National Committee To Free The Cuban Five Bulletin

National Committee To Free The Cuban Five Bulletin



URGENT: www.freethefive.org website unavailable



Sometime during the morning of August 20, just as the appeals hearings were about to begin in Atlanta, the website of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five at www.freethefive.org was taken offline by our web hosting service. As of this moment, we don't know why they did this, but we are working around the clock attempting to restore the availability of the website. Needless to say this greatly hampers our ability to report on today's appeals hearings. We hope to send out another listserve message tomorrow with an update on the hearings.
When you attempt to visit the website, if you get "site unavailable" or similar messages, you'll know the problem still exists. Once the site is back up, we expect it will not be a "full" site - we'll probably need to restore it one piece at a time, starting with the most important things, including audio recordings of the speeches given at the reception Sunday night and at Monday's press conference following the hearing. We're sure you share our chagrin that this happened at this critical time, and we're also sure you'll be patient as we attempt to fix the problem.

Please do not attempt to send any email to any freethefive.org address in the next few days either, as it will not go through. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you do need to send important email in the next few days, please send it directly to either glorialariva@hotmail.com or stevenpatt@hotmail.com.

We had posted a half-dozen articles on the site within the last two days, all of them very interesting. Since the site isn't up, we're posting direct links to those articles below so you can read them at their original source. Most are articles about the hearing, written before the hearing, but one, the article from the Atlanta Progressive News, features the reception held by the Committee for visiting guests on Sunday night.

Chicago Tribune
AP

Miami Herald
Atlanta Progressive News

BBC
Atlanta Journal-Constitution