<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#010101" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #010101">8/18 <b>Unfolding Changes in Cuba's Economic Organization and Food Production</b></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#010101" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #010101"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#010101" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #010101">Cuba is undergoing significant changes in its economic organization and food production. Two of the speakers, Duncan McFarland and Cristina Martinez, participated in a week-long conference in July co-sponsored by the University of Havana and the US-based Radical Philosophy Association. Conference presenters frankly discussed problems that prompted the ongoing changes, and reviewed how they are unfolding. </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#010101" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #010101"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#010101" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #010101">Our third speaker,Tom Whitney, is a long-time Cuba solidarity activist who has worked on Cuba Friendshipments and defense of the Cuba Five. He recently reviewed the food situation in Cuba and the proposed changes in its agricultural practices, including the development of urban cooperatives to produce and distribute food.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="5" color="#010101" style="font: 16.0px Verdana; color: #010101"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#010101" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #010101">3-5pm, Sat. 8/18/12, Center for Marxist Education, 550 Mass. Ave. 2d Floor, Central Square T stop, Cambridge</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="5" color="#010101" style="font: 16.0px Verdana; color: #010101"> </font></p>
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