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Cuba’s Health Care System Where Humanity Comes First
BY Ellen Bernstein
“The unfailing dedication of Cuban health care professionals has led to dramatic improvements in quality of life, for millions of people who previously had no other hope of receiving decent medical care. IFCO/Pastors for Peace is pleased to honor the diligent health care professionals of the Cuban health care system. We especially pay tribute to Cuba’s national leadership, whose vision of universal health care as a right of every citizen sets an example for the world.”
Evelyn Reed
(October 31, 1905 - March 22, 1979)
Revolutionary leader and women’s revolutionary theorist
" It is not nature, but class society, which robbed women of their right to participate in the higher functions of society and placed the primary emphasis upon their animal functions of maternity. And this robbery was perpetrated through a two-fold myth. On the one side, motherhood is represented as a biological affliction arising out of the maternal organs of women. Alongside this vulgar materialism, motherhood is represented as being something almost mystical. To console women for their status as second-class citizens, mothers are sanctified, endowed with halos and blessed with special “instincts,” feelings and knowledge forever beyond the comprehension of men. Sanctity and degradation are simply two sides of the same coin of the social robbery of women under class society.
But class society did not always exist; it is only a few thousand years old. Men were not always the superior sex, for they were not always the industrial, intellectual and cultural leaders. Quite the contrary. In primitive society, where women were neither sanctified nor degraded, it was the women who were the social and cultural leaders.
Excerpt from “The Myth of Women’s Inferiority” (1954)
Ellen Bernstein has served as Associate Director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) since 2003. She has been a key staff member of IFCO’s project Pastors for Peace, and has been deeply and integrally involved in IFCO’s historic work with Cuba.
Postcard Campaign
CUBA IS NOT A SPONSOR OF TERROR!
New postcard campaign initiated by Friends of Cuba Against the U.S. Blockade – Vancouver (FCAB) & NY-NJ Cuba Si Coalition calling for Cuba to be removed from the State Sponsors of Terorism List. For more details, check out www. vancubavsblockade.org or email NoBloqueoVancouver@gmail.com
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Decades of the Cuban Revolution The Challenges of an Unwavering Leadership
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Revolution & Counter Revolution in Venezuela
By Tamara Hansen
Coordinator of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC). She is also an editorial board member of The Fire This Time newspaper. She has travelled to Cuba over a dozen times and has written extensively on Cuban politics since 2003.
April 2010, paperback, $10.00
314 pages, illustrated, Copyright © 2010 by Battle of Ideas Press
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By Alison Bodine Writer and researcher
on Venezuela. She is a member of the Fire This Time Newspaper Editorial Board and is the coordinator of the Fire This Time Venezuela Solidarity Campaign. Alison Bodine is an electrical designer based in Vancouver, Canada.
October 2017, paperback, $10.00
190 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978-0-9864716-5-0
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