End the Blockade! No U.S. Military Intervention! Peace for Cuba
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Donation: $5 - $25. Sponsored by Peace for Cuba International Appeal. were two mornings when the bread hadn't arrived from the central bakery. I heard that on mornings when there was no bread, Cuban mothers sent their children off to school with sugar water to tide them over until school lunch. The evening supper was generally what was left over after the 3 p.m. dinner.
Alfredo and I visited the language institute he'll be attending. We met Perfecto, Alfredo's future professor. Alfredo needs to earn his four year degree in English so that he can continue to teach high school. In Cuba, upward mobility in careers is accessible to everyone. If a Cuban is good at a skill, the government will hire that person and certify them later.
Perfecto is a member of the language institute's CCP unit. He listened patiently as I told him about some of the negative things I had seen in Cuba.
"By the way," I asked, "these computers? Are they all for the English department?"
"Yes, they are." replied Perfecto.
"In my country language students do not have such equipment. Nor are foreign languages given such space in the schools. You have a whole building here," I marvelled. with him and some of his comrades. I tried laying out some basic Marxist concepts on the need for socialism to triumph in an advanced capitalist country, like the United States, or Germany, or France, etc.
Perfecto and his comrades could not respond. One of them said: "Yes, but your working class is not fighting the government. We are alone. Every time our country wants to deal with another country, the United States is right there behind the scenes messing it up for us."
In November, CNN showed some Cubans in Miami picketing against the U.S. blockade. They know their loved ones are facing starvation and lacking essential medical supplies. They realize that the United States government wants to starve a people in order to overthrow a government it can't tolerate because of the shining example of the Cuban Revolution.
We can only extend unconditional solidarity to the Cuban Revolution. An international united front campaign organized around the demand that the United States end its undeclared war against Cuba is desperately needed. End the Blockade! Lift the Travel Restrictions! Close the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo! Saturday, February 1, 1991, 1:00 - 5:00 pm Mission High School 18th & Dolores Sts., San FrancIsco Special Guests from Cuba Youth, rellgious, cultural and polltical representatives Dr. Franz Delva Oth Dept., Haltian Lavalas (Aristide movement) ir Margaret Randall Author, professor, and activist who lived in Cuba 10 years Kris Kristofferson Actor, singer, song-writer.
No 28, San Francisco, CA 94110. (415) 821-7575.
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