All posts by Casa de las Americas

Casa de las Américas (Casa) is a New York-based organization of Cuban emigrants who support the revolution. Beginning in 1955, the July 26 Committee was established in NY for the purpose of supporting the armed struggle that was taking place in Cuba against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Shortly after the triumph of the revolution in 1959, the Committee was renamed Casa Cuba, which later became Casa de las Américas.
Cuba / US Relations, Cuba and US Normalization

The FBI Must Stop Harassing & Criminalizing Cuba Solidarity!

¡El FBI debe dejar de hostigar y criminalizar la Solidaridad con Cuba!

 

* Featuring speakers from the U.S. & Puerto Rico who are standing up against FBI harassment *

Webinar available in English y en Español

THURSDAY DECEMBER 15 2022

4pm Vancouver / Pacific Time

7pm Cuba / Eastern Time

8pm Puerto Rico Time

Event Co-Moderators:
woman protesting against the blockade towards cuba
 

DÉBORAH B. SANTANA – Organizer with the Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, Brigadista with the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade, retired professor of geography and ethnic studies at Mills College
Canadian activist in solidarity with Cuba
TAMARA HANSEN – Coordinator of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC), Organizer with the U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference Committee & Author of “5 Decades of the Cuban Revolution: The Challenges of an Unwavering Leadership.”

Special introduction:
Former president of Casa de Las Americas New York City
NANCY CABRERO – Casa de las Américas New York City

Invited Speakers:
cuba american activist and founder of bridges of love
CARLOS LAZO – Cuban American founder and central organizers of Bridges of Love (Puentes de Amor) who Initiated the Caravan Movement to End the U.S. Blockade and unite Cuban families
female director of the Interreligious Foundation of Community Organizations/IFCO
GAIL WALKER – Director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization / Pastors for Peace
Puerto Rican activist, president of the committee of solidarity with Cuba
MILAGROS RIVERA – President of the Committee of Solidarity with Cuba in Puerto Rico and Director of the Juan Ríus Rivera Brigade
former co-chair national network on cuba
BANBOSE SHANGO –  All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), former co-chair National Network on Cuba, led 2022 delegation to CUBA
Register for the zoom webinar
Co-organized by:

Comité de Solidaridad con Cuba de Puerto Rico & International U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference Coalition

 

Cuba /Africa, Cuban Film

Cuban Women of the African Diaspora – Inspirations for Change

Video

5 programs,  on Oct 2,9,16, 23, 30 (Sunday evenings.)  5PM Pacific, 8PM Eastern

Presented Online via Hothouse

Films in this series – all with English subtitles

Belkis Ayón: Grabado de desasosiego  Oct 2

Cimarroneando con G.H & Gisela Arandia: Intelectualidad negra después de 1959  Oct 9

Georgina Herrera: mujer, negra y pobre     Oct 16

Fátima Patterson: Raza género y teatro      Oct 23

Nancy Morejón: Paisajes célebres                Oct 30

All are by Filmmaker & director

Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

The program will stream on 3 platforms and each program will be up for 24 hrs.

1. YouTube

10/2 https://youtu.be/D5t4jRMBbo8

10/9 https://youtu.be/mpr9ym3MSCM

10/16 https://youtu.be/f0bR9vUvGqw

10/23 https://youtu.be/fpwCkVMThh8

10/30 https://youtu.be/7-kV0UQIysk

2. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hothousechicago/live

3. Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/hothouseglobal

Cuban Women of the African Diaspora: Inspirations for Change

A series of films by Juanamaria Cordones-Cook, presenting some of the most distinguished Cuban women of the African Diaspora.  Every Sunday evening in October at 8 pm Eastern.

Poets Nancy Morejón and Georgina Herrera, author and  researcher Gisela Arandia,  graphic artist Belkys Ayón and playwright and director Fátima Patterson, — all  are conscious explorers of the experience of  Afro-descendiente women of Cuba.

We are providing a space for  Cuban women of the African diaspora to speak for themselves.  Because of the US blockade of Cuba, which extends to platforms like Zoom, we are unable to have our Cuban sisters participate directly in meetings and conferences.  Through these films, made by JuanaMaria Cordones-Cook, a scholar of the amazing surge of Afro-Cuban creativity made possible by the Cuban Revolution, we can share their truths and their creativity with US audiences.