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"Victoria Ruiz-Labrit, a Miami supporter of black dissidents on the island, said she had received information from the island that government officials were pressing other black Cubans to sign the reply. Some refused and some signed, she said." -- www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1366579.html. 12/2009
"The growing number of Afro-Cuban activists complaining about racial discrimination and casting their struggle as an issue of "civil rights,'' rather than "human rights,'' has helped to draw the attention of African Americans, said Victoria Ruiz-Labrit, Miami spokesperson for the Cuba-based Citizens' Committee for Racial Integration. "The human rights issue did not make a point of the race issue, and now we have an evolution,'' she added. "Cuban blacks moved closer to the term 'civil rights' because those are the rights that the movement here in the U.S. made a point of -- the race issues.'' -- www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1360990.html, 12/2009
From Cuba Briefing Sheet, 2009
www.cubasource.org/pdf/cubademographics_themiamiherald.pdf
Ms Victoria Ruiz, spokesperson for the “Citizens
Committee for Racial Integration” (CIR);
Tel: (786) 3036067
July 20, 2001 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD—HOUSE H4369
/www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2001-07-20/pdf/CREC-2001-07-20.pdf
and also Diaz-Balart on AfroCubaWeb
"It is most appropriate that as we send our message of solidarity to Dr. Biscet today on his birthday, we commit ourselves to working with all devotion and dedication so that freedomloving individuals like Dr. Biscet do not have to spend their precious lives in the isolation and inhuman conditions of totalitarian dungeons. There is a program that has been set up to try to help Cuban political prisoners by having families in the United States adopt, if you will, the family of a Cuban political prisoner for at least a year. A well-known pro-democracy activist, Vicki Ruiz-Labrit, is coordinating the program. They have a phone number. We all should help. It is 305–461– 6700. We should all help by adopting the family of a Cuban political prisoner, and in that way, helping the most suffering, those who suffer the most in the totalitarian island just a few miles from our shores."
"The Communist authorities feared a repetition of protests on
Tuesday during public celebrations of the Virgin of the Charity of Cobre,
the most sacred religious icon for the island, the dissidents said. The
others released were Vicky Ruiz Labrit of the Committee of Pacifist
Opposition, Miriam Garcia of the College of Independent Teachers and Nancy
de Varona of the July 13 Movement."
-- www.nytimes.com/1998/09/10/world/cuba-said-to-free-4-of-8-dissidents-seized-in-roundup-this-week.html,
9/9/1998
From 0-www.gpo.gov.library.colby.edu/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-105hhrg10555762/html/CHRG-105hhrg10555762.htm
This reference also contains a statement by Ros Lehtinen
Statement of Vicky Ruiz Labrit, Havana, Cuba, Recorded on March 8, 1998
``To the international public opinion:
The voices of the Cuban sisters in exile are the
faithful
echo of the cry that women in Cuba fighting for human rights
elevate. With it, we launch to the world this petition of
support for the salvation of women prisoners of conscience that
suffer within the prisons of Fidel Castro. Women that being
daughters, wives, sisters or mothers, without fear to pain,
have stood firm to uphold a homeland that suffers because it
has no liberty, because it yearns for harmony and peace,
because it can no longer endure the hunger for dignity and
rights.
Free citizens of the world, listen to this uprising
clamor
and unite your voices so that torture does not continue in this
Cuban land. In every woman that suffers an unjust sentence
there is a piece of this homeland; in every beating,
humiliation or death is the martyrdom and affliction of our
people.
This month, dedicated internationally to women, should be
a
month where no one is left without joining efforts against so
much ignominy. May this petition for help be heard throughout
the world so that these Cuban women be freed from their unjust
sentences.
These noble women need no pity, but liberty.
Thank you, I am Vicky Ruiz Labrit, on behalf of all the
organizations and groups that signed this Declaration, from the
Republic of Cuba.''
She got some funding over several years from Ileana Ros Lehtinen, a supporter of an Iranian terrorist group, as determined by the US State Department.
www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?database=fpds&reptype=r&detail=0&datype=T&sortby=f&vendor_cd=FL18&fiscal_year=2004
Contracts to Contractors in Florida 18 (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) (FY 2004)
List of Contractor Parent Companies for FY 2004
| VICTORIA RUIZ LABRIT | VICTORIA RUIZ LABRIT | $5,796 |
www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?&fiscal_year=2005&vendor_cd=FL18&sortby=u&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&detail=0
Contracts to Contractors in Florida 18 (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) (FY 2005)
| VICTORIA RUIZ LABRIT | VICTORIA RUIZ LABRIT | $47,475 |
/Enlaces
The Discourse on Racism in Anti-Castro Publications, 2008-2009
www.123people.com/s/vicky+ruiz+labrit, with pics of Danny Glover and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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