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View this page "Civil-Disobedience-theme-in-the-sentencing-documents-of-the-library-prisoners"

2009-12-29T19:53:32Z

A third attempt to get around this problem. Thanks for your
forbearance!
Click on
[link]
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

View this page "Civil Disobedience theme in the sentencing documents of the library prisoners"

2009-12-29T19:11:08Z

This is a second attempt to publish this page with an operating link
to it.
I apologize for the "page does not exist" response to the earlier
posted link, which failure is a mystery to me.
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[link]

Civil disobedience activities of Cuba's library prisoners

2009-12-29T16:15:57Z

I've added this file as a web page, to show how the nonviolent civil
disobedience technique of Martin Luther King Jr has been a strategy of
some of the Cuban library directors imprisoned in 2003.
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Cuban librarians included in new CPJ report on detained journalists

2009-12-17T02:00:58Z

A new CPJ report on detained Cuban journalists includes the conditions of
several independent librarians. See below, as drawn from
[link].
Steve Marquardt, Ph.D.
South Dakota State University Dean of Libraries Emeritus
Amnesty International Legislative Coordinator for Minnesota

Re: Appeal for Human Rights Day to release Cuban librarians; also news & a post card offer

2009-12-09T00:34:12Z

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Thanks,
Barbara Edwards

Appeal for Human Rights Day to release Cuban librarians; also news & a post card offer

2009-12-06T22:42:41Z

Dear supporters of Cubans seeking to exercise their freedom to read,

This is the quarterly appeal -- with some recent news items at the end
-- for Cuba's library prisoners during for year’s Human Rights Day
(December 10). Again, in light of the economic downturn, this one may
be sent with only a 44-cent stamp. Simply copy this web page and

Join protest against assault on award-winning blogger

2009-11-20T23:28:08Z

To join with the International PEN writers' group in their dissent
from this recent assault on a blogger's free expression, go to
[link].

Stay tuned for the next quarterly appeal for release of Cuba's
imprisoned library managers, scheduled for shortly before Human Rights

Cuba releases another independent librarian from prison

2009-10-22T01:20:23Z

Nelson Alberto Aguiar Ramirez, who operated the Eddy Chibás
Independent Library (Havana) and had been serving a 13 year sentenced
imposed in April 2003, has been released from prison on October 20,
2009. See the news stories below.

In keeping with the old Soviet tradition, his release seems to be

Banned Books Week 2009 CORRECTED (I hope) appeal to Cuba

2009-10-01T16:23:33Z

Fellow supporters of intellectual freedom in Cuba,

For some mysterious reason, the original link to the following appeal
is not working, so I am pasting in the text below.

This is the quarterly appeal for Cuba's library prisoners during this
year’s Banned Books Week. In light of the economic downturn, this one

Banned Books Week appeal to Cuba 2009 to release librarians

2009-10-01T14:29:08Z

Please open the web page link below for this action on behalf of
Cubans' freedom to read. THANKS in advance for your continued
participation and support!

Click on [link]
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't

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2009-08-24T00:57:55Z

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from Cuba451Letters." My apologies for the spam.

Steve Marquardt, Ph.D.
Cuba451Letters group manager
South Dakota State University Dean of Libraries Emeritus
Amnesty International Legislative Coordinator for Minnesota

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2009-08-22T16:33:00Z

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2009-08-21T11:54:51Z

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Confiscations keep Cuba's independent library collections small

2009-06-13T20:00:37Z

Critics of Cuba's independent libraries have found fault with the
small size of their holding. One reason for this is the experience of
police raids in which hundreds of books are usually seized.

I've updated my analysis of these events, to include the translated
text of the reports of Pax Christi Nederlands travelers to several of

View this page "King Biography, gift of President Carter, Confiscated by Cuban Police"

2009-04-13T01:31:18Z

You may have read or heard of the recent visit to Cuba by members of
our Congressional Black Caucus. Reuters reported as follows on the
group's visit to the Martin Luther King Center in Havana:

"HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers met with Cuba's foreign minister
and laid flowers at a Havana memorial to slain U.S. civil rights