Monday, January 23, 2006
SWOP homepageCuban Message re. SWOP Anniversary
OK, while Karlos is off representing at the World Social Forum in Venezuela, some of the rest of us are getting busy in the blog.
So check this out - the message from our friends at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington on the occasion of SWOP's 25th Anniversary. I tell you it was beautiful seeing so many hundreds of people the other night!
Rubén Solís from San Antonio read the statement from Cuba in solidarity with SWOP. If it weren't for Bush's restrictions on travel by Cubans (and just about everything else), there would have been a Cuban rep there to read it in person:
Dear friends of the SouthWest Organizing Project:
With great respect and appreciation we have received the news about the 25th anniversary of your organization. Twenty-five years of struggle and sacrifice for a more just and better society and the building of an important social movement that has its own history and age, ready to face any future endeavor.
Who might think that, what a group of comrades like Richard Moore, Rubén Solís, Jeanne Gauna and Roberto Roibal talked about in 1979 in Cuba, during a solidarity trip, would become 25 years later what is today – a strong movement of progressive forces that has stamped its signature, in the fight for civil and human rights, as well as for the rights to education, health care, housing and many other community projects, in the United States.
No less important has been your international work that has taken SWOP to a great amount of countries of the Third World, mainly in Latin America, where you have supported the noble ideas of friendship and solidarity.
In Cuba, we are still carrying the flag of a revolutionary process and the undefeated battle of ideas that will win the wars of tomorrow. It is not the use of force that will achieve our final goal, but the ideas, the truth, the intelligence, justice and the indispensable support of our people.
We wish that the next 25 years to come will be full of success and victories needed to form a better world. In the meantime, you will continue to have the unconditional support of Cuba, until we reach the final victory.
Long live the unbreakable friendship among the peoples of Cuba and the United States.
Cuban Interests Section
Washington, DC
January 21, 2006
World Social Forum
Foro Social Mundial
Venezuela
chavez
Hugo Chavez
WSF
Cuba
So check this out - the message from our friends at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington on the occasion of SWOP's 25th Anniversary. I tell you it was beautiful seeing so many hundreds of people the other night!
Rubén Solís from San Antonio read the statement from Cuba in solidarity with SWOP. If it weren't for Bush's restrictions on travel by Cubans (and just about everything else), there would have been a Cuban rep there to read it in person:
Dear friends of the SouthWest Organizing Project:
With great respect and appreciation we have received the news about the 25th anniversary of your organization. Twenty-five years of struggle and sacrifice for a more just and better society and the building of an important social movement that has its own history and age, ready to face any future endeavor.
Who might think that, what a group of comrades like Richard Moore, Rubén Solís, Jeanne Gauna and Roberto Roibal talked about in 1979 in Cuba, during a solidarity trip, would become 25 years later what is today – a strong movement of progressive forces that has stamped its signature, in the fight for civil and human rights, as well as for the rights to education, health care, housing and many other community projects, in the United States.
No less important has been your international work that has taken SWOP to a great amount of countries of the Third World, mainly in Latin America, where you have supported the noble ideas of friendship and solidarity.
In Cuba, we are still carrying the flag of a revolutionary process and the undefeated battle of ideas that will win the wars of tomorrow. It is not the use of force that will achieve our final goal, but the ideas, the truth, the intelligence, justice and the indispensable support of our people.
We wish that the next 25 years to come will be full of success and victories needed to form a better world. In the meantime, you will continue to have the unconditional support of Cuba, until we reach the final victory.
Long live the unbreakable friendship among the peoples of Cuba and the United States.
Cuban Interests Section
Washington, DC
January 21, 2006
World Social Forum
Foro Social Mundial
Venezuela
chavez
Hugo Chavez
WSF
Cuba
