WHAT CUBA GIVES THE WORLD

As part of the Edinburgh World Justice festival (EWJF), East Coast SCSC helped to put on an afternoon dedicated to the cuban health system and salsa and rum!! With the catchy title of "What Cuba Gives the World"

The first half of the event was a welcome by Councillor Gordon Munro followed by a talk by Brian Pollitt from Scottish Medical aid for Cuba and the first of two clipsfrom the documentary "Salud"

With over 80 people attending over the course of the day , it was a great success and finished off with an hour of salsa with a couple of salsa teachers putting us through our paces. although this was a free event, a bucket collection was split between Scottish Medical aid for cuba and east coast SCSC.

special thanks must go to the EWJF and to Joan Cutting for organising the event.






(L-R Gordon Munro, Brian Pollitt and Joan Cutting)

SCSC AGM 2010

The STUC building in Glasgow's woodside was the venue for the Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Cuba Solidarity Campaign(SCSC). The meeting followed on from the AGM of Scottish Medical Aid for cuba and started with a review of events and actions from the past year which included speakers at Mayday marches in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, A Cuba reception at the STUC conference, Miami 5 street stalls,The festival of politics event
The Cuban Ambassador's visit to scotland and cross party group meetings amongst others.

The prioities for the coming year were discussed, with the Miami 5 as a priority and then all 3 elected posts were re-elected with a vote of thanks to all who contributed to the campaign.

Finally, our guest speaker, Luis Marron, the political councillor from the Cuban embassy in London updated us on the situation in Cuba.

The AGM was folowed by a Havana Club reception and nibbles