Bernie Dwyer, a journalist for Radio Havana Cuba, will be speaking and showing the film "Mission Against Terror" at three different venues in
Chicago on February 10 and 11. The first event will be at the Rafael Cintron-Ortiz Cultural Center, at UIC on Thursday, February 10 at 11:30
am. She will also speak and show the film at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center at 2739-41 W Division on Thursday, February 10 at 7 pm. Bernie Dwyer's final engagement in Chicago will be 7:00 pm, Friday, February 11
at DePaul University. The program will be in room 154 of the Schmitt Academic Center, 2320 N Kenmore. The Scmitt Academic Center is near the
Fullerton stop on the Red Line.


Bernie Dwyer has interviewed important figures for Cuban radio, including Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Leonard Weinglass, and Saul Landau. She will be speaking and showing "Mission Against Terror," a 48-minute documentary directed by her and Cuban Television producer
Roberto Ruiz Rebo.



Dwyer is touring the U.S. from January 28 to February 28, to debut "Mission Against Terror" in 25 cities.

The documentary follows the case of the Cuban Five--five men from Cuba who are unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. for doing nothing more than preventing terrorism against the Cuban people. They were arrested on September 12, 1998 by the FBI and have been in prison ever since. The
men, Gerardo Hern�ndez, Ram�n Laba�ino, Antonio Guerrero, Ren� Gonz�lez, and Fernando Gonz�lez, were sentenced in Miami federal court to four
life terms and 75 years collectively. Their case is on appeal before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.



"Mission Against Terror" shows historical footage of terrorism against Cuba and provides a moving depiction of the case of the Cuban Five. It
features interviews with Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarc�n, former CIA agent Philip Agee, attorney Leonard Weinglass, Cuban
activist from Miami, Andr�s G�mez, and family members of the Cuban Five.



Filmmaker Dwyer is an Irish woman who lives and works in Havana as a journalist with Radio Havana. She has worked there for the past four
years. Dwyer was previously a lecturer in Women's Studies at University
College in Dublin.



She and Ruiz Rebo have made four documentary films together:

1999: "Che: The Irish Legacy" (Che Guevara's Irish links)

2001: "Che in Ireland" (Che Guevara's visit to Dublin in 1964)

2002: "The Footprints of Cecilia McPartland" (Irish mother of Cuban revolutionary Julio Antonio Mella)

2004: "Mission Against Terror" (Case of the Cuban Five)

Their documentaries have been screened throughout Europe and at the Havana Film Festival. They have won several filmmaking prizes in Cuba.

"Mission against Terror" was featured at the 2004 Havana Film Festival
in December.