[lbo-talk] cuba petition

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Well, I'm just a liberal and not a real leftist, so I
suppose I don't count even if I decided not to sign
either petition, but I do rely on Amnesty, whose work
(unlike Human Rights Watch) is pretty reliable. I
don't really care if Cubans are engaged in
"counterrevolutionary activity" in collaboration with
the CIA, as long as their activities are peaceful
propaganda, they shouldn't be punished for their
views. (Likewise with CPUSAers who took money from
Moscow, met with Soviet agents, etc.) And it certainly
is our business -- would you say, if the Cubans were
boiling dissidents in acid, would you say, not my
concern? Long prison sentences for nonviolent
propaganda -- in fact, short prison sentences -- in
fact, fines or termination from jobs -- is wrong. I am
writing Amnesty Int'l letters to the Cuban govt on
behalf of those sentences. I encourage you all to do
likewise. jks

--- Chuck0 <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >   Edward Said and Mike Davis signed the CPD Cuba
> petition. <URL: 
> >
>
http://home.igc.org/~jlandy/cpd/antiwar/cuba_stmt.html
> >
> > Counter-revolutionaries.
> 
> I guess there are a bunch of leftists who believe
> everything that the 
> liberals at Amnesty International "find," ignoring
> the work of other 
> progressive activists. For example, the radical
> librarians have exposed 
> these "dissident Cuban libraries" as a sham,
> probably being operated by 
> the CIA or USAID.
> 
> I'm no fan of the Castro regime and would like to
> see the Cuban people 
> free of Castro, but as a resident of a country that
> has interfered in 
> Cuban affairs for over 50 years, I can't see why
> this stuff is any of my 
> business.
> 
> Chuck0
> 
> 
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