ROCLA meeting 6/6

Rochester Committee on Latin America

Next meeting: Wednesday, June 6th, 2012, DUPC 7:00 PM

Learn About Cuba and Hear Nicaragua Solidarity Activist Dorothy Granada

Q. For how long has the U. S. imposed a total trade embargo on Cuba?

A. To find out, you¹ll need to come to the ROCLA meeting on Wednesday, June
6th!
Hint: The embargo was imposed in 1962.

Q. How many U.S. Presidents have endorsed the embargo?

A. To find out, you¹ll need to come to the ROCLA meeting on Wednesday, June
6th!
Hint: Start with Kennedy and keep counting!

Q. Apart from the obvious humanitarian reasons, why has the Pastors for
Peace National Friendshipment brought tons of medical and educational
supplies to Cuba for 22 years?

A. To find out, you¹ll need to come to the ROCLA meeting on Wednesday June
6th!
Hint: The late Rev. Lucius Walker followed in the footsteps of
Gandhi and King.

Vic Vinkey speaks about Cuba, the Embargo, and Friendshipment at ROCLA
06-06.

Activist Nurse Dorothy Granada Speaks about her Newest Project!

Nurse and long-time activist Dorothy Granada is well known to everyone who
works in solidarity with Nicaragua. In the 1980¹s she organized a model
women¹s health clinic in the city of Mulukuku. Soon the clinic had expanded
its mission to include literacy classes, and domestic violence and legal
assistance programs. Not surprisingly, Dorothy ran afoul of right-wing
President Enrique Bolaños. Bolaños tried to force her to leave Nicaragua,
but Dorothy resisted. Ultimately, Bolaños backed down.

Dorothy Granada now lives in Managua, but she refuses to retire. She has
initiated an innovative new health project. In many remote regions of
Nicaragua, babies are delivered by traditional midwives. These women are
experienced and dedicated. However, they often lack the skills to make
their work more effective, and to make childbirth safer for women.

In conjunction with MINSA, the Nicaraguan Health Ministry, Dorothy¹s group
is initiating a ³Pilot Project in Skills to Save Lives.² To quote Dorothy,

During 20 years working with midwives and other community health workers in
Mulukuku, I learned that it isn't enough to share information with
midwives/health workers in a classroom. The midwives/health workers return
to their communities and are confronted with a reality far removed from the
classroom. What distinguishes the Pilot Project is the assignment of
mentors who are nurses from the health centers that serve the areas where
the midwives/health workers live and work. These mentors do the teaching in
a week-long course followed by regular meetings with their assigned midwives
in the health centers as well as in the communities establishing a
relationship of accompaniment and friendship.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CUBA & DOROTHY¹S PROGRAM
AT THE NEXT ROCLA MEETING!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6TH 7:00 PM
DOWNTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
121 NORTH FITZHUGH STREET, ROCHESTER
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED
HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE, LOOPED FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED