My late friend Jim Murray told me he sparked the Venceremos brigades. At 01:56 PM 4/17/2008, Charles Brown wrote: >Carl Davidson on Fidel > >http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2008w15/msg00204.htm > >There is a report (by someone else) on the transition in Cuba on Carl >Davidson's blog. Davidson makes the following introductory few >comments >of his own: > >Fidel has been the leader of Cuba for my entire political life, and >the >very first demonstration I went to was a 'Hands Off Cuba' vigil of >twelve of us at Penn State during the Cuba missile crisis. > >Later, representing SDS, I had a chance to meet with Fidel. At the >Cultural Congress of Havana in 1968, Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden and I >were whisked away to a safe house, were we sat up with Fidel late into >the night, discussing everything under the sun. He wanted to know our >opinion of McGovern, Dellinger wanted to know about Che and Regis >Debray, Hayden and I asked to start what became the Veceremos Brigade, >and Fidel bugged me to explain 'hippies' to him, and I tried my best. > >He is a remarkable man, with a photographic memory, wide knowledge and >keen insights. Cuba will change after him, though, as brother Raul is >already looking into the socialist market economy in China and >Vietnam, but will undoubtedly make any reforms 'in the Cuban way.' We should >all wish Fidel and Cuba well, and double our voices against the blockcade. > > >Full at: http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/ > >As an aside, I've just finished reading Carl Oglesby's 'Ravens in the >Storm' and Oglesby claims to be the person who first suggested the >Venceremos Brigades and that Bernadine Dohrn and others forced him to >back out of the public organising, but Carlos Rafael Rodriguez (at the >time Cuban ambassador to the UN) continued to meet privately with him >in >New York about the project.
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