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Vol. 81/No. 11 March 20, 2017
Conference on solidarity with Cuba set for NY
BY ARLENE RUBINSTEIN
A “National Conference for the Full Normalization of US-Cuba Relations”
will be held March 25-26 at Fordham School of Law in Manhattan,
sponsored by a coalition of groups and individuals in the Cuba
solidarity movement from the United States and Canada.
The purpose of the conference is summed up in three slogans on the
conference website:
End all U.S. economic, financial, and travel sanctions against Cuba!
Get the U.S. out of Guantánamo!
Stop all regime change programs against Cuba!
The conference opens with two Saturday plenaries from 9:30 a.m. to 1
p.m., and concludes with a Sunday morning plenary.
Participating in the conference, including a March 25 evening public
meeting at the Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Center in Harlem, will be
José Ramón Cabañas, Cuba’s ambassador to the United States; Anayansi
Rodríguez, Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations; and leaders of the
Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) in Havana. The
Harlem meeting will be held at 3940 Broadway (corner of West 165th
Street) with a reception at 7 p.m. and program at 8 p.m.
Other speakers at the Saturday evening program include Piero Gleijeses,
author of Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the
Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991; Andrés Gómez, a coordinator of
the Antonio Maceo Brigade, a Cuban-American organization that supports
the Cuban Revolution; Rafael Cancel Miranda, a longtime Puerto Rican
independence fighter; and Aislinn Pulley, a leader of Black Lives Matter
in Chicago.
There will be two workshop sessions Saturday afternoon. One workshop is
on “Where We Are Today in the Fight to End All Travel Sanctions Against
Cuba,” presented by Bob Guild of Marazul Charters and Walter Turner of
Global Exchange. Steve Eckardt from the Chicago Cuba Coalition is
coordinating a workshop on “How the United States Occupied Guantánamo
Bay and the Fight to Close It.”
Yanira Kúper and Maritzel González, part of a leadership delegation from
the Federation of Cuban Women participating in the annual session of the
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women this month, will attend
the conference. They will speak at a workshop entitled, “Women’s Rights
and the Cuban Revolution,” chaired by Mary-Alice Waters, a leader of the
Socialist Workers Party.
Other workshop topics include “Cuba and Africa” and Cuba’s
internationalist medical missions.” For more information, a list of
workshops and to register, see the conference website
nationalcubaconference.org ; email:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or
call (917) 887-8710.
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really means’
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