ckaihatsu
19th February 2017, 13:54
Cuban Music at HotHouse(2/18. 2/25); ICAP May Day Tour to Cuba; Venezuela Webinar (2/28); Sunday Film Series: Paul Robeson (2/19), Black Panthers (2/26), Ida B. Wells (3/5),
Cuban Musicians at Hothouse, Chicago, Feb. 18, 25
see: http://www.hothouse.net/
Join ICAP International Delegation to Cuba for May Day (From April 24 to May 8, 2017)
http://www.icap.cu/de-la-solidaridad/2016-12-21-call-to-xii-brigade-international.html
Dear friend, The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (Icap) and its travel agency Amistur Cuba, S.A. invites you to participate in the XII edition of the International Brigade, on the occasion of the International Workers' Day, as a special tribute to the Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara on the 50th anniversary of his death.
In addition to the voluntary work, participants will visit places of historical and social interest, receive lectures on our reality, and will have the opportunity to exchange with representatives of different social and political organizations, with Cuban workers and unionists and the visit to the province of Cienfuegos, as part of the program prepared.The Brigade will take place from the 24 of April to 8 of May 2017 in the provinces of Havana, Artemisa, Villa Clara and Cienfuegos. The brigade will allow the participants a better understanding of the present Cuban reality, in the midst of transformations that are carried out in Cuba, as part of the update of the economic model of our Socialist project. The full program is attached.
The program includes 15 nights of stay: 12 at the International Camp "Julio Antonio Mella" (CIJAM), located in the municipality Caimito, Artemisa province, 45 Kms from Havana and 3 nights in the Hotel Pasacaballo.
The cost of the program is $512.00 CUC and includes accommodation in shared rooms up to 6 people at CIJAM; room for two or three people, according to availability in the hotel Pasacaballo in Cienfuegos city, with full board, with the 3 meals daily, transfer in-out and transportation to all activities included in the program.
It is very important to receive your confirmation of attendance the brigade with time in advance, due that the maximum capacity of accommodation at Julio Antonio Mella International Camp is the 240 people. After this figure the new confirmations should be accommodated in other location close to the Cijam, but the price will be higher.
With their assistance the Brigade members are committed to take part in all the activities of the program, as well as fulfilling CIJAM rules, keeping an appropriate behavior, correct discipline and a responsible attitude, so as to live in a collective way.
Registration will be open until March 30, 2017. It is an essential requirement to receive all personal data of the participants; as well as the details of the itinerary of arrival and departure from Cuba, including date, time and number of flight.
With this Call we invite you cordially to participate in the XII Brigade International May 1st.
Fraternally,
CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES
CONTACTS AND CONFIRMATIONS: - Asia-Pacific Division. ICAP E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
- Travel Agency Amistur Cuba S.A.
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Services offered through the AMISTUR CUBA, S.A. Travel Agency
INCLUDES
• Accommodation - Julio Antonio Mella International Camp (CIJAM) 12 nights.
- Pasacaballo Hotel in Cienfuegos: 3 nights.
• Other services - Direct permanent assistance by tour guides.
- Visits and activities according to program.
NOT INCLUDE
- Travel Insurance.
- Extra meals.
- Domestic and / or
international flights.
As part of the brigade, Amistur Cuba, S.A. Travel Agency will promote several touristic excursions, in schedules that do not interfere the activities of the organized program.
To confirm your participation in the brigade it is necessary to receive your complete names, passport number, all details of your flight with date of arrival and departure date. This information should be sent to Asia-Pacific Division and also to Amistur Cuba, S.A. Travel Agency.
It is compulsory for all travelers, foreigners and Cubans, who live abroad, to have with them previous arrival to Cuba, the updated travel insurance, which must be issued by any Insurance Company recognized in Cuba.
AFGJ's February Venezuela Webinar
Tuesday, Febrary 28th, 2017
8 PM ET / 5 PT
This series of one-hour webinars on the last Tuesday of each month features scholars, Venezuela government officials, writers, solidarity activists and others with firsthand knowledge of Venezuela and US-Venezuela relations. Venezuela remains a top target of US “regime change” strategies and will remain so no matter who is elected president in November. These webinars are designed to inform and motivate solidarity with the Bolivarian process in Venezuela and to expose and oppose US intervention.
The Deeply Undemocrative Nature of Venezuela's Right Wing Opposition
Register Now (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7XjkXVZz6HJQkpXaGUmgvwkkzqq%2Fd%2Fz1)
In the context of the political situation in Venezuela today and U.S.-led destabilization attempts, Dr. Francisco Dominguez will discuss the defeat under president Maduro's leadership of the intense efforts by the right wing to oust the Bolivarian government throughout 2016. Dr. Dominguez will also expand on the deeply undemocratic nature of Venezuela's Right Wing opposition.
Dr. Francisco Dominguez is head of the Centre for Brazilian and Latin American Studies in the Middlesex University (London, U.K) and founding member and secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in the U.K. Dr. Dominguez came to Britain in 1979 as a Chilean political refugee. Ever since he has been active on Latin American issues, about which he has written and published extensively.
Alison Bodine will moderate the Webinar. She is a core member of the Venezuela Strategy Group and is a social justice activist in Vancouver, Canada. She is coordinator of the Fire This Time Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of the Fire This Time Newspaper.
You must register in advance to participate! CLICK HERE (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1%2FJ2cFrMoV7mwbWT4D%2FYwAkkzqq%2Fd%2Fz1)
Publicize widely. Each person’s registration is unique, so don’t share the link you will receive by email. Here is the link that anyone can use to register:
http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=EC59DA81814A3A
Register Now! (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aRZpB8dTYs8EDXfvSUU2IQkkzqq%2Fd%2Fz1)
Loyola Political Film Series
Sundays, 2pm
Loyola University (downtown)
Corboy Law Center, room 301, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago
(one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop)
February 19 Paul Robeson: Here I Stand 1999 117m
Paul Robeson was one of the most visible, influential, recognized and admired African- Americans of his time. His immense talent and accomplishments as a singer, actor, international activist, author and sports legend brought him worldwide acclaim. As a trailblazer for the Black human rights and African awareness movements, his public positions on race and class in America made him suffer major government harassment. In the Cold War era, his activism on behalf of labor and Black human rights galvanized political foes determined to destroy him. Their efforts were so successful that Robeson was nearly erased from American history books. Like Marcus Garvey, he had a major influence on the Black liberation struggle of the 1960s and beyond.
Feb. 26 All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party 1996 115m
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of white injustice in America, this film gives the context for the 60's Black rights movement. Clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Mumia Abu Jamal and other activists. The Black Panthers, organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, embodied every major element of the Black rights movement which preceded it and inspired the Black, Latino, Native American and Women's movements.
Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination and imprisonment as weapons of repression. (16 Black Panthers are still in prison.) It explains methods used by the FBI and CIA, to divide and destroy the key figures in the Black Panthers. This has served as a model of how the US rulers continue using these methods against us today.
March 5 Ida B Wells: A Passion for Justice 1989 53m
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a newspaper editor and journalist who spearheaded a crusade against the murder of Blacks, then called lynching, a precursor of today’s Black Lives Matter. Working closely with both African-American community leaders and American suffragists, Wells worked to raise gender issues within the "Race Question" and race issues within the "Woman Question."
Though virtually forgotten today, largely because she was a woman and Black, She was a household name in Black America during her lifetime and considered the equal of well-known contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. She stands as one of the US’ most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of human rights for all in face of US government cruelty.
In 1892, Wells wrote a scathing series of editorials following the white murder of three prominent Black Memphis businessmen, friends of Wells's. After the lynching and her outspoken criticism of it, her newspaper's office was sacked. Wells then moved to New York City, where she wrote exposés against lynching, which was at an epidemic level in those years, and demanded the US president enforce the law . Wells became a much-sought-after lecturer and organizer for anti-lynching societies made up of men and women of all races. She travelled throughout the U.S. and went to Britain twice to speak about anti-lynching activities.
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.
"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap." - Ida B. Wells
Sponsors: Loyola University Department of Sociology, Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee
For more information: [email protected], Stan Smith 773-322-3168
Cuban Musicians at Hothouse, Chicago, Feb. 18, 25
see: http://www.hothouse.net/
Join ICAP International Delegation to Cuba for May Day (From April 24 to May 8, 2017)
http://www.icap.cu/de-la-solidaridad/2016-12-21-call-to-xii-brigade-international.html
Dear friend, The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (Icap) and its travel agency Amistur Cuba, S.A. invites you to participate in the XII edition of the International Brigade, on the occasion of the International Workers' Day, as a special tribute to the Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara on the 50th anniversary of his death.
In addition to the voluntary work, participants will visit places of historical and social interest, receive lectures on our reality, and will have the opportunity to exchange with representatives of different social and political organizations, with Cuban workers and unionists and the visit to the province of Cienfuegos, as part of the program prepared.The Brigade will take place from the 24 of April to 8 of May 2017 in the provinces of Havana, Artemisa, Villa Clara and Cienfuegos. The brigade will allow the participants a better understanding of the present Cuban reality, in the midst of transformations that are carried out in Cuba, as part of the update of the economic model of our Socialist project. The full program is attached.
The program includes 15 nights of stay: 12 at the International Camp "Julio Antonio Mella" (CIJAM), located in the municipality Caimito, Artemisa province, 45 Kms from Havana and 3 nights in the Hotel Pasacaballo.
The cost of the program is $512.00 CUC and includes accommodation in shared rooms up to 6 people at CIJAM; room for two or three people, according to availability in the hotel Pasacaballo in Cienfuegos city, with full board, with the 3 meals daily, transfer in-out and transportation to all activities included in the program.
It is very important to receive your confirmation of attendance the brigade with time in advance, due that the maximum capacity of accommodation at Julio Antonio Mella International Camp is the 240 people. After this figure the new confirmations should be accommodated in other location close to the Cijam, but the price will be higher.
With their assistance the Brigade members are committed to take part in all the activities of the program, as well as fulfilling CIJAM rules, keeping an appropriate behavior, correct discipline and a responsible attitude, so as to live in a collective way.
Registration will be open until March 30, 2017. It is an essential requirement to receive all personal data of the participants; as well as the details of the itinerary of arrival and departure from Cuba, including date, time and number of flight.
With this Call we invite you cordially to participate in the XII Brigade International May 1st.
Fraternally,
CUBAN INSTITUTE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PEOPLES
CONTACTS AND CONFIRMATIONS: - Asia-Pacific Division. ICAP E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
- Travel Agency Amistur Cuba S.A.
E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Services offered through the AMISTUR CUBA, S.A. Travel Agency
INCLUDES
• Accommodation - Julio Antonio Mella International Camp (CIJAM) 12 nights.
- Pasacaballo Hotel in Cienfuegos: 3 nights.
• Other services - Direct permanent assistance by tour guides.
- Visits and activities according to program.
NOT INCLUDE
- Travel Insurance.
- Extra meals.
- Domestic and / or
international flights.
As part of the brigade, Amistur Cuba, S.A. Travel Agency will promote several touristic excursions, in schedules that do not interfere the activities of the organized program.
To confirm your participation in the brigade it is necessary to receive your complete names, passport number, all details of your flight with date of arrival and departure date. This information should be sent to Asia-Pacific Division and also to Amistur Cuba, S.A. Travel Agency.
It is compulsory for all travelers, foreigners and Cubans, who live abroad, to have with them previous arrival to Cuba, the updated travel insurance, which must be issued by any Insurance Company recognized in Cuba.
AFGJ's February Venezuela Webinar
Tuesday, Febrary 28th, 2017
8 PM ET / 5 PT
This series of one-hour webinars on the last Tuesday of each month features scholars, Venezuela government officials, writers, solidarity activists and others with firsthand knowledge of Venezuela and US-Venezuela relations. Venezuela remains a top target of US “regime change” strategies and will remain so no matter who is elected president in November. These webinars are designed to inform and motivate solidarity with the Bolivarian process in Venezuela and to expose and oppose US intervention.
The Deeply Undemocrative Nature of Venezuela's Right Wing Opposition
Register Now (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7XjkXVZz6HJQkpXaGUmgvwkkzqq%2Fd%2Fz1)
In the context of the political situation in Venezuela today and U.S.-led destabilization attempts, Dr. Francisco Dominguez will discuss the defeat under president Maduro's leadership of the intense efforts by the right wing to oust the Bolivarian government throughout 2016. Dr. Dominguez will also expand on the deeply undemocratic nature of Venezuela's Right Wing opposition.
Dr. Francisco Dominguez is head of the Centre for Brazilian and Latin American Studies in the Middlesex University (London, U.K) and founding member and secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in the U.K. Dr. Dominguez came to Britain in 1979 as a Chilean political refugee. Ever since he has been active on Latin American issues, about which he has written and published extensively.
Alison Bodine will moderate the Webinar. She is a core member of the Venezuela Strategy Group and is a social justice activist in Vancouver, Canada. She is coordinator of the Fire This Time Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of the Fire This Time Newspaper.
You must register in advance to participate! CLICK HERE (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1%2FJ2cFrMoV7mwbWT4D%2FYwAkkzqq%2Fd%2Fz1)
Publicize widely. Each person’s registration is unique, so don’t share the link you will receive by email. Here is the link that anyone can use to register:
http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=EC59DA81814A3A
Register Now! (http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aRZpB8dTYs8EDXfvSUU2IQkkzqq%2Fd%2Fz1)
Loyola Political Film Series
Sundays, 2pm
Loyola University (downtown)
Corboy Law Center, room 301, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago
(one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop)
February 19 Paul Robeson: Here I Stand 1999 117m
Paul Robeson was one of the most visible, influential, recognized and admired African- Americans of his time. His immense talent and accomplishments as a singer, actor, international activist, author and sports legend brought him worldwide acclaim. As a trailblazer for the Black human rights and African awareness movements, his public positions on race and class in America made him suffer major government harassment. In the Cold War era, his activism on behalf of labor and Black human rights galvanized political foes determined to destroy him. Their efforts were so successful that Robeson was nearly erased from American history books. Like Marcus Garvey, he had a major influence on the Black liberation struggle of the 1960s and beyond.
Feb. 26 All Power to the People: The Black Panther Party 1996 115m
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of white injustice in America, this film gives the context for the 60's Black rights movement. Clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Mumia Abu Jamal and other activists. The Black Panthers, organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, embodied every major element of the Black rights movement which preceded it and inspired the Black, Latino, Native American and Women's movements.
Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination and imprisonment as weapons of repression. (16 Black Panthers are still in prison.) It explains methods used by the FBI and CIA, to divide and destroy the key figures in the Black Panthers. This has served as a model of how the US rulers continue using these methods against us today.
March 5 Ida B Wells: A Passion for Justice 1989 53m
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was a newspaper editor and journalist who spearheaded a crusade against the murder of Blacks, then called lynching, a precursor of today’s Black Lives Matter. Working closely with both African-American community leaders and American suffragists, Wells worked to raise gender issues within the "Race Question" and race issues within the "Woman Question."
Though virtually forgotten today, largely because she was a woman and Black, She was a household name in Black America during her lifetime and considered the equal of well-known contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. She stands as one of the US’ most uncompromising leaders and most ardent defenders of human rights for all in face of US government cruelty.
In 1892, Wells wrote a scathing series of editorials following the white murder of three prominent Black Memphis businessmen, friends of Wells's. After the lynching and her outspoken criticism of it, her newspaper's office was sacked. Wells then moved to New York City, where she wrote exposés against lynching, which was at an epidemic level in those years, and demanded the US president enforce the law . Wells became a much-sought-after lecturer and organizer for anti-lynching societies made up of men and women of all races. She travelled throughout the U.S. and went to Britain twice to speak about anti-lynching activities.
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison reads selections from Wells' memoirs and other writings in this winner of more than 20 film festival awards.
"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap." - Ida B. Wells
Sponsors: Loyola University Department of Sociology, Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee
For more information: [email protected], Stan Smith 773-322-3168