COMMITTEE EXHIBIT No. 5-Continued cenderos would pay 4 pesos a day anyway. These sacadas live in typical There is nothing but the bare Children Earn 30c Each "It is not work for women The children had never been "There is no way things will The Communists are already in contrast to the poverty of Negros land, for example, Photos: Philippine Association The planters have also been Some Filipinos who are con Investigation by Manila The students have already The students are also going The hacenderos are still dis- "Give us a few thousand dol There are signs that the ha- A planter encountered in the "We should have a dialogue. with the students-anything, as long as there is no violence," he added. Mr. Kilayta, whose radical- "My biggest problem right There are many students, Moreover, sugar is the Phil The United States agreed to The planters were unable to But new forces seem to be "The times are changing," a labor organizer said. "If the planters don't recognize it they may be awakened by bullets bar Fore too long." RESEARCH YOUR COMMUNITY 100 years of struggle -- and ITS TIES WITH CUBA, AND ITS SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT CUBA 1. What sources of information about Cuba are readily available? What media coverage is there of Cuban affairs; U.S. policies toward Cuba? What role do people who have recently been to Cuba play as sources of community information on Cuba? What is the role of Cuban exiles as sources of information? Are there distortions in the information presented about Cuba? How can you challenge the coverage if it is biased? Where are decisions made regarding what news is broadcast? How can you touch these power centers? 2. 3. 4. What corporations, families, legal or accounting concerns in your area had interests In Cuba before the Revolution? What position does your Congressman hold on the following issues: extending diplomatic recognition to Cuba; lifting the blockade; assistance to Cuban refugees in the U.S.; the status and importance of the U.S. military installation at Guantanamo? How does your school curriculum deal with the Cuban Revolution; with the role of the U.S. in Cuban history? What books on Cuba (historical and contemporary) are in your public libraries; written by whom? How can you introduce additional literature? The following materials may help you in researching your community: "How to Research Your Own Hometown, "Radical Education Project, "The Care and Feeding of the Power Structure," Jack Minus, SCEF, 3210 West Broadway, Louisville, Kentucky. 15¢ "Where's It's At, A Guide to Community Organizing," New England Latin America, P.O. Box 57, Cathedral Station, New York, N.Y. 10025. "The University-Military Complex: A Directory and Related Documents," BRING ATTENTION TO CUBA IN YOUR COMMUNITY / CHURCH / PLACE OF WORK OR STUDY 1. Encourage study about Cuba. Make contact with persons who have been to Cuba (see CEOPLE list), and invite them to speak in your community. Often they can bring with Chem slides and other resource materials. Arrange for showings of films and other media (see MEDIA 11st). Read more about Cuba, past, present and future (see PAINTINGS list). ... 2. COMMITTEE EXHIBIT NO. 5-Continued Become acquainted with and distribute in your community current materials on Cuba. Several organization have available useful resource materials on U.S./Cuba (and U.S./Latin America) relations: NACLA North American Congress on Latin America, P.O. Box 57, New York, N.Y. 10025. NINOLA - National Information Network on Latin America, Box 548, Cathedral Station, New York, N.Y. 10025. Makes available information on happenings within the U.S. in relation to U.S./Latin America relations. Subscriptions $3.00 per year. 3. Take advantage of special days to organize a program or teach-in on Cuba: 4. July 26th January 1st date of the abortive attack led by Fidel in 1953 on the Moncada date of the coming into power in 1959 of the revolutionary forces. Organize actions of solidarity with the Cuban people. The economic embargo is one of the major pressures exercised by the U.S. government on the Cuban people. This embargo prohibits importation by the Cuban government of any U.S. manufacture, or any material containing a U.S. patent. Efforts to break the embargo include: CUBAN HEALTH EXCHANGE seeks to promote an understanding of the Cuban health care system and to break the blockade on medical information and supplies imposed by the U.S. government. Activities include: collecting books and journal subscriptions to be sent to Cuba; providing speakers on medical care in Cuba; reprinting and circulating articles about Cuban health care; encouraging interested medical groups or scientific meetings to invite Cuban colleagues to speak through lectureships, fellowships. Contact: Cuban Health Exchange, c/o Committee of Returned Volunteers, P.O. Box 380, Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. NEW UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE sponsoring a campaign to send U.S. scientific books to Cuba. For further information and a list of books needed in various fields, write to: Ruth Misheloff, 32 West 71st Street, New York, N.Y. 10023. VISIT CUBA It is possible to arrange to visit Cuba. Such a trip can give you a chance to see first-hand the achievements and difficulties of the Revolution. Although the State Department asks that you clear travel plans with them, according to a Supreme Court ruling, this is not legally necessary. (Travel without State Department "permission" may, however, subsequently subject you to FBI harassment.) You might go on a "Brigade to help with the harvest (for further information, write Venceremos Brigade, P.O. Box 245, Cathedral Station, New York, N.Y. 10025.); or perhaps you could arrange a group visit with others from your community. For information about obtaining a Cuban visa, write to the Consulate of Czechoslovakia, Washington, D.C. COMMITTEE EXHIBIT No. 5-Continued Printings The best way to understand contemporary Cuba is to read the accounts of those central in bringing the revolutionary forces to power. Therefore, suggested first priority is reading materials from Cuban sources, particularly Castro and Guevara. Other materials are supp ementary to these accounts. Castro, Fidel. Speaks, edited by Martin Kenner and James Petras (New York: Grove Press, 1969). Castro's Cuba, i 23 Fidel, Lee Lockwood (New York: Macmillan, 1967). The bulk of this text is a long interview with Fidel; a good vicarious trip for someone who has not been to revolutionary Cuba. Also includes substantial section of photographs. Guevara, Ernesto "Che". Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (New York:: Grove Press, 1968). Composed of articles taken from Che's field rotes kept in the Sierra Maestra Curing 1957 and 1958. Critical for understanding the period and Che. Diary of Che Guevara (New York: Bantar, 1968). Covers the period from November 1966 til his death in October 1967 when he was fighting with the guerrillas Dolivia. Che: Selected Works of 3rnesto Guevara, edited by R. E. Bonachea and N. P. Valdes (Boston: M. I.T. Press, 1969). Rather expensive hardback, but the most recent and comprehensive version of his writings. Venceremos: The Speeches and Writings of Ernesto Che Guevara, edited by John Gerassi (New York: Macmillan, 1968). Co prehensive 450 page paperback selection. Only Guerrilla Warfare (1961) and Bolivian Diary (1968) are omitted. CUBAN FICTION An an The Cohen, J. M. ed Writers in the New Cuba (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967). thology of revolutionary stories, poems, and a play. Desnoes, Edmundo, Incoasoluble Memories (New York: New American Library, 1957). ozigian Spanish title, Memorias des Subdesarrollo or Memories of Underdevelopment, is much more descripte of the book's theme. A sensitive brief characterization of the difficult: encountered by a middle class intellectual sympathetic to the Revolution but finding it hard to live out day by day. OTHER CUBAN PUBLICATIONS Chain, Cuba's daily newspaper (available in weekly English edition) can be obtained rep the New Yorker Book Shop, Inc., 250 W. 89th St., New York City 10024, and 1 T gier, House of Paperonek Books, 2915 Broadway, New York City 10025. Additional materials, particularly for use by university and other libraries, may COMMITTEE EXHIBIT NO. 5- Continued be requested --- with permission of the Cuban government from Senor Nestor García, Departamento de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad de Habana, Vedado, Habana, Cuba. These materials include Pensamiento Critico (periodical of philoophical and critical essays), Cuba Internacional (Cuba s monthly pictorial magazine), and Tricontinental (political publications on Third World revolutionary movements). SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL BOOKS Alvarez Dias, Jose R., and others, Estudio Sobre Cuba (Miami: University of Miami Press, 1963). This was subsequently published in an English version entitled A Study on Cuba. A 1700 page work by a group of Cubans in exile, it is brim. full of data, starting with the 19th century. Very caustic interpretation of the Castro period presented. Alvarez Dias, Jose R., and others, Labor Conditions in Communist Cuba (Miami: University of Miami Press, 1963). Cubans in exile doing a study of their homeland. Very polemical conclusions, but useful references and some useful analysis. Boorstein, Edward, The Economic Transformation of Cuba (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1963). The best single volume on the economics of the revolution from 1959 until 1963. Offers important insights on how the priorities within the economy changed. Lara-Braud, Jorge (ed.), Our Claim on the Future (New York: Friendship Press, 1970). Six writers speak about the Latin American situation its social and economic revolutions and the role of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. -- Nelson, Loury, Rural Cuba (inneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1950). A standard work on pre-revolutionary Cuba. Lucas, Jires, and Zeitlin, Maurice, eds., Latin America: Reform or Revolution? (New York: Fawcett Premier Books, 1968). A reader on why the Latin American poor get poorer, and the rich get richer, and what some authors sea to be the alternatives to this situation. Roberts, Paul, Statistical Abstract Supplement: Cuba 1968 (U.C.L.A. Latin American Center, Los Angeles, 1969). A compilation of official Cuban statistics, covering the pre-revolutionary years, the years of transition, and the socialist years. Saith, Earl E. T., The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution (New York: Random House, 1962). Former U.S. Ambassador to the Batista governcort blames all but himself for "losing" Cuba. Useful window into the thinking of an important part of U.S. elite opinion. vicheriand, Elizabeth, The Youngest Revolution (New York: Dial Press, 1969). In*ightful comments on race relations, Cuban women, and youth. A refreshing concost to scademic social and economic analyses. Sulice, Revolutionery Politics and the Cuban Working Class (Princeton: 4 |