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Vol. 81/No. 17 May 1, 2017
Nebraska meeting builds May Day Brigade to Cuba
Militant/Reilly Stoddard
LINCOLN, Neb. — About 30 people attended an April 15 send-off here for
participants in the 12th May Day International Brigade to Cuba April
23-May 8. The event took place at Meadowlark Coffee and Espresso.
Phillip Brown, right, a student at the University of Nebraska in Omaha,
and Lincoln resident Wyatt Nelson, a lawn maintenance and construction
worker, spoke to the gathering. Both will be making their first trip to
Cuba. They spoke on the social advances of the Cuban Revolution that
have provided working people with free health care and schooling. When
they return they plan to speak to university students and working people
about their experiences, why the 55-year U.S. economic embargo of Cuba
must end and why the Cuban territory at Guantánamo held illegally by
Washington must be returned to Cuba.
Over 55 people from a half dozen cities are participating — the first
ever U.S. delegation in this long-standing international brigade. They
will join a couple hundred people from around the world, working in the
fields on farms alongside Cubans, visiting historical sites, meeting
with youth and workers involved in the country’s mass organizations, and
marching in the International Workers Day Parade in Havana.
Other fund events to help get the delegation to Cuba have taken place in
Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
— CHRIS STEFFEN
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