Send off for the 34 Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba  

ACFS invites you to farewell the Perth contingent travelling to Cuba in the 34 Southern Cross brigade to Cuba at the end of the year. Saturday 3rd December 2016, from 5:30pm.
Join us for a double film about Cuba, snack and drinks,raffle and music. 
Entry is by donation to the ACFS Cuban project in Bayamo, Cuba.
Program:
5:30pm Doors open (food and drink)
6pm Documentary "All Guantanamo is Ours" 
(Todo Guantanamo es Nuestro) about the difficulties of living next to the US naval base. 
A 36 minute documentary follow by short discussion or Q & A
7pm Cuban film Havana Blues, a lovely Cuban film about all kind of Cuban music and the life of Cuban people.
9pm more food, drink and raffle draw
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For more information or bookings: Email: acfsperth@gmail.com or contact 0419812872.

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Southern Cross brigade to Cuba information session. Saturday 8th October, 3-6pm at Perth Trades Hall, 80 Beaufort St Perth  


We will commemorate the 49th anniversary of death of Che Guevara with an information session on the upcoming Southern Cross brigade to Cuba.

We will screen a recently released documentary "Community Doctors" to celebrate Cuba's achievements in medicine and its solidarity with the world which is a homage to Dr Ernesto Che Guevara.

This is our last information session and it is important that all brigadistas and potential brigadistas attend. 
We will try and answer all of your questions and provide the latest report on brigadistas who are fully paid and ready to go. Feel free to invite your friends and any potential brigadista or curious about Cuba.

Saturday 8th October, 3-6pm
Venue: CFMEU WA: Trades Hall, 80 Beaufort Street Perth (entrance through Beaufort Centre 82 Beaufort St), 
parking on Beaufort St or adjacent Sts.

Feel free to circulate.

For more information call 0419812872 or email acfsperth@gmail.com

Visit: www.cubabrigade.org.au


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The birthday by Fidel Castro  


I wish to express my most profound gratitude for the shows of respect, the greetings and the gifts that I have received in recent days, which give me the strength to reciprocate through ideas that I will transmit to the militants of our Party and relevant organizations.

Tomorrow I will turn 90 years old. I was born in a territory called Birán, in the eastern region of Cuba. It’s known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map. Given its good conduct it was known for close friends and, of course, a stronghold of political representatives and inspectors who involved in any commercial or productive activity typical of the neocolonized countries of the world.

On one occasion I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayarí. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Birán! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture and other agricultural crops were planted. But in Pinares de Mayarí he was not a proprietor, but a leaseholder, like many Spaniards, who were the owners of a continent under the rights granted by a papal bull, of whose existence none of the peoples and human beings of this continent were aware. The transmitted knowledge was already largely treasures of humanity.

The altitude rises to approximately 500 meters, with inclined, rocky slopes, where the vegetation is scarce and at times hostile. Trees and rocks obstruct transit; suddenly, at a certain height, a vast plateau begins which I estimate extends over approximately 200 square kilometers, with rich deposits of nickel, chromium, manganese and other minerals of great economic value. From that plateau dozens of trucks of pines of great size and quality were extracted daily.

Note that I have not mentioned the gold, platinum, palladium, diamonds, copper, tin, and others that at the same time have become symbols of the economic values that human society, in its present stage of development, requires.

A few years before the triumph of the Revolution my father died. Beforehand, he suffered a lot.
Of his three sons, the second and third were absent and distant. In revolutionary activities both fulfilled their duty. I had said that I knew who could replace me if the adversary was successful in its elimination plans. I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

On January 27, 1953, after the treacherous coup by Batista in 1952, a page of the history of our Revolution was written: university students and youth organizations, alongside the people, carried out the first March of the Torches to commemorate the centenary of the birth of José Martí.

I had already reached the conviction that no organization was prepared for the fight we were organizing. There was complete disorientation from the political parties that mobilized the masses of citizens, from the left to the right and the center, sickened by the politicking that reigned in the country.

At the age of 6 a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Birán, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Birán. She, splendidly treated in the house in Birán, where she ate at the same table with the family, was convinced of the necessity of my presence. Certainly, I was in better health than my brother Ramón – who passed away in recent months – and for a long time was a classmate. I do not want to be extensive, only that the years of that period of hunger were very tough for the majority of the population.

I was sent, after three years, to the Colegio La Salle in Santiago de Cuba, where I was enrolled in the first grade. Almost three years past without them ever taking me to the cinema.

Thus began my life. Maybe I will write, if I have time, about this. Excuse me for not having done so before now, it’s just I have ideas of what a child can and should be taught. I believe that a lack of education is the greatest harm that can be done.

Humankind today faces the greatest risk of its history. Specialists in these areas can do the most for the inhabitants of this planet, whose number rose, from one billion at the end of 1800, to seven billion at the beginning of 2016. How many will our planet have within a few years?
The brightest scientists, who now number several thousand, are those who can answer this question and many others of great consequence.

I wish to express my most profound gratitude for the shows of respect, the greetings and the gifts that I have received in recent days, which give me the strength to reciprocate through ideas that I will transmit to the militants of our Party and relevant organizations.

Modern technical means have allowed for scrutiny of the universe. Great powers such as China and Russia cannot be subject to threats to impose the use of nuclear weapons. They are peoples of great courage and intelligence. I believe that the speech by the President of the United States when he visited Japan lacked stature, and it lacked an apology for the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima, in spite of the fact that they knew the effects of the bomb. The attack on Nagasaki was equally criminal, a city that the masters of life and death chose at random. It is for that reason that we must hammer on about the necessity of preserving peace, and that no power has the right to kill millions of human beings.

Fidel Castro Ruz
August 12, 2016
10:34 p.m

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Perth celebrates Fidel Castro's 90th birthday  



A big thank you to all those who attended the opening of Fidel is Fidel photographic exhibition last Friday 19th August. More than 120 people listened to passionate speakers about Fidel Castro's inspirational life. The celebration would not have been possible without the support and volunteer work of ACFS members, many others who donated their time and skills, musiciansRamon Cornejo, his daughter Lenny and Rodrigo Becerra, the Gallery Central and the CFMEU WA branch. Our gratitude to Cuban photographer Roberto Chile. The exhibition was officially opened by Cuban Consul to Australia Jorge Trujillo. Happy 90th Fidel!

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Fidel is Fidel Photographs by Roberto Chile. Opens Friday 19th Aug at the Gallery Central TAFE Northbridge  


The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, ACFS Perth presents:
FIDEL is FIDEL an exhibition by Cuban photographer Roberto Chile.
In celebration of Fidel Castro's 90th birthday.
Exhibition opens on Friday 19th August, 6-8pm
Saturday 20th August 10am to 4pm
For more information acfsperth@gmail.com or 0419812872
Curated by Dr Christopher Crouch. FREE ENTRY

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Celebrate Fidel's 90th birthday  


Be part of the celebration of Fidel Castro's 90th birthday.
90 countries around the world join forces to celebrate the life of one of the most influential leaders of all times. Dance the night away with Latin Fusion at the Fremantle Navy Club from 7pm for dinner, music 
starts at 8pm.

For bookings and tickets contact us by email: acfsperth@gmail.com or call 0419812872

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Cuban Solidarity Salsa  

Join this celebration of Cuba dancing the night away in solidarity with Cuba at the SSTUWA
Everyone is welcome!
Saturday 16th April, 8-11pm
Level 3, 150 Adelaide Terrace Cnr Bennett Street East Perth (entrance off Bennett St)
Please book early to avoid disappointment.

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