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Maceo - Martí: why did the
images of Antonio Maceo disappear after the Revolution?
5/14/13, Andy Petit US Interests Section, Havana, on race in Cuba, Wikileaks: "In spite of official statistics to the contrary, African descendent Cubans probably constitute a majority of the population. However, they occupy few leading positions in government, state owned industries and academia." Wikileaks cables, 2006-2011.
NED funded Black Cuban dissidents visit
Pittsburgh for AfricAméricas Week, 5/11/13
Vivir la pluralidad aprendiendo a vivir el pluralismo.- Pretexto para expulsar a
un afrocubano de la estructura de poder. 5/3/2013 Afromodernidades: por Msc.
María-I. Faguaga Iglesias
Declaración del Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de la República de Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, en la presentación del Informe Nacional ante el Examen Periódico Universal del Consejo de Derechos Humanos. Ginebra, 5/1/2013 Minrex: "Como
complemento al esfuerzo gubernamental y a la completa protección que dan
nuestras leyes, se ha decidido encargar a un Vicepresidente del Consejo
de Estado del seguimiento y la supervisión de la lucha contra el racismo
y la discriminación racial."
Latin America After Chávez NYT Op-Ed: by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: If
Lula can do an Op-Ed at the Times, why can't Zurbano?
Jay-Z and Beyoncé go to Cuba: the exiled
plantocracy reacts & Jay-Z raps, 4/15/13 with press coverage. ALEJANDRO RIOS: En negro y blanco 4/12/2013 Nuevo Herald: "Por estos días Roberto Zurbano intentó cambiar algunas de las reglas del juego desde su posición y entregó a The New York Times una columna titulada: “Para los negros, la Revolución no ha comenzado”. La respuesta no se hizo esperar, fue convocada una jauría de colegas, presidida por el profesor Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera, encargado de oscuras tareas partidistas, y donde figura, paradójicamente, el propio Morales para dejarle saber el craso error de haber escrito y publicado, libremente, sus opiniones sobre el racismo en publicación enemiga." Roberto Zurbano demoted from executive to researcher at Casa de las Americas, 4/6/13. With all press links. A study of translation as propaganda: Roberto Zurbano's article on race as seen in the plantocracy press, Andy Petit, 3/30/13
Especulaciones alrededor del artículo de Roberto Zurbano en el New York
Times, 28/3/2013 Alberto Jones: "Más que debilitar al gobierno o sus
instituciones con esta crítica valiente, frontal, sin dobleces, estos
planteamientos fortalecen el entorno y crean un ambiente propicio para
elevar el compromiso social conducente a la formación de una nación mejor,
que es en esencia, el objetivo único de la Revolución." Speculations surrounding Roberto Zurbano’s OP-ED in the New York Times, 3/28/13 Alberto Jones: "Rather than weakening the government and its institutions with his actions, such a courageous, frontal approach fortifies and creates a positive environment of concern, interest and a social commitment to create a better nation which is, in essence, what the Cuban Revolution is all about in the first place." Néstor García Iturbe wrote this article about Robert F. Williams, a Black American leader forced to flee his country to Cuba in 1961 due to trumped up charges: President Obama, thanks to whom are you here today? 3/26/13 Néstor García Iturbe escribio el articulo ese sobre Robert F. Williams, un lider afro-norteamericano quien tuvo que huir su pais debido a cargos inventados: Presidente Obama ¿Gracias a quién está usted hoy aquí? 26/3/13 For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn’t Begun 3/24/2013 International Herald Tribune/New York Times: by Roberto Zurbano - "Raúl Castro has announced that he will step down from the presidency in 2018. It is my hope that by then, the antiracist movement in Cuba will have grown, both legally and logistically, so that it might bring about solutions that have for so long been promised, and awaited, by black Cubans. An important first step would be to finally get an accurate official count of Afro-Cubans." See the firestorm of comments this article has touched off. The secret files of Alan Gross 3/22/2013 Along the Malecon: Documents the larger dimensions of Alan Goss' plot targeting Cuban Jews, Masons, and Afrocubans. "What's Left of Cuba? Culture, Politics, and Civil Society" 2/3/2013 Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at NYU: "This series (Jan - May) addresses where Cuba is now in the geopolitical imaginary that once heralded Cuba as the exemplar of radical left projects in Latin America. In recent years, Cuban culture has challenged the projects of the revolution and has recast the cold war frames of embargo, exile, and exceptionalism."
Primero foro interactivo cubano dedicado a los asuntos de raza, en el sitio
Cubarte:
El engaño de las razas, 1/13 - re-activado. Podemos dejar perecer a Santiago de Cuba? 24/11/12 Alberto Jones New approach to deal with hurricane onslaught on Cuba, 11/5/12 Nuevo enfoque para tratar con los huracanes en Cuba. 5/11/2012. Alberto Jones Sandy´s trail of death and destruction, 11/26/12 An appeal for aid, Caribbean American Children Foundation. Alberto Jones. La senda de destrucción y muerte de Sandy, 26 de Octubre del año 2012. Un llamamiento de ayuda, Fundación Caribeña Americana de los Niños. Alberto Jones. Romney's Solamere Scandal, Black Voter Network, 10/12
Ciencias antropológicas y tradiciones culturales cubanas en defensa de
la democracia y la soberanía de Venezuela 3/10/2012 Instituto
Cubano de Antropología: "Con dedicatoria explícita al pueblo
venezolano, los colectivos artísticos Irawo y ObbaIlú -representantes
de espiritualidades populares cubanas Osha y Abakuá- regalaron al
público una muestra de cantos y danzas ceremoniales que invocan a los
ancestros africanos del pueblo de la isla caribeña: ancestros cuyas
energías vitales habitan en nuestra cultura y animan nuestra soberanía
nacional en su dimensión más profunda."
La tumba de
Antonio Maceo - Una visita decepcionante,
10/1/12, por: Arianna Legna y Alberto N Jones Guantanamo's most important anniversary, 9/302012 Alberto Jones
El aniversario
más importante de Guantánamo, 23/9/12 Alberto Jones
Peligros e incertidumbre tras las
nuevas regulaciones aduanales, 14/9/12 Alberto Jones
Cuba’s
‘Festival CLIC’ and the Vast Minority 6/25/2012 Havana Times: "They know
that Havana Times isn’t backed by the United States government but is
produced with the untiring work of a passionate American living in Central
America and that the website constitutes a place where the best thinking of
youth from the island is gathered." Children of Haiti Enhancement Foundation Newsletter, 6/12 COHEF Guantánamo, la cenicienta de Cuba. Primer capitulo. 21/6/12 Alberto Jones. Guantanamo. A man-made Cinderella. First Chapter, 6/24/12 May 20th. The most tragic date on the Cuban calendar. Part I, 5/18/12 Alberto Jones. May 20th. The most tragic date on the Cuban calendar. Part II, 5/25/2012 by Alberto Jones. Also published in Havana Times, where it attracted many comments. La dignidad de ser afrocubanas 3/7/2012 Diario de Cuba: by Juan Antonio Madrazo, head of the CIR, whose Miami rep, Vicky Ruiz, works for Ileana Ros.
Boletin Trimestral de la Iglesia Episcopal de Guantanamo, Vol 1, No 1,
1/2012
Partido
Independiente de Color ¿Eran racistas, anexionistas?
1/7/2012 Jiribilla: de Tomás Fernández Robaina, Investigador y
Profesor Titular de la Biblioteca Nacional José Martí y de la Universidad de
La Habana My Cuba. Summer of 2011, 11/24/11 Alberto Jones Cuba 1912. Mancillando la memoria de las victimas, 8/11/11 Alberto Jones da la repuesta a Rolando Rodriguez, quien acusa a los Independientes de Color de traición a la republica de la plantocracia. Rolando Rodriguez: twisted memories of 1912, Claude Betancourt, 11/6/11 Rolando Rodriguez y su falsa memoria del doce, Claude Betancourt, 6/11/11 1912, Breaking the Silence, 10/31/11 Alberto Jones on the premier of the second chapter of Gloria Rolando's film. 1912: Voces para un Silencio, 10/31/11 Alberto Jones nos relata la premier del segundo capitulo de la obra de Gloria Rolando sobre el doce. El historiador cubano Rolando Rodríguez insiste en que el Partido de los Independientes de Color era trabajando con el gobierno de la EEUU en 1912, como si fuera 2012! Su libro llena de odio, "La conspiración de los iguales," salio 21/10/11. Race is one, the human race: interview with Eusebio Leal Spengler, 9/2/11 La raza es una sola, la raza humana: entrevista con Eusebio Leal Spengler, 9/2/11 Heriberto Feraudy Challenges of the Racial Question in Cuba, Chapter 5, by Esteban Morales Dominguez, 9/2011, translated summary of his landmark study, Desafios de la problematica racial en Cuba, La Habana, 2008 Primera Cumbre Mundial de Afrodescendientes, La Ceiba, Honduras, 18 - 21 Agosto 2011
Se inicia foro interactivo el Engaño de las razas 7/15/2011 Cubarte: A
partir de hoy queda abierto el foro digital interactivo
El engaño de las razas (www.foroscubarte.cult.cu)
organizado por la UNEAC y Cubarte al calor de las actividades del Año
Internacional de los Afrodescendientes. Cuba y los pueblos afrodescendientes en América Seminario - 13 - 17/6/ 2011 Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello (ICIC), la Habana. Veinte articulos en la prensa mas una lista de participantes en ese evento histórico dan una idea de los grandes cambios que pasan en Cuba. África y la edad del olvido por Heriberto Feraudy Espino, 6/12/2011, UNEAC: "...en nuestro país en séptimo grado de 78 temas de historia que se imparten solo 6 corresponden a África y de esos seis, tres se refieren al Egipto faraónico. En octavo y noveno grado de 152 temas dos de ellos se refieren al Caribe y catorce al continente africano; pero en ningún momento, a excepción del Imperio de Malí, jamás se habla de las civilizaciones africanas pre coloniales." Myopic policies hurts local economy, 6/6/11 Alberto Jones My African Pilgrimage. Part I, 5/14/11 Alberto Jones
Los imaginarios de la droga, orientalismo y sexo en el poema "Haschisch" de
José Martí 5/1/2011 Habana Elegante. See also
José Martí.
A macabre assault on the poor, 4/10/11: The US and the Miami Plantocracy try to divert Cuban medical personnel. By Alberto Jones April 19, 2011: A day of Judgment by Alberto Jones, a moving piece that describes the background for his writings and his feelings about the recent Party Congress. Carter's US-Cuba Road Map of Peace, 4/4/11 Alberto Jones Carter. Ruta de Paz entre los Estados Unidos y Cuba, 4/4/11 How I was drawn into Cuba's racial issue, 3/7/11 Alberto Jones The End of an Era, 2/25/11 Alberto Jones 08HAVANA811: PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE: THOUGHTS ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CUBA 1/22/2011 Wikileaks: Racism in the Catholic Church - "Cardinal Ortega went further, noting that internal migration of non-Catholic Afro-Cubans into Havana had upset the "natural balance" in some of the poorer parishes in Havana. Asked about Church outreach programs for these migrants, the Cardinal did not cite any and instead gave the impression he considered such programs would be wasted efforts." Fabian Escalante: "Los que protegen hoy a Posada son los mismos que conspiraron contra Kennedy" 1/12/2011 Cuba Debate General Antonio Maceo, Then, Now and Forever, 12/10/2010 Alberto Jones US-CUBA relations at a deadly crossroad, Part I, 12/8/2010 Alberto Jones Will we allow Haiti to die? 11/5/10 Alberto Jones Rev. Lucius Walker passes to the ancestors, 9/7/10 Founded US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan A spade of Damocles hanging over our heads, 6/18/10 by Alberto Jones A Worldwide Battle of Life and Death. Third Chapter, 5/1/2010 by Alberto Jones, who examines the case for reparations. Una Batalla Mundial de Vida o Muerte. Tercera Parte, 5/1/10 A worldwide Battle of Life and Death, Part II, 4/4/10 by Alberto Jones: the author conducts a frank discussion of racism in Cuba today, without falling into the trap set by dissidents working with the plantocracy exiled in Miami. Una Batalla Mundial de Vida o Muerte. Segunda Parte. 4/4/10 de Alberto Jones: el autor habla francamente del racismo en Cuba, sin caer en la trampa de la plantocracia exiliada en Miami. US Embassy not moving on visa for Boston bound Afro-Venezuela Deputy Modesto Ruiz Espinoza, 3/27/10 Amistad slave ship replica visits Cuba, 3/2010 The State of Race in 21st Century Cuban Socialism: Two Opposing Views Outside Cuba, 3/1/10, James Early: in response to Carlos Moore's recent articles. Carlos Moore comments on the death of hunger striker Zapata, 2/28/10: "Zapata's ordeal is being spun from the other side of the coin, too -- the predominantly white and U.S.-based, right-wing anti-Castro opposition who clearly stand to score political points from the case of a black martyr. Righteous declarations can be expected from organizations such as Democracy Movement, the Cuban American National Foundation, the Cuban Liberty Council and, especially, the Cuban Democratic Directorate. Many Cuban civil-rights activists accuse these groups of working to corral and control the new internal opposition forces on behalf of interests linked to Cuba's former Jim Crow oligarchy. That's why they see U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart's "indignation'' over Zapata's death, as much as president Raúl Castro's "regrets,'' as a double farce." -- Some observers credit Alberto Jones and Claude Betancourt's articles for this historic turn against the Miami Plantocracy, unprecedented, to our knowledge, in any statements by Black Cuban dissident groups. Their articles detailed the long running schemes to recruit black dissidents and support them via the usual Miami mechanisms, calling into question the legitimacy of these movements. Moore's statements cannot erase this history, but at least represent a step towards stopping the dubious spectacle of AfroCubans fighting openly on behalf of the remnants of Cuba's plantocracy. Black dissident Orlando Zapata Tamayo dies after an 88 day hunger strike, 2/23/10 Related articles and background. CUBA: Replica Slave Ship Drops Anchor amidst Debate on Racism 3/24/2010 IPS: "The issue is gaining visibility, which gives us hope that progress will continue to be made," Norberto Mesa, founder of the Cofradía de la Negritud (CONEG), a "brotherhood" or association of black people aimed at raising awareness about the problem, told IPS. According to CONEG, racial inequality is a growing problem in Cuba, where the latest census, from 2002, indicates that of a total population of 11.18 million, 7.2 million were white, 1.13 million black, and 2.78 mixed-race, based on self-identification. However, scholars estimate that the Cuban population is actually around 60 to 70 percent black or mixed-race. Día Internacional contra la Discriminación Racial: Cofradía de la Negritud, la Habana, 3/21/10 Haiti Earthquake: donate to Haiti Emergency Relief Fund, low overhead, grass roots. Founded by Walter Riley, Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte. See also Cuba in Haiti: an extraordinary medical effort you can help sustain. Act Now in Haiti Before It is Too Late! 2/15/2010 by Alberto Jones See our Haiti News page for news of the earthquake and the rescue efforts, including those of MEDICC, which supports the Cuban medical effort in Haiti. Haitians, international generosity and respect can rebuild the Haitian economy and society, 1/30/2010 Willie Mack Thompson
Ni un día de Paz para Cuba, 22/11/2010, Havana Times, by Alberto Jones El Pentágono está en Haití 1/22/2010 Cuba Debate: "Los militares estadounidenses ordenaron ayer el desalojo inmediato de todos los periodistas internacionales de la zona de acampada dentro del aeropuerto donde los reporteros compartían espacio con los cooperantes. El miércoles a las cinco de la tarde, hora haitiana, un soldado se acercó tienda por tienda a comunicar a los medios de comunicación que a las cinco de la mañana del día siguiente todo el mundo tenía que estar fuera... El secretario de Estado para Iberoamérica, Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, visitó por la noche el campamento español para comunicarles que el Gobierno haitiano había dejado el control del aeropuerto a EEUU y que la Armada estadounidense necesitaba todas las instalaciones... El edificio de la televisión de Haití también fue tomado por un grupo de soldados estadounidenses. Además, la presencia de los soldados con sus enormes vehículos militares ha empeorado aún más el tráfico. Circular 200 metros en coche en algunos tramos puede llevar más de una hora. Ayer, en una de las glorietas de la ciudad, la policía haitiana, cascos azules de Naciones Unidas, soldados de EEUU y un ciudadano occidental con la estética de miembro de Blackwater daban direcciones contradictorias entre sí a los desesperados conductores... Al margen del despliegue militar, Unicef denunció ayer el "descontrol absoluto" en la salida de 140 menores del país después del terremoto. Julie Bergeron, jefa de protección de Unicef, afirmó a Público que han enviado personal al aeropuerto para impedir la salida de niños sin papeles." Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux 1/18/2010 Op Ed News: by Cynthia McKinney - "Therefore, we note here the writings of Ms. Marguerite Laurent, whom I met in her capacity as attorney for ousted President of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Ms. Laurent reminds us of Haiti's offshore oil and other mineral riches and recent revivial of an old idea to use Haiti and an oil refinery to be built there as a transshipment terminal for U.S. supertankers. Ms. Laurent, also known as Ezili Danto of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN), writes: "There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. This is detailed by Dr. Georges Michel in an article dated March 27, 2004 outlining the history of oil explorations and oil reserves in Haiti and in the research of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin." Obama authorizes covert economic war against Venezuela 1/18/2010 Wayne Madsen Report on Milfuegos: "WMR's intelligence sources have reported that the Obama administration has authorized an economic war against Venezuela in order to destabilize the government of President Hugo Chavez. After a successful coup against Chavez ally, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, and the very thin 51-49 percent electorial win by Chile's billionaire right-winger Sebastian Pinera on January 17, a buoyed Obama White House has given a green light for political operatives in Venezuela, many of whom operate under the cover of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to set the stage for massive street demonstrations to protest Chavez's devaluation of the bolivar, Venezuela's currency... The Obama administration's assault is two-fold: economic and political. Pressure is being applied against the gasoline chain Citgo, which is owned by the Venezuelan state oil company, PDVSA, and Venezuelan investment favorability ratings. Politically, the U.S. is overtly and covertly funneling money to anti-Chavez groups through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and groups affiliated with George Soros." We Stand With Cuba! Declaration of African American activists, intellectuals and artists in continued solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, 1/2010 Cuba: Poder, Racismo y Democracia (Un Análisis del Histórico "Problema Blanco"), por Ivan Cesar Martinez, 1/18/2010 Race and Class in Cuba - Part 1 and 2, by Gayle McGarrity, 1/2010, Jamaica Observer with a response: Here we go again! 2/1/10 by Tony Menelik van der Meer CARICOM BLOCKED ...as US takes control of airport 1/17/2010 T&T Express: "THE CARIBBEAN Community's emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devastated country's airport, now under the control of the United States." In Katrina, as in any other disaster, FEMA doctrine's top priority is to establish control. Malcolm X and Fidel: 1990 Symposium in Havana 1/17/2010 brothermalcolm.net: With audio and video tracks. Includes presentations by Nancy Morejon, Kwame Toure, Rogelio Martinez Fure, Osvaldo Cardenas, and many others as well as a video of Fidel talking to the delegates. Photogallery of Fidel - Malcom X meeting in 1960. Shades of Katrina: No help for Haitians who need it most 1/16/2010 SF Bay View: "According to CNN tonight (Jan. 15), "for security reasons," the U.N. required all doctors and nurses to leave one small Port-au-Prince hospital, full of badly wounded Haitians, some today post-surgery. And CNN showed the doctors and nurses in trucks being driven away abandoning patients to... no care at all. No U.N. security left to guard the desperately ill or, better yet, guarding the hospital with doctors and nurses inside helping their patients. What in hell might have been the security threat that 3,000 (seemingly absent in helping dig buried people out) U.N. soldiers stationed in Port-au-Prince couldn't handle? "Security" is the U.N. Haiti mandate, after all. Fear of poor Black people... so sadly reminiscent of the response to Katrina, and so lacking in actual evidence." Never had a day of Peace or Happiness, 11/15/2010 Alberto Jones Haiti: A Moment of Reckoning,
1/13/2010 by Alberto Jones: "Nowhere in the world could our investment
achieve higher return, if the United Nations and every worldwide
humanitarian organization in the world would open an honest, fair and
respectful discussion with Cuba that would enable the relocation of
thousands of the earthquake victims in Haiti to vacant school buildings in
Cuba where they could receive all basic human needs, as every country,
especially the developed ones, can contribute to the financial operation
of this unprecedented humanitarian project.
Acting on Our Conscience Briefing Sheet: roadmap for Diaspora support of
Miami-backed dissidents Claude Betancourt, 1/6/2010 "The fourth and
fifth sections, "Prominent Civil Rights leaders" and "Designated US-based
representatives of the two chief Cuban civil rights movements," list a
series of persons and organizations. Overall, they show a number of
disturbing signs of long standing links with the Miami hard right, sponsor
of so much terrorism against Cuba.
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Target Assata: How the FBI and Cuba Bashers Are Going After a Black Liberation Activist 5/9/2013 Alternet: by Bill Fletcher Jr - "In the aftermath of the reelection of President Obama whispers started to be heard suggesting that there might be efforts to take Cuba off the list of countries that support terrorism. There were other whispers that further suggested that there may be efforts aimed at normalizing relations with Cuba. The frenzy in connection with Assata Shakur is precisely the sort of step that those who wish to derail such efforts could either implement or celebrate." Supporters Say 'Hands Off Assata' Shakur 5/3/2013 The Root: "Many prominent blacks, from Angela Davis to Roland Martin, are speaking out in support of Shakur, and many folks on Twitter are expressing displeasure at the FBI as well. The hashtag #HandsOffAssata is being used to show support for Shakur online." See our Assata Shakur pages. Search Twitter for #HandsOffAssata and see the many links people are putting up.
Finally, Cuba Is Harboring a Terrorist! 5/4/2013 Havana Times: "It
seems unlikely that the announcement of her [Assata
Shakur] transformation from criminal to terrorist coincidently
occurred the day after the State Department was supposed to release its
annual report “justifying” the continued inclusion of Cuba on its list
of countries that “provide critical support to non-state terrorist
groups and repeatedly provides support for acts of international
terrorism.” The publication of this report has been delayed; perhaps to
update it with this new information." Broken Mirrors: Race, Historical Memory, and Citizenship in 20th/21st-Century France, 2011, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University Beyonce and Jay Z Are Race Traitors for Going to Cuba !?!? 4/15/2013 Huffington Post: by Mark Sawyer, UCLA - "In the early 2000's the Cuban members of Congress funded projects located at HBCU's for scholars under contract to produce articles on racism in Cuba. Scholars visited Cuba but did no original research and largely summarized the works of scholars like myself without any of the necessary context and caveats. We were then invited to a conference at Howard University hosted by Ileana Ross-Lehtinen so they could report their "findings" on racism in Cuba and have the validation of top scholars in the field. As the conservative Miami Cubans have struggled to connect with blacks on the island they have seen talking about racism on the island as a possible entrée to Afro-Cubans."
Cuba Has
No Racial Discrimination 4/8/2013 Havana Times: [Denial is a feature
of republicanismo, which the Cubans
inherit from the French.]
Supressing a Public
Pilgrimage: Day of the 5 Abakwá - 27th of November, by Andy Petit,
12/2/12: "This year multiple sources in Havana confirm that the Abakwá
parade going down the Paseo del Prado to La Punta was forbidden and an
impressive contingent of police as well as a Rapid Response Brigade was
on hand to enforce the prohibition. It will be interesting to find out
what prompted this casual act of repression, but at its heart there is
little doubt that it stems from a desire to control the expressions of
an ancient fraternity." Desde la Ceiba, Cofradia de la Negritud: Noviembre (domingo 25, a las 3 pm) Panel sobre "La Cuestión racial en el libro Cien horas con Fidel". Coordinador: Tato Quiñones. Diciembre (domingo 23), a las 3 pm) Panel "A cinco años de la Carta con Propuesta de la Cofradía de la Negritud". Coordinador: Norberto Mesa, la Habana Desde la Ceiba: Nota aclaratoria del Consejo Supremo Abacuá de Cuba, 2/10/12 El negro y la africanía en el ideario de José Martí 10/1/2012 Temas
Cofradía de la Negritud
- Desde la Ceiba, 29 de septiembre de 2012 Articulación Regional Afrodescendiente de América Latina y el Caribe (ARAAC): Primera reunion en Cuba: 9/12
Cofradía de la Negritud -
Desde la Ceiba, 26 de septiembre de 2012 Somos afrodescendientes o no 22/9/2012 Moncada: de Esteban Morales Proximamente en Cuba: Articulación Regional Afrodescendiente 14/9/2012 CubaInformacion: "Próximamente, del 19 al 21 de septiembre, se realizará en Cuba un encuentro entre intelecutales y líderes afrodescendientes de la Latinoamérica, con la intención de constituir una Red de Articulación Regional Afrodescendiente en América Latina, el Caribe y la Diáspora (RAA). Además de Cuba, varios países estarán representados, entre ellos Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, República Dominicana y Puerto Rico. Comparto entonces los objetivos, y otras informaciones importantes, de este evento."
Desde la Ceiba - 25 de
septiembre de 2012 Cofradia de la Negritude - Desde La Ceiba (Extra), 19/9/12: Carta con propuesta 5 años despué, En víspera de la reunión del Red de Articulación Regional Afrodescendiente de América Latina, el Caribe y la Diáspora (ARA)
Desde la Ceiba - 9 de
septiembre, 2012
Cofradia de la Negritude -
Desde La Ceiba (Extra), 2/9/12: La Virgen de la Caridad: cuatro
siglos de malas compañías, Por J. I. Domínguez López, Nueva York Informe sobre el Festival Násàkó, 6/12, vínculos con los cubanos aprobados. The founders of Ékpè/Abakuá gather / los fundadores de Ékpè/Abakuá se reunen The Násàkó Family's Kebulu Felix Lenya on Africa - Cuba ties, May 2, 2012
Special Report: Africa palm-oil plan pits activists vs N.Y. investors 7/18/2012 Reuters: "Herakles takes such allegations seriously. The company needs the blessing of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) , a Kuala Lumpur-based certification body set up in 2004 and designed to rid the industry of the forest-wrecking image it picked up in Asia." -- See also Palm Oil Plantation News for this story that affects the founding groups behind Abakuá / Ékpè. Stop oil palm plantations from destroying Africa's ancient rain forests, Cultural Survival, 6/12 Plantations threaten the Abakuá related Násàkó families and thousands of others. Cofradía de la
Negritud - Desde la Ceiba, 6 de junio de 2012 Cofradía de
la Negritud - Desde la Ceiba, Domingo 18 de marzo de 2012 - Extra:
La Masacre de los Independientes de Color, por Bienvenido Rojas Silva:
panel con Rolando Rodríguez,Tomás Fernández Robaina, Joel Mourlot
Mercaderes y Oilda Hevia. Cofradía de
la Negritud, Desde la Ceiba, Lunes el 12 de marzo de 2012: Denuncia
el Poeta Omar Herrera su vejamen racista en el Museo Nacional de Bellas
Artes. Cuba debates its socialist future 2/26/2012 Green Left, Australia: by Marce Cameron. Responses to “Cuba debates its socialist future, Marce Cameron” 2/26/2012 Norman Girvan: James Early, Marce Cameron Cofradia de
la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba, 23 de febrero de 2012 Cofradia de
la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba,18 de febrero de 2012:
José Prudencio Padilla: El gigante sacrificado 11/20/2011 El
Universal, Colombia: "¿Por qué los cartageneros no levantaron su voz
para defender a Padilla? ¿Por qué el Caribe colombiano se quedó
enmudecido ante semejante injusticia que se estaba cometiendo con él?
Allí está la gran pregunta que se formula y responde la historiadora
Aline Helg, quien afirma que desde los inicios de la guerra contra
España, Bolívar estaba obsesionado y prevenido de la repercusión que
tendría el poder de los pardos y su impacto en las sociedades de
Venezuela y en la Costa, hasta el punto de una repetición de Haití." Cofradia de la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba, 6 de noviembre, 2011: Invitación del Instituto Nacional de Antropología - 9 de noviembre, 2011. Afrodescendencia, creación literaria y revolución: "...el tiempo roto" de Manolo Granados
Cofradia de la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba, 2 de noviembre, 2011 Cofradia de la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba, 29 de octubre, 2011 Entrevista con Dr. Jesus Guanche, ¿Persiste el racismo entre la sociedad actual cubana? PDF, 200 kb Cofradia de la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba, 12 de octubre, 2011
Cofradia de la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba, 11 de octubre, 2011
Cofradia de la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba, 5 de octubre, 2011 Africa's Ékpè (Abakuá) communities are under threat from the New Plantocracy and their massive biofuel palm oil farms. African and Indigenous communities in the Americas are under similar threat from this New Plantocracy and their drug trafficking paramilitary allies. We will be tracking related news in our new section, Palm Oil Plantation News. 9/2011
Cofradia de la Negritude: Desde la Ceiba, 8 de septiembre, 2011
Cofradía de la
Negritud: Desde la Ceiba, 27 julio 2011
Cofradía de la
Negritud: DESDE LA CEIBA, 9 de julio de 2011
Cuba: Doce dificultades para enfrentar al
(neo) racismo o doce razones para abrir el (otro) debate
7/4/2011 Legado Afro: por Roberto Zurbano
Cofradía de la Negritud:
DESDE LA CEIBA, 24 de junio de 2011
Cofradía de la Negritud: DESDE LA
CEIBA, 22 de junio de 2011 IV Encuentro de Afrodescendientes y las Transformaciones Revolucionarias en América Latina y El Caribe, Caracas, Venezuela, 19-22 junio, 2011. Mas de 20 articulos en la prensa.
Questions of Racial Identity, Racism and anti-Racist Policies in Cuba
Today, 6/2/11 Center for International Policy, Washington, DC with
Esteban Morales et al. Open to the public. Frente a los retos del color como parte del debate por el socialismo 5/9/2011 Esteban Morales: "La medidas económicas que ahora se discuten ampliamente y que en cierto modo comienzan a ponerse en práctica, para actualizar el modelo económico, medidas de las cuales el reordenamiento y disponibilidad laboral, posiblemente sea la más complicada y dramática, representa también un reto de consideración, para la masa laboral en general y para los trabajadores negros y mestizos en particular. Pues, para nadie es un secreto, que estos últimos han sido siempre, históricamente, los de menor calificación, los más desfavorecidos en el plano laboral, ostentando los peores empleos, las más bajas remuneraciones salariales y las más bajas jubilaciones."
Libyan Revolution - live feeds,
numerous articles. See also Berbers -
Amazigh - in Libya.
Invitación de la Cofradía de la Negritud, víspera de la celebración del Día Mundial de Lucha Contra la Discriminación Racial, la Cofradía, 20/3/11 ¿Agentes para el cambio? - Agents for Change? Granma, March, 2011: An otherwise interesting discussion of US soft power efforts in Cuba is marred by the assertion that Cuba's racial conflicts are non-existent. This has prompted a letter to the authors from a leading Cuban investigator on race & identity, Esteban Morales, who noted that Fidel and Raul would disagree with this assertion. Carta a los autores Jean Guy Allard, Marina Menéndez y Daisy Francis Mexidor en Granma, 22/3/11 Esteban Morales "¿Basado en que se asegura que el conflicto racial en Cuba es algo inexistente?"
From Latin America to the Arab World - What's going on in Libya?
2/26/2011 Machetera: "The opportunity is great and possibly the last for a
definitive reverse in the balance of forces and for isolating the imperialist
powers within a new global framework. We ought not to fall into such a simple
trap. We ought not to underestimate the Arabs. No, they aren't socialists, but
in the last two months, in an unexpected way, they have stripped away the
hypocrisy from the EU and the United States, have expressed their desire for
authentic democracy, far removed from any colonial tutelage, and have opened a
space for the left to thwart capitalism's attempts to recover lost ground. It's
the Latin America of ALBA, of Che, and Playa Girón, whose prestige in this area
remained intact until yesterday, that must support the process before the
world's timekeeper manages to turn the hands back and to its favor."
Call on the Preval Government to Arrest and Try Jean-Claude Duvalier for
Crimes Against Humanity 1/16/2011 Haiti Analysis. See our
Haiti page for coverage. Sugerencias para una dermatología nacional 10/17/2010 Encuentros
Carta Abierta de la Cofradía de la Negritud al
Secretariado Nacional de la CTC, 9/10: "Vienen meses de lucha ardua
para todos, en la cual podemos salir victoriosos. Ustedes tienen la
palabra, por ustedes hablarán los hechos. En la Cofradía de la Negritud
conocemos dos casos, expuestos ante el Departamento de Asuntos Laborales y
la Asesoría Jurídica de la CTC, que nos permiten dudar de la capacidad
real de la CTC y sus sindicatos para el cumplimiento exitoso del
compromiso asumido en el Pronunciamiento. ¡Ojalá demuestren que sí cuentan
con la capacidad requerida!" Corruption: The true counter-revolution? 4/21/2010 Progreso: "Without a doubt, it is becoming evident that there are people in positions of government and state who are girding themselves financially for when the Revolution falls, and others may have everything almost ready to transfer state-owned assets to private hands, as happened in the old USSR." Morales is a specialist on the US and the author of many texts on race in Cuba. Corrupción: ¿la verdadera contrarrevolución? 4/15/2010 Desde la Habana: de Esteban Morales, specialista en temas sobre política exterior de Estados Unidos y autor de numerosos textos sobre la problemática racial en Cuba. Publicado en el sitio de la UNEAC. |
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