It's the poor who face the savagery of the US justice system: the Cuban Five talk about their lives within the US working class

Abstract

Introduction / Mary-Alice Waters -- [I.] None of the five sought applause, rewards or fame -- Five soldiers, loyal to the ideas of Martí, Che, Fidel, and Raúl / Gerardo Hernández -- They received their distinctions because they didn't seek them / Fidel Castro -- [II.] It's the poor who face the savagery of the US "justice" system / Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, René González -- 1. The reason there are so many prisons in the US is not the amount of crime -- 2. In US prisons they aim to dehumanize you ; in Cuba a prisoner is another human being -- 3. We extended solidarity to others in prison and we received it too -- 4. Solidarity worldwide gave us the strength to resist during the worst times -- 5. We're in a battle of ideas and we intend to win -- [III.] We will take our place in the trenches and be judged by the work we do -- We lived in a microcosm of the outside world / Gerardo Hernández -- No battle waged by revolutionaries ends with what you once did / Antonio Guerrero, René González, Fernando González