University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 25, 1989
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The U.S. should study Cuba and its success, speaker says
by Rias Mohamed Kansan staff writer
Socialism has triumphed in Cuba, and the Cuban revolution is a lesson that people of the United States are asking for. A political activist Workers Party said last night.
Omari Musa, former candidate of the Chicago mayoral race, spoke to 10 people in the Walnut Room at the Kansas Union. He said the power of the Cuban revolution had inspired millions of people around the world.
The fact that the revolution has survived for the past 30 years despite the hostility of the United States should be an inspiration for all revolutionary fighters around the world, he said.
"A main tenet of the Cuban revolution that is you cannot force people to make socialism," he said. "You have to be politically convinced or you are not going to do it. And that is the process that is so inspirational. The role of the Cuban Communist Party is not to dictate but to educate."
Elections are not the indication of
democracy as people in the United States think, and there is no freedom in the United States, he said.
Musa said that if the United States could have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, it was only logical for Russia to have diplomatic relations with Cuba.
He said that in the United States there were farm foreclosures, which could never happen in Cuba. Farmers voluntarily surrendered their lands for nationalization in 1959 and are working for the common good of all citizens. Even today, 20 percent of the lands are in private hands.
On the role of women, he said Marxism encouraged emancipation of women. Cuban revolutionaries were often treated in individual households; they must be a part of the general production and society, he said. Women have been integrated because they work in places such as hospitals and care facilities.
"This has begun in Cuba, and there is no turning back from that," he
said. "And a political campaign among men is going on to change their thinking on them."
Prostitution has been abolished, and it is not done behind closed doors either he said.
"They don't have to sell their bodies for the pleasure of men, which capitalism has brought about," he said.
Victoria Miller, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and a Kansas City, Mo., resident, said Musa was invited to speak because the party was looking for revolutionary fighters for membership.
"Also, we find that there are many students interested in our politics; the struggle between two classes and how that is played out in society."
Todd Brown, Wichita senior, said, "This was a great talk. I've been to a lot of Socialist Workers Party forums. But this is one of the best ones I've been to. He displays l of myth about Cuba. I've always wanted to know about Cuba from someone who has been there."
Pickets fight deforestation
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blamed on the loss of the forests
"Talk about the greenhouse effect," Sangster said. "It was 105 in Salina yesterday, which I'm pretty confident we are for the state of Kansas in April."
The National Weather Service in Topeka confirmed that the temperature was a record.
Hatsuo Fujishima, vice consul at the Japanese consulate, said he had met with one of the protesters and was prepared to demand to stop tropical deforestation.
He said he would send the press release that was compiled by the protesters to his government.
Fujishima said that the official Japanese government position on the issue was, "to devise methods to sustain the use and preservation of tropical forests through bilateral and multilateral agreement." In addition, he said, the Japanese government had invited the International Tropical Timber Organization to establish its headquarters in Japan.
Regent resigns his post with Washburn system
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — the chairman of the Washburn University Board of Regents resigned yesterday after Attorney General Robert Stephan issued an opinion saying he can't serve because he no longer lived in the district he was appointed to represent.
Marvin Schultze, who was on a business trip, dictated a letter of resignation by telephone to Kenneth P. Hackler, Washburn's attorney.
making his resignation effective immediately.
Stephan had said in a legal opinion that Schuleis could not remain on the board because he moved from one Topeka senatorial district to another after being appointed by former Mayor Doug Wright.
Hackler said he would inform new Topeka Mayor Buch Felkel that a vacancy existed on the board. It is up to Felkel to name a replacement.
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