The Australia Cuba Friendship Society is hosting a public meeting for Otto Rivero Torres, First Secretary of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba and Cuban Minister for Youth.
The meeting will commemorate the 41st anniversary of the 1962 victory of the Cuban people over the Bay of Pigs invasion carried out by mercenaries trained and armed in the United States. Rivero will explain the current international campaign to free five young Cubans convicted and jailed in the United States today for defending their homeland from terrorists based in Miami. He will discuss the central role played by Cuban youth in the expansion of education and culture in Cuba today through programs like the University for All. Otto Rivero Torres First Secretary of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba, Cuban Minister for Youth 7 p.m., Thursday 18 April 2002 Room 33, Trades Hall 4 Goulburn St, Sydney For more information contact: 9698 8119 . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink