Upcoming Events + Classes

Short Films From and About Cuba:

The Greening of Cuba, by Food First &
Cerro Pelado, by Santiago Alvarez

Monday, May 19th, 2008
7 PM
522 Valencia (at 16th St.) in San Francisco

Following our April event on the latest developments in Cuba, we present two very different films about the Cuban experience. Discussion to follow films.

About The Greening of Cuba: When trade relations with the socialist bloc collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost 80 percent of its pesticide and fertilizer imports and half its petroleum–the mainstays of its highly industrialized agriculture. Challenged with growing food for 11 million in the face of the continuing US embargo, Cuba embarked on the largest conversion to organic farming ever attempted. Told in the voices of the women and men–the campesino, researchers, and organic gardeners–who are leading the organic agriculture movement, The Greening of Cuba, produced by Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy, reminds us that developed and developing nations alike can choose a healthier environment and still feed their people.

About Cerro Pelado: Filmed in Puerto Rico and aboard the ship that took dozens of Cuban athletes to the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games, this stirring film illustrates the resistance of the Cuban athletes and the Cuban people to U.S. intervention. In nearly 700 films, Santiago Alvarez, director of Cuba’s newsreel for over 30 years, creates a subversive alternate history. “My style is the style of hatred for imperialism.”–Santiago Alvarez

$5-$10 donation requested, no one turned away for lack of funds.

For more information call or e-mail the Center for Political Education at 415-431-1918 or center@politicaleducation.org
522 Valencia is not wheelchair accessible