Revolution party at KulchaSantiago de Cuba Carnival
written by ACFS Perth
at Thursday, July 8, 2010
Cuba brigade slide info night
written by Alex Bainbridge
at Friday, May 28, 2010
Why not join our next work & study tour to Cuba?
The Australian Cuban Friendship Society’s
28th Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba
December 27th 2010 - January 20th 2011.
Join other Australians & New Zealanders on the trip of a lifetime as you experience life in Cuba from a different perspective to that of the ordinary tourist.www.cubabrigade.org.au
Drinks & nibbles provided
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Cuban Foreign Minister to speak in Perth 7 June 2010
written by Alex Bainbridge
at Monday, May 24, 2010
The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society
invites you to a public talk with
Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister
His Excellency Bruno Rodriguez-Parrilla
Speaking on:
Cuba Today &
Australia-Cuba relations
6:30pm, Monday 7 June
Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA
(entrance: carpark No 4 off Hackett Drive)
For more information: ACFS on 0419 812 872 or 0421 113 343
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Doctors of Tomorrow
written by Alex Bainbridge
at Monday, February 22, 2010
A special screening of the documentary by Tim Anderson about cooperation between Cuba and Timor Leste. It includes interviews with some of the 850 East Timorese students studying medicine with the Cubans in the biggest medical college on Earth. From 2010, these young people will begin to take control of their country's health system. Filmed in Timor Leste & Cuba.
7:30pm (following ACFS branch meeting at 6:30pm)
Monday 1 March
Perth Activist Centre (15/5 Aberdeen St, East Perth - next to McIver station)
Organised by Australia-Cuba Friendship Society
PO Box 1455, South Perth 6951
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Jose Marti commemoration by Perth ACFS
written by Alex Bainbridge
at Friday, January 29, 2010
On Thursday 28th January the ACFS Perth called for a special meeting to celebrate the 157th anniversary of birth of Cuban hero of independence Jose Marti.
It was a very moving celebration to pay homage and remember one of the greatest Latin American poets and revolutionaries who committed their lives to the people.
The ACFS screened the documentary on the life of Marti, ‘Soldier of light” which gives a brief description of the rich life of the apostle of Cuba. Members of the society discussed the life of Jose Marti and read one of his famous poems: “Versos Sencillos”.
ACFS also discussed Cuban’s contribution in Haiti as well as condemned the occupation carried out by the Obama Administration in contrast with Cubans medical assistance.
The attendees demanded Cuba be removed from the US list of countries sponsors of international terrorism.
ACFS has sent letters to the US ambassador based in Canberra demanding the removal of Cuba from the US terrorist list. ACFS also sent an open letter to the Australian Foreign Affairs minister, the Hon Stephen Smith asking the government to make a donation of medicines to the Cuban health brigade in Haiti.
ACFS read a message of solidarity sent by local member Dr Katherine Edyvane who is currently working with a team of Cuban doctors in East Timor.
Finally, we all enjoyed a delicious cake specially baked for the occasion by local member
Rhonda Andrews.
Viva Cuba,
Viva Jose Marti
Long live the friendship between Australia and Cuba!
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Open letter from ACFS to Stephen Smith re Haiti
written by Alex Bainbridge
at Thursday, January 28, 2010
ACFS
AUSTRALIA-CUBA FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY, WA BRANCH
PO BOX 1455 SOUTH PERTH WA 6951
28th January 2010
Open Letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Stephen Smith
PO Box 6022 PO Box 901
House of Representatives Inglewood WA 6932
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
House of Representatives Inglewood WA 6932
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
To the Honourable Stephen Smith
We write with a letter of request for you to consider sending financial assistance from Australia to supply medicines and medical supplies to the Cuban doctors in Haiti.
We believe this is the best way to deliver aid effectively to Haiti. Cuban doctors already have 11 solid years of helping Haiti with doctors and health professionals. After the earthquake they were there first, setting up a hospital beside the collapsed national hospital.
By noon on day 2 more medical teams arrived from Cuba and currently there are around 400 doctors and nurses and other technicians in eight separate field hospitals. Already over 13400 consultations, 1070 surgical interventions of which 550 were considered major surgeries have been performed and the need is ongoing with secondary infections and gangrene now appearing.
The U.S. blockade on Cuba impacts greatly on the cost of medical supplies to the Cuban doctors and despite this Cuba continues to supply free medical aid – the Cuban government funds the personnel – on a scale unmatched even by the World Health Organization and Médecins Sans Frontières.
The earthquakes in the Kashmir region of Pakistan in 2005 illustrates well the extent of this assistance when Cuban doctors were the only attending medical teams that set up field hospitals in the most hard to reach areas to the north. Often the most seriously ill patients are transported to Cuba for treatment including Vietnamese Kim Phuc, the little girl shown in the famous war photograph running naked along a road, her skin burned by napalm and some 19,000 adults and children from the three Soviet republics most affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident of 1986
The Norwegian Embassy in Cuba has signed an agreement with the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (MINCEX) to donate five million Norwegian crowns (approximately US $885,000) as emergency aid to the Haitian people. The money will be used to buy and send medical equipment and supplies to the Cuban Health Brigade working in Haiti.
We strongly encourage you to follow the example of Norway and make a contribution from Australia.
Regards,
Elizabeth Hulm
Branch Secretary
0421 113 343
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