Cuban Five August-September Leafletting and Outreach

Chicago Air and Water Show Protest Saturday Aug. 16  10am-12 noon Sunday Aug. 17  10 am 3pm east end of North Avenue pedestrian bridge call Stan Smith, 773-322-3168   National Lawyers Guild Convention Chicago September 3-7 http://www.nlg.org   Free Cuban Five Protest   -- 16th year since their arrest Friday, September 12, 4pm- 6pm Federal Plaza, Adams … Continue reading Cuban Five August-September Leafletting and Outreach

Theft of Cuba’s assets through US Courts

Another unknown but critical fact about the intensified economic war being carried out against Cuba is the theft of Cuban telecommunications revenues that are held and controlled in the United States. These include the hundreds of millions of dollars that Cuba had in Chase Manhattan bank, now JP Morgan Chase bank. Due to the “Law … Continue reading Theft of Cuba’s assets through US Courts

Report on the New Economic and Social Changes in Cuba

Report on the New Economic and Social Changes in Cuba Thursday July 24, 7pm Loyola University downtown Corboy Law Center Room 423 25 E. Pearson (one block north of Chicago and State L stop)   Trip Report - with photos – Stan Smith, member of the June "Witness for Peace" People to People Education delegation … Continue reading Report on the New Economic and Social Changes in Cuba

Thursday Cuba Films at Loyola Summer 2014

Loyola University - downtown  Corboy Law Center Room 423 25 E. Pearson (one block north of Chicago and State L stop) Thursdays at 7 pm     July 17       Strawberry and Chocolate  Tomas Gutierrez Alea 1995    108 min This breakthrough film did much to change popular attitudes towards gays in Cuba. Diego, a cultivated homosexual and … Continue reading Thursday Cuba Films at Loyola Summer 2014

Ecuador and Bolivia: The Distortions of Ben Dangl and Upside Down World

In The Politics of Pachamama: Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America,  Dangl makes claims such as “indigenous movements have resisted extractivism in defense of their rights, land and the environment” as if  the indigenous movement is opposed to what Dangl calls “extractivism.” Dangl must be counting on being able … Continue reading Ecuador and Bolivia: The Distortions of Ben Dangl and Upside Down World

Burkina Faso and Thomas Sankara

Burkina Faso remains one of the ten least developed countries of the world. The 1983-87 Burkina revolution, Sankara acknowledged, was occurring in a backward, agricultural, semi-feudal country where there was not yet ‘an organized working class, conscious of its historic mission.” He sought to build a national economy based more on domestic markets and interests. … Continue reading Burkina Faso and Thomas Sankara