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    Vol.60/No.26           July 1, 1996 
 
 
Build Cuba Youth Exchange  

The deadline to get in applications and funds for the Youth Exchange trip to Cuba is just over one week away. Now is the time to go the extra mile into making fundraising efforts a success and signing up as many more young workers and students as possible by July 1.

Building the largest and most representative delegation to Cuba from the United States will help broaden opposition to Washington's economic war against the Cuban people. Youth traveling to Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, and Havana will have a chance to find out first hand why the communist leadership and working people in Cuba stand firm in defense of the socialist revolution. The Cuban revolution continues to advance despite political setbacks in the Americas and material difficulties over the last decade and unrelenting political and military pressure by the empire to the North.

The youth exchange will also serve as a springboard to begin building the world festival of students and youth and an international trade union conference to be held in the Caribbean nation in August of 1997.

Defenders of the revolution are selling raffle tickets to coworkers; organizing rummage sales, picnics, film showings, and speakouts; getting the word out through radio programs and newspaper articles. Joining picket lines, anti-racist rallies, and mobilizations in defense of affirmative action and immigrant rights with publicity for the exchange can net more recruits for the trip.

This is also the time to iron out important logistical details such as getting or renewing passports. Obtaining journalists credentials can also be a political boon since it will provide young people additional opportunities to write or talk about their experiences through the media when they return.

The month of July can also be used to continue raising funds, putting together send-off events, and organizing study groups on the history and current challenges of the Cuban revolution to prepare those going to get the most out of the experience. The remaining time can also be utilized to raise material aid to be donated to schools, hospitals, farms, and factories while in Cuba. Building the broadest possible delegation will be the best blow right now against Washington's unrelenting cold war on our fellow toilers in the first free territory of the Americas.

All out to build the U.S.-Cuba Youth Exchange!  
 
 
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