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The 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 movement 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.
US Women and Cuba Collaboration Meeting in Washington, DC, April 2008
Events
Wallingford Neighbors for Peace and Justice
and
"Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies"
is very pleased to present:
(85 minutes, Cecilia Domeyko, 2005)
Friday, February 19, 7:00 to 9:30PM
Discussion after the film will be lead by members of the US Women & Cuba Collaboration and will focus on the film's themes as well as contemporary US and Cuban relations and Cuba's role in humanitarian aid and international solidarity with Haiti. The Collaboration is organizing a women's delegation to Cuba in March 2010; for details about the Delegation and the US Women & Cuba Collaboration, visit their website.
This award-winning (CINE Golden Eagle, Chicago Film Festival, World Music Festival) film was directed by Cecilia Domeyko, creator of dozens of films capturing the Latina/o experience in the US and Latin America. Featuring ten talented and beautiful musicians, playing the harmonies of Cuban soul, CUBA MIA demonstrates the power of music to cross boundaries. This story of the musicians of the all-woman Camerata Romeu is filled with dazzling faces and fiery performances that astonish and delight.
By turns funny, angry, lyrical and moving, CUBA MIA takes us behind the scenes of a Revolution in progress—that has prioritized gender and racial justice, investment in arts, music, culture and the politics of sexuality as essential to healthy human development—and offers a slice of Cuban life seldom seen on the world's screens. "If you liked Buena Vista Social Club, you'll love CUBA MIA!"
LOCATION:
Keystone Congregational Church
5019 Keystone Place N., Seattle
(0.4 miles west of the I-5 NE 50th St. Exit - Metro Bus Routes 16, 26 & 44)
Directions can be found at Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies.
Event is FREE and open to the public!
...but Donations are kindly accepted.
WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS,
RACIAL JUSTICE AND SOCIAL WELFARE
2010 Women's Research Delegation to Cuba
March 13-23
US Women & Cuba Collaboration, program consultant
Organized by Marazul Charters, Inc
There are a few spaces left in this delegation!
Deadline for applications and final payment is February 15, 2010.
CELEBRATE 10 DAYS OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH 2010 IN CUBA!
Research Theme: In this delegation, we will research and develop models for taking into our own professional lives lessons of the Cuban Revolution that Cuban women have used to extend the definition of basic human rights to include rights to racial justice and social welfare such as health care, housing, employment, education and food, and also to investigate shared leadership strategies for US and Cuban women across borders.
Legal trip: The US Women and Cuba Collaboration is program consultant to Marazul Charters, licensed as a Travel Service Provider (TSP) by the US Treasury Department to organize travel delegations to Cuba. Per US government guidelines for legal travel to Cuba under the Treasury Department's General License for research, this delegation is designed for full-time professionals who are conducting full-time research in their fields. (See links below for additional information, and contact us or Marazul with any remaining questions you have.)
Applications: Send as soon as possible. Detailed information in Marazul Application. (Applications and Final payment deadline is Feb 15, 2010.)
Cost: Estimated cost of this research program departing from either Miami, FL or Cancun, Mexico, is $2000 USD. Does not include airfare to the departure city.
Program Highlights:
- 10 days of living and learning experiences in Havana and Santa Clara
- Discussions with a range of Cuban women about achievements in Cuba to advance the status of women, accomplishments that mark Cuba as a global model of progressive women's movement and human development
- Half-day symposium with the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) featuring a rich exchange of perspectives, research and strategies among Cuban and US women
Delegation Invitation and Details
Marazul Charters Cuba Travel Advice
OFAC: Cuba, What You Need to Know About US Sanctions Against Cuba
The Association of American
Jurists (AAJJ)
and
Association
of Latin American Labor
Lawyers (ALAL)
Invite Labor and Employment
Professionals to the
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
THE DEFENSE OF LABOR LAW
AND SOCIAL SECURITY
in CUBA
March 15-17, 2010
Save the Date:
US SOCIAL FORUM II
June 22-26, 2010
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Join the Women's Working Group
US Social Forum 2010 Working Groups Info and Contact Information
Select News
Seven US Doctors Headed for Haiti
Graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine
Will Work Alongside Cuban Medical Brigade
This story was aired on the Tavis Smiley Show on January 3, 2010.
US graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine (LASM) are prepared to help alleviate the pain and suffering of thousands of Haitian people.
The seven young women physicians arrived in Haiti on the evening of February 3rd to begin a month or more of medical service alongside the Cuban medical brigade. The doctors come from Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island in New York City; from Houston and from Minnesota. Two of them are currently working in Oakland, CA. A number of their fellow graduates are hoping to join them soon for the urgent work in Haiti.
The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which administers the LASM scholarship program for US students, is raising funds and collecting medical supplies to support the doctors' mission.
"These dedicated and skilled young doctors are ready to serve. They received their MD degrees in Cuba, with special training in disaster management and public health, and they are uniquely prepared for the multiple challenges of this urgent mission," said Rev. Lucius Walker Jr., executive director of IFCO. "We have sent them to Haiti with backpacks full of medicines and supplies—3/8 of a ton of medical aid for Haiti and more aid will follow."
All of the doctors are graduates of the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba, which was founded as part of the Comprehensive Health Plan for Central America and the Caribbean that Cuba established in response to the devastation of Hurricanes Mitch and Georges in 1998.
The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Mirta Roses, commended the work of the Cuban medical teams in Haiti on January 24th. "The Cuban teams were already in Haiti—before the quake took place. They were the first responders treating earthquake victims."
PAHO reports that Cuba’s direct medical assistance to the Haitian people in the first 72 hours after the earthquake was critical. Cuban doctors have attended tens of thousands of patients and performed thousands of surgeries. Cuban doctors are working in 21 improvised health centers including 14 operating theatres with 16 surgical teams. Most recently they set up a tent hospital—with ultrasound and x-ray equipment– on the site of an amusement park in Port-au-Prince.
More than 100 specialists from many countries (Venezuela, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, and Canada) are also working with the Cuban health professionals.
A Cuban medical brigade of 350 physicians plus other medical personnel has been on the ground in Haiti for the last ten years, working in remote communities where people had no other access to health care services. More than 6,000 Cuban doctors have served in Haiti as part of that brigade. 400 young Haitians have also received full-scholarship medical training at the LASM, and are now attending the wounded in Haiti.
LASM is now training students from 49 different nations of the Americas, Africa, and other regions. Among the graduates are 33 young people from the US.
The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) administers of the scholarship program for US students at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba.
IFCO is continuing to raise funds to support the medical mission of these LASM graduates, and to direct medical aid to Haiti. Contributions to the IFCO/Haiti Medical Service Project can be made at their website or by contacting their office at (212) 926-5757.
Photos, video clips, and more information are available at
IFCO/Pastors for Peace
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Thank you, RESIST!
$1000 grant awarded to
US Women & Cuba Collaboration
The US Women & Cuba Collaboration is honored that Resist finds our work "a valuable resource to the progressive community" and has awarded us a one-year grant toward our mission goal of building "a strong women's movement dedicated to effecting change in US foreign policy towards Cuba."
From US Treasury—OFAC:
Effective September 2009:
New Cuban
Regulations
From US Legislators:
Toward New Rules About Cuba
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Mission Statement
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.
Campaigns
- Right to Travel: Help us work to end all travel bans on US citizens for travel to Cuba, and on Cubans who cannot secure US visas to visit the US.
- Reality of Cuban Women's Lives: Learn about impressive public policy advances of Cuban women, and also about the harsh impacts of the US blockade on the lives of Cuban women and children.
- Advancing Global Feminisms: Join us as we learn how to share the lessons of global women's networks to advance the status of women globally and to build a strong US women's movement.
Contact Us
Join the US Women & Cuba Collaboration. Contact us to be added to our email list for notices of news, action items, and upcoming delegation opportunities (not more than one email a month).
Victoria Kill
info@womenandcuba.org
Project Co-Chairs:
Cindy Domingo
yoson66@hotmail.com
Jan Strout
peacewomen4ever@yahoo.com
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