FYI: Communiversity Humanitarian Campaign Reportback & The Story About Cuba No One Was Telling
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Greetings,
Please be on the lookout for The Communiversity’s Reportback from our recent advance team “Suitcase Delegation” carrying out the First Phase of our “Stand With Cuba Humanitarian Campaign”. The trip was a powerful success to which many of you have told me you’re looking forward to hearing about and participating as future “Ambassadors”.
The Zoom report will be held an evening between August 18th and August 23rd. Confirmed participants include Humanitarian Campaign Co-Chairs accomplished historian Robin D. G. Kelley, veteran activist, attorney and Cuba solidarity activist Rosemari Mealy, and NC solidarity activist Tatia Ash. Also on deck Akinyele Umoja, founding member of MXGM/NAPO and a professor at Georgia State University. Of course, we will include those who made this initial trip, Isaiah Johnson, professor, Roxbury Community College, Tony Menelik Van Der Meer, Sr. Lecturer, University of Mass., Boston Africana Studies, and chair of The Communiversity’s Board, and Shafeah M’Balia, Director, The Communiversity.
Below is an excellent newsletter on current events relating to the island. Be sure to check out the video included. It promotes Belly of the Beast, but/and moreo, it shows a little slice of what we saw when we traveled and it tackles head on, Why the issue of the US blockade & embargo is important - especially to Black people.
Six years ago, Belly of the Beast set out to tell stories about Cuba that weren’t being told anywhere else.
Since then, we’ve built an independent multimedia newsroom that covers breaking stories while producing groundbreaking videos, investigative reports and documentaries.
At a time when the Trump administration is waging an unprecedented economic war against Cuba and carrying out aMcCarthyite crackdownon media outlets like Belly of the Beast that dare to report critically on its policies, your support allows us to keep doing exactly that.
Today, we’re sharing a short video reflecting on our journey through the eyes of Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández.
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Liz had almost given up on journalism. She couldn’t recognize the Cuba she knew in either Cuban state media or U.S. government-funded outlets. In Belly of the Beast, Liz found a newsroom committed to telling stories with nuance, context and humanity.
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