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Vol. 82/No. 9 March 5, 2018
See Cuba for yourself, sign up for May Day Brigade
BY BRIAN WILLIAMS
You have a unique opportunity this spring to spend two weeks in Cuba to
learn firsthand how workers and farmers there made a revolution in 1959,
what it means for them today and the example it provides for us here and
throughout the world. Sign up now for the April 22-May 6 May Day Brigade
to Cuba!
The brigade is organized by the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the
Peoples (ICAP) and the National Network on Cuba is coordinating efforts
to sign people up in the U.S.
Participants will join Cuban farmers in agricultural work, meet with
representatives of Cuba’s student, trade union, women’s and other mass
organizations; visit historic sites in the revolution; and have a chance
to talk with veterans of those struggles. They will join with hundreds
of thousands in the May Day march in Havana and participate in an
international conference of solidarity with the socialist revolution the
next day.
During her recent East Coast tour, Griselda Aguilera, a veteran of the
1961 literacy campaign in Cuba, encouraged people to join the brigade.
More than a dozen of those who came to her meetings in New York and New
Jersey Feb. 8-12 signed up for more information.
“I’ve been studying the legacy of the Cuban Revolution and want to
experience it myself for the first time,” Jorge Cruz, 19, a student at
City College in New York, told the Militant Feb. 19. Meeting and hearing
Aguilera, Cruz said, “solidified my desire to participate in the
brigade.” Cruz said he’s working on convincing his professors to let him
take his tests early so he can go.
A number of construction workers, members of Laborers’ International
Union Local 79, organized a meeting at their hall to hear Aguilera, and
some have signed up for the brigade.
The cost of the package, including meals and lodging in Cuba, is $675.
Air travel, which costs extra, is being coordinated with the Marazul
agency. Brigadistas will stay at the Julio Antonio Mella International
Camp in Artemisa province, which can accommodate up to 220 people.
“If you want to go, don’t wait until the March 16 deadline to get your
applications in,” Gail Walker, one of National Network on Cuba co-chairs
and executive director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, told the Militant Feb.
19. Applications and the full schedule can be downloaded at
www.NNOC.info. Email: ICanGoToCuba@xxxxxxxxx.
Related articles:
‘The Cuban people made a real revolution, it changed everything’
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