FIDEL: Celebrating the Centenary of Comandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz

As the U.S. continues decades of sanctions and new attacks against Cuba, we, the American people, declare that Fidel, like Martin Luther King Jr., is a revolutionary who guides our imagination in the 21st century. We believe that the Cuban people, new men and women created by a heroic struggle against slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and imperialism, show us that there is a way out of the American political, economic, and civilizational crisis. We reject war and follow the footsteps of Afro-American leaders such as Harry Belafonte, Henry Winston, Reverend Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, and Reverend Lucius Walker in knowing and learning from Fidel and the Cuban people.

Join us in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. There will be a photo exhibit, documentary world premiere & discussion, and community dialogue with a representative of the Cuban people.

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Info: Photo Exhibit reception renewing the historic relationship between the Cuban and American people

Info: World premiere of a Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation original documentary on Fidel, that reintroduces and reinterprets Comandante Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz for the American people. It will be followed by a discussion with Student Minister Abel Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, Dr. Anthony Monteiro of the Saturday Free School, and the filmmakers. The discussion will focus on Fidel as a figure for this moment of Western civilizational crisis and an opportunity for remaking the world’s peoples

Info: Keynote by a representative of the Cuban people, followed by a moderated dialogue with a member of the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation, then an audience Q&A. In a time of war and a changing 21st world order, it is an opportunity for Americans to learn from the Cuban people and for the Cuban people to know about Americans for an all-humanity struggle for peace.

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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 419 South 6th Street, Philadelphia, United States

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