1. Tom Hayden – Why Cuba Matters
Wednesday May 13, 7pm.
Martin Recital Hall – Fine Arts Building
Dominican University, 7900 W. Division, River Forest, Illinois
Hayden is the author of the recently published book, Listen Yankee!: Why Cuba Matters (Seven Stories Press).Hayden is director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in California and is the author of many books including, Vietnam: The Struggle for Peace (1973), Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s (2003), and Ending the War in Iraq (2007).
In his most recent book, Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters, Hayden, who has visited the county extensively and has had unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, documents the influence Cuba has had throughout Latin America as well as the strong links between Cuba and Africa. He also examines Cuba’s checkered history with the United States and discusses the Cuban Missile Crisis, the case of Elian Gonzalez, and the legacies of U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton while sharing his thoughts on the possibilities for both nations as a result of the new accord spearheaded by President Barack Obama.
2. Venezuela is not a Threat, We are Hope
Venezuela no es una Amenaza, Somos Esperanza
Maximilien Sánchez Arvelaiz
Venezuela no es una Amenaza, Somos Esperanza
Maximilien Sánchez Arvelaiz
Ambassador designate, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Thursday, May 14
at 7:00pm
DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Center, Room 254
2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago
Sponsored by DePaul University *-Department of History, Chicago Stands with Venezuela
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3. Piero Gleijeses “Visions of Freedom: Havana. Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa”
Wednesday, May 20 6:00pm – 8 pm
DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Center, Room 254
2320 N. Kenmore, Chicago (2 blocks west of Fullerton Red Line stop)
Lecture by Piero Gleijeses on “Visions of Freedom” his most recent book on Cuban, U.S., and South African foreign policy and the struggle for Southern Africa liberation and self-determination.
Piero Gleijeses is professor of American Foreign Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University.
He is the author of:
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa:1959-1976;
The Cuban Drumbeat: Castro’s Worldview, Cuba’s Foreign Policy in a Hostile World,
Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States.
Sponsored by DePaul University Department of History, Department of International Studies, Africa and Black Diaspora Studies Program, Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Program.
4. Upcoming Sunday Films in May at Loyola University (downtown)
These films are at Loyola downtown, not DePaul.
Corboy Law Center, Room 422
25 E. Pearson, Chicago (one block north of the Chicago and State CTA Redline stop)
Sunday May 17 Cuba: An African Odyssey (2007)
From Che Guevara’s military in the Congo up to the fall of apartheid in South Africa, 300,000 Cubans fought alongside African revolutionaries. This documentary is the previously untold story of Cuba’s support for African revolutions, one of the Cold War’s most vigorous contests over resources and ideology. At the very height of the Cold War, Cuba risked the enmity of both superpowers by its unwavering commitment to the principle that Africa should be governed by the genuine representatives of its peoples. To that end they provided invaluable support to liberation struggles throughout the continent. The film focuses on Cuban efforts in Congo, Guinea-Bissau and during the war in Angola. It reveals incredible events that span thirty years, from Che Guevara’s covert mission to avenge the death of Patrice Lumumba, to Fidel Castro’s command of the decisive battle in Angola and the negotiations with Apartheid South Africa that finally ended the war.
Sunday May 24, 2pm Tierralismo: Stories from a Cooperative Farm (2014, 49 min)
On the outskirts of Havana, in the district of Alamar, a 26-acre farming co-op provides employment for dozens of workers, while producing vegetables and medicinal plants for the local community and beyond. Following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s, Cuba was no longer able to access machinery and agricultural chemicals from its former Communist allies. In this difficult environment, the government relaxed economic rules and allowed the formation of cooperatives like the Organopónico Vivero Alamar.
What began as necessity—farming without pesticides and chemical fertilizers—has become a source of pride to coop members. They fertilize with compost and cow manure, raise their own insects for biological pest control, and have even created a fully biodegradable alternative to the plastic bag for use with seedlings. Tierralismo introduces us to everyone from agronomists and senior management to workers who plant, plow, and propagate. The film also covers non-farming aspects of the operation, such as human resources and accounting practices where transparency is paramount.
Many of the co-op’s members have come from other fields—including a former pathologist, a fisherman, and an oil-industry worker. More than half are seniors—including an 82-year-old who says when it comes to hoeing, he can outwork anyone in their twenties.
Sponsors: Loyola University Department of Sociology, Chicago ALBA Solidarity Committee
For more information: ChicagoALBASolida rity@gmail.com, Stan Smith 773-322-3168
