Two libraries raided, librarian sentenced for "dangerousness"

No, that's not what's happening in America, folks. It's a library in Cuba. If you agree, and especially if you are an ALA (American Library Association for those of you not in the library world...) member, please email or call the ALA and demand that the ALA not only condemn such activities but take whatever action is within its power to help the Cuban librarians.

--Oyarsa

HAVANA, Oct. 27, 2005 (Assembly to Promote a Civil Society) - At 7:05 A.M. on Oct. 26, three members of the political police arrived at the house of Pedro Castellanos, located at 7504 64th Avenue in the city of Cienfuegos. Pedro Castellanos is a member of the national directorate of the Assembly to Promote a Civil Society (APSC, initials in Spanish). The police detachment consisted of a captain and two young women, dressed in police uniforms. They presented a search warrant and were accompanied by two official witnesses.

During the search they confiscated 130 books, which made up the collection of the José Antonio García Tablada Independent Library. They said the books were subversive. They also seized two radios and a fax machine, and they tried to to take an asthma inhaler belonging to the wife of Pedro Castellanos.

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