Also, Thursday, July 22, 7:00 ET, live, interactive conversation about urgent solidarity work with Cuba and Haiti cosponsored by July26.org (video here)

What’s Really Going on in Cuba
1:00, Boston Common, Park St. MBTA Station
(Rally photos here)

From MAPA Emergency Response page, activists hold
signs in Northampton at protest, on June 23, 2021

A rally in support of Cuba’s sovereignty amidst recent demonstrations there and U.S. responses will take place Saturday, July 24 at the Park St. MBTA station at 1:00, in solidarity with the anti-embargo/blockade caravans taking place across the country on Sunday, and Monday July 26’s anniversary of the origin of the Cuban Revolution. July 24th is also a National and International Call from Brazil to be on the streets again demanding Out Bolsonaro. The open mic program is also in solidarity with Haitian self-determination in the face of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The International Action Center, Massachusetts Peace Action and the Boston May Day Coalition are among the co-sponsors (full list here); other co-sponsors are welcome.

The Boston-Cuba July26.org Solidarity Coalition has signed on to the Massachusetts Peace Action Coalition Emergency Response to the Crisis in Cuba. This, the statement and basic analysis by Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, and other recent statements amplify the analyses and commentaries in our May 31 post preceding the overwhelming condemnation of the Embargo/Blockade by the UN General Assembly last month. These recent essays include the following, Marilyn Frankenstein, Eli “Marty” Schotz, Judy Robbins, Arnold August, Walter Lippmann contributors:

• another piece by William LeoGrande on Biden choosing between starving Cubans and votes in Florida
• Chales McKelvey on “The US unconventional war against Cuba”
• “Belly of the Beast Reports on Cuba from the Ground (July 16)”
• cubastudies.org/events-in-cuba-what-happened
• “The US Must End Its Brutal Sanctions Against Cuba, Not Intervene There” by Ben Burgis in Jacobin Magazine
• “Media Play Up Protests, Play Down Effect of US Sanctions in Cuba” by Alan MacLeod in FAIR, and especially FAIR editor Janine Jackson’s interview with James Early, “Economic Warfare [Is] Designed to Starve the Cuban People Into Rebellion.”
• “If You Grew Up With the U.S. Blockade as a Cuban, You Might Understand the Recent Protests Differently” by Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad in Counterpunch
• Arnold August on “What is Happening in Cuba”
• “How To Detect Fake News About Cuba,” from Granma, translated by Walter Lippmann for Cubanews
• “We will have to go back to the future (translation),” a nuanced analysis/joint editorial of La Tizza, “a place to think and do socialism from Cuba,” linked as part of the fuller collection on “Cuba y las protestas sociales del 11J.”
• Arnold August, The Debate going on inside the Cuba Communist Party about the July Demonstrations
• and acerbic pieces on RT, www.rt.com/usa, “Cuba’s US Affairs Director Asks If ‘Humanitarian Intervention’ Is In Order As Florida Becomes Covid-19 Hotspot” and “#SOSUSA: American Plea to International Community for Help Achieving Freedom Becomes Top Political Social Media Trend.”

Together they promote “A Vaccine Against the Virus of War Propaganda.”