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We are in the throes of a velvet revolution and once again most are oblivious. #msg-10515954

These are not normal immigration demonstrations. I have put in bold some interesting connections in the three following excerpts.

Leslie Cagan is connected to Castro who is connected to Chavez who is connected to Iran and China. Most everyone is connected to the World Social Forum.

All of this is somehow linked to our show of military force in the neighborhood of Venezuela and Cuba. #msg-10586704

When today’s massive immigration rally gets underway in Holy Week Washington, look for Fidel Castro.

While Castro may be there only in spirit, pro-Castro activist Leslie Cagan is part of the nuts and bolts behind the burgeoning rallies.

Tides’ come in on immigration rallies
By Judi McLeod
Monday, April 10, 2006
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover041006.htm

Leslie Cagan
Co-chair of United For Peace and Justice
Member of the Communist left since the 1960s
Founder of the Committees of Correspondence, a splinter group of the Communist Party USA
Ran a think tank promoting Castro's dictatorship
Set up Iraqi Occupation Watch to encourage U.S. troops to defect and undermine the US effort


Leslie Cagan is the co-chair of the large anti-war coalition United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ), which consists of more than 650 local and national groups joined together "to oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building." She was an original founder of the Committees of Correspondence, a splinter group rooted in the Communist Party USA. A strong supporter of Fidel Castro, Cagan is a committed socialist and longtime activist who proudly aligns her politics with those of Communist Cuba. Over the past three decades, she has mobilized millions of demonstrators in rallies denouncing America's foreign policies; its military-related spending; and its purportedly virulent racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Cagan has often praised Castro's Cuba, which she considers a far better place than the United States. During her seven years as director of the Cuba Information Project, she led numerous demonstrations demanding that the U.S. end its economic embargo of, and travel ban to, Cuba. "In the winter of 1969-70," Cagan fondly recalls, "I spent over two months with the First Venceremos Brigade in Cuba. Just ten years into their revolution, the Cubans had taken control of their history. . . . While we were in Cuba, Fred Hampton and other Chicago Black Panthers were murdered. It was a shocking reminder of the brutality and power of the U.S. government, and there we were in Cuba, a whole nation under attack from the U.S. As Brigadistas we were taking a risk traveling in defiance of Washington's travel ban, but we knew the risk was small compared to what Cubans and so many others around the world faced every day." The Venceremos Brigades were organized by Castro's Cuban intelligence agency, which trained some "brigadistas" in guerrilla warfare techniques, including the use of arms and explosives. Among the supporters of the many pro-Castro rallies that Cagan has attended or helped organize are such socialist entities as Casa de las Americas, the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the Workers World Party, and the Young Socialists.

Cagan condemns what she calls America's "daily assaults and attacks on poor and working people, on women, people of color, lesbians/gays and other sexual minorities, the disabled and so many others." She strongly opposed the U.S. 2003 military strike against Iraq, which she characterized as nothing more than a thinly veiled oil grab. "Oil is not worth war!" read Cagan's UFPJ Website. "How much is the Bush administration's push for war with Iraq motivated by its desire to gain control of Iraq's oil fields?"

Cagan was a signatory to the Not In Our Name (NION) statement denouncing America's declared war against terror, which began in Afghanistan. "Let it not be said," reads the NION document, "that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression. The signers of this statement call on the people of the U.S. to resist the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since September 11, and which pose grave dangers to the people of the world."

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The following is dated but it shows Cagan's UFPJ is aligned with the World Social Forum and has used them in the past. Given the connection between our present disturbances that are
in large part the product of Cagan and the World Social Forum it is obvious they are still working together.

This year, activists with the nationwide U.S. peace coalition United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) say they will urge the World Social Forum to again help bring the world’s “second superpower” – masses of people – into the streets against the Bush administration’s unilateral war and occupation policies.

• UFPJ is mobilizing for demonstrations around the U.S. on March 20, the first anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq, and UFPJ activists will urge the World Social Forum to support March 20 as a day to “say no to war” around the world.

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