View this page "Cuba Update Updated to version 2.1, for ALA Annual 200

[Steve Marquardt]

ALA International Relations Office Director Michael Dowling recently
released a "Cuba Update for ALA Annual 2008," which recounted ALA and
IFLA actions in response to -- and various sources of financial and
material support for -- the 2003 Cuban crackdown on independent
libraries.

Because this document, like the Peter McDonald article in the June/
July 2008 issue of American Libraries magazine, mentions briefly only
the most basic facts of events on the ground in Cuba, I have inserted
additional information into the Dowling "Update."

Mr. Dowling's original text remains in Times Roman font. My additions
are in Arial font.

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/Cuba451Letters/web/cuba-update-updated-to-version-2-1-for-ala-annual-2008
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

ALA Council members NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU, in support of the
"Resolutions Calling For Release Of Persons Imprisoned For Independent
Library Activities in Cuba, which calls for the release of Cuba's
library prisoners of conscience,

This would mean that ALA would join the worldwide consensus of more
than 40 organizations and groups ranging from Freedom House on the
right to the French Communist Party on the left.

I hope that you will contact your representatives, friends and
colleagues on Council today or tomorrow, before the ALA Conference
begins on June 26, or certainly before the Council business meetings
begin on Sunday, June 29.

Council member e-mails are listed at
http://www.ala.org/ala/ourassociation/governanceofficeb/council/councilroster/allcouncilors.cfm

THANKS for your support for human rights and the freedom to read!