Political kidnapping of 6-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez

CALL FOR ACTION

Stop the Political Kidnapping

Statement of the Communist Party USA

The Communist Party calls on all people of good will to demand an end to
the right-wing political child abuse and kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez. It
is a matter of common sense and decency that a boy who lost his mother and
was floating in the ocean for two days should be returned home to his
father and four grandparents in Cuba.

These ultra-right actions are a violation of international law, U.S. law
and the U.S./Cuba Migratory Agreement of 1995. Call you own senator and
representative to say, stop the inhumanity.

Voice your support for the INS decision to return Elian to his father.
Withdraw the subpoena that will force this 6-year-old to testify before
Congress.

INS Commissioner Doris Meissner
202-514-1900

Attorney General Janet Reno
202-514-2001
FAX: 202-307-6777

President William Clinton
202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461

Secretary of State Madeline Albright
202-647-5291
FAX: 202-261-8577
Charles Shapiro, Cuba desk
202-647-9273
FAX: 202-736-4476

Rep. Dan Burton (Congressman who issued the subpoena)
202-225-2276
FAX: 202-225-0016

Sen. Charles Schumer
Chair, Immigration Sub-Committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee
202-224-6542


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Colin S. Cavell                        "I am sure that in no other country 
in 
University of Massachusetts            the world do all the citizens have 
the 
Department of Political Science        same rights and the same possibility 
of 
Thompson Tower                         receiving top health care as in 
Cuba. 
Box 37520                              There are capitalist countries that 
have
Amherst, MA  01003-7520                high health care levels but where 
those 
VOICE:  (413) 546-3408                 high health care levels are for the 
INTERNET:  cscpo@polsci.umass.edu      rich. There are many wealthy 
capitalist 
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~cscpo   countries where there might be 
                                       hospitals similar to this one, but 
not 
                                       hospitals where the people are 
treated 
with the selflessness and love with which patients are treated in this 
hospital 
and the rest of the hospitals in Cuba. There might be hospitals like this 
one, 
but only for millionaires, only for the very rich. The people, the workers, 
the poor, people on fixed incomes, the elderly, or children and young 
people 
from poor families are not treated at hospitals like this one. The unique 
characteristic of this hospital is that it is open to every citizen of Cuba.

--Speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro at 10th anniversary ceremony at 
Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical Surgical Hospital in Havana on 3 December, 
1992.
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