Sydney Supports the Cuban 5!

Sydney Supports the Cuban 5 - Saturday 14 September

One week to go until the fundraising dinner to celebrate Cuban Internationalism and to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Moncada assault. 

Bookings are essential - RSVP no later than 31 July 2013. 

Please distribute as widely as possible to support the event and our projects in Cuba!

Speakers: 

Pedro Monzón, Cuban Ambassador

Dr Tim Anderson, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney

Ron Poulsen, Communist League candidate for the Federal Senate (NSW)

And featuring: the Music of PAPALOTE

Buy tickets online now to reserve your place!

Tickets - $30 (standard) / $50 (solidarity)

Buy online at: http://www.trybooking.com/53061

Celebrating Cuban Internationalism - 60 years since Moncada - 6pm, Sunday 4 August 2013

Politics, dinner and music in solidarity with Cuba’s internationalist mission.

All money raised will go towards funding projects in Cuba.

Tickets - $30 (standard) / $50 (solidarity)

Buy online at: http://www.trybooking.com/53061

For information, contact:

Chela 0422 665 099 – president@sydney-acfs.org

Hugo 0408 964 953 & 9822 5891

Dario 0405 621 986

Australia Cuba Friendship Society Sydney and Committee in Solidarity with Cuba Western Suburbs

www.sydney-acfs.org

René González to stay in Cuba!

René González, one of Cuba's five national anti-terrorist heroes, will stay in Cuba. A judge approved this change (after the US Government did not object) in exchange for him giving up his US citizenship. Welcome home René!

http://cubanitoencuba.com/2013/05/03/rene-podra-quedarse-en-cuba-definitivamente-documento-oficial/

MARIELA CASTRO'S TOUR TO AUSTRALIA CANCELLED

MARIELA CASTRO'S TOUR TO AUSTRALIA CANCELLED Due to a serious health issue relating to severe lower back pain, doctors have told Mariela that she cannot travel to Australia. This is sad news for the Cuba solidarity movement in Australia, which was looking forward to hearing Mariela speak on many important topics in contemporary Cuba.

MARIELA CASTRO in SYDNEY: sexual, gender and women's rights in CUBA today

On Tuesday, 16 October Mariela Castro Espín, director of Cuba’s National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX), will give a public lecture on sexual, gender and women's rights in Cuba today. This once-only event will be held in the Eastern Avenue Auditorium from 6:15pm to 8:30pm.

A well-known activist for LGBT rights and a strong defender of Cuba’s socialist system, Mariela will be visiting Australia in October 2012 as an invited guest of the Australian Government, to participate in two sexual health conferences to be held in Melbourne. In addition to delivering a guest lecture at the University of Sydney, she will also travel to Canberra.

The daughter of Cuban President Raúl Castro and the late Vilma Espín, founder of the Federation of Cuban Women (which set up CENESEX), Mariela has led campaigns against homophobia and for the acceptance of homosexuality, bisexuality, trans-vestism, and trans-sexualism. She helped push through a 2008 law which gives transgendered persons access to free sex change operations and campaigns for same sex unions and same sex marriage.

Mariela’s responsibilities include: director of CENESEX’s journal, Sexología y Sociedad, President of the Cuban Multidisciplinary Centre for the Study of Sexuality, President of the National Commission for Treatment of Disturbances of Gender Identity, member of the Direct Action Group for Preventing, Confronting, and Combatting AIDS, and executive member of the World Association for Sexual Health.