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> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:30:13 -0600
> Subject: EVENT TODAY 7pm: Learn about Cuba's role in S. African independence, with renowned historian Piero Gleijeses
> From: lascmilw@gmail.com
> To: LASCmilwaukee@googlegroups.com
>
> Cuba, Africa & the Cold War -- A Historical Retrospective" featuring
> Prof. Piero Gleijeses
>
> Monday, November 29, 7pm
> UWM Union, Wisconsin Room
> 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee
> Free & Open to the public
>
> "We come here with a sense of the great debt that is owed the people
> of Cuba... What other country can point to a record of greater
> selflessness than Cuba has displayed in its relations to Africa?"
> -Nelson Mandela
>
> "Gleijeses's research ... bluntly contradicts the Congressional
> testimony of the era and the memoirs of Henry Kissinger.... After
> reviewing Dr. Gleijeses's work ... senior US diplomats who were
> involved in making policy towards Angola broadly endorsed its
> conclusions." --NY Times
> Hear MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award recipient and leading
> historian on the Cold War in the "Third World"
>
> PROFESSOR PIERO GLEIJESES
> Johns Hopkins University Professor of American Foreign Policy
>
> Author of the definitive study, Conflicting Missions: Havana,
> Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, based on unprecedented review and
> access to the military archives in South Africa, the U.S. and Cuba.
> His most recent work is Cuban Drumbeat (2009), part of a series of
> essays reflecting on "What was communism?"
>
> "Any fair assessment of Castro's foreign policy must recognize its
> impressive successes, and particularly its role in changing the course
> of southern African history in defiance of Washington's best efforts
> to stop it. There is no other instance in modern history in which a
> small underdeveloped country has changed the course of events in a
> distant region -- humiliating one superpower and repeatedly defying
> another. There is no other instance in which an underdeveloped country
> has embarked on a programme of technical assistance of such scope and
> generosity." -- from Cuban Drumbeat.
>
> Co-sponsored by UWM Dept. of History; UWM Dept. of Africology; Peace
> Action Wisconsin, www.peaceactionwi.org ; Latin America Solidarity
> Committee - Milwaukee; Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with
> Cuba, www.wicuba.org ; and Milwaukee Students for a Democratic
> Society, www.sdsmke.org
>
> If you are on Facebook, click below to RSVP and help spread the word
> by inviting your friends!
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115022491893254
> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:30:13 -0600
> Subject: EVENT TODAY 7pm: Learn about Cuba's role in S. African independence, with renowned historian Piero Gleijeses
> From: lascmilw@gmail.com
> To: LASCmilwaukee@googlegroups.com
>
> Cuba, Africa & the Cold War -- A Historical Retrospective" featuring
> Prof. Piero Gleijeses
>
> Monday, November 29, 7pm
> UWM Union, Wisconsin Room
> 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee
> Free & Open to the public
>
> "We come here with a sense of the great debt that is owed the people
> of Cuba... What other country can point to a record of greater
> selflessness than Cuba has displayed in its relations to Africa?"
> -Nelson Mandela
>
> "Gleijeses's research ... bluntly contradicts the Congressional
> testimony of the era and the memoirs of Henry Kissinger.... After
> reviewing Dr. Gleijeses's work ... senior US diplomats who were
> involved in making policy towards Angola broadly endorsed its
> conclusions." --NY Times
> Hear MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award recipient and leading
> historian on the Cold War in the "Third World"
>
> PROFESSOR PIERO GLEIJESES
> Johns Hopkins University Professor of American Foreign Policy
>
> Author of the definitive study, Conflicting Missions: Havana,
> Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, based on unprecedented review and
> access to the military archives in South Africa, the U.S. and Cuba.
> His most recent work is Cuban Drumbeat (2009), part of a series of
> essays reflecting on "What was communism?"
>
> "Any fair assessment of Castro's foreign policy must recognize its
> impressive successes, and particularly its role in changing the course
> of southern African history in defiance of Washington's best efforts
> to stop it. There is no other instance in modern history in which a
> small underdeveloped country has changed the course of events in a
> distant region -- humiliating one superpower and repeatedly defying
> another. There is no other instance in which an underdeveloped country
> has embarked on a programme of technical assistance of such scope and
> generosity." -- from Cuban Drumbeat.
>
> Co-sponsored by UWM Dept. of History; UWM Dept. of Africology; Peace
> Action Wisconsin, www.peaceactionwi.org ; Latin America Solidarity
> Committee - Milwaukee; Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with
> Cuba, www.wicuba.org ; and Milwaukee Students for a Democratic
> Society, www.sdsmke.org
>
> If you are on Facebook, click below to RSVP and help spread the word
> by inviting your friends!
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115022491893254
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