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US Women & Cuba Collaboration is an association of women and organizations working in coalition with women in Cuba to build bridges within and between our nations that foster inclusive and progressive women's movements and networks for justice, real security and women's rights.

We educate ourselves and others about legislative issues, cultural issues, and political issues relevant to the Cuba–US relationship and to ending the US blockade of Cuba.

We also work in global alliances, supporting and learning from the work of women in a variety of countries in addition to Cuba, most recently Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, and Thailand.

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Now Scheduled for September
Final Details Soon

2012 WOMEN'S RESEARCH DELEGATION TO CUBA!

Application and Payment Deadline: August 1, 2012
2012 Delegation Application
Delegation Dates: September 1-11

"Global Economic Crisis: Women Working Together to Advance Economic Justice and Human Rights"

Join women from the U.S. to explore the history of the Cuban revolution and its impact on the status of women and girls. The delegation will follow the footsteps of the Revolution, visiting Santiago de Cuba to hike the Sierra Maestras where the Revolution was launched (alternative activities for non-hikers), participating in a symposium in Santa Clara, and spending several days in Havana. Program for the tour will include engaging discussions with various organizations and peoples about the present day economic and social reforms occurring in Cuba in light of the global economic crisis, and about the role of women and the Federation of Cuban Women in advancing the Cuban women's rights agenda. This delegation is organized by Marazul Tours, a US licensed travel provider, in consultation with U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration.

Details:

The dates of the delegation are September 1-11. The cost of the delegation will be about $2200-$2400. (Not included in this price is the airline ticket cost from your home city to Miami, Florida, our site of departure for Cuba).

Members of this delegation will be traveling under the general license for professional research. Therefore, all members of the delegation will have to be certified and accepted by Marazul as "full-time professionals conducting research in their fields." Please Note: Marazul offers complementary advice for all prospective delegates about how to qualify for legal travel on the General License. Submit your application ASAP so that Marazul can begin the qualification process to assure you may travel under this license. There are many channels for qualification under this license, so please ask questions if you want more information.

The itinerary will be forthcoming soon. It will be very similar to the itinerary planned for the postponed March Delegation.

See March itinerary at Archived Events


Please complete and return this form to guarantee a space:

2012 Delegation Application

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2012 Delegation Email


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OLGA VIVES – PRESENTE! (In Memorium)

It is with great sadness that we learned that our hermana and companera Olga Vives has passed away. She fought tirelessly during a long struggle with cancer, just as she did for women’s rights.

In addition to her many contributions and accomplishments with the National Organization for Women, Olga brought all of her identities as a Cuban American, lesbian, immigrant and feminist to the table. She understood and supported the work of the US Women and Cuba Collaboration in many ways that fostered strong ties between NOW and the Collaboration. Because of her leadership in advancing global feminist strategies and issues within NOW and beyond, Olga co-lead, and NOW co-sponsored, our 2006 International Women's Day Delegation to Venezuela. She spoke eloquently at the IWD Rally prior to millions of people marching for peace and women's human rights down the main highway of Caracus. She also facilitated numerous workshop opportunities with the Collaboration and NOW at venues - large and small - including the National Women's Studies Association, numerous NOW conferences and also to local Seattle house parties to support our organizing.

Her visionary leadership for NOW as a co-founder of the National Coalition of Immigrant Women (with the National Latina Roundtable and NAPWAF) was especially inspiring to bring multicultural feminist perspectives to address racism in immigration policy as was her leadership in opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan within NOW. And she initiated the National Women of Color and Allies Summit in 2005 that resulted in regional conferences across the country including keynoting the NW Regional Conference in 2007.

Olga was active in NOW in the Great Lakes region, served on the National Board and then as National’s Vice President for Action and then as VP Executive. She was a prime force behind the 2004 March for Women’s Lives, developed the NOW anti-Wal-Mart campaign, made NOW a welcoming place for women and girls with disabilities and was a passionate advocate for global women’s rights as she established the NOW Global Feminist Committee. She traveled with Eve Ensler and a few other prominent women to the Middle East for a women’s dialog between Israeli and Palestinian women for peace.

Olga's tireless energy will always be evident as part of her legacies in work and play and we salute her courage in life and in facing her death.

Viva Olga! Olga Presente!

The US Women and Cuba Collaboration
April 6, 2012

NOW Tribute


World March of Women Newsletter
Feb 2012

Women struggling against the commodification
of life and of the environment!

Men and women the world over are resisting the idea of considering nature as resource in the service of corporate profit, as unlimited good, or as more expensive one as it becomes exhausted by improper use. Women, in particular, are very active in these struggles. Their experience of being rendered invisible and devalued in the work they do caring for others is very similar to the invisibility and devaluation of nature. The time and energy that women spend in care-taking, cooking, providing affection and listening, are not visible and are elastic. In most families, women are the first up in the morning and the last to go to bed at night.

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