COMMITTEE EXHIBIT No. 5-Continued UNESCO, Methods and Means Utilized in Cuba to Eliminate Illiteracy (Paris: Unesco, 1965. Report of a 1964 Unesco mission on 1961 Cuban literacy campaign. U.S. Department of State, Republic of Cuba, December 1968 (Background notes). Yglesias, Jose, In the Fist of the Revolution: Life in a Cuban Country Town (New York: Pantheon, 1968). An account of three months in a small town in Oriente Province in 1967. Kahl, Joseph A., "The Moral Economy of a Revolutionary Society," chapter in Cuban Communism (Irving Louis Horowitz, ed., Trans-Action Books, 1970.) Originally appeared as April 1969 issue of Trans-Action magazine.) An extended consideration of the meaning of political and economic conciencia. This is a crucial. issue in Cuba, involving the whole problem of "moral incentives" and the nature of socialist man and society. Plank, John, "We Should Start Talking with Castro," New York Times Magazine, March 30, 1969. A former State Department research director for Latin America now at Brookings Institute argues that present U.S. policies work to Castro's benefit rather than the U.S. government's, and that Castro could be more effectively isolated and defeated by reaching an accommodation with him and normalizing relations. Seers, Dudley, "Cuba: Economic and Social Background," chapter 1 in Cuba: the Economic and Social Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965). A scholarly, thoroughly documented analysis of Cuba's economic situation --- both pre- and post-revolutionary by a leading economist. Other chapters contain detailed discussions of agriculture and industry. "Cuba", Youth Magazine (Philadelphia: United Church Board of Homeland Ministries), May 4, 1969. Collection of articles in special issue on Cuba. A re Zeitlin, Maurice, "Inside Cuba: Workers and Revolution," Ramparts, March 1970. port on Cuban efforts to create an egalitarian and non-authoritarian socialism, with worker and government assessments of achievements and short-comings of those efforts. FOR FURTHER READING AND RESEARCH MacGaffey, Wyatt, and Barnett, Clifford R., Twentieth Century Cuba: The Background of the Cuban Revolution (Garden City: Doubleday Anchor, 1965). Good one-volume introduction to the society, polity, and economy of Cuba when Castro came to power. Contains good bibliography. Smith, Pobert F., ed. Background to Revolution: The Development of Modern Cuba (New York: Knopf, 1966). A useful collection of writings edited out of books and articles, including materials from the pre-Castro period. Contains long bibliographical essay. Twayne Jaich, Robert F., ed., What Happened in Cuba? A Documentary History (New York: Publishers, 1963). Contains parts or wholes of several-hundred documents relating to U.S.-Cuban affairs, going back to the late 18th century. Suchlick, Jaine, ed., The Cuban Revolution: Well A Documentary and Bibliography, 1952-1953 (Research Institute for Cuba and the Caribbean, University of Miami, 1963). done way to get to a document or speech if time of its appearance is known. Venceremos Brigade 105 Memorial Hall, Cambridge, Mass. 02138 NEW ENG LAND MIDAT LAN Betty Richardson Nute Alice Hageman CRV/CH Lyn Pestana VB Gloria Osuna V8 Carlos Calderon V3 203-436-1670 617-399-1054 212-866-7464 929 Columbus Ave., #1A, New York City 10025 c/o CRV/NY, 65 Irving Place, New York City 10003 212-477-0404 CH Quaker UN Program, 345 E. 46th St., NYC 10017 212-682-2745501 E. 11th St., Bldg 176R, Apt. 28, NYC 10009 P.0. 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COMMITTEE EXHIBIT No. 5-Continued MEDIA SLIDES Venceremos Brigade and Committee of Returned Volunteers contact persons (see PEOPLE list) have extensive resources in slides from Cuba. TAPES "Revolution is Preventive Medicine." This tape on the Cuban health system also makes specific suggestions for re-directing the U.S. approach to health from curative to preventive. RFP 69-11 POSTERS Sale $4.80 7 1/2 ips; $3.40 3 3/4 ips 30 minutes "Como en Vietnam" and "Fidel", 11x17" reproductions of Cuban silk screens; "Che" by NYC Art Workers' Coalition. $1. each. Order from Venceremos Brigade, Box 643, Cathedral Station, New York, N.Y. 10025. PILMS - About Cuba by Cubans "Historia de Una Batalla," Story of the 1961 literacy campaign in Cuba. Places the battle for literacy in the context of the total battle against imperialism in Cuba and the rest of Latin America. NR 115 ADF Rental $60. Sale $200. 40 minutes "Cuban Teachers." Young Cubans who volunteer to teach in the mountains and rural villages are shown during their training program. An important element in their development as teachers is the experience of living together as a self-sufficient community. NR 119 Rental $30. 22 minutes "Men of the Canefields." The success of the sugar harvest is essential to the survival of the Cuban economy. This film shows urban volunteer workers participating in the collective effort in the cane fields. NR 102 Rental $25. 20 minutes "Cerro Pelado." Cerro Pelado is the boat which carried the Cuban delegation to the Pan American Games in Puerto Rico. Film shows the athletes on the boat and at the Games, where they won in numerous competitions. NR 116 Rental $70. 60 minutes FILMS By Cubans about Revolutionary Movements Elsewhere in the World "Hasta la Victoria Siempre." Speeches of Che Guevara, plus footage of the guerrilla struggle in Bolivia, Che's last battleground. Images of the repression of the U.S. civil rights movement are set to words of the song "Now" sung by Lena Horne. The implication of the film is that militant COMMITTEE EXHIBIT No. 5-Continued "Hanoi 13." Cuban filmmakers have documented everyday activity around Hanoi "79 Springtimes." Santiago Alvarez. ADF Rental $60. -- 42 minutes Dur Brilliant impressionist biographical tribute to Ho Chi Minh, by About Cuba by Sympathetic Observers "One Way to Change the World." FILMS 25 minutes the concept of the new man. ADF "End of a Revolution." trial of Regis Debray. ADF Cuba, 1968-1969: the progress of the revolution, Rental $45. The murder of Che Guevara by the Bolivian government; the 26 minutes "Isle of Youth." Newsreel film on an experiment on a small Cuban island where money and private property are becoming irrelevant, as young people living and working together begin to construct a new model for the future. NR 130 Rental $15. 10 minutes "FIDEL." Saul Landau's in-depth report on Fidel and the continuing revolution in Cuba. Contains new footage on the Bay of Pigs invasion and on Fidel and Che in the mountains during the revolution. Includes frank interviews with political prisoners. Newsreel a Movement filmmaker and distributor which seeks to analyze and explore realities that most mass media ignore. Newsreel members are willing to accompany their films and serve as resources for them. Their offices are located in the following cities: ADF American Documentary Films an independent non-profit educational organization dedicated to building an alternative to commercial mass media. Produces and distributes films, audio tapes and graphics that document, examine and illuminate social change from a human and independent point of view. West of the Mississippi 379 Bay Street, San Francisco, Cal. 94133 East of the Mississippi 336 West 84th St., New York, N.Y. 10024 a service of the New York Review of Books. 250 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019. 212-CO 5-1690. RFP Radio Free People - an independent group using the medium of sound to help create new forms of social organization. 133 Mercer Street, New York, New York 10012. 212-966-6729. 58-594 O 72 pt. 3 15 8 Supplementary Books: COMMITTEE EXHIBIT No. 5-Continued MORE DO IT! Dewart, Leslie, Christianity and Revolution: The Lesson of Cuba (New York: Herder and Herder, 1963). Analyzes relations in Cuba between the Roman Catholic Church and the revolutionary government through 1962. Also provides useful detailed summary of relations between the United States and Cuba through October 1962 missle crisis. Hageman, Alice L., and Wheaton, Philip E., Revolution and Religion in Cuba: New Church for a New Society (New York: Association Press, 1971). A collection of essays about Cuban churches during the 1960s, written primarily by Christians living in Cuba. Includes discussions of historical and theological issues, and offical church statements. Pratt, Julius W., Expansionists of 1898 (Chicago; Quadrangle Paperback, 1964). Traces the rise and development in the United States of the movement for overseas expansion, especially the acquisition of Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Includes chapter on the attitude of religious bodies, "The Imperialism of Righteousness". Smith, Robert F., The United States and Cuba: Business and Diplomacy, 19171960 (New Haven: College and University Press, 1960). Examines interaction of political and economic motives and methods in relationships between business interests in Cuba and the United States, how protection of U.S. business interests in Cuba led to failure of U.S. business diplomacy. Supplementary Films: "Children of the Revolution". Education in Cuba strives to create "the new man" after the image of Che. |