Cuba: People's Victory, US Policy, Impact on Socialism
with Lisa Brock and Cliff Durand
US recognition of Cuba is a foreign policy victory for the people as is the
release of the remaining Cuban 5. The speakers have traveled and studied about
Cuba for many years and have much to say about the positive features and
possible negative consequences of the new United States policy towards
Cuba.
Lisa Brock, Academic Director of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College, and co-editor (with Professor Digna Castaneda, University of Havana) of Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Revolution
Cliff Durand, Center for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, has organized numerous international conferences in Cuba cosponsored by the Radical Philosophers Association and the University of Havana. See attached article by Cliff DuRand.
Lisa Brock, Academic Director of the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College, and co-editor (with Professor Digna Castaneda, University of Havana) of Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Revolution
Cliff Durand, Center for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, has organized numerous international conferences in Cuba cosponsored by the Radical Philosophers Association and the University of Havana. See attached article by Cliff DuRand.
Participants are encouraged to share their experiences with Cuba
solidarity during the discussion.
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Victory To The Fast-Food
Workers......Fight For $15 Is Just A Beginning-All Labor Must Support Our
Sisters And Brothers- Free All The Striking Fast Food Protesters!
Comments
of a supporter of the “Fight for $15” action in Downtown Boston on September 4,
2014 as part of a national struggle for economic justice and dignity for the our
hard working sisters and brothers:
No
question in this wicked old world that those at the bottom are “the forgotten
ones.” Here we are talking about working people, people working and working
hard for eight, nine, ten dollars an hour. Maybe working two jobs to make ends
meet since a lot of times these McJobs, these Wal-Marts jobs do not come with
forty hours of work attached but whatever some cost-cutting manager deems
right. And lately taking advantage of cover from Obamacare keeping the hours
below the threshold necessary to kick in health insurance and other benefits.
Yes, the forgotten people.
But
let’s do the math here figuring on forty hours and figuring on say ten dollars
an hour. That‘s four hundred a week times fifty weeks (okay so I am rounding
off for estimate purposes here too since most of these jobs do not have
vacation time figured in).That’s twenty thousand a year. Okay so just figure
any kind of descent apartment in the Boston area where I am writing this-say
one thousand a month. That’s twelve thousand a year. So the other eight
thousand is for everything else. No way can that be done. And if you had
listened to the young and not so young fast-food workers, the working mothers,
the working older brothers taking care of younger siblings, workers trying to
go to school to get out of the vicious cycle of poverty you would understand
the truth of that statement. And the stories went on and on along that line all
during the action.
Confession:
it has been a very long time since I have had to scrimp and scrim to make ends
meet, to get the rent in, to keep those damn bill-collectors away from my door,
to beg the utility companies to not shut off those necessary services. But I
have been there, no question. And I did not like it then and I do not like the
idea of it now. I am here to say even
the “Fight for $15” is not enough, but it is a start. And I whole-heartedly
support the struggle of my sisters and brothers for a little economic justice
in this wicked old world. And any reader who might read this-would you work for
slave wages? I think not. So show your solidarity and get out and support the
fast-food and Wal-Mart workers in their just struggles.
Organize
Wal-Mart! Organize the fast food workers! Union! Union!
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/09/04/boston-fast-food-workers-rally-for-wages-unions/bc1ZqZIgwsVcOw0QHIV74M/story.html
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