#cuban people

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[mega-bluespower]

Maryland faith, civil rights leaders to Cardin: Lift the Cuban embargo

A coalition of Maryland civil rights, religious and political leaders is calling on outgoing Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) to use his clout as chairman of …Maryland faith, civil rights leaders to Cardin: Lift the Cuban embargo

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Expansion of U.S. State Department’s Integrated Country Strategy for Cuba  

A prior post discussed the portions of the State Department’s undated (but approved 5/27/22) Integrated Country Strategy for Cuba that set forth the following two of ‘three key priorities:” (1) “supporting Cubans seeking to exercise their universal human rights;” and (3) “encouraging the growth of an empowered, innovative, and inclusive Cuba.” [1] Since then the Department has reissued that ICS…

[aci25]

The US and Israel again stood alone at the UN in support of the blockade against Cuba

Luis De Jesús @ldejesusreyes asked people on the streets of NYC why they think the White House doesn't listen to the actual international community.

[demadogs]

camilla cabello rumored to play evelyn hugo….. absolutely fucking not

[pissfartboy]

Smile for the camera, Mr. Jigsaw!! 📸

[winemom-culture]

Lrt speaking of frogs during more yard work over the weekend I sent my mom this pic of this toad on our ac unit like haha look at the toad and she responds back like oh that’s the bastard of the earth, you should kill it two ways

[kemetic-dreams]

Yoruba gods protect Fidel Castro: priest

By Reuters

January 21, 20083:31 PM ESTUpdated 17 years ago

HAVANA (Reuters) - Yoruba gods protect ailing Fidel Castro from witchcraft and want to see him continue leading Cuba, the first priest of the Santeria religion to be elected to parliament said on Monday.

"Olodumare says he is the one that should be there and so he is untouchable," said Antonio Castaneda, a babalawo (priest) in the religion slaves brought to colonial Cuba from Nigeria.

Hurricanes may batter Cuba this year, but Castro's health will not break, according to the orishas (deities), he said.

The 614-seat National Assembly elected on Sunday must approve Cuba's top leadership at its first session on February 24, when Cubans will learn whether Castro will retire as head of state.

Castro, 81, has not appeared in public since stomach surgery for an undisclosed illness forced him to hand over power temporarily to his brother almost 18 month ago.

Santeria followers have believed their gods were on Fidel Castro's side ever since a white dove landed on his shoulder during a victory speech in Havana after his 1959 revolution.

Castaneda, who played the sax at Havana's famed Tropicana cabaret for 30 years, never joined Cuba's Communist Party, but considers himself a "revolutionary." He praised Cuba's social safety net despite widespread economic hardships Cubans face.

He said 60 percent of Cubans believe in Santeria and he can give them a voice in the National Assembly. Castaneda won a seat as president of the Yoruba Cultural Association of Cuba, which is close to the government.

The orishas augur a good year for Cuba, the babalawo said. "If Cuba marches ahead, so too does the Comandante," he said.

[carlyraejepsans]

what race/nationality do you think sans is?

cindy this is a skeleton this is bones anyway uhhh idk either boston or new jersey accented american but also he's italian in my heart

[trashratsaws]

Something I've been finding quite irritating about the lack of media and culture literacy we're seeing - because of course the least educated people speak the loudest I fear - is that it's almost forced me to become an advocate for art I don't particularly enjoy. I don't enjoy modern or contemporary art. I don't like it, I think it's overblown, and I think a lot of modern/contemporary movements are juvenile, underdeveloped, and crude. I will also defend modern and contemporary art until I die from white tiktok women who claim that they could make better art from the comfort of their upper middle class couches because apparently despite pretending to be cultured by going to the museums where modern art is housed and proclaiming to their thousands of followers that they have done so - which was a choice, by the way, they could have really gone to any museum that served their one-note tastes all the better - they simply cannot be bothered to do any sort of research or reading on what the modern/contemporary art actually means, how it was created, the backgrounds of the artists who create it, etc., or even to read the plaque next to the piece while they stand next to it making their videos about how lifeless and uninteresting they find it.

There is a huge difference between disliking something because you understand it vs. because you don't. Please for the love of god, if you're going to loudly dislike something, please be the person who dislikes it because you understand it, and spare me the trouble of trying to shout just as loudly that, well, yes, Jackson Pollock was the worst, but please leave his genre alone because you sound like quite the toad when you speak.

Anyway I lied before, so here are some avant-garde movements/artists/pieces I really like/find very interesting to do some more research on for yourself.

the Die Brücke (The Bridge, German expressionist group)

Mexican Muralism (Mexican artistic movement post-revolution of 1910)

Brasilia (failed Brazilian capital city with some crazy architecture. Also utopianism in general)

Neo-Dadaism/Post-modernism (generally cheekier movement than the abstract expressionists who took their work and mission far too seriously)

Marjorie Strider (woman pop artist who critiqued a lot of sexism in the art world with her work. See also The Girlies Exhibition)

Liberation of Aunt Jemima and Betye Saar

One and Three Chairs and Conceptual Art (this is the one people like to complain the most about)

Yayoi Kusama (particularly Narcissus Garden. Very good stuff)

Felix Gonzales-Torres (if you don't already know him. Tell me you can look at Perfect Lovers without crying)

Rhythm 0 (imo the single most impactful, raw, gut-wrenching work Marina Abramovic ever produced. Performance art. Devastating)

Shigeko Kubota (Vagina Painting. almost a direct fuck-you to Pollock's macho vibe)

Earth Art (exactly what it sounds like - work that relies on nature. The Lightning Field is on my bucket list)

[sockdooe]

I redesigned Lance :)

[jyndor]

the haitian revolution was so mean and violent no wonder they never successfully overthrew their french colonizers oh wait

[omegaversereloaded]

Americans must followed the time honoured tradition of treating every Carribean person like shit, Hatians by far the worst 🫡

People from the caribbean-latinsphere always have shit to say but haitians stay winning anyway !! 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

[italic-doing-random-shit]

draw... you!

you and your fam need a family picture :3

eeeeh that’s a bigger project for later, but that don’t mean I didn’t draw something!

here tunny, me, Bold! Mostly wanted to draw my little bro since he’s one of my favorite humans ever

a full family picture however

we’ll get to that soon

[1-800-internal-damnation]

yk what I'm gonna say it way too many people think acknowledging lance is cuban means pasting whatever mismatched idea of vague latino culture they have onto him and leaving it at that