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La Conspiración de los Iguales: un libro equivocado 12/29/2011 Negra
Cubana Tiene Que Ser: "Me ha llegado el siguiente texto, signado por el
reconocido intelectual cubano
Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera, que me apresuro a compartir con los lectores
y lectoras de Negracubana. El texto realiza un análisis crítico exaustivo
del libro La Conspiración de los Iguales, escrito por Rolando Rodríguez,
cuya presentación en Cuba tuvo lugar, con penas más que glorias para muchas
personas, el pasado 20 de Octubre." 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.
News Archive: 2008-2009 |
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Graziella Pogolotti: Tenemos las mejores condiciones para un debate
desprejuiciado sobre el racismo 12/25/2011 Legado Afro: "Prensa
Cubadebate, Heriberto Feraudy Espino - Entrevista a la Dra. Graziella
Pogolotti, crítica de arte, prestigiosa ensayista y destacada
intelectual cubana, promotora de las Artes Plásticas Cubanas. Graziella
es también la presidenta del Consejo Asesor del Ministro de Cultura,
vicepresidenta de la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, y miembro
de la Academia Cubana de la Lengua."
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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