This Saturday, supporters and solidarity friends will gather at the 24th Street BART Station to depart at 1p.m. on a bike ride to raise awareness on the case of the Cuban Five.
In 1998, five Cubans were arrested in Florida for conspiracy of espionage. Three of them are still being held in U.S. prisons and their relatives are not allowed to visit them. Although no secret document was ever obtained in their case, they were sentenced to life imprisonment.
The US government never accused them of actual espionage, nor did it affirm that real acts of espionage had been carried out, as no classified document had been confiscated from the Five. Their actual mission in the United States was monitoring the activities of the groups and organizations responsible for terrorist activities against Cuba. READ MORE.
The bike ride is planned to go through the Mission and will end at the Civic Center Plaza.
I don’t really understand this sort of thing. First, what exactly am I supposed to do about it? Okay, now I know there are some people in prison that shouldn’t be there. There are thousands of people imprisoned in the USA unjustly and I can’t help them either. Secondly, I ride my bike all the time, why is riding a bike seen as such a big deal and worthy of attention? Should I start attaching a cause to every bike ride I take?
You mean real terrorists?
I wonder if they care about the Americans that Cuba is holding.