US-Cuba Relations:
What does “normalization” mean?
Event-Thurs March 12th 6-9 PM
In December, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced that the United States and Cuba would restore diplomatic ties and the remaining three of the Cuban Five were freed. This panel, with leading US-Cuba experts, will look at what’s behind the new policy, what it means on a political and economic level as well as for people-to-people relationships, political prisoners in Cuba, and Cuban support in the Africa Diaspora.
US-Cuba Relations:
What does “normalization” mean
Thursday, 3/12/15, 6-9 PM
NYU Law School
Vanderbilt Hall (40 Washington Square), Room 220
Panel:
Joan P. Gibbs, Center for Law and Social Justice & the Project, National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Jericho Movement for Recognition and Amnesty for U.S. Political Prisoners
Michael Krinsky, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., the firm which has been Cuba’s only U.S. counsel since September 1960; author, with David Golove, of U.S. Economic Measures Against Cuba: Proceedings in the United Nations and International Law Issues (1993).
Sandra Levinson, founder and Executive Director of the Center for Cuban Studies in New York City and Director of the Center’s Cuban Art Space who has traveled to Cuba more than 300 times, often as consultant to major news organizations.
Michael Steven Smith is the co-author with Michael Ratner of “Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away With Murder”, which was recently translated by a Cuban publishing house and featured last month at the Havana International Book Fair. The book has an introduction by Ricardo Alarcón, the former head of the Cuban National Assembly and is dedicated to Len Weinglass, the attorney for the Cuban Five.
Kerry McLean (moderator), International Human Rights Lawyer, NLG National Executive Committee & Chair of the Anti-Sexism Committee, NYC Chapter’s Executive Committee member
Sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild, NYC and NYU Chapters
NYC/March 12: Panel: US-Cuba Relations: What does “normalization” mean?
