Letters of love and hope : the story of the Cuban Five / Alice Walker ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Alice, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political prisoners--United States--Correspondence.

Political prisoners.

Prisoners, Foreign--United States--Correspondence.

Prisoners, Foreign.

Cubans--United States.

Cubans.

Terrorism.

United States.

Terrorism--Cuba--Prevention.

Cuba.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Melbourne, Vic. : Ocean ; London : Compass Academic [distributor], 2005.

Summary:

Introduced by Alice Walker and with a preface by Cuban poet Nancy Morejon, this book includes excerpts from diaries and letters from and to children, wives, and parents of the five Cubans imprisoned in the United States for "espionage," providing a glimpse of how ordinary families strive to maintain connections in extraordinary circumstances.

It also includes a succinct legal analysis of the case by attorney Leonard Weinglass, outlining how it has significantly violated both international law and the US Constitution.

It's a book about human dignity and hope, with echoes of the Elian Gonzalez controversy and the Rosenberg case, blurbed by Angela Davis, Nadine Gordimer, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Contents:

The Story of the Cuban Five / Alice Walker 1

The Cuban Five: A Remarkable Family Story / Nancy Morejon 9

Simple, Elemental Justice / The Families of the Cuban Five 13

Always a Family / Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert / Olga Salanueva Arango 17

A Golden Father / Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez / Mirta Rodriguez Perez 57

A Human Being Like Anyone Else / Fernando Gonzalez Llort / Rosa Aurora Freijanes 91

I am Here, Always Loving All of You / Ramon Labanino Salazar / Elizabeth Palmeiro 117

For My Unborn Children / Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo / Adriana Perez O'Connor 149

The Trial of the Cuban Five / Leonard I. Weinglass 185.

ISBN:

1920888233

OCLC:

60795117