Welcome
Ike Nahem, International US-Cuba Normalization Conference Committee
Co-chairs:
Aislinn Pulley — Chicago Torture Justice Center, Founder Chicago Black Lives Matter
Tamara Hansen — Canadian Network on Cuba, Vancouver Communities in Solidarity With Cuba
Panelists:
Carlos Fernandez de Cossio — Director General of United States Affairs at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs; former Cuban Ambassador to Canada, South Africa
Helen Yaffe — Leading Scholar (University of Glasgow (Scotland, UK) on Cuban history, politics, and medical and scientific advances. Author, We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World; Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution
Margaret Kimberly — Co-Founder, Editor, and Senior Columnist for Black Agenda Report blackagendareport.com; Author, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents; Author of recent essay, Freedom Rider: Standing With the Cuban People which answers the US-orchestrated anti-Cuba campaign that attempts to identify the July 11 “protests” with the struggle against racism.