WomenAndCuba.org
Title
women and cuba collaboration
Description
Building on efforts and standing on the shoulders of sisters in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (85 years crossing borders), Hermanas: Sisterhood in Central America and the Caribbean (15 years) and NW Labor and Employment Law Office (30 years) and many, many other women working for women's rights, racial and economic justice and a sane and just foreign policy, the founders of the US Women and Cuba Collaboration wanted to go beyond what any of our "home-base" organizations could accomplish individually.
Cindy Domingo, Shad Reinstein, Tammy James, Sherry Rials, and I began discussions in 2001 to bring together three organizations that represented demographically and geographically diverse women's leadership on Cuba to organize women across existing groups, as individuals and working in a broad spectrum of social justice and related groups across US. We wanted to
link change in US policy toward Cuba, to using Cuba as an example for women's rights, racial and economic justice as a model for women in US to build a more progressive, anti-racist women's movement here.
