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Leonard Weinglass To Speak About the Cuban Five in Davis
Don't miss going the speaking engagement by Leonard Weinglass about the Cuban Five on Feb. 3 at U.C. Davis at 7 p.m.
Leonard Weinglass To Speak About the Cuban Five in Davis Feb. 3
Leonard Weinglass is coming to King Hall, UC Davis School of Law, Thursday, February 3rd. He will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. in room 2008. Refreshments will be served.
Leonard Weinglass is a seasoned civil rights attorney who has defended anti-war protestors, gay rights activists, advocates for Puerto Rican independence, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Angela Davis, among many others. Now he's representing one member of "the Cuban Five," a group of men who were sent to Miami to gather information on right-wing terrorist organizations.
Since the Cuban Revolution, almost 3,500 Cubans have been killed by assassinations and bombings planned by such Anti-Castro organizations. "Los Cinco Heroes", as they're called in Cuba, presented evidence of terrorists' plots against Cuba to the FBI in 1998. Rather than using this information to arrest those perpetrating the killings, FBI officials arrested the 5 men and placed them in solitary confinement for 17 months.
The 5 were convicted in 2001 for espionage and threatening "national security." They now face life sentences, and are held in maximum security prisons around the U.S. For more information, please see the official "Free the Five" website at: http://www.freethefive.org/
Visitor parking will be available at the Mondavi Center Parking Lot, right off the UC Davis exit on highway 80. This event is sponsored by the King Hall chapters of: La Raza Law Students Association, National Lawyers Guild, Black Law Students Association, Feminist Forum, Asian and Pacific American Law Students Association, Muslim Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian Law Students Association and The UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic.
If you have any questions, please contact Genevieve Kramer by email at gakramer [at] ucdavis.edu or Gustavo Garcia by phone at (530)753-7975.
Leonard Weinglass is coming to King Hall, UC Davis School of Law, Thursday, February 3rd. He will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. in room 2008. Refreshments will be served.
Leonard Weinglass is a seasoned civil rights attorney who has defended anti-war protestors, gay rights activists, advocates for Puerto Rican independence, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Angela Davis, among many others. Now he's representing one member of "the Cuban Five," a group of men who were sent to Miami to gather information on right-wing terrorist organizations.
Since the Cuban Revolution, almost 3,500 Cubans have been killed by assassinations and bombings planned by such Anti-Castro organizations. "Los Cinco Heroes", as they're called in Cuba, presented evidence of terrorists' plots against Cuba to the FBI in 1998. Rather than using this information to arrest those perpetrating the killings, FBI officials arrested the 5 men and placed them in solitary confinement for 17 months.
The 5 were convicted in 2001 for espionage and threatening "national security." They now face life sentences, and are held in maximum security prisons around the U.S. For more information, please see the official "Free the Five" website at: http://www.freethefive.org/
Visitor parking will be available at the Mondavi Center Parking Lot, right off the UC Davis exit on highway 80. This event is sponsored by the King Hall chapters of: La Raza Law Students Association, National Lawyers Guild, Black Law Students Association, Feminist Forum, Asian and Pacific American Law Students Association, Muslim Law Students Association, Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian Law Students Association and The UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic.
If you have any questions, please contact Genevieve Kramer by email at gakramer [at] ucdavis.edu or Gustavo Garcia by phone at (530)753-7975.
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Hmm, this wouldn't be the -same- Leonard Weinglass who Mumia Jamal's former attorneys claimed helped to "railroad" him to death-row?
LOL
LOL
I wonder how many leftist dissidents in Cuba were locked up by these Stalinist police agents.
To anyone that goes.
Ask Leonard his opinion on the Cuban librarians Castro has locked up in his gulags?
To anyone that goes.
Ask Leonard his opinion on the Cuban librarians Castro has locked up in his gulags?
Jamal’s new legal team of Marlene Kamish, Eliot Grossman and British barrister Nicholas Brown was assembled after Jamal dismissed former lead counsel Len Weinglass and assistant counsel Dan Williams. With the clock ticking on his life, Jamal was forced to fire his longtime attorneys after Williams authored a book purporting to be an “inside account” of his case. Jamal’s petition to dismiss Williams and Weinglass correctly indicts the book as “a breach of client loyalty.” In its statement supporting Jamal in this action, the PDC wrote: “Even within the loose ‘ethics’ of the legal profession, publication of such a book by an attorney involved in an active case, much less one in which the client’s life hangs in the balance, is an abomination” (see “Mumia Abu-Jamal Forced to Fire Attorneys,” WV No. 754, 16 March).
A measure of where Williams is coming from can be gleaned from the simple fact that, in his book, Williams acknowledges one Gerald Nicosia as “someone with whom I have spent many hours reflecting upon the case.” When Williams was fired, this same Nicosia—who has been working on his own book asserting that Jamal killed Faulkner—called a press conference featuring: Joseph McGill, the prosecutor at Jamal’s original trial; Hugh Burns, the lead prosecutor in the 1995 Post-Conviction Relief Appeal hearing; Burns’ assistant, Charles “Joey” Grant; and Maureen Faulkner.
from:
New Evidence Smashes Frame-Up to Bits
Free Mumia Now!
http://www.icl-fi.org/ENGLISH/Mumia758.htm
A measure of where Williams is coming from can be gleaned from the simple fact that, in his book, Williams acknowledges one Gerald Nicosia as “someone with whom I have spent many hours reflecting upon the case.” When Williams was fired, this same Nicosia—who has been working on his own book asserting that Jamal killed Faulkner—called a press conference featuring: Joseph McGill, the prosecutor at Jamal’s original trial; Hugh Burns, the lead prosecutor in the 1995 Post-Conviction Relief Appeal hearing; Burns’ assistant, Charles “Joey” Grant; and Maureen Faulkner.
from:
New Evidence Smashes Frame-Up to Bits
Free Mumia Now!
http://www.icl-fi.org/ENGLISH/Mumia758.htm
Newsflash:
Jamal fired the incompetent Kamish, et. al.
Maybe the first smart thing he has done since he shot and killed Faulkner.
His current attorneys disavow all the Arnold Beverly confession nonsense and are focusing on procedural issues.
Dumbass.
Jamal fired the incompetent Kamish, et. al.
Maybe the first smart thing he has done since he shot and killed Faulkner.
His current attorneys disavow all the Arnold Beverly confession nonsense and are focusing on procedural issues.
Dumbass.
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