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US Women & Cuba Collaboration is an association of women and organizations working in coalition with women in Cuba to build bridges within and between our nations that foster inclusive and progressive women's movements and networks for justice, real security and women's rights.
We educate ourselves and others about legislative issues, cultural issues, and political issues relevant to the Cuba–US relationship and to ending the US blockade of Cuba.
We also work in global alliances, supporting and learning from the work of women in a variety of countries in addition to Cuba, most recently Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, and Thailand.
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2012 WOMEN'S RESEARCH DELEGATION TO CUBA!
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Application and Payment Deadline: February 9, 2012
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Delegation Dates: March 9-21, 2012
"Global Economic Crisis: Women Working Together to Advance Economic Justice and Human Rights"
Join women from the U.S. to explore the history of the Cuban revolution and its impact on the status of women and girls. The delegation will follow the footsteps of the Revolution, flying into Santiago de Cuba to hike the Sierra Maestras where the Revolution was launched, then proceeding by bus cross country to Santa Clara, and ending with several days in Havana. Program for the tour will include engaging discussions with various organizations and peoples about the present day economic and social reforms occurring in Cuba in light of the global economic crisis, and about the role of women and the Federation of Cuban Women in advancing the Cuban women's rights agenda. This delegation is organized by Marazul Tours, a US licensed travel provider, in consultation with U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration.
Details:
The dates of the delegation are March 9-21 (March 9 departure from Miami-Santiago, March 21 departure from Havana-Miami). The cost of the delegation will be $2,200 for double rooms and $2,400 for single rooms. (Not included in this price is the airline ticket cost from your home city to Miami, Florida, our site of departure for Cuba).
Members of this delegation will be traveling under the general license for professional research. Therefore, all members of the delegation will have to be certified and accepted by Marazul as "full-time professionals conducting research in their fields." Submit your application ASAP so that Marazul can begin the qualification process to assure you may travel under this license. There are many channels for qualification under this license, so please ask questions if you want more information.
Following is a proposed itinerary for the cross country trip via bus beginning in Santiago and ending in Havana. We are still working on filling out the itinerary with Marazul.
- March 9 (Friday) Travel Day to Santiago. City tour and tour of the Moncada Barracks (site of the defeat of the July 26 movement led by Fidel Castro). Orientation for Delegation and review of itinerary.
- March 10 (Saturday) Santiago. Farmer's Cooperative. Visit to a neighborhood/Committee in Defense of the Revolution (CDR).
- March 11 (Sunday) Drive to Sierra Maestras. This is the base camp of the revolutionary movement led by Castro.
- March 12 (Monday) Climb Sierra Maestras. This is both a scenic drive and a climb filled with history of the roots of the Cuban Revolution. There are two legs to the hike with a resting place in between. Depending on the conditions (rain), the second leg can be quite challenging (slippery). For those who do not feel they can make this hike, there may be another option close by or you can use as a rest/reflection day at the hotel.
- March 13 (Tuesday) Drive to Camaguay. Depending on the timing of the drive, we may have meetings in Camaguay.
- March 14 (Wednesday) Drive to Santa Clara.
- March 15 (Thursday) Santa Clara Symposium, see details below.
- March 16 (Friday) Santa Clara. Visit the Che Memorial.
- March 17 (Saturday) Drive from Santa Clara to Havana. Visit Latin America School of Medicine (ELAM). Havana City Tour. Meeting with Women in Communications.
- March 18 (Sunday) Havana.
- March 19 (Monday) Havana. Nguyen van Troi Elementary School. Meeting with Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP). Meeting with Federation of Cuban Women (FMC).
- March 20 (Tuesday) Havana. Meeting with Cuban Federation of Trade Unionists. Meeting with Cenesex. Meetnig about Cuban Economy. Summation Meeting.
- March 21 (Wednesday) Travel Day Back to U.S.
Since we will be spending a lot of time of the bus, we will have the opportunity to see various films (on the bus) and have informal and in-depth discussions on our thoughts, reflections and questions. Our Cuban guide will help to facilitate this.
Lastly, information about the Santa Clara symposium: We are excited to be working with two professors from the University of Santa Clara that we met during our work at the University of Havana's Women's Conference last spring and the Federation of Cuban Women and Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
There are three parts to this symposium:
- Panel on the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign with a showing of the documentary, Maestra, and a panel including the director/producer, Catherine Murphy, and 1961 participant in the campaign, Norma Guillard. The panel will discuss education as a human right for women and girls and the contributions of Cuba to eradicating world wide illiteracy.
- Panel on the international struggles of women in advancing a women's rights agenda. Proposed panelists will talk about the roles of women in Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, U.S. and possibly other countries.
- In the evening, the symposium will move to "Mejunje," a cultural center in the center of Santa Clara that embraces diversity and acceptance of all peoples, to hold a panel and discussion with Norma Guillard and Mejunje's director on the Struggle Against Homophobia in Cuba.
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Our mission is to build a strong US women's movement dedicated to ending the US government blockade of Cuba and to creating mutually beneficial US–Cuba relations; our work is rooted in the concept of universal human rights, racial and economic justice, and women's rights.
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