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May 21, 2015
Vancouver Celebrates
International Women’s Day 2015:
Women & the Cuban
Revolution, a Revolution
within the Revolution
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Every year, women all around the world gather to mark
International Women’s Day. This day is the opportunity to
celebrate the gains that women have made around the
world in their struggle for justice and equality.
The “Revolution within the Revolution” is what Fidel
called the fight for women's rights in Cuba, and it is a
revolution which is thriving and moving forward even
today, for Cuban women and the world-wide struggle of
for women's rights!
For International Women’s Day 2015, Vancouver
Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) organized an
evening featuring political and cultural presentations
from women around the world, with a special focus on
learning from the great gains made by Cuban women in
their “Revolution within the Revolution.”
On Saturday, March 7, at the downtown Vancouver Public
Library, supporters of Cuba in Vancouver, as well as
people looking for a new way to celebrate International
Women’s Day, came together for a full program of film,
poetry and greetings. Participants were also treated with
special international greetings from Miraly González
González, the First Secretary and Political Attaché of the
Cuban Embassy in Ottawa and Carolina Escarrá with the
International Relations of the Youth of the United Socialist
Party of Venezuela (JPSUV).
International greetings were followed by remarks and
poetry by Kelly White, a Coast Salish Elder,
Colleen Glynn, the Secretary of Vancouver Communities
in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) and President of the
Richmond NDP, Tamara Hansen, Coordinator of Vancouver
Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC) and author of
the book “5 Decades of the Cuban Revolution: the
Challenges of an Unwavering Leadership” (Battle of Ideas
Press), Azza, an organizer with Vancouver Communities in
Solidarity with Cuba from Tunisia, Macarena Cataldo
Hernandez, a Chilean social justice activist and Mayra, a
Nicaraguan poet and activist. This dynamic celebration
for women’s liberation came to close with a salsa lesson
and dancing that got everyone up and moving.
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