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MANCHESTER, England — More than 30 people attended the opening of “I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived” at the Nexus Art Café here Aug. 14. The exhibit contains 15 watercolors by Antonio Guerrero, one of the Cuban Five revolutionaries jailed in the United States (see box at left).
Janet Cunliffe, above, a founder of Joint Enterprise, Not Guilty by Association, was a featured speaker. Her son, Jordan Cunliffe, has been locked up in a British prison for the last seven years. He was framed up on murder charges under the Joint Enterprise law, which makes anyone found guilty of being an accomplice or encouraging a violent crime subject to a similar punishment as the perpetrator. Jordan, who suffered from an eye disease that left him legally blind at the time, “did not murder nor witness any murder,” she said. A selection of letters written during the past 13 years by the Cuban Five to Jenni Ford, a member of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, were displayed at the café entrance. “What strikes me is that there is no anger or hatred in those letters,” said Steve Boyle, a factory worker who attended the opening. “They are not broken.” |
| — HUGO WILS |