[Peace-discuss] Fw: ANTI-IMPERIALISM: [COAT] Support Cuban Medical Brigades in Haiti !!

Thu Jan 21 19:28:02 CST 2010

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Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:46 AM
Subject: ANTI-IMPERIALISM: [COAT] Support Cuban Medical Brigades in Haiti !!


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> From: coat at list.openconcept.ca
> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:52:47 -0500
> Subject: [COAT] Support Cuban Medical Brigades in Haiti !!
> To: coat at list.openconcept.ca
> Reply-To: overcoat at rogers.com
> Message-id: <coat.37 at anonymous>
>
>   Dear friends,
>
>   I, like many others no doubt, had been wondering how to send financial
>   donations to support the excellent work of the Cuban medical brigades in
>   Haiti. I called the Cuban embassy to inquire and received a positive 
> call
>   from them today.  I also received an email this afternoon from the
>   Hamilton Friendship Association with Cuba, which conveyed the same good
>   news. Yes!  We can indeed donate money to support Cuba's medical 
> brigades
>   in Haiti and, if this matters to you, we even get a tax receipt.  The
>   material is appended below.
>
>   All of the money will go to support the 300 Cuban medical personnel who
>   had already been working in Haiti for years before the earthquake. Plus,
>   Cuba sent additional doctors and supplies immediately after the quake
>   (before the US took control of Haiti's main airport). There are also 500
>   Haitian doctors in Haiti, who were trained -- free of charge -- in Cuba!
>   (In striking contrast, there are many more Haitian doctors than that
>   working in Canada who were encouraged to leave their country and come 
> here
>   by the Canadian government. (It's called the "brain drain" and it is one
>   part of the problem now being faced by Haitians in need.)
>
>   I hope you will consider supporting Cuba's exemplary humanitarian relief
>   efforts in Haiti by donating to the charity described in the letter 
> below.
>   Please encourage others to do likewise!
>   In solidarity,
>   Richard Sanders
>   Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
>   [1]http://coat.ncf.ca
>
>   P.S. The email below refers to the Mac-Pap Battalion and an NGO called 
> the
>   Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund, which is collecting the money for the
>   "Cuba for Haiti" campaign. In case people don't know this history, the
>   Mac-Paps were a group of Canadians (mostly communists) who volunteered 
> to
>   go to Spain between 1936 and 1939 to fight in the civil war against
>   Franco's fascism. (As an interesting aside, the Canadian government 
> tried
>   to stop the Mac-Paps from going to Spain and eventually refused to give
>   them passports. Then the Canadian government refused to let them return!
>   When they finally did let the Mac-Paps come home, many were persecuted 
> by
>   the RCMP.  Their sacrifice has never been recognized by the Canadian
>   government and the Mac-Paps are not commemorated in federal war 
> memorials
>   or in Remembrance Day services.)
>   ---
>
>   CNC's Cuba for Haiti Fund
>   The Hamilton Friendship Association with Cuba (HFAC) is pleased to 
> forward
>   the letter below from the Canadian Network on Cuba (CNC) announcing the
>   launching of the Cuba for Haiti campaign. This campaign will raise
>   urgently needed funds so as to provide humanitarian aid to the people of
>   Haiti after the devastating earthquakes they have faced that have caused
>   great human loss and devastated large parts of the country. The HFAC 
> calls
>   on all Canadians with a humanitarian striving to provide such assistance
>   to do so through this fund which can be trusted to deliver the needed 
> aid.
>
>   All Out in Humanitarian Support for the People of Haiti!
>
>   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   Canadian Network on Cuba
>   [2]www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
>
>   January 18, 2010
>
>   Dear Friends,
>
>   In response to the horrendous suffering of the Haitian people resulting
>   from the earthquake and its many aftershocks, many Canadians have been
>   wondering what the most effective way to provide aid is. The
>   Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association of Toronto has proposed the Cuba 
> for
>   Haiti fundraising campaign which is also endorsed by the Canadian 
> Network
>   on Cuba as a national effort.
>
>   Cuba has an unequalled record in helping people in crises such as the
>   earthquake in Pakistan and natural disasters in many other countries. 
> In
>   fact it has set up a special emergency unit, the Henry Reeve Medical
>   Brigade, to respond to such disasters.  At the time of the earthquake in
>   Haiti, 402 Cuban internationalists, 302 of them medical personnel, had
>   already been helping Haitians.  These together with many of the 500
>   Haitian doctors who had been trained in Cuba free of charge formed the
>   essential early group of lifesavers, attending to 1,102 Haitian patients
>   in the first 24 hours after the earthquake. They have continued their
>   work, boosted by an additional medical brigade which arrived promptly 
> from
>   Cuba.
>
>   We believe that this kind of unprecedented and invaluable help which 
> Cuba
>   has been giving Haiti for eleven years deserves to be supported as
>   strongly as possible.  The CNC urges you to support Cuba in this work by
>   giving a donation to *The Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund,* indicating 
> on
>   your cheque*s memo line *Cuba for Haiti*.
>
>   Charitable receipts will be issued by the Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial 
> Fund
>   (Charitable Org - Revenue Canada Reg, #88876 9197RR0001).
>
>   Your donation should be mailed to:
>
>   The Mackenzie-Papineau Memorial Fund &
>   Friends of the Mac-Pap Battalion, Int'l Brigades
>   Att: S. Skup
>   56 Riverwood Terrace
>   Bolton, ON L7E 1S4
>
>   The *Cuba for Haiti* contributions will go into a special account,
>   ensuring that 100% of all donations are used for medical support and aid
>   to Haiti. We are working directly with The Cuban Embassy in Ottawa and 
> the
>   Consulate General in Toronto.
>
>   Sincerely,
>   Isaac Saney, CNC Co-chair & and National Spokesperson,
>   Tamara Hansen, CNC Co-Chair
>   Keith Ellis, CNC Coordinator  *Cuba for Haiti*
>
> References
>
>   Visible links
>   1. http://coat.ncf.ca/
>   2. http://www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/
>
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>
> - -- 
> The Financiers & Banksters have looted untold trillions of our future 
> earnings.
> Their bureaucratic police & military goons are here to make us all pay for 
> it.
> Forever.
> Well FORGET THAT. Let's get it *ALL* back from them -- and more.
>
> **Socialist revolution NOW!!**
>
> Build the North America-wide General Strike.
> TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas.
> TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes.
> ALL power to the councils and communes.
>
> And beware the 'bait & switch' fraud: "Social Justice" is NOT 
> *Socialism*...
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