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Corner Library, 31 Pleasant Street, Brookline</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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Coolidge Corner, one block down Beacon towards downtown
Boston,</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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by Brookline PeaceWorks and July 26 Coalition for Cuba
Solidarity</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Their presentation will contain a multifaceted display
on the Cuban reality--including Cuba's history and its developments in
education, its contributions to health care & sports throughout the world,
its green movement and its political culture-- </FONT></FONT></P>
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at the Organiponico de Alamar, a neighborhood agriculture project in
downtown Havana, weed the beds. </SPAN>Today an estimated 50 percent of
Havana's vegetables come from inside the city, while in other Cuban towns
and cities urban gardens produce from 80 percent to more than 100 percent
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Cooper Std Black','serif'">Previous
Reports Back from Schotz and Crosby:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">No
child left behind </SPAN></H1>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT
size=3>By E. Martin Schotz and Jane Crosby, <SPAN
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN><I>Granma International,</I> Feb
27 2001</FONT></SPAN></H1>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>FOR the past two weeks we have been<BR>traveling
through a developing third world country where no child is<BR>left behind. From
one end of the country to the other, in cities and<BR>in the countryside, as
part of a Boston College Course in Comparative<BR>Social Policy, we talked with
government officials, teachers,<BR>doctors, artists and writers as well as
people on the street and<BR>children. </FONT></H1>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Not a single
malnourished child anywhere. But more than that, the<BR>children are happy,
healthy and calm. They walk down the street arm<BR>in arm, chattering away,
laughing, in their smart looking school<BR>uniforms. Every child has a teacher,
and every teacher has graduated<BR>from a five-year university program.
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>In every city
neighborhood and every town, no matter how remote, a<BR>doctor is living there
providing health education and primary care,<BR>all in coordination with
national public health campaigns. These<BR>doctors are a direct link to
polyclinics and more specialized care.<BR>Life expectancy throughout the country
is now 76 years and the infant<BR>mortality rate is comparable to the best in
the world. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>And all of
this at first glance defies imagination when you consider<BR>that ten years ago
this country lost its major trading partner<BR>overnight. The nation responsible
for 80% of this country s trade (at<BR>rates far below "world market prices")
disappeared and left this<BR>country to fend for itself. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>How did they
do it? Critical housing projects had to be put on hold.<BR>Food was and is
rationed. But no day care center, school or clinic<BR>was closed. "We had very
little, but what we had we shared." "With it<BR>all, children remained our
privileged citizens." It hasn’t been<BR>accomplished simply with words - "Leave
no child behind." And it<BR>certainly hasn t been accomplished with "free
market" mechanisms and<BR>tax cuts for the wealthy. It has been accomplished
through a<BR>nationwide system of universal free health care and education and
a<BR>very complex process of social organization in which the
society’s<BR>unwavering priority has been the health, education, and welfare
of<BR>the entire population. If you want to see how it can be done, see<BR>Cuba.
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Cooper Std Black" size=4><EM>On
returning from their Pastors for Peace trip to Cuba in 2005:</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><EM><FONT face="Cooper Std Black"></FONT></EM> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">As American citizens we have been increasingly
dismayed for some time<BR>at the policies of our government. "Lawlessness" -
domestic as well<BR>as international - seems to be the basic thread which unites
these<BR>policies - whether it is the violations of the United
Nations<BR>Charter, the flouting of international agreements against torture
and<BR>arbitrary detention, the theft of elections, or the undermining
of<BR>constitutionally guaranteed civil rights. To make matters worse
this<BR>has been taking place with very little opposition from the
Democratic<BR>Party. In such a situation we could not escape the feeling
that even<BR>the limited democracy, which had existed in the United States,
has<BR>been disintegrating. How could we respond? When established
political<BR>institutions cease to care for people, there is no alternative but
to<BR>take matters into one’s own hands. We had read about Pastors for<BR>Peace,
and we admired their humanitarian efforts toward Cuba-- a<BR>direct action
challenging the US blockade of Cuba…</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Now we are back in the US and are continuing
our struggle against the<BR>government which is threatening to sanction us for
our travel to<BR>Cuba. As we write [2005] we are witnessing the terrible
images of<BR>poor people, the vast majority people of color, stranded and dying
in<BR>New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, because of
the<BR>neglect of the U.S. government. The death toll is now predicted
to<BR>run into the thousands. We are mindful that last September
a<BR>Category 5 hurricane not unlike Katrina struck the island of Cuba.<BR>Over
a million people were evacuated before the storm hit, as well as<BR>equipment,
animals, even refrigerators, and not a single Cuban died<BR>in this storm.
Could there be any more glaring example of why we<BR>need to break this vicious
and immoral blockade? </DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">For it is not only an economic blockade against
the Cuban people, it<BR>is a blockade against the minds of the people of the
United States<BR>preventing them from knowing that a different kind of society
is<BR>possible – a society in which children, elderly and people of<BR>limited
means are protected, and a world in which there is an<BR>understanding of our
interdependence as human beings. It is a<BR>daunting task to counter the
propaganda of the empire, but the<BR>example of Cuba is an inspiration and calls
on our conscience to do<BR>whatever we can to contribute to this better
world.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><EM><FONT face=Calibri size=3>E. Martin Schotz,
MD, and Jane Crosby, LICSW, are members of the<BR>Family Services Clinic, South
End Community Health Center, Boston,<BR>Massachusetts. Dr. Schotz is also a
staff psychiatrist at the<BR>Children s Community Support Collaborative and the
Lakeside School.<BR>Both are longtime activists and have been to Cuba a number
of times.<BR>In July, 2005, they participated in the Pastors for
Peace<BR>Friendshipment caravan, which each year challenges the U.S.
economic<BR>blockade of Cuba. </FONT></EM></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Send email to <A
href="mailto:warner@scn.org">warner@scn.org</A> for additional information on
Pastors<BR>for Peace. </DIV>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=4>July 26th Coalition for Cuba
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