resisting arrest with violence
14th June 2005, 20:11
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Excerpt from the book Growing Up at Thirty-Seven by Jerry Rubin, pages 74-75
"I heard that a radical organizer was in town looking for eighty volunteers to go on an illegal, free trip to Cuba. That struck my fancy. If the government didn't want us to go, there must be something to see. Since travel to the island was outlawed, we had to go the ninety mile trip from Florida to Cuba via a most circuitous route. We flew to Paris, where we got a plane to Czechoslovakia, where we boarded Cubana Airlines to fly back across the Atlantic to Havana----thirteen thousand miles to go ninety miles! When the plane landed in Cuba, all eighty of us cheered"
'We've arrived in the Free World!' We had outsmarted the CIA and made it to Cuba.
Cuba transformed my consciousness. I saw with my own eyes how the victims of American imperialism had translated abstract dreams into reality. The fancy hotels in Havana, once gambling casinos and prostitution havens for American businessmen, had been turned into schools and homes for the poor. Students graduating from medical school went to the hinterlands to serve the peasants. The entire society was putting into practice the Christian ideal of fellowship. Why then was America determined to destroy the Cuban revolution? Cuba had set a 'bad boy' example for the rest of South America. Washington resented Cuba's break away from being a plantation economy serving American corporate interests. Cuba had to be smashed.
We listened to Fidel Castro speak for seven hours to 200,000 people. Then, a few weeks later, he and the Cuban cabinet played a ten-inning baseball game with American newspapermen who were visiting Cuba for the first time in years. Fidel pitched Cuba to a 26-2 victory, giving America a message in terms it could understand. What a yippie Fidel was!
I looked at the Cuban people and envied their revolutionary spirit, their enthusiasm and aliveness. I wanted to stay and live there. The Cubans said, 'No, your struggle is in America.' We interviewed Che Guevara, the Minister of Labor, who was already secretly planning to leave Cuba to spread the revolution elsewhere. He blew my mind when he told us that if he had a choice, he would return to North America with us. 'The most exciting struggle in the world is going on in North America. You live,' Che said, 'in the belly of the beast.' Inspired by Che, I returned to the United States. At the border the U.S. government revoked my passport."
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/f...o7/Account.html (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Account.html)
http://id.essortment.com/jerryrubinwho_rkoj.htm
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/rubin.GIF
Excerpt from the book Growing Up at Thirty-Seven by Jerry Rubin, pages 74-75
"I heard that a radical organizer was in town looking for eighty volunteers to go on an illegal, free trip to Cuba. That struck my fancy. If the government didn't want us to go, there must be something to see. Since travel to the island was outlawed, we had to go the ninety mile trip from Florida to Cuba via a most circuitous route. We flew to Paris, where we got a plane to Czechoslovakia, where we boarded Cubana Airlines to fly back across the Atlantic to Havana----thirteen thousand miles to go ninety miles! When the plane landed in Cuba, all eighty of us cheered"
'We've arrived in the Free World!' We had outsmarted the CIA and made it to Cuba.
Cuba transformed my consciousness. I saw with my own eyes how the victims of American imperialism had translated abstract dreams into reality. The fancy hotels in Havana, once gambling casinos and prostitution havens for American businessmen, had been turned into schools and homes for the poor. Students graduating from medical school went to the hinterlands to serve the peasants. The entire society was putting into practice the Christian ideal of fellowship. Why then was America determined to destroy the Cuban revolution? Cuba had set a 'bad boy' example for the rest of South America. Washington resented Cuba's break away from being a plantation economy serving American corporate interests. Cuba had to be smashed.
We listened to Fidel Castro speak for seven hours to 200,000 people. Then, a few weeks later, he and the Cuban cabinet played a ten-inning baseball game with American newspapermen who were visiting Cuba for the first time in years. Fidel pitched Cuba to a 26-2 victory, giving America a message in terms it could understand. What a yippie Fidel was!
I looked at the Cuban people and envied their revolutionary spirit, their enthusiasm and aliveness. I wanted to stay and live there. The Cubans said, 'No, your struggle is in America.' We interviewed Che Guevara, the Minister of Labor, who was already secretly planning to leave Cuba to spread the revolution elsewhere. He blew my mind when he told us that if he had a choice, he would return to North America with us. 'The most exciting struggle in the world is going on in North America. You live,' Che said, 'in the belly of the beast.' Inspired by Che, I returned to the United States. At the border the U.S. government revoked my passport."
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/f...o7/Account.html (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Account.html)
http://id.essortment.com/jerryrubinwho_rkoj.htm