Cuba Solidarity in Canada: Five Decades of People-to-People Foreign Relations

Nino Pagliccia

dic 2014 · FriesenPress

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 Cuba Solidarity in Canada - Five Decades of People-to-People Foreign Relations, is a collection of essays about the Canadian solidarity movement in support of Cuba during more than 50 years. Throughout the different experiential stories, the notion of solidarity emerges as the common theme of people-to-people (non-governmental) links between Canada and Cuba. The book suggests a framework that informs the reader on the meaning, positive influence and potentially valuable role that solidarity can play in the relationship between peoples, indeed between nations. It also advances the possibility of a new paradigm of state-to-state foreign relations that is based on solidarity instead of ideological posture.

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 Contributors

Arnold August, Keith Ellis, Tamara Hansen, Elizabeth Hill, Wendy Holm, John M. Kirk, Lisa Makarchuk, Claude Morin, Nino Pagliccia, Isaac Saney, Brian Gordon Sinclair, Heide Trampus, Ali Yerevani, Diane Zack

Nino Pagliccia has two Master’s Degrees from Stanford University and is a retired researcher responsible for Canada- Cuba collaborative projects at the University of British Columbia. He has published many peer-reviewed journal articles and has contributed chapters to books on topics about Cuba, the Cuban healthcare system and solidarity. He has been a long-time activist and has organized groups to do voluntary work in Cuba for almost 15 years with a focus on exposing Canadians to the Cuban reality. He has travelled often to Cuba and within Cuba where he has participated extensively in fieldwork both as a university researcher and as a volunteer.