CNC & NNOC Team Up to Celebrate 70 Years of Moncada Day! |
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Join representatives from the Canadian Network on Cuba and the National Network on Cuba as we celebrate the historic launch and 70th anniversary of the 26th of July Movement. Together, we’ll debunk lies against Cuba and hear from dynamic speakers including Helen Yaffe, Nancy Morejón, Isaac Saney, Musa Springer, David Ramirez Alvarez, and Yasser Ibarra. Enjoy music and community, and learn about new ways to get involved in supporting the CNC and NNOC’s efforts to get Cuba #OFFTHELIST of State Sponsors of Terrorism. REGISTER HERE!
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CNC Announcement: Fundraising Campaign "Jardin de Luz - Special Aid to a Special School for Children with Disabilities" |
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The Canadian Network on Cuba would like to announce and an important new campaign, co-sponsored by the CNC, that has been organized by the Asociación de Cubanos Juan Gualberto Gómez: Jardin de Luz - Special Aid to a Special School for Children with Disabilities
Funds will be raised to go toward supplies for a school in Bayamo, Granma for children aged 5-11 years old who have disabilities. This area was very hard hit by the flooding and there are dire needs right now in the region generally.
There are two payment methods available to make a donation:
- Cheques written out to the "Asociación de Cubanos Juan Gualberto Gómez" - Mail to: CNC, PO Box 99051 – 1245 Dupont St., Toronto, Ontario M6H 4H7
If there are any questions about this campaign or how to make a donation, please don't hesitate to reach out to the CNC Executive, and feel free to share the this campaign with your contacts! |
Replay: Love is Law Webinar |
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Did you miss last month's webinar with Mariela Castro Espín? No need to worry! You can watch the whole thing from our Facebook page by clicking here. 
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Love is Law: Cuba's New Families Code |
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LOVE IS LAW: Cuba's New Families Code
Featuring Mariela Castro Espín, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana, as well as the National Commission for Comprehensive Attention to Transsexual People, and an activist for LGBT rights in Cuba.
5pm Vancouver
7pm Winnipeg
8pm Toronto
9pm Halifax
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Vancouver Plays Chess for Che & Cuba! |
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An Afternoon of Chess, Art, Prizes & Fun Celebrating Che Guevara's 95th Birthday!
Saturday, June 10
1:00 - 3:00pm Grandview Park
1255 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Across Cuba today, chess is a popular activity in public squares, clubs, schools and competitive tournaments. This is one of the many legacies we can attribute to revolutionary leader Che Guevara! From Che Guevara’s youth as a competitive player in Argentina, to his work to promote and organize chess across Cuba in the years following the Cuban Revolution, chess was an activity that Che valued and enjoyed. In honor of Che’s birthday, the Che Guevara Studies Center in Cuba is holding chess tournaments in Cuba, and calling upon Cuba supporters and solidarity groups globally to join in playing chess to commemorate Che!
Today Cuba is facing over 6 decades of a brutal U.S. travel and trade blockade, made even more difficult with U.S. President Biden’s refusal to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Department’s List of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Historically chess has also faced the malicious maneuverings of the U.S. blockade against Cuba. During Cuba’s 1965 International Chess Tournament, the U.S. State Department denied U.S. Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer a visa to travel to Cuba, but he still joined the tournament by transmitting his chess moves by telex (electronic messages) from New York! In 1988, Cuban Grandmaster Guillermo Garcia Gonzales took second place in the New York Open Chess Tournament, but the U.S. Treasury Department used the “Trading with the Enemy Act” to confiscate his $10,000 prize. The U.S. blockade impacts essential trade including food, medicine and fuel, and tries to keep U.S. citizens and institutions from advancing friendly relations with Cuba. The U.S. government’s 60 year immoral and criminal blockade is up against Cuba’s commitment to advancing their revolution, and spreading humanity through international solidarity.
Join Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) for an afternoon of friendly chess matches, art, prizes and fun celebrating Che Guevara’s 95th birthday! Don't forget to bring your chess set if you have one!
Join the Facebook Event:
We acknowledge that this event will take place on the unceded and traditional territories of the x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam), S?wx?wú7mesh (Squamish), and s?lilw?ta? (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. As we defend Cuba's right to self-determination, we also stand with Indigenous nations and defend their right to self-determination.
Organized by: Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC)
Endorsed by: Friends of Cuba Against the US Blockade - Vancouver
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STATEMENT RE: The Canceled Designation of Honorary President to Cuban Poet Nancy Morejón in France |
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The Canadian Network on Cuba is appalled by the treatment in France of distinguished Cuban Poet Nancy Morejón, by the Paris Poetry Market (Marché de la Poésie). Nancy, an internationally recognized poet and academic, was the first Black woman to win Cuba’s National Literature Prize and her considerable body of work touches on Black Cuban history and culture, women, and much more. The poetry festival’s 40th edition (June 7 to 11 in Paris) gave Honorary Presidency to Nancy Morejón, but then suddenly withdrew it after a campaign by right-wing activist and writer Jacobo Machover, who lives in Paris. The PEN Club of France protested the honour to Morejón because she supports the Cuban government.
The shameful decision of the Poetry Market to cave and withdraw its merited invitation of Honorary President to Nancy sustains the glaring fact that the real censorship of Cubans comes from outside of Cuba.
This attack on Morejón is part of an orchestrated repression of Cubans who are faithful to the Cuban people, such as Buena Fe, a music group on tour in Spain, who in the midst of right-wing hardliners violently disrupting several of their performances, and attacking its singer Israel Rojas in a Barcelona restaurant, have pressured venues to cancel some scheduled concerts due to threats to the safety of the musicians and fans.
Artists and writers around the world have condemned this recent treatment of highly respected and creative Afro-Cuban woman Nancy Morejón. The CNC adds its voice to those condemning the attempts to silence a great Cuban poet. We join protests from UNEAC, the World Poetry Movement, the International Union of Left Publishers, and others.
Nancy Morejon’s incredible work and legacy should be shared with the world, but instead, we see this effort that is congruent with the imperial onslaught and economic, media and culture war against Cuba, attempt to silence her. The Canadian Network on Cuba offers its support and solidarity with Nancy Morejón and to all Cubans who are standing up to unjustified, malicious attacks.
Samantha Hislop Julio Fonseca
Co-Chairs, Canadian Network on Cuba |
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Vancouver Plays Chess for Che & Cuba! 08/06/2023

An Afternoon of Chess, Art, Prizes & Fun Celebrating Che Guevara's 95th Birthday!
Saturday, June 10
1:00 - 3:00pm Grandview P...
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