Miriam,
Sorry if I sound at times as if I'm lumping. I often refer to the
Elite, or the Ruling Class. I understand that our Masters consist of
a wide variety of interests, not always compatible with one another.
But even though they differ on where the nation's resources should be
placed, they do share one thing in common. Profit! Bigger and
Richer! And when that bottom line is threatened, they know how to
band together and mount strong resistance.
But the Working Class, that is, in my book, the rest of us, we can't
even agree if we're Working Class or Middle Class or Upper Middle
Class or Lower Class or...you get the idea.
We have been so disenfranchised, so turned upon one another, so led
down the wrong road by the Corporate Pied Pipers, that we may never
come to understand that we are all being scammed.
Some of us have come to believe enough of the Ruling Class' lies that
we believe we are almost there among them ourselves. Some others of
us have been convinced that we are worthless and should be thankful
for the drivel of money given us out of the kindness of Massah's
heart.
Yes, we, the working class, are driven into small groups, and turned
upon one another. But the Upper, Ruling Class is also divided. If we
give it some thought we might figure out how to turn them upon one
another, too. Think Money! If anything will drive wedges between
billionaires, it's the thought that someone is after their money.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/3/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
The working class isn't a homogeneous group of people, and probably won't
ever be of one mind since it's made up of individuals, and we are constantly
being manipulated by all sorts of forces. I think that, unfortunately,
people on the left, think in stereotypes, just as people on the right do.
It's just that the stereotypes are different. I think that how much people
understand, depends on their education. I don't mean formal education
necessarily, or degrees attained. But in order to know what's happening to
you, you need to be able to analyze facts. You need to know some history, to
do some reading, to consider the world around you.
Miriam
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Sent: Monday, April 03, 2017 11:12 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: [blind-democracy] NY meeting: ‘End US embargo
of Cuba! Get out of Guantánamo!’
I have a sense that the only way we will see an end to the Cuban Embargo and
the return of ownership of Guantánamo to Cuba will be when we first end the
control the Elite Ruling Class has over the American People.
I understand that there are those who will point out to me that many working
class White Americans believe Cuba to be a real threat to their
"Freedom"...you know, Right to Work(for less) and Return America to her
Greatness(when we had no child labor laws and the right to work
6 12 hour days). But these cries come from brain damaged, disenfranchised
Working Poor Whites. Reasoning with these folk is like trying to talk sense
to an angry Hippopotamus.
And of course, so is attempting to reason with the Corporate Capitalists who
currently rule this Land of the Free and the Brave.
These Elite folk respond to only two forces, Money and Force. This is why
they make certain that our money flows up into their off-shore banks, and
they control the heavy duty weapons of mass destruction and the bodies
needed to protect themselves. So since to match them dollar for dollar is
out of the question, and to arm ourselves and attempt a violent overthrow,
would only end in disaster, and even if we pulled it off we would only be
replacing one violent ruling class with another, we need to work toward a
peaceful coup. While that may not be possible, it must be our goal. If
not, why fuss? Just join the existing Monsters and try to carve your own
little safe corner.
But if we truly care for All People of the World, we will keep scratching
away at an answer.
Carl Jarvis
On 4/2/17, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2017/8114/811405.html
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NY meeting: ‘End US embargo of Cuba! Get out of Guantánamo!’
Militant/Paul Mailhot
“Solidarity with Cuba is very important at this moment,” Sandra
Ramírez, above, from Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples,
told over
200 people at March 25 Harlem rally.
BY SARA LOBMAN
NEW YORK — “Solidarity with Cuba is very important at this moment,”
said Sandra Ramírez, director of the North American division of the
Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
“Cuba and the United States have established diplomatic relations,”
she said. “But the U.S. government still maintains a blockade against
our country, still illegally occupies Guantánamo, and still has
policies aimed at ‘regime change’ in Cuba.
“We will never renounce the construction of a socialist Cuba,” Ramírez
concluded to applause.
The ICAP leader was speaking to more than 200 people from New York and
across the U.S. and Canada at a public meeting at the Malcolm X and Dr.
Betty Shabazz center in Harlem. The March 25 event was part of a
two-day conference organized to advance the fight to demand Washington
end its 55-year-old embargo of Cuba; get out of Guantánamo, Cuban
territory that Washington has illegally occupied since 1903; and end
all efforts aimed at “regime change” in Cuba. An article on the
conference discussion, debate and decisions will appear next week.
The meeting opened with a dinner, to the sounds of drumming by
Afro-Boricua Bomba Yo.
The program was co-chaired by Estela Vasquez, an executive vice
president of 1199SEIU healthcare workers union, and August Nimtz of
the Minnesota Cuba Committee. In opening the program, Vasquez
recognized several special guests, including Anayansi Rodríguez,
Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations; Miguel Barnet, president of
the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC); and members of a
leadership delegation of the Federation of Cuban Women to the U.N.
Commission on the Status of Women.
In addition to Ramírez, speakers included Rafael Cancel Miranda, a
longtime Puerto Rican independence leader imprisoned for more than 25
years by the U.S. colonial rulers; Andrés Gómez, a coordinator of the
Antonio Maceo Brigade, a Cuban-American organization based in Miami
that has organized support of the Cuban Revolution for four decades;
and Juanita Young, whose son Malcolm Ferguson was killed by New York
police in 2000.
Ramírez reminded participants that in 1960 when Fidel Castro came to
New York to address the U.N. General Assembly on behalf of the newly
victorious revolution, downtown hotels insulted and evicted the Cuban
delegation. At Malcolm X’s initiative, the Cubans were invited to stay
at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem. Thousands poured into the streets to
welcome the Cuban revolutionaries.
Turning to the evening’s honored guest, Rafael Cancel Miranda, the
ICAP leader underlined revolutionary Cuba’s support “for a free and
independent Puerto Rican nation.”
In his remarks, Cancel Miranda said that although the United States
“invaded Puerto Rico and still occupies my country, we are going to
fight back until we have ended the colonial slavery of my people.
“And when I say ‘my people,’ I’m also Cuban. I’m Venezuelan. I’m from
Bolivia. I’m from the Caribbean. I’m Puerto Rican from top to bottom,
but I’m all of that too.” He paid tribute to American Indian Movement
leader Leonard Peltier and Black Panther Herman Bell, with whom he
served time in federal prison and who are still behind bars.
“Anybody that stands up and fights is my people,” he said. “You’re not
wasting your time. Fighting for others make all of us more human.
Anyone who has dignity supports the Cuban Revolution,” the Puerto
Rican leader said. “Anyone who cares.”
Responding to the presentation of a bouquet, Ambassador Rodríguez
thanked participants for the “selfless solidarity we have received all
these years. What Cuba has achieved,” she said, “has been done by the
revolution itself, by the Cuban people, a heroic people, a resilient
people who’ve resisted under the most difficult circumstances.
“But we couldn’t have done it without the help, the support, the love
of all of you,” she said. “Particularly here in the United States,”
whose government “has imposed an unjust, illegal, and unfair blockade
against us, which is still there” despite the establishment of
diplomatic relations.
U.S. policy has failed for more than five decades, said Andrés Gómez,
“because of the determination of the Cuban people to defend their
socialist revolution and to continue to fight for a just society.”
Describing the work in Miami by the Antonio Maceo Brigade, which marks
its 40th anniversary this year, Gómez said it was an honor to be at
the conference. “Our job here,” he said, “is to fight to end the U.S.
policy of permanent aggression against Cuba.”
Juanita Young spoke about the trip she and other family members of
victims of cop killings and brutality took to Cuba last year. They
joined the massive May Day demonstration in Havana, met with a member
of the Cuban Five and took part in other activities.
“If I’d been living in Cuba,” Young said, “I wouldn’t be standing here
talking about the death of my son.”
Pointing to the human solidarity she and others had experienced, Young
concluded, “Cuba, I’ll take you any time. You all need to visit Cuba,
I’m telling you!”
Cultural performances by Bomba Yo and Cuban Latin jazz pianist
Marcello Casagrandi closed the evening.
Related articles:
Workers, youth from 23 countries to join Cuba Brigade
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Militant/Paul Mailhot
“Solidarity with Cuba is very important at this moment,” Sandra
Ramírez, above, from Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples,
told over
200 people at March 25 Harlem rally.
BY SARA LOBMAN
NEW YORK — “Solidarity with Cuba is very important at this moment,”
said Sandra Ramírez, director of the North American division of the
Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
“Cuba and the United States have established diplomatic relations,”
she said. “But the U.S. government still maintains a blockade against
our country, still illegally occupies Guantánamo, and still has
policies aimed at ‘regime change’ in Cuba.
“We will never renounce the construction of a socialist Cuba,” Ramírez
concluded to applause.
The ICAP leader was speaking to more than 200 people from New York and
across the U.S. and Canada at a public meeting at the Malcolm X and Dr.
Betty Shabazz center in Harlem. The March 25 event was part of a
two-day conference organized to advance the fight to demand Washington
end its 55-year-old embargo of Cuba; get out of Guantánamo, Cuban
territory that Washington has illegally occupied since 1903; and end
all efforts aimed at “regime change” in Cuba. An article on the
conference discussion, debate and decisions will appear next week.
The meeting opened with a dinner, to the sounds of drumming by
Afro-Boricua Bomba Yo.
The program was co-chaired by Estela Vasquez, an executive vice
president of 1199SEIU healthcare workers union, and August Nimtz of
the Minnesota Cuba Committee. In opening the program, Vasquez
recognized several special guests, including Anayansi Rodríguez,
Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations; Miguel Barnet, president of
the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC); and members of a
leadership delegation of the Federation of Cuban Women to the U.N.
Commission on the Status of Women.
In addition to Ramírez, speakers included Rafael Cancel Miranda, a
longtime Puerto Rican independence leader imprisoned for more than 25
years by the U.S. colonial rulers; Andrés Gómez, a coordinator of the
Antonio Maceo Brigade, a Cuban-American organization based in Miami
that has organized support of the Cuban Revolution for four decades;
and Juanita Young, whose son Malcolm Ferguson was killed by New York
police in 2000.
Ramírez reminded participants that in 1960 when Fidel Castro came to
New York to address the U.N. General Assembly on behalf of the newly
victorious revolution, downtown hotels insulted and evicted the Cuban
delegation. At Malcolm X’s initiative, the Cubans were invited to stay
at the Hotel Theresa in Harlem. Thousands poured into the streets to
welcome the Cuban revolutionaries.
Turning to the evening’s honored guest, Rafael Cancel Miranda, the
ICAP leader underlined revolutionary Cuba’s support “for a free and
independent Puerto Rican nation.”
In his remarks, Cancel Miranda said that although the United States
“invaded Puerto Rico and still occupies my country, we are going to
fight back until we have ended the colonial slavery of my people.
“And when I say ‘my people,’ I’m also Cuban. I’m Venezuelan. I’m from
Bolivia. I’m from the Caribbean. I’m Puerto Rican from top to bottom,
but I’m all of that too.” He paid tribute to American Indian Movement
leader Leonard Peltier and Black Panther Herman Bell, with whom he
served time in federal prison and who are still behind bars.
“Anybody that stands up and fights is my people,” he said. “You’re not
wasting your time. Fighting for others make all of us more human.
Anyone who has dignity supports the Cuban Revolution,” the Puerto
Rican leader said. “Anyone who cares.”
Responding to the presentation of a bouquet, Ambassador Rodríguez
thanked participants for the “selfless solidarity we have received all
these years. What Cuba has achieved,” she said, “has been done by the
revolution itself, by the Cuban people, a heroic people, a resilient
people who’ve resisted under the most difficult circumstances.
“But we couldn’t have done it without the help, the support, the love
of all of you,” she said. “Particularly here in the United States,”
whose government “has imposed an unjust, illegal, and unfair blockade
against us, which is still there” despite the establishment of
diplomatic relations.
U.S. policy has failed for more than five decades, said Andrés Gómez,
“because of the determination of the Cuban people to defend their
socialist revolution and to continue to fight for a just society.”
Describing the work in Miami by the Antonio Maceo Brigade, which marks
its 40th anniversary this year, Gómez said it was an honor to be at
the conference. “Our job here,” he said, “is to fight to end the U.S.
policy of permanent aggression against Cuba.”
Juanita Young spoke about the trip she and other family members of
victims of cop killings and brutality took to Cuba last year. They
joined the massive May Day demonstration in Havana, met with a member
of the Cuban Five and took part in other activities.
“If I’d been living in Cuba,” Young said, “I wouldn’t be standing here
talking about the death of my son.”
Pointing to the human solidarity she and others had experienced, Young
concluded, “Cuba, I’ll take you any time. You all need to visit Cuba,
I’m telling you!”
Cultural performances by Bomba Yo and Cuban Latin jazz pianist
Marcello Casagrandi closed the evening.
Related articles:
Workers, youth from 23 countries to join Cuba Brigade
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