Cuba USA
Dear Alfredo,
PBS WIDE ANGLE correspondent Aaron Brown will host a live debate on BlogTalk Radio this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. EST. The topic: should the U.S.lift the trade embargo on Cuba? Brown will moderate a discussion betweenPhil Peters, author of the blog The Cuban Triangle, who advocateslifting the embargo, and Mauricio Claver-Carone, author of the blogCapitol Hill Cubans, who believes the embargo should be maintained.Click on the following link for a full description on the WIDE ANGLEwebsite: http://bit.ly/xDsKU
As an active blogger involved in the US-Cuba policy discussion and the Cuban-American community, we would love for you to participate in theshow. You can do so live by calling 718-506-1351 between 11:00 and 11:30a.m. EST to join in the discussion. If you are busy during that time,send us your questions in advance and Aaron Brown will ask them on yourbehalf during the show. You can do this by commenting here:http://bit.ly/xDsKU, or via Twitter using #VictoryIsYourDuty.
Please help us spread the word about the debate. If you can post thisinformation on your blog, we'd be most appreciative. Please also forwardthis e-mail to anyone else who is interested in this topic and mightlike to participate in the show. Don't hesitate to contact me with anyquestions.
The debate follows the broadcast of the film Victory Is Your Duty, whichgoes inside the Havana Boxing Academy on the outskirts of Cuba's capitalto watch as boys hand-picked as future Olympians are molded intosoldiers of the ring. For the 2009 encore presentation of the film, hostAaron Brown travels to Miami to tell the story of what happens when graduates of Havana's boxing academies grow up - and defect to theUnited States. Read more about the film at www.pbs.org/wideangle, orcheck your local listings for air times.
Best regards,
Ben Travers
PBS WIDE ANGLE
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Cuba USA
Live debate on Cuba moderated by Aaron Brown
Dear Alfredo,
PBS WIDE ANGLE correspondent Aaron Brown will host a live debate on BlogTalk Radio this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. EST. The topic: should the U.S.lift the trade embargo on Cuba? Brown will moderate a discussion betweenPhil Peters, author of the blog The Cuban Triangle, who advocateslifting the embargo, and Mauricio Claver-Carone, author of the blogCapitol Hill Cubans, who believes the embargo should be maintained.Click on the following link for a full description on the WIDE ANGLEwebsite: http://bit.ly/xDsKU
As an active blogger involved in the US-Cuba policy discussion and the Cuban-American community, we would love for you to participate in theshow. You can do so live by calling 718-506-1351 between 11:00 and 11:30a.m. EST to join in the discussion. If you are busy during that time,send us your questions in advance and Aaron Brown will ask them on yourbehalf during the show. You can do this by commenting here:http://bit.ly/xDsKU, or via Twitter using #VictoryIsYourDuty.
Please help us spread the word about the debate. If you can post thisinformation on your blog, we'd be most appreciative. Please also forwardthis e-mail to anyone else who is interested in this topic and mightlike to participate in the show. Don't hesitate to contact me with anyquestions.
The debate follows the broadcast of the film Victory Is Your Duty, whichgoes inside the Havana Boxing Academy on the outskirts of Cuba's capitalto watch as boys hand-picked as future Olympians are molded intosoldiers of the ring. For the 2009 encore presentation of the film, hostAaron Brown travels to Miami to tell the story of what happens when graduates of Havana's boxing academies grow up - and defect to theUnited States. Read more about the film at www.pbs.org/wideangle, orcheck your local listings for air times.
Best regards,
Ben Travers
PBS WIDE ANGLE
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Source: workers worldOunce again, a Black unarmend youth has been killed by a cop And while the facts surrounding the shooting are presently unclear, what is clear is that a cop shot 18-year-old Michael Brown eight times. According to at least...
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Source venezuelanalysis The ALBA countries released a joint statement Tuesday expressing their "profound concern" with the violence sparked by the police killing of an unarmed black teenager, which the bloc said is a reminder of the serious racial...
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Received this forwarded e-mail: Here's the poster for Andy Garcia's new film "The Lost City". It's a movie about the Cuban revolution, without Hollywood's typical pro-Castro slant. Andy wants us to send it out to all of our friends...
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Yoani Sánchez launched her blog, Generation Y, in April 2007. (Her first post contrasted the freedom Cuban's had to display posters saying “Go Santiago!” during baseball playoffs with their inability to display a poster saying “Internet for...
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