Webinars on Cuba (today), Venezuela, Video of Lucas Koerner, Aug. 27 film on Cuba and organic farming


CAN TV video of Lucas Koerner of Venezuelanalysis on Venezuela Today
http://cantv.org/watch-now/the-conflict-in-venezuela/

Today: Webinar on New Cuba Travel Regulations
http://mailchi.mp/f530de1619db/aug-1...5?e=5d8bd10fd0

Webinar with Dan Kovalik; Why We Must Defend Venezuela and the Chavista Revolution
https://www.anymeeting.com/AccountMa...ED51D682824B39

AFGJ Venezuela Weekly: Constituent Assembly Begins Work, New Split in Opposition
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7315/t/0...st_KEY=1398619


“Cuba: The Accidental Revolution”
Sunday, August 27 2pm
Loyola University (downtown)
Corboy Law Center, room 301, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago
(one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop)

This documentary celebrates the country's success in providing for itself in the face of a massive economic crisis, and how its latest revolutions, an agricultural revolution and a revolution in science and medicine are having repercussions around the world. (However, the film is marred by some standard Western propaganda that Cuba is a police state) Part One examines Cuba's response to the food crisis created by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989. Without fertilizer and pesticides, Cubans turned to organic methods. Without fuel to transport food, Cubans started to grow food in the cities where it is consumed. Urban gardens were established in vacant lots, school playgrounds, patios and back yards. As a result Cuba created the largest program in sustainable agriculture ever undertaken. Part 2: With the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, Cuba lost the foreign exchange needed to pay for expensive drugs and medicines. As a result, much of Cuba's medicine today is based on medicinal plants. There are 25,000 Cuba doctors serving in 68 poor countries around the world.

2006 92min


Sponsors: Loyola University Department of Sociology, Chicago ALBA Solidarity
[email protected], Stan Smith 773-322-3168


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