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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Sept. 25, 1997
issue of Workers World newspaper
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Young people report on trip to Cuba

By Preston Wood in Los Angeles

Students and other activists gathered in Los Angeles Sept. 13 to hear a report from delegates to the World Festival of Youth and Students held in Cuba this past summer.

The meeting was chaired by Dean Rambeau of the Los Angeles Chapter of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal. It featured talks about the sacrifices made by the people of Cuba to mount this historic festival, the escalating U.S. threats against the people of Cuba, and the ongoing struggle in the United States to defend socialist Cuba and overturn the reactionary Helms-Burton Act and the U.S. blockade of Cuba that denies food and medicine to the Cuban people.

A highlight of the program was a speech by Sade Bonilla, the youngest member of the U.S. delegation to the festival, who turned 11 while in Cuba. Other speakers included Gloria La Riva, who testified at the Anti-Imperialist Tribunal held during the festival, Forrest Schmidt, Don Simonds, Stephen Ceci, Joe Delaplane and Paula Solomon, who represented the Los Angeles Committee in Solidarity with Cuba.

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