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EYEWITNESS CUBA: HEALTHCARE FOR ALL

October 25, 2007

EYEWITNESS CUBA: HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
Featuring Laurena White, local student at
Havana’s Latin American School of Medicine
speaking and presenting a screening of’Salud!’
widely-hailed movie about some of the thousands
of Cuban doctors delivering free care in
some 67 countries across the Third World.

Thursday November 1st at 7pm
Calvary United Methodist Church
48th & Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia

1) Laurena White is in her fourth year of living
in Cuban neighborhoods and delivering
community healthcare. This is a unique
opportunity to get first-hand information from
Cuba, given Washington’s travel ban
preventing Americans traveling there and
Cubans coming to the United States.

2) ‘Salud’ is a U.S.-made film by Oscar nominee
Connie Fields (‘Rosie the Riveter’ and ‘Freedom
on My Mind’). Accolades include:

“Salud! is an excellent, accurate and
deeply moving portrayal of a healthcare
system designed to keep people healthy
rather than the ‘sickcare’ system that
currently exists in the United States.”
Joycelyn Elders, MD, former U.S.
Surgeon General

“I salute Salud! for teaching us how
much we can learn not just about – but
from – Cuba.”
Julian Bond, Chairman of the Board,
NAACP

“Salud! is compelling, upbeat
and moving, a great tool for learning the
much there is to learn from Cuba.”
Paul Farmer, MD, Partners in Health
and Harvard Medical School

“Salud! is a powerful film whose time has
come. It’s essential to those seriously
working for a national health insurance
program in the United States: it shows
what is possible when the focus is the
patient, not profits.”
Quentin Young, MD, National Coordinator,
Physicians for a National Health
Program

Please join us for this special event.

Thursday November 1st at 7pm
Calvary United Methodist Church
48th & Baltimore, Philadelphia

Event is free.
Please circulate to your friends and
lists.

Sponsored by the Philadelphia Cuba
Solidarity Coalition

Philly@CubaSolidarity.com
484.431.0182

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