March 27, 2008
Refreshing
We often hear about these student groups going to Cuba and coming back with such wonderful things to say about the worker's paradise and castro, inc.
Today, Ziva brings a story to our attention of some students who went to a lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Marshfield/Wood County given by Ramon Colas, a Cuban exile and former independent librarian (you know, the ones the ALA refuses to acknowledge or defend). Well it turns out these kids have more sense than the American Library Association.
Students attending Colas' guest lecture Wednesday...were astounded to learn about the lack of intellectual freedom and widespread human rights violations in Cuba...After Colas' talk, students discussed tools governments use to keep control over people.
"They use social constraints, like the Nazis did in World War II and Stalin did in the Soviet Union, to get the people to work against one another so that the government doesn't need to do anything. The people do it," said Joseph Franklin, 26, of Marshfield...
Tears welled in Nicole Gershman's eyes as she talked about human rights violations in Cuba.
"I can't imagine what it would be like," said Gershman, 20, of Marshfield. "We have so many freedoms in America."
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at March 27, 2008 09:12 AM
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Henry -
The MORE amazing thing is that Colas got to speak at all. Somebody at U. Wisconsin probably has some 'splainin to do. -S-
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at March 27, 2008 09:30 AM
Bravo! Someone at the University of Wisconsin is a Hero.
Posted by: Firefly at March 27, 2008 09:37 AM
The "most" amazing part about this is the fact that students were "astonished" to learn about the lack of intellectual freedom and widespread human rights violations in Cuba.
What rock have these kids been living under?
For that matter - what do you think Adolf Hitler was doing during the second world war? Picking daisies?
Posted by: CubaWatch at March 27, 2008 10:07 AM
A main reason why this presentation occurred is because the University of Wisconsin- Marshfield/Wood County, is only a two-year campus (freshmen and sophomores) with small enrollment, that is an extension of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their Departments of Spanish, Sociology, History, Geography, Anthropology are comprised of only one junior professor in each one.
It is a place shunned by pro-Castro professors who are hired by their comrades in the larger universities. Note that ENCASA professor Margarita Zamora teaches at UW-Madison. That's probably why Colas did not get invited there, before a much larger audience.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/dialogue/encasa.pdf
Has Colas been invited to speak at FIU?
Posted by: delacova at March 27, 2008 11:27 AM
"For that matter - what do you think Adolf Hitler was doing during the second world war? Picking daisies?"
Of course! "Springtime for Hitler", remember The Producers?
Posted by: Zhangliqun at March 27, 2008 02:51 PM
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