BEST RESOURCE BOOK ON CUBA-US HISTORY AVAILABLE ONLINE

[magbana]

Perhaps the best resource on Cuba-US relations, Jane Franklin’s book, “Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History” is FINALLY available online. Check it out.

Jane Franklin: CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES now online
Posted by: "Jane Franklin" [e-mail]
Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:59 am (PST)
My book, CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES: A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY, is now
available online at my homepage in pdf format, completely searchable (free
of charge). There are two links. Click on the title near the top of my
homepage or go to the end of the homepage and click on the link there.
Jane Franklin
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jbfranklins

[EFerrari]

1. Thank you! I need to learn more about Cuba.

It's great to be guided to good sources. :)

[Judi Lynn]

2. Jane Franklin is WONDERFUL. I've seen her used as a resource over and over again.

She's been working in this field for years and years, and is respected and quoted by many. Found a photo of her a minute ago:



Historian Jane Franklin with Mary Bell after
recording her book Cuba and the United
States: A Chronological History

http://www.rfbdnj.org/RAT/rat2004.html

She has been tremendous, forthright, forceful, and courageous all this time!

[Judi Lynn]

3. I might add, a poster beloved to many of the former CNN US/Cuba policy message board,

who moved to D.U. when they closed down, and wrote like a maniac here, having NO PATIENCE for right-wing ideologues whatsoever, and was tombstoned for her contempt for right-wing trolls here, good old Jean Sawyer, AKA Freecancat, from Canada, a woman who has been to Cuba and the other Caribbean islands as a matter of practise for holidays for years and years and years, a poster who would take no backseat to ANYONE heartedly recommends Jane Franklin's big book to anyone, and DID.

I've never heard anything put forward as a close second to her writing, although there are a few dedicated historians working as hard as she has, no doubt.

[Judi Lynn]

4. There is one other writer you may want to check, as well, who is very helpful.

Karen Lee Wald. Here is a site with some of her articles:

Critique of Rolling Stone report on "Audioslave" visit to Cuba
(May 2005)

About workplace theft in Cuba
(September 2004)

Bush's Stolen Election - The Anti-Castro Cuban Connection
October 2004

Critique of AP report on Cuban request to United Nations
(October 2004)

Disinformation passed off as news
(September 2004)

Some Notes About Workplace Theft In Cuba
(September 2004)

Notes on "Portrait of Teresa" and Women in Cuban Cinema
(September 2004)

What the Miami Herald left out in their profile of the
"pardoned terrorists" Luis Posada Carriles & Co,
(August 2004)

Response to South Florida Sun-Sentinel Editorial (2004)
Dissection of an arrogant editorial advising the
United States how to go after Cuba more effectively.
Aggressive Remarks by Roger Noriega (2004)

The wrong way to go to Cuba (2003)
How a so-called "do-gooder" proposes to "help" the
Cuban people analyzed, and a better way proposed.

Democracy Cuban Style (2003)

Letter to a Friend about Las Terrazas (2003)
Las Terrazas is an ecologically-protected community
in Pinar del Rio Province in western Cuba.

Cuba After Ochoa (1990, updated 2003)
Discusses the death penalty as Cuba applied it in
the case of General Arnaldo Ochoa, and updates
it following the execution of three armed hijackers
by the Cuban government in April 2003.

Turning the tables on Jeb (2003)
Florida Governor Jeb Bush writes to Minnesota Governor
Jesse Ventura, who was travelling to Cuba. Bush opposes
Ventura's visit to Cuba, and Karen response to Bush on this.

Human Rights As Theater (2003)
Analysis of the UN Human Rights Commission and the
US campaign to have Cuba condemned before that body.
Takes a close look at Armando Valladares, the so-called
"wheel-chair" poet and his role in the US campaign.

Response to "Wired" on Computers being banned (2002)
Takes up and responds to the claim that Cuba was somehow
banning computers.

Human Rights and Power Politics (2001)
Looks at the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in 2001
and analyzes what the US had to do in order to obtain a vote
against Cuba in that body.

30th Anniversary of George Jackson's Assassination (2001)
Jackson was a leader of the Black Panther Party in the
San Quentin prison in California.

Lennonism in Cuba at Last (2001)
Discussion of the new statue to John Lennon which
has been built to celebrate his life in Havana

Postcards From Cuba (2000)
Cuba in the aftermath of the rescue of Elian Gonzalez.

Popes, Prostitutes and Prisoners (1999)
Discussion of the politics of Pope John Paul's visit
to Cuba in 1998 and its political significance.

Haitian Prime Minister Preval Visits Javier Sotomayor (1999)

Interview With Assata Shakur (2002)
The long-time US political exile on the island

Cuba Meets The Pope -- And Both Walk Away Winners (1998)
http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/Caribbean/.kwald.html

Assata and the Pope (1998)
Karen asks the US political exile what she
thinks about the Pope's visit to the island.

Nation of Islam Chief Visits Cuba (1996)
This is Minister Louis Farrakhan

US-Cuba Relations Shoot-Down (1996)
This famous episode, in which Cuban gunners
shot down airplanes from the counter-revolutionary
exile group "Brothers to the Rescue", who had been
flying over Cuban airspace dropping leaflets, became
Bill Clinton's excuse for signing the Helms-Burton Law.

Where Were The Women?
Discusses role of women in Latin American left.

Cuban Women and the Media (1995)
Changing role of women in the media on the island.

Cuban HIV/AIDS Care Leads the world (1995)

Cuba's AIDS Patient #1 Dies (1995)
Reynaldo Morales was the first person who tested
positive for HIV in Cuba

Women in Defense
A poem and two essays on women in Cuban society

Cuban Missile Crisis More Than Just History
Discussion of Robert S. McNamara's views

Cuba Battles for Soverignty Over Its Airwaves

Chicanos: Identity Recovered (1970)
Corky Gonzalez and Cha Cha Jimenez interviews

About Karen Lee Wald


Karen Lee Wald is a teacher, writer, journalist and activist who became aware of the vast gap between what she had been taught and what the world was really like during the turbulent�60s. She has been�helping spread�that consciousness�to others�through writing, teaching, demonstrating and organizing ever since. While looking for a positive alternative when people would say "you're always knocking things here, but where's there anything better?" she discovered Cuba. Not the romantic Cuba she had known until then -- Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, men with beards and guns in the hills -- but a Cuba that was men and women building, growing, creating a new life, from childcare centers, schools, hospitals�and polyclinics to organic farming, solar energy, and community empowerment.

She returned to Cuba many times between 1968 and 1981, writing about her experiences in articles, journals and the book CHILDREN OF CHE (Ramparts Press, 1978). Finally, in 1982, she took her two California-born children and spent the next 20 years raising them in Cuba, and writing to break the information blockade. Her favorite title while in Cuba was "guerrillera electronica", a reference to her pioneering efforts to get accurate information about Cuba out to the world via email and internet.

Since 2001, Karen has been dividing her time between teaching in San Jose, California and returning periodically to Cuba to continue research and writing.



http://www.walterlippmann.com/karen-lee-wald.html

[magbana]

5. Yes, Karen Lee Wald is Excellent

What I like best about Karen is that she suffers no fools especially when it comes to "liberals."