La siguiente charla de Maiteé Navarro Giro se presentó el 29 de julio en la Casa de la Amistad del ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos), en La Habana, Cuba, con la participación de la Brigada Venceremos y activistas LGBTIQ+ de EUA, junto a miembros de las redes comunitarias vinculadas al Cenesex (Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual), entre otros invitados.

Este evento marcó el lanzamiento en Cuba del libro publicado en EUA por Struggle-La Lucha, “El amor es la ley: la revolución de los derechos queer en Cuba,” (Actualmente solo disponible en inglés.) Navarro Giro es una asesora legal del Cenesex

Transcrito por Gregory E. Williams

Hola, yo soy asesora legal del Cenesex. También pertenezco a la Red de Lesbianas y Bisexuales del Cenesex. Solo quería comentar brevemente sobre la pregunta que se hizo sobre la implementación del Código de las Familias.

Nuestro jefe siempre les ha dicho a muchos de ustedes que, para finales de 2024, registramos 2,170 matrimonios entre personas del mismo sexo. De estos, 850 fueron entre mujeres. El resto, entre hombres.

Y se registraron más de 3,188 consentimientos para el acceso a las técnicas de reproducción asistidas (fecundación in vitro).

Y lo que yo pienso que es lo más importante del Código de Familias es el lenguaje que se ha usado para educar a nuestra sociedad.

El Código también ha influido en las leyes que estamos creando actualmente. Estas se mencionaron brevemente antes y han ganado reconocimiento internacional. Por ejemplo, la aprobación de la ley para el Registro Civil, la ley para el sistema deportivo cubano, y el Código de la Niñez, la Adolescencia y la Juventud.

Todo esto se abordó desde una perspectiva de género y representó pasos revolucionarios para Cuba. Brinda a las personas queer y trans el acceso a los derechos que siempre anhelamos y por los que luchamos. Especialmente nuestras redes comunitarias y de activismo social. Eso es todo, gracias.

Hundreds turned out in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on Aug. 19 to stop the allocation of public funds to support the Canada-Israel Davis Cup slated in that city on Sept. 12 and 13. Mobilized by the Halifax Committee against Imperialist War & Genocide, they demanded that Halifax must not be complicit in genocide by hosting this event. Halifax is the capital and largest municipality of Canada’s Nova Scotia province, with a population of just over half a million people on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people.

Just after 8 p.m., however, without any public debate, without transparency, and without even the decency of discussion, in a 10 to 6 vote, the City Council approved the Special Events Advisory Committee’s $50,000 CAD funding for the Davis Cup tennis match.  A vote not for tennis, but to normalize genocide

Organizers reported that hundreds gathered at 9:30 am on that workday to confront the Halifax City Council, demanding the cancellation of the event to send an unequivocal message: Halifax will not stand on the wrong side of history.  Unwilling to face the public outcry against hosting a sports team of a country admittedly conducting genocide and starvation of Palestinians that was shown in an email campaign, and the chamber overflowing with concerned Canadians, the agenda was juggled to postpone the vote into the night. 

The Halifax Committee argues: 

“The proposed match … is not a neutral sporting event. It is a deliberate political act — a gift of legitimacy, a propaganda stage, and a public relations shield for a state that is committing a genocide in Gaza. At a time when tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, maimed, starved, or displaced; when homes, schools, hospitals, and vital infrastructure have been obliterated; when overwhelming evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity is documented daily — for Halifax to fund and host this event is to be complicit in sports washing those atrocities.

“The State of Israel’s genocide and war crimes against the Palestinian people are so blatant, flagrant, heinous and undeniable that even its most fervent supporters can no longer bear them and remain silent. Former Canadian Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler — long a staunch advocate for Israel — has publicly called for an end to the war and starvation in Gaza, even denouncing the Israeli government’s rhetoric as ‘a moral abomination.’ If people of Cotler’s ilk cannot ignore the scale of Israel’s brutality, how can the City of Halifax turn a blind eye and instead reward it with public funds and civic celebration?!

“This is not about tennis. This is about whether our city will stand on the side of justice or align itself with the normalization of apartheid, occupation, and genocide. Across Canada and around the world, athletes, human rights defenders, and ordinary citizens have made it clear in their millions and billions: there can be no normal sporting relations with an apartheid state engaged in mass slaughter.”

The Halifax Committee addressed the fig leaf of promoting tourism, charging: “It is a deliberate political act—designed to grant legitimacy, offer a PR platform, and whitewash the crimes of a state currently engaged in a genocidal campaign in Gaza. This is sportswashing, not sport. And in this case, it is soaked in blood.

“To prioritize potential tourism revenue over basic human rights is to place a dollar value on human life. The Halifax Regional Council has chosen to trade morality for money, as though economic gain could ever justify complicity in atrocity. This is a betrayal—not just of international law, but of the conscience of our community.”

Their statement concluded: “Let it be clear: We see you. We remember. And we resist.”

For more information, contact the Halifax Committee against Imperialist War & Genocide, hcaiwag@gmail.com

Under the pretext of combating drug trafficking, the U.S. has deployed more than 4,500 military personnel in waters near Latin America and the Caribbean, even though 90 percent of the drugs that leave South America for the U.S. travel via the Pacific Ocean.

Cuba raised its voice in protest against the significant presence of U.S. naval and air forces in the southern Caribbean, describing these activities as a deployment under false pretexts and from and from the corrupt agenda of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla reiterated on social media that Latin America and the Caribbean must be respected as a Zone of Peace and rejected any action that compromises the sovereignty of the countries in the region.

Cuban diplomacy stressed that this military presence represents a threat to the security and peace of Latin America and the Caribbean, a denunciation that adds to a previous Cuban criticism, issued on March 19, 2025, against the deployment of the destroyer USS Gravely in the Gulf of Mexico, also under the alleged pretext of combating illegal drug trafficking.

On that occasion, Foreign Minister Rodríguez Parrilla warned that this military presence endangered the stability of the subcontinent.

According to reports from the U.S. Navy, the U.S. deployment includes more than 4,000 additional Marines and sailors in the waters surrounding Latin America and the Caribbean, supposedly to combat drug cartels, although it is known that 90 percent of drugs leave for the U.S. via the Pacific Ocean.

Part of this operation is the deployment of the Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) Iwo Jima and the 22nd marine infantry. In addition, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, P8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft, several destroyers, and a guided-missile cruiser have been assigned to the mission.

Since Donald Trump’s administration, there has been a tendency to intensify militarization in the region rather than address the causes of growing drug consumption within the U.S., the world’s largest market.

However, the justification for the fight against drug trafficking is “part of a broader political agenda that undermines peace and sovereignty in the region,” as the Cuban foreign minister pointed out.

Source: Cuba en Resumen / Resumen Latinoamericano – English

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New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants to raise transit fares on buses and subways to $3. That’s 60 times what it cost in 1948, when the fare was a nickel. Meanwhile, the MTA provides $2.8 billion in tax-free interest on its bonds every year to banksters. Struggle-La Lucha urges its readers to support the Fare Ain’t Fair Coalition in fighting this robbery of poor and working people.

Aug. 1 Fare Ain’t Fair Coalition Press Statement

On July 30, the MTA Board concluded its July meeting (which is open to the public but meets at 9:00 am when most working people are already on the clock) with the threat of a fare increase that would go into effect on Jan. 4, 2026. A decision such as this could only come from an entity that is completely out of touch with the day-to-day experiences of the working and poor people of our city, as we struggle to survive an unprecedented affordability crisis that shows no sign of letting up.

The “Fare Ain’t Fair Coalition” – a group of working and poor New Yorkers fighting for affordable transit – demands the MTA Board cancel the 2026 fare hike and all future increases. The strength of our fight comes from our collective recognition that fares keep going up, rent keeps going up, and our paychecks do not! Our position is that any fare increase imposed upon us by the MTA Board would exacerbate the fundamental issue with our transit system: one in five New Yorkers is struggling to afford the fare. The affordability crisis will worsen if we continue to allow NYC agencies to extract from our shrinking pockets. 

An incorrect analysis of our current situation is what leads the MTA Board to invest over $1 billion/year on “fare evasion prevention” rather than investing those same dollars in the NYC Fair Fares program, which would directly alleviate some of the financial burden resulting in fare evasion. The root cause of fare evasion is not criminality; it is an inability to keep up with the rising cost of living that is outpacing the money we are bringing home.

To the MTA Board, our message is simple: The days of you making decisions that negatively impact the quality of life and safety of transit riders and workers without organized resistance are numbered. The “Fare Ain’t Fair Coalition” calls on all working and poor New Yorkers to join this campaign, as we continue to apply pressure, until our ability to access an affordable and quality public transit system is recognized as a human right. The fare ain’t fair and the poor won’t pay more!

To join the Fare Ain’t Fair Coalition and / or learn more about our work, contact us at fareaintfair@protonmail.com.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

URGENT: STOP STARVING GAZA

Noise protest & picket

Sunday, August 3, 6 pm to 7 pm

At: BWI5 & BWI2 Amazon Warehouses, Holabird & Broening Hwy

• Support Chris Smalls, Amazon labor leader who participated in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aboard the Handala which had set sail to deliver food to starving Palestinians.  Smalls was detained and arrested by the IOF, along with 21 other activists, but was singled out as the only Black member of the Flotilla and choked, kicked and assaulted while in Israeli custody.

• Demand that Amazon shut down “Project Nimbus” and all other contracts, and investments with the apartheid government of Israel. The Israeli military uses Amazon’s “Project Nimbus” to automate the software they use  to operate their weapons systems that surveil, target and kill Palestinians.

• Instead of investing in genocide pay workers a $30 minimum wage, full-time benefits for all workers and make safety a priority.

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Bill Dores speaking on behalf of PAL-Awda NY at the Stop Starving Gaza Now! rally outside the United Nations HQ in New York City. The protest was part of the International Day of Action for Gaza on July 25.

Transcript:

… And in September 1945, the United Nations was formed, supposedly, to prevent that from ever happening again. It was a lie because at that time, most of the world was colonized, most of Africa was colonized, and Harry Truman was able to make the UN ratify the genocide, the Nakba Holocaust in Palestine in 1948, and they used the cover of the UN for a holocaust in Korea in 1950.

But today, the overwhelming number of countries of the world are members of the United Nations, and overwhelmingly, the people of the world stand with the people of Palestine.

Because most people don’t like people who starve children to death. Today, Dachau Auschwitz is back, and it has a new name. It’s called Gaza. And Adolf Hitler, and Eichmann, and Bormann, and Himmler are back. Their names are Netanyahu, and Trump, and Gallant, and also Macron, and then Merz in Germany.

Because there is an international conspiracy by the most powerful forces in the world, the richest countries in the world, to exterminate the people of Palestine, to starve them to death, to eradicate an entire nation.

Like the people of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, the people of Palestine, the people of Gaza, are fighting back. But they need the whole world to stand by their side. The UN is rigged because the United States, by being on the Security Council, can veto any effective international action.

President Gaddafi tried to change that, and they murdered him. But there is an instrument passed by the General Assembly, called Uniting for Peace, that gives the General Assembly the right to go around, to overrule the Security Council, and call for international action.

And we’ve had enough talk, we need action. We don’t need Qadri City recognizing the Palestinian state after the people of Gaza are dead. We need food and medicine to get into Gaza right now. We need an international military force. Only 12 countries have stood up.

They signed a declaration in Bogota calling for a complete arms embargo on the Zionist state. Countries like Cuba, Venezuela, South Africa, Colombia. And when I say the Nazis were trying to hide their atrocities, they were. This atrocity, this massacre, is being carried out in plain sight because, as the President of Colombia, President Petro, said, they want to send a message of fear to the entire world that we can kill anybody.

And murder and massacre anybody, so humanity has to stand up. We need an international force to go to Egypt to open the Rafah gate. We need the entire world, including the Arab regimes, who continue to pour money into the U.S. military-industrial complex.

We need them to BDS. And we need to be in the streets and whatever else we have to do again and again and again until this genocide stops. Because we need action right now. Next week, next week there’s a conference happening here sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia.

Two state solutions, you know, recognition down the wall.

We don’t need that. We need those countries. Do they have armies? Do they have navies? Do they have an air force? Do they have a merchant marine? We need those countries who say they are against the Holocaust to take action right now. And we’ve got to tell our government here, because the United States government wants the genocide, otherwise they wouldn’t be paying for it.

We’ve got to tell them, not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel’s crimes. Not another nickel, not another dime.