- Imelda Arismendez, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Estevan Arredondo
- Carolyn V. Atkins
- Esmeralda Baltazar, Fuerza Unida
- Ellen Berky, Architect
- Karen Blaesing
- Roberto Botello , Artist
- Christopher J. Boyle, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Alice A. Canestaro-Garcia , Energía Mía
- David C. Carlson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas-Pan American
- Viola Casares, Fuerza Unida
- Antonia I. Castaneda, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Imelda Castillo , S.W.U.
- María Castro
- Michael G. Castro
- Irasema Cavazos , Member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance
- Luis Angel Perez Chavez , Fuerza Unida
- Magda Chellet, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- J. George Cisneros, Artist
- Laura Parra Codina, Community Activist
- Yasmina Codina, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Carmen Cuevas-Gross
- Dylan Daney
- John Dauer , San Antonio, Tx
- Yvette B. Davies
- Larry V. Don
- Sylvia E. Don
- Ismael Dovalina , Community College Psychology Instructor
- Tim Duda , Activist
- Paula Earl-Orozco, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Rita Vidaurri Eden
- Anel Flores, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
- Fr. Tom Flower, CFJ Priest
- Gregory Fox, UNITE HERE, Local dissident & activist
- John J. Gagliano, Giovanni’s Pizzeria / Deli / Catering
- Manuela H. Gallardo , Fuerza Unida
- Tina Galvan, Fuerza Unida
- Robin Gara , Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Mariann Garner-Wizard, Youth Emergency Service, Inc.
- Anselmo Garza , San Antonio, Tx 78210
- Rodney Garza Poeteatrista of Peace Posse
- Sandra A. Gasca
- Herb Gonzales, Jr., Bexar County Green Party member
- Erika Gonzalez
- Marisa Gonzalez
- María Greenstreet
- Jessica O. Guerrero , San Antonio community
- Dorcas Venee Guevara
- Norma Guzman
- Amanda Haas, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Emma Christina Hernandez, Latino Youth Collective
- Anna Maria Herrera-Guerra
- Bethany Holmes , UNITE HERE!
- Martha E. Huerta
- Jose C. Jacobs, Retired Public School teacher, Laredo, Texas
- Michael Kaib
- Amy Kastely, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Olga Kauffman , RITA
- Tom Keene , Pax Christi, San Antonio
- Judith Cashin Lerma, RNC MSN CCM , National Nurses Organizing Committee – Texas
- Paula Littles
- Ruth Lofgren , San Antonio Quaker
- Peter Maher , Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Lalo Mani
- Adelina Martinez
- John V. Martinez, Prisoners Defense Committee
- Petra A. Mata , Fuerza Unida
- Joel A. Mayer , Democratic Precinct Chair, Pct 2035, San Antonio, Texas
- Deirdre McDonald, Librarian
- Raymond N. McDonald
- Phyllis McKenzie , Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Rachel D. Melendes
- Jessica Mendez, UNITE HERE
- Christine Miller , UNITE HERE!
- Gabriel Morales
- Josefina R. Morales
- Andrea Mota self
- Barbara A. Murray
- Neifa Nacel-Dovalina, Attorney
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Ben Olguin
- Frank Ontiveros
- Hilda Ortiz, Fuerza Unida
- Judith Perez
- Lee Roy Perez
- Angelica Pinales, Fuerza Unida
- Kamala Platt
- David H. Plylar Free man
- Richard S. Pressman, PhD ., St. Mary’s Universisty
- Patti Radle, Former member, San Antonio (Texas) City Council
- Gloria A. Ramírez , Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Genevieve Rodriguez , “Cuban American!” Miami born & raised Cuban!
- Henry Rodriguez , LULAC Civil Rights Chair / District XVI Director
- Mary Agnes Rodriguez, Artist/ Muralist
- Melissa Rodriguez , Esperanza Peace and Justice Center /Pastors for Peace
- Noel Rodriguez , Organizing Director, UNITE HERE Local 11
- Jessica Ruvalcaba , Fuerza Unida
- Dora Elsa Ruiz , Teacher
- Ruby Ruiz
- Sally E. Said, University professor
- Bernard Sanchez , Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Enrique Sanchez, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Graciela Isabel Sanchez, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Isabel Sanchez , Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
- Michele Nicole Simpson
- Larry Skwarczynski , Veterans for Peace Chap/Coodinator #126
- John W. Stanford , Peace activist
- Joseph A. Stormer of Seattle, WA
- Ricarda María Tello de Cuevas
- Albert Tobar , Nurse
- Martha Ann Tobar
- Charles Tuck & Jane Tuck, Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Arthur R. Valdez
- Ines Valdez , Mujer Artes
- Pancho Valdez , Laborer’s Union Local 1095
- Mariana Vasquez , Mujer Artes
- Ramon Vasquez y Sanchez
- Monica Velasquez
- Dee Villarrubia , Bexar County, Democratic Party Deputy Chair
- Norma Villegas , Fuerza Unida
- Roberto von Ellenrieder & Martha von Ellenrieder, San Antonio, Texas
- Michael W. White, Attorney at Law[2]
References
- ↑ Marxism-Leninism Today, Letter from San Antonio Activists Supporting the Cuban 5 PDF Print E-mail Oct. 2, 2011
- ↑ [http://mltoday.com/subject-areas/cuba/letter-from-san-antonio-activists-supporting-the-cuban-5-1231.html, Marxism-Leninism Today, Letter from San Antonio Activists Supporting the Cuban 5 PDF Print E-mail Oct. 2, 2011]