The Communist Party in South Australia has endorsed Bob Briton as candidate to contest the seat of Lee. Running a campaign is expensive so please help Bob with a donation. You can be sure it will be put to good use in presenting the working class alternative to the voters in Lee.

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From the Consulate General of the Republic of Cuba Australia
08-09-2009

As you may know, on September 12, it will be reaching the 11 year anniversary since 5 young Cubans were unjustly incarcerated by the US government.

On this occasion we would like to thank you for the support you have given to us during all these years and also would like to take the opportunity to request an intensification of the international campaign demanding for their immediate release. We also would like to inform the American people about this case but being conscious that the international solidarity, as part of the political battle, will be what will conquer their freedom.

Different sectors of the Australian society will be receptive to our call; the university students, religious organisations, political jurists, anti-war activists, alternative press, journalists, opinion leaders and parliamentarians among others.

Even when some North American and British media have published some news about the Five, the majority of media has kept silent on the situation of Fernando, Gerardo, Rene, Ramon y Antonio therefore we consider it important to obtain as wide an audience as possible.

To obtain the right for the Five’s relatives to visit them regularly, continues being a humanitarian objective to be reached; neither Gerardo Hernández nor René González have received the visit of their spouses in eleven years, while the relatives of the other three are permanent victims of delaying manoeuvres on the Interests Section of the United States in Havana when they try to obtain their visas.

We keep you informed in this respect to try to understand the essence of this dramatic real life story that shows the double standards of the antiterrorist policy of the US administration.

To know more about the evolution of this sensible process, we would like to invite you to visit www.antiterroristas.cu where you will find updated information about the initiatives that are being developed and applied, initiatives that we put at your disposition so you can help us to multiplicate this message to those places we haven’t yet reached.

And at the same time we would like reiterate our conviction that we will liberate these men, whose only crime has been to save our people of the capital punishment that the more powerful Empire has tried to impose on us.

Because this case is a big injustice we must to intensify the struggle for their liberation, now, at new anniversary of their imprisonment.

We are secure that we count with your important support!!

They will return!!

For more info on the Cuban 5 go to thecuban5.org.

The Australian health care system isn’t perfect, but we would never trade it for the one in the US. Yet conservative US politicians and greedy insurance companies are pushing lies about national heath systems, like Medicare, as a way to scare the American public off universal health care – risking Obama’s whole movement for change and threatening his majority in Congress.

Go to the link below and sign the petition. Huge numbers of us from Australia and other countries including the UK and Canada can cause a stir in the US media and affect the debate. Avaaz – an independent not-for-profit global organisation – will deliver our message to wavering US Senators this month before they cast their vote in Congress.

www.avaaz.org/en/reform_health_care_aus