Dear friends:

Please click on this link to CubaGo to find out how you can help bring an
end to the travel ban on Cuba for ALL Americans!

On September 30, a national day of action  http://www.cubago.info/
will take place to call the offices of all the nation’s
congressional delegations and express our desire to end the travel
ban on Cuba.

Find all your members’ phone numbers HERE
You can also call the Congressional switchboard (202)224-3121 and
ask for your representative’s office.

Please take a moment of your…

A great article by Margarita Alarcon.  There are many reasons for which the travel ban has a negative effect.   This article focuses on the hindrance it poses on people-to-people exchange that would bring two countries who have such strongly interlocked histories together.

So, now, today, the Treasury Department has finally gotten its OFAC to put in print the deregulations of the previous constraints, or at least the better version or a lesser evil. Still, there is something failing in all of this. Now Cuban families will be broader in concept, now trips will be

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Dear friends:

The Madison-Camagüey Sister City Association will have another wine tasting and silent auction on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 (mark the date!) and we’re already in the planning stages.  As we have done the last two years, the event will be held at the newly-reopened (and refurbished) Cardinal Bar.
I am writing to ask that you consider making a donation to the silent auction.

We prefer the item be of Cuban origin–paintings, cigars, framed posters and photographs, objects d’art, collectibles are all welcome.  Additional items will also be considered to round out our…

II FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEOARTE DE CAMAGUEY /  CUBA  2009       videocamfestival.blogspot.com
Camagüey, located in the center of the Island of Cuba about eight hours east of Havana, is a city of intense cultural activity. Over the second half of the last century, it has developed and hosted an enormous number of festivals, workshops and symposia which, together with the growing number of art schools, universities y other institutions, have fostered a vibrant avant-garde spirit in our culture concentrated in Camagüey’s visual art movement.

It is from this creative energy that the important Video-Arts Festival…

MADISON-CAMAGUEY SISTER CITY ASSOCIATION
P. O. Box 608  –  Madison, WI 53701
info@madisoncamaguey.org

Meeting of Wednesday, September 2, 2009 – 7 PM
Sequoya Branch Public Library
Tokay at Midvale Boulevards – Madison, WI

A G E N D A
I.    Welcome and introductions.

II.    Update on Cuban Artists in Madison/Celebrating Friendship:  Exhibit by Orestes Larios and Gregorio Escobar to be held at DiRicci Gallery at Edgewood College, November 4-24.  Opening Reception on Friday, Nov. 6.  Mark your calendars and more information will be forthcoming. This project is supported by the…