Commemorate July 26: Health Care in Cuba
Commemoration of July 26th, 1953
Saturday July 21, 2007
$10 gen. $8 students w/ID - 8pm
On July 26, 1953, a group of rebels lead by Fidel Castro attacked the Moncada garrison and launched the Cuban Revolution that taught Cubans and the world that health care is a human right! Featuring film Salud and speakers. With KPFA’s Emiliano Echeverria, who went with Michael Moore to Cuba for the filming of "Sicko". The film Salud (90min) will be screened followed by Q & A. This is a timely examination of the Cuban health care system compared to the U.S. profit driven system given the recent release of Michael Moore's film Sicko.
¡Salud!
A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect
us all, ¡Salud! looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash-strapped country
with what the BBC calls ‘one of the world’s best health systems.’
From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of
the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and
explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba --
now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA.
Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring
home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health —
and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare
everyone’s birth right.
