Re: Take Action to Break the Silence, 50 Years Since Dr. MLK's 'Beyond Vietnam' Speech

 

A powerful speech. Inspiring.

 

Bob Peterson

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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FRI. APRIL7 (9am): hear Martin Luther King Jr.s still-relevant "Beyond Vietnam" speech on CATALYST on KFAI 90.3FM Mpls 106.7 Fm St.Paul after broadcast on CATALYST page.

 

Catalyst show on KFAI Radio

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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Recapture the Nonviolent Revolutionary Spirit

 

 

On April 4, 1967, one year to the day before his assassination in Memphis TN, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his visionary "Beyond Vietnam" speech at Riverside Church in New York City. He said:

 

"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered... We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation."

 

In opposition to these giant triplets, King called for "massive civil disobedience... to compel unwilling Federal authorities to yield to the mandates of justice". In preparation, he called for nonviolence trainings. Tragically, King never lived to see that struggle to fruition.

 

 

Painting by Derek Russell // War Resisters League

 

Today, 50 years later, as we face rising militarism, economic and environmental crises, and still-rampant racism, his call to nonviolent resistance resonates more than ever. To meet this moment, War Resisters League is supercharging our resources on nonviolence trainings, actions, and campaigns to support grassroots efforts!

 

We are relaunching our exercise on "The Intersections of MLK's Triple Threats", now updated and redesigned for groups wanting to gain an understanding of the value of organizing based on the interconnection of the threats of the giant triplets.

 

 

In the words of Dr. King, "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism."  His words, half a century later, are instructive for us today on this 100 year anniversary of the U.S. Senate declaration of war against Germany, thus entering the U.S. into WWI. WRL has the tools, training resources and antimilitarist will to help in this recapturing of the nonviolent revolutionary spirit: Onward!

 

War Resisters League

168 Canal Street

Suite 600

New York, NY 10013

 

 

 

 

Re: MLK Called for a “Radical Revolution of Values.” The Movement for Black Lives Delivers One

 

I vividly remember Dr. King's Riverside Church speech of April 4, 1967, as well as his speech August 28, 1963 at the March on Washington, which I attended with my father.

 

The 1967 speech came barely a week before the world premiere of the cantata, "I Have a Dream," based on the 1963 speech, by my teacher and mentor Elie Siegmeister, at the Long Beach, Long Island synagogue, with Cantor Sol Mendelson, who had commissioned it.

 

Dr. King and Senators Jacob Javits and Robert Kennedy were scheduled to attend. But after the speech of April 4th, none of them did, as the American Legion threatened to picket the temple if Dr. King showed up.  He had become persona non grata to the Establishment, and in fact his days were numbered: he was killed exactly a year later, April 4, 1968.

 

The cantata did not receive the recognition it deserved until Jan. 15, 1989, the 80th birthday of Siegmeister and the 60th birthday of King, when it was performed at the Harlem School of the Arts (hosted by Bob Sherman and Betty Allen) by the original soloist William Warfield, Ronald Edwards, and the Metropolitan Philharmonic Chorus, which I had founded the year before, to perform works like this, which no other chorus would take the time to learn. That performance, which I conducted, embraced by Siegmeister at the end, is posted on YouTube here.

 

And the Chorus is still going strong.  Its 45th performance, March 25, 2017, was of my latest opera, THE TRIANGLE FIRE, with libretto by Ellen Frankel, on the 106th anniversary of the fire, in the NYU building where it took place. It is posted here.  A webpage devoted to the opera, (here), includes links to interviews, reviews, introductions, discussions, and both excerpt and complete performances.

 

Leonard J. Lehrman

(Author, *Elie Siegmeister, American Composer: A Bio-Bibliography*)

ljlehrman.artists-in-residence.com

 

 

 

 

Re: Black Americans Are Working More—With Little to Show for It

 

The Democratic Republic of America has first and foremost derived it wealth from the exploited labor of Black labor. To this very day, our economic system so fiercely devoted to maximizing the privatization of wealth, has systematically made it next to impossible for Black labor, nay Black people, from amassing wealth and power. This extraction of wealth from Black labor is embedded in the DNA of American capitalism.

 

Larry Aaronson

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death

 

The "sharing economy" is the worst example of misbranding that's ever been.

 

Eleanor Roosevelt

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: The End of the U.S. Empire Can Be a New Beginning for Our Democracy

 

Time to end the two party system of the ruling rich vs the other 99% of us !!!

 

Ed Taylor

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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Time to end the colonial system. Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, Northern Marianas and others.

 

Mary Anne Merrill-Ramirez

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

The Buck Stops Here - Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz

 

 

 

Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz

April 5, 2017

 

Lalo Alcaraz -- award-winning editorial cartoonist and Latino journalist -- captures the essence of the country’s changing cultural and political landscape. Alcaraz has produced editorial cartoons for LA Weekly since 1992 and also creates cartoons in Spanish for La Opinion, the United States’ oldest Spanish-language newspaper. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Hispanic Magazine, Latina magazine, La Jornada in Mexico City, BUNTE, (Germany’s People magazine) and many other publications. 

 

 

 

 

Re: Make Every Democratic Senator Filibuster Gorsuch

 

you can't get 'every senator 'to do something when bluedog Democrats like Joe Manchin and Heidi Heitkamp betray the party regularly.  We So need to have those two senators primaried next time around. Onward!

 

Lois Racz

 

 

 

 

Re: How Trumpcare’s Failure Sets the Stage for Single-Payer

 

A single payer system can be paid for with all the profits that are going to the insurance companies. Also, make all health care not for profit.

 

Jackie Graves Kimble

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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We already pay for millions of people's health care, some in huge amounts in Cadillac policies like legislators and t-rump and his family. We all pay through our taxes of all kinds and through the cost of everything we buy through profits to the sellers. We pay for the huge salaries and profits of insurance companies, we pay for everyone, rich or destitute. Much more than if we eliminated the middle man health and big pharma who give so generously to keep their greedy hands on our money.

 

There is no free lunch, only idiots who believe they know everything ! We pay for everyone's healthcare from the richest to the poorest through our system of government and provide huge profits to insurers and big pharmacy. Universal health care is far cheaper for everyone except those grabbing billions of profits now. We are providing health care for indigent that is worse but more expensive through welfare.

 

Ed Taylor

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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Medicare for all makes sense! But can our elected officials work for the American people instead of taking money and favors from lobbyists? We'll see.

 

Linda Joye

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Democrats Against Single Payer

 

So Branko Marcetic writes in Jacobin that the Left wants a single payer system but many or most elected officials in the Democratic Party, as well as many liberal newspapers, journals and columnists, are against it.

 

I don't think we require a long article to explain that. Why did Jacobin think so? Who must otherwise good or OK candidates turn to in the era of no-limits-on-campaign-spending turn? Can all of them realistically rely on average contributions of $27? As the GOP has gone further and further to the right, the center of the entire political spectrum has traveled the same direction.

 

Michael Arney

 

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Shame on them!

 

Gloria Johnson

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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It is not the democrats but the elite who have sold out to the insurance industry. As long as Hillary is our vision of a democrat we will never win another election.

 

David Nefzger

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Tell the truth and Shame the Devil

 

Fellow Felons...

 

David Gathright

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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David Bucher

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Internet Privacy - Cartoon by Jeff Lofvers

 

 

 

Jeff Lofvers

Don'tHitSave.com

March 28, 2017

 

 

 

 

Re: Texas is the Future

 

After trump takes a lot of land to build his wall. There are good to be many angry Texans

 

Mike Humphries

 

 

 

 

Re: Interview: Organizing to Learn, Learning to Organize

(posting on Portside Labor)

 

 

ESFL's "Tempests in Teapots" program drew on Highlander popular education pedagogy, including the wonderful collection of books and materials that Larry Olds gave us.

 

East Side Freedom Library

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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Inspiring & crucial--publish, post, share widely!

 

Lydia Howell

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Activism Then & Now: Organizing in the Pre-Twitter Era

 

Being a bookseller has exposed me to so many wonderful people - who paved the way before me as a bookseller, and in a few cases they paved the road for continuing to stand up when I see and hear injustice. Selling left wing books isn't the most lucrative profession you could ever think of. Some of the reps I met with were so well read and they kept me going on this not so well trod path. I was lucky to meet and work with the clever, articulate and radical John Eklund. Take a few minutes to read his reflections on organizing and activism before the age of the internet. It's brilliant.

 

Lisa Greaves

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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what??!! Talk with people?

 

Alberta Maged

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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My sister and I were talking recently about the amazing ability of social media to turn out millions of protestors. She knows I'm an old lefty and wanted to know how we managed to organize anything before twitter, facebook, etc. Good question! This seemed like something others might be interested in so I gave it some thought, and my friends at the excellent website Portside were nice enough to post my recollections about how we got it done in that long ago pre-internet age.

 

John Eklund

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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"NPAC led loud chants of 'Out Now!' and PCPJ answered with 'Set the Date!'”

 

I have a different memory, of an antiwar march in Manhattan when I was around 15. When people chanted "Out Now!" the gay and lesbian contingent behind me and my two friends responded with "Come Out Now!"

 

Meanwhile, the Irish group in front of us was chanting "England, get out of Ireland! America, get out of Vietnam!"

 

After they passed a bit of whiskey back, the gays and lesbians were chanting, "England, get out of Ireland," and the Irish, "Come Out Now!"

 

Steven Wishnia

New York City

 

 

 

 

Re: Golden Age of TV is Not So Golden for Writers: Why the Writers Guild of America is Moving Closer to a Strike

(posting on Portside Labor)

 

 

I recall the last Guild strike in the States - and the issue of 'reality tv' spelling doom for some writers.

 

Janet Nicol

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Claude McKay's Long-Lost Novel Brings the Harlem Renaissance to Life

(posting on Portside Culture)

 

 

one of my favorite eras to teach...Harlem Renaissance....and McKay was about the earliest to settle in Harlem...1918, I believe. His sonnets are extraordinary....What an incredibly rich twelve years so many writers provided....quite a change from Paul Laurence Dunbar, for whom I have the greatest respect....

 

Sally Fraize

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Expanding the Slaveocracy

 

The confederacy planned to expand their slave empire into Central America.

 

Stephen Durst

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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Interesting discussion, given that Kansas was founded, in part, by abolitionist settlers.

 

Janet Ross Snyder

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta and the Legacy

(posting on Portside Labor)

 

 

Read the book 'Trampling Out The Vintage' by Frank Bardacke. Oh, the memories.

 

Jim Brough

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017

 

Hungry for injustice and inequality? Have a nice big slice of Prison Pie!

 

Mario Galván

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Inside Alabama's Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs

(posting on Portside Labor)

 

 

this is a really tragic story. these are the kinds of jobs that companies that will build here will supply. why should they do better when they can go to a 3rd world country and pay the workers even less and not take any crap when workers die on the job. I bet they already regret building factories in America. this is the reality of manufacturing jobs in America. if you don't have a union you probably would be better off getting a job at mc donalds. better salary and better working conditions. decent manufacturing jobs are never coming back. don't believe a politician if he promises that. if you want to work for slave wages, in sometimes dangerous working conditions, and long hours then you will be happy. 

 

there is one thing you can believe people. corporations and the ceo's that run them do not care about you. they would replace you with a dog if they could train them. they don't care about your family, they don't care about your health, they don't care about anything but how much money they can make for the stock holders and ceo. so, how about we look for another ceo who speaks his mind and prove you've learned nothing about reality in the 21st century yet again.

 

Frederick Marcus

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

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The new norm under GOP control. Big Business gets bigger profits and the workers get screwed.

 

Gordon Neal Herman

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Radicals for our Time: The DSA Vision

 

"Whether you are a new member or have been with us for years, you know that DSA is a “big tent” organization. DSAers agree broadly on basic values and strategy, but there is no “party line.” If you put 15 DSAers in a room, you’ll find those who want us to become a political party and those who want to take over the Democratic Party, with many shades in between."

 

if you're all over the map politically, why bother?

 

Gilberto de Leon

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: 'Religious Left' Emerging as U.S. Political Force in Trump Era

 

The religious Left is the same as the Religious Right. The fact that I agree with one over the other is inconsequential. Neither should bring their power out of the personal space. They frankly do badly enough in the personal context as it is...concentrate on truly following your religious tenants Without hypocrisy.

 

Samuel Scanlon

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

Re: Censorship, Not the Painting, Must Go: On Dana Schutz’s Image of Emmett Till

 

I think it's good that this controversy has brought awareness of Emmett Till to those that have never heard of him. Censorship is not the answer.

 

David H. Boyer

Posted on Portside's Facebook page

 

 

 

 

 

Jubilee Haggadah - Proclaim liberty throughout the land for all its inhabitants

 

 

 

"The Jubilee Haggadah," released as part of a new Israel-Diaspora initiative called Save Israel, Stop Occupation, March 2017.

Irit Hemmo/ Michal Sahar Studio 

 

 

In the Jewish tradition, the fiftieth year is the year of liberty. As written in Leviticus, “Sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you.” This is the fiftieth year of the State of Israel’s rule over the Palestinian people. The time has come for liberty and peace.

 

SISO is proud to present the Jubilee Haggadah, which conjoins the Jubilee commandment with the celebration of Passover, the festival of liberty. Thirty authors, artists and thinkers from throughout the Jewish world have joined together — in commentary, song, and moral outcry — and proposed contemporary interpretations to the Haggadah. From Amos Oz to Sarah Silverman, Achinoam Nini to Leon Wieseltier, Anat Hoffman to Carol Gilligan, in this fiftieth year, we are proclaiming liberty throughout this land for all its inhabitants.

 

The Haggadah is edited by Dr. Tomer Persico. The texts are rich, nuanced and diverse, and together with the original artwork and design (by leading Israeli graphic designer Michal Sahar) make this a beautiful work that invites reflection and conversation.

 

Buy the Jubilee Haggadah for $15 – or download a free version – by completing the form here. On-line sale of the Haggadah is made possible with the cooperation of the New Israel Fund. If you’re interested in organizing a Jubilee seder or other Passover event for your family or community, email info@siso.org.il.

 

 

 

 

Constitution in Crisis - Bill of Rights Briefing - April 27 (call-in) and treasure trove of resource articles

 

 

 

 

 

At a recent hearing on Russian interference in the election, the ignorance of many members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was on full display. This is the Committee that was established in 1977 after revelations of CIA and FBI illegal shenanigans, to oversee the intelligence community to ensure that it isn’t illegally spying on Americans or otherwise trampling the Constitution or abusing its authorities.

 

But committee members seem to lack the most basic understanding about how intelligence agencies are collecting the communications of US persons under the guise of surveillance aimed at foreign intelligence targets. This is important because Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendment Act is up for renewal this year. That’s the law that the NSA claims allows the agency to vacuum up vast troves of our internet communications (programs called Prism and Upstream, as revealed by Edward Snowden), and it’s crucial that members of Congress understand how the law works before they blindly reauthorize it.

 

It’s also important that activists understand the law so we can be strong advocates to reform or defeat it. Please join us for a teleconference briefing to understand the law, the political dynamics, and how Rights & Dissent and our allies on the left and right plan to force Congress to adopt radical reforms or let the law sunset.

 

Briefing: 702 Reform or Bust

Thursday, April 27

8 pm eastern/ 5 pm pacific

RSVP here for dial-in information

 

I hope you can join us.

 

Stay Loud, Stay Strong,

 

Sue Udry, Executive Director

Defending Rights & Dissent, formerly the Bill of Rights Defense Committee & Defending Dissent Foundation

 

 

Now keep reading for the latest articles from the Dissent NewsWire …

 

 

 

Defending Rights & Dissent

11431 Amherst Ave. #1821

Silver Spring, Maryland 20915

202.529.4225

info@rightsanddissent.org 

 

 

 

 

Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks

 

By Aaryn Lang

April 4, 2017

Praxis Center

 

 

 

 

"Don't Be a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks"— a 4 minute video created by the Barnard Center for Research on Women and Project NIA— offers an abolitionist approach to bystander intervention in response to racist and transphobic attacks that does not rely on the police. In the seven days following the 2016 Presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded 437 incidents of hateful intimidation and harassment around the country with the majority taking place at K-12 schools. This video is part of a broader collaboration with Micah Bazant, Mariame Kaba, the American Friends Service Committee, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, Black Lives Matter and many teachers and librarians around the country to create and distribute cultural responses to white supremacy and rising racist violence. Read more here.

 

 

 

 

Solidarity Rally: Stand with B&H Workers! - New York - April 7

 

 

 

Friday, April 7  --  Noon - 2:00PM

 

and

 

Sunday, April 9  --  3:00 - 5:00PM

 

 

B&H Photo Video Pro Audio

420 Ninth Ave at 34th Street 

New York, New York 10001

 

 

B&H Photo warehouse workers overcame incredible odds to organize a union and demand respect in the workplace. Now B&H is trying to move their jobs 75 miles away.

 

The DSA Strike Solidarity Committee asks that you come stand in solidarity with warehouse workers at B&H photo on Friday, April 7th from 12-2pm and Sunday, April 9th from 3-5pm at 34th St. and 9th Ave!

 

 

 

 

Tax March Chicago - April 15 (also similar actions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington, DC, Denver, Philadelphia, Orlando, Phoenix and elsewhere)

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, April 15 at 10 AM - 2 PM

 

Millennium Park

201 E Randolph Street

Chicago, IL

 

Inspired by the last few months of protest, particularly the Women's March, we are going to relentlessly demand the President's taxes. We want to know who he owes money to and what foreign governments have leverage over us. Above all, FULL disclosure.

 

This protest has ZERO BARRIERS TO ENTRY. That means whatever cause you celebrate, YOU ARE WELCOME. This includes Democrats, Independents, Republicans and every religion or lack thereof, ethnicity, and gender, orientation, etc.. We are alarmed at Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump's attempt to enrich his family at taxpayer expense.

 

 

FULL WEBSITE - TaxMarch

 

**SISTERS**

LOS ANGELES * SAN FRANCISCO * NEW YORK * WASHINGTON DC * DENVER * PHILADELPHIA * ORLANDO * PHOENIX * GLOBAL* NATIONAL

 

 

 

 

Surround the White House - Join the Peoples Climate Movement - March for Climate, Jobs and Justice - Washington, DC - April 29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rise, Love, Resist at the 2017 People’s Climate March! - Washington, DC and Oakland, CA - April 29

 

 

 

Join or organize an action on April 29!

Rise with us in DC, Oakland, or join/organize another local action!

 

Let us know if you decide to organize or join an action/event so that we can support you and post it on our calendar! Use our action toolkit and print some flyers for people to get involved with CODEPINK!

 

Multiple crises are threatening the people of our communities, our country, and our world, and menacing our very planet. Military and climate wars are destroying lives and the environment, and creating enormous flows of desperate refugees. Violent racism, Islamophobia, misogyny, homophobia and other hatreds are rising, encouraged by the most powerful voices in Washington. Rise, Love and Resist with us this day!

 

We rise this People’s Climate March because we want to:

 

 

 

We have marched, disrupted, and protested, and we will continue to do so, as we build the strong connections we need to create a better world. During this People’s Climate March, we have the opportunity to rise in solidarity with people around the world and unveil the violence and exploitation that many groups of peoples and the Earth face. Let's take this energy and direct it locally towards concrete changes we want to see in our communities and cities!

 

Join or organize an action on April 29!

 

 

 

Join us in DC, Oakland, or join/organize another local action!

Host a Community Gathering

 

Gather with friends and neighbors. Use this opportunity to discuss and reflect how the extractive, violent, war economy impacts our planet and the people in it, mostly indigenous, black, immigrant, undocumented, Muslim, trans, and other peoples. Talk about how to rise, resist and build around issues such as #NoBanNoWall, #DivestDAPL, #No54forWar, #FeminismNotMilitarism etc. Create a statement, write an article, commit to volunteering with organizations in your community. Make this gathering something recurrent! Let us know you are hosting a community gathering and we can support with ideas and outreach.

 

Take a picture with your message or use our's and post it on social media

 

Create a banner with a message to stop the violence and exploitation against the Earth and people. Gather up as many friends as you can, and take a picture with the banner. Post it on our Facebook and Twitter, using the hashtags #ClimateMarch #climatechange #riseloveresist #feminismnotmilitarism #No54forWar. Share it with us!

Contact Your Representatives 

 

Ask Congress to stop the $54 billion increase in military spending! Invest in our communities, in our environment, not war!

 

CODEPINK

PO Box 475142

San Francisco, CA 94147

Email: info@codepink.org

 

 

 

 

Visit Cuba - A Revolution in Motion -- June 18 to July 1, with the Center for Global Justice

 

 

 

 

 

Would you like to see government promote cooperatives by giving them low taxes and other public support?  Would you like to see public banks give low interest loans to cooperatives?  Would you like to see cooperatives able to lease buildings and other facilities at low cost?  Would you like to see public policy promote a solidarity economy and social values of cooperation rather than individualism?

 

Well, you can see all of this and more by joining our educational trip to Cuba June 18 to July 1, 2017.  This nation of 11 million people has embarked on a bold effort to create a major cooperative sector in its economy.  On this trip, sponsored by the Center for Global Justice, you will meet with members of Cuba’s new cooperatives, sharing experiences and ideas.  You will hear from some of the country’s leading thinkers about how they are reshaping their socialism in a more participatory, democratic way.

 

Cuban society is undergoing some profound changes as it undertakes to reform its socialism.  Central to these changes is the development of new worker owned, self-managed cooperatives and the revitalization of civil society.  Moving away from a state centric socialism, it seeks to construct a more participatory and decentralized socialism for the 21st century.

 

Next June join a delegation of activists, scholars and cooperativistas as we explore these exciting developments.  While many people are now able to visit Cuba more freely, few groups are able to offer such an in-depth experience.  Drawing on our 25 years experience offering educational trips to Cuba, we have unique access that goes beyond the usual tourist attractions.  We will dialogue with Cuban specialists, visit new cooperatives as well as private businesses, and experience the vitality of the people and their culture.

 

The first week of this trip will give you an overview of Cuban society and the changes underway, with a focus on the new cooperatives developing.  The second week will feature an exchange with leading Cuban thinkers discussing the reinvention of socialism and the opportunities for expanded exchanges between the people of the US and Cuba.  You are invited to present a short paper for this dialog.

 

For those who want to extend their stay in Cuba, we also offer an optional 3 day trip to the historic Bay of Pigs and the colonial town of Trinidad.

 

It is estimated that the basic 14 day trip will cost $2,000 to $2,500 plus airfare, including shared hotel room, breakfasts, light lunches, translation, guide, and the program of activities.  With regular commercial air service now open from many U.S. cities, it is possible to fly directly to Havana.  Deadline for applications is May 1, 2017.  Apply now as space is limited.

 

For an application form and further information send email to:  cuba@globaljusticecenter.org

 

The Center for Global Justice

Calzada de la Luz, #42

San Miguel de Allende, GUA

Mexico