Category: Cuba

Discussion With Cubans About Life Under Blockade During the Changing US-Cuban Relations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeRqQnBBpAo&t=69s This workshop with Cubans will present their separate views on how they see the process of re-establishing relations with the US. This includes explaining what remains unchanged with with US blockade, and the continuing damage this inflicts on Cuba. They will give their views on the daily life of the Cuban people, the economic … Continue reading Discussion With Cubans About Life Under Blockade During the Changing US-Cuban Relations

Defending their Gains – Cuban, Venezuelan, US Workers Against the 1%

Thursday May 19th, 6:30-8:30 pm Debs Hall, Workers United, 333 S. Ashland Felipe Perez Cruz, Member of National Union Cuban Historians (UNHIC) and Cuba Writers and Artist Union (UNEAC) Jesus Rodriguez Espinosa, Consul General, Consulate of Venezuela in Chicago Richard Monje, Manager and International Vice President, Chicago and Midwest Regional Joint Board, Workers United, SEIU Cuban working people still must struggle to … Continue reading Defending their Gains – Cuban, Venezuelan, US Workers Against the 1%

Open Letter to President Obama to Take Concrete Action on Ending the US Blockade/Embargo on Cuba, and to Return Guantanamo to Cuba

Open Letter to President Obama to Take Concrete Action on Ending the US Blockade/Embargo on Cuba, and to Return Guantanamo to Cuba We welcome President Obama’s decision to travel to Cuba for talks with the Cuban government. We undersigned organizations and individuals call on President Obama to take concrete actions on two outstanding issues to … Continue reading Open Letter to President Obama to Take Concrete Action on Ending the US Blockade/Embargo on Cuba, and to Return Guantanamo to Cuba

Tour of Jesse Freeston and Dr. Luther Castillo, “Resistencia” and “Revolutionary Medicine”

Free Simón Trinidad! Support Peace in Colombia! Simón Trinidad (Ricardo Palmera), is a political prisoner, a member of the FARC-EP, who has been held in solitary confinement by the United States government for over 10 years. The Colombian government and the FARC-EP have been locked in a civil war for over 50 years. A former … Continue reading Tour of Jesse Freeston and Dr. Luther Castillo, “Resistencia” and “Revolutionary Medicine”

Interview with Alberto Roque Guerra

Alberto Roque Guerra has been active in the LGBT movement in Cuba for a number of years. He was interviewed on July 12, 2015 in Havana by Stan Smith of the Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee.    May 24, 2014 he spoke in Chicago on the case of the Cuban 5 political prisoners in an event partly … Continue reading Interview with Alberto Roque Guerra

Chicago celebrates the Return of the Cuban 5, Steps Ending the US Travel Ban and Blockade against Cuba – and Opposes US Sanctions on Venezuela

On Tuesday, December 23 at the Chicago Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela over 100 people turned out to celebrate Cuba’s victory and to oppose the new sanctions on Venezuela. Let's not allow the US government to take its boot off the neck of Cuba, just to put it on Venezuela's. The freeing of … Continue reading Chicago celebrates the Return of the Cuban 5, Steps Ending the US Travel Ban and Blockade against Cuba – and Opposes US Sanctions on Venezuela

Presentation on the ALBA Countries at SOA Watch Protest

Our task is to oppose imperialist meddling, but  “The challenges Bolivia faces cannot be simply reduced to a question of “imperialist meddling”: they are a direct result of centuries of colonialism and imperialist oppression, which have entrenched  Bolivia in its role within the world economy as a dependent raw commodity exporter. Any chance Bolivia has … Continue reading Presentation on the ALBA Countries at SOA Watch Protest

DePaul Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples’ Struggles in the Americas

DePaul University Schmitt Academic Center Room 254 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue. Chicago (2 blocks west of Fullerton Red Line) Sundays  at  2pm   October 26              Revolutionary Medicine : The Story of the First Garifuna Hospital Speaker from Honduras Solidarity Network Revolutionary Medicine is a 45-minute documentary by Beth Geglia and Jesse Freeston, who had been … Continue reading DePaul Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples’ Struggles in the Americas