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Cuban Ambassador to Canada Speaks in Vancouver!
SOCIALIST CUBA TODAY: HOW FAR WE HAVE COME! Celebrating One Decade of Fire This Time Newspaper!
7:00pm
- 10:00pm
Saturday April 2 2016
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SOCIALIST CUBA TODAY: HOW FAR WE HAVE COME!
Celebrating One Decade of Fire This Time Newspaper!
With Special Guest Speakers:
>> MR. JULIO GARMENDIA PEÑA – His Excellency, the Cuban Ambassador to Canada
>> MRS. MIRALY GONZALEZ GONZALEZ – First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Canada
>> WILFREDO J. PEREZ BIANCO – Chief of Mission, First Consul General of the Venezuelan Consulate in Vancouver
>> GARRY OWENS – A long time social justice and Cuba solidarity organizer in the U.S. and organizer with the Black Panthers and Black Power movement in the 1960’s and 70’s
>> ALI YEREVANI – Political Editor and Founding Member of Fire This Time Newspaper
Ever since the Cuban Revolution overthrew the US backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, it has been an example for oppressed people worldwide. Led by Fidel Castro as well as Raul Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara, not only has Cuba managed to defend its independence against over 50 years of constant U.S. attacks, it has combined huge gains in healthcare, education, science, human rights and democracy with a constant example of solidarity and revolutionary socialist internationalism.
For the last ten years, the Fire This Time newspaper has continued to reflect the battle of ideas that is shaping the political, economic and social fabrics of our society worldwide. With the perspective that, “Every international fight is local and every local fight is international,” we have continually highlighted the fightback of working and oppressed people against cutbacks and austerity, war and occupation, and environmental degradation. This has included a special focus on Latin-America, especially the leadership of the revolutionary socialist government of Cuba.
Join Fire This Time and revolutionary speakers from Cuba, Venezuela and the U.S. to discuss and celebrate the gains and confront the challenges of building a better world together!
See event poster here: http://firethistime.net/posters/2016/160402-FTT-10th-anniversary-with-Cuban-ambassador.pdf
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Read the latest issue of the Fire This Time newspaper (Volume 10, Issue 3) here: https://issuu.com/firethistime/docs/fttv10i3
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