[pr-x] *THURSDAY* April 9 - Covid-19: Cuba Shows that Solidarity is the Answer - Cuba Solidarity Webinar

[Tamara Hansen]

** Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) encourages our supporters to participate in this important on-line forum (webinar), which VCSC is organizing along with Cuba solidarity groups across the U.S. and Canada as part of the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations. Please see registration information below. We hope you will join us! **

COVID-19: CUBA SHOWS THAT SOLIDARITY IS THE ANSWER! 
   
> Register for Thursday, April 9th Virtual Conference - 5PM PST
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_osMxjK08RayTzw_bJagp3w

Please join us for a special solidarity webinar to learn about the example Cuba is setting of putting human needs ahead of profits in the fight against COVID-19. Panelists will discuss Cuba’s history of medical internationalism; how Cuba is fighting COVID-19 on the Island based on providing health care as a right; learn how Cuba is developing effective new medications such as Interferon Alpha 2-B; and how Cuba is sending medical teams to Italy, the Caribbean and dozens of countries.

Co-Chairs:
> Alison Bodine — Fire This Time, Movement for Social Justice, Vancouver, Canada
> Claudia de la Cruz — Executive Director, The People’s Forum, New York City

Speakers:
> Ambassador José Cabañas — Cuban Embassy, Washington, DC
> Dr. Helen Yaffe — Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow, Author, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution; We Are Cuba!; Cuba’s Contribution to Combating COVID-19 (Yale University Press blog)
> Dr. John Kirk —  Department of Spanish and Latin American, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadian authority on Cuban Medical Internationalism. Featured on PBS Nova program “Cuba’s Cancer Hope.”
> Dr. Alexa Weber  — Circulo Bolivariana “Negra Hipolita” On the current health care situation in Venezuela and opposition to the latest U.S. threats and sanctions.
> Dr. Isaac Saney — Co-chair, Canadian Network on Cuba. Prospects for a Campaign to Access Cuba's Interferon Alpha 2B Recombinant and other medical assistance to treat

For TechSupport contact: zoomsupport at us-cubanormalization.org

In Solidarity, 
Organizing Committee, International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations
us-cubanormalization.org 

End All Economic and Travel Sanctions Against Cuba!
Return Guantanamo Territory to Cuba!
Stop US “Regime Change” Policy Against Cuba!

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VANCOUVER COMMUNITIES IN SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA (VCSC)
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