LANGUAGES

2011 CHE CONFERENCE PROGRAM


FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11
10am-8:00pm

>10:00am-10:45am
Breakfast & Registration

>10:45-11:25am (40min)
Traditional Indigenous welcoming ceremony: KELLY WHITE
Conference Opening:  COLLEEN GLYNN (NDP Chair, Richmond riding and VCSC EC member)
Conference Business and Rules: TAMARA HANSEN

GREETINGS via Skype by Cuban Ambassador to Canada Mrs. Teresita Vicenti Sotolongo

>11:30am -1:00pm (1h30min)
Workshop #1
“World Crisis, Imperialist Offensive and Our Alternatives”: ALEIDA GUEVARA

>1:05pm-1:55pm (50min)
DOCUMENTARY FILM “The Uncompromising Revolution”: by SAUL LANDAU

>2:00-3:15pm (1h15min)
Workshop #2
"Cuba’s Gains, Challenges and Evolving Socialism": MRS. MARIA DE LA LUZ B'HAMEL (Minister Councilor of Cuba Embassy)

>3:15pm-4:00pm (45min)
LUNCH

>4:10pm-5:40 (1h30min)
Workshop #3:
“Cuban Reform VS. Chinese Reform: What We Can Learn”: MANUEL YEPE (University of Havana)

>5:40pm-6:00pm (20mins)
BREAK

>6:05pm-7:20pm (1h15min)
Workshop #4
"Cuban Foreign Policy Against U.S. Foreign Policy: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Our Backyard":  
NELSON VALDES (University of New Mexico)

7:20-7:30pm
Closing Day 1:  COLLEEN GLYNN

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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12 
10am-8:00pm

>10:00am-10:30am
Breakfast & Registration

>10:30-10:40
Conference Opening: COLLEEN GLYNN (NDP Chair, Richmond riding and VCSC EC member)

GREETINGS by Consul General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Vancouver Mrs. Merli Vanegas

>10:45am-11:45pm (1h)
Workshop #5
“Fidel, Cuba & Imperialist Attack on Libya”: AARON MERCREDI & TAMARA HANSEN

>11:45 – 12:20pm (30min)
PRESS CONFERENCE

>12:20pm-1:20pm (1h)
Workshop #6
Documentary Film “Maestra” & The US Women and Cuba Collaboration
 MOON VASQUEZ & CINDY DOMINGO

>1:25pm - 2:40pm (1h15min)
Workshop #7
"Why Che's Ideas and Socialism are Fundamental for Our Struggle Today": LARRY MOSQUEDA (Evergreen State University, Washington)

>2:40pm-3:25pm (45min)
LUNCH

>3:35pm-4:50pm (1h15min)
Workshop #8
“Sustainability and Cooperatives in Cuba's Future”: WENDY HOLM (University of British Columbia)

>4:55pm-5:55pm (1h)
Workshop #9
“60 Minutes with Nelson Valdes: All the Questions You Were Afraid to Ask About Cuba"

>5:55pm-6:10pm (15min)
BREAK

>6:10pm-7:40pm (1h30min)
Workshop #10
"Che and the Cuban Revolution": ALEIDA GUEVARA

>7:40pm-8:00pm (20min)
Conference Assessment:  ALI YEREVANI
Closing Day 2: COLLEEN GLYNN

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SUNDAY November 13, 2011
Special Cultural Event in Honour of the Five Cuban Heroes Held in U.S. Jails!
2pm - 6pm

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*** SPEAKER BIO's ***

DR. ALEIDA GUEVARA  * Havana, Cuba
Cuban revolutionary leader, a pediatrician, prominent author of the book, “Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America” and daughter of the legendary Ernesto Che Guevara.

MANUEL YEPE  *  Havana, Cuba
Journalist and professor at the Superior Institute of International Relations of Havana. Manuel was a leader of the underground July 26 Movement in Matanzas leading up to the triumph of the Cuban revolution, and worked directly with Ernesto Che Guevara.

MARIA DE LA LUZ B’HAMEL  *  Ottawa, Canada
Minister Councilor to Cuban Embassy in Canada.

NELSON VALDES  *  Albuquerque, NM, USA
Nelson P. Valdes is the creator and director of the first university computerized data base on Latin America (LADB in 1986), University of New Mexico. He is a Latin Americanist, Sociologist. Emeritus Professor. Specialist on Cuba and the US Southwest. He has written analytical and opinion pieces for numerous newspapers, magazines and academic journals. He was born in Cuba.

LARRY MOSQUEDA  *  Olympia, WA, USA
Professor of Political Economy at Evergreen State University in Olympia, Washington, USA and long-time social justice activist.

WENDY HOLM  *  Vancouver, BC, Canada
Professor of UBC’s International Field Studies in Sustainable Agriculture (Cuba), economist, author and award winning journalist and sustainability expert. Wendy is also the organizer of the Canada-Cuba Farmer to Farmer Project.

CINDY DOMINGO * Seattle, WA, USA
Cindy Domingo is co-chair of the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration and the Cuba, Women and Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Cindy has been co-leading women's delegations to Cuba since 2000.

MOON VASQUEZ * Seattle, WA, USA
Latina Lesbian Feminist active in Seattle’s social justice community for many years.  Moon has helped lead numerous women’s delegations to Cuba and Mexico to promote peace and understanding across borders with the Everywoman’s Delegation for Cuba and the U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration.

KELLY WHITE * Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Coast Salish Elder, & Indigenous media activist.

COLLEEN GLYNN * Richmond, BC, Canada
Chair of the Civic New Democratic Party (NDP) and Executive Member of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC).

TAMARA HANSEN  *  Vancouver, BC, Canada
Coordinator of Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC), author of the book “5 Decades of the Cuban Revolution: the Challenges of an Unwavering Leadership” and former co-chair of the Canadian Network on Cuba.

AARON MERCREDI  *  Vancouver, BC, Canada
Editorial board member of the Fire This Time Newspaper and organizer with the Indigenous Rights and Action Project (IRAP).

ALI YEREVANI  *  Vancouver, BC, Canada
Political editor of the Fire This Time Newspaper, political editor of the Battle of Ideas Press, and participant in the 1979 Iranian revolution