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This week, Radio Cuba Canta presents a tribute commemorating the long-awaited arrival of the great Cuban musical institution, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro!

Host and Cuban music historian Emiliano Echeverria is joined by Luis Medina of KPFA’s Con Sabor to present a special interview with members of Septeto Nacional, discussing the group’s history since its formation in 1927, and its original founder, Ignacio Piñero.

Septeto Nacional was finally allowed to enter the United States and bring their classic Cuban son to enthusiastic audiences in New York, Miami and California. Their performances at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco quickly sold out. Other performances have been added, but are going fast!

The program will also feature a jam session in the KPFA Studios recorded by our own C-Tone with members of el Septeto joined by Bay Area Cuban son-fusion group Pellejo Seco, with special guest Tito Gonzalez.

‘Radio Cuba Canta’ broadcasts Saturday 9pm Pacific in the San Francisco Bay and Northern California (12 midnight Eastern). For more information about the upcoming program and others, visit: RadioCubaCanta.blogspot.com

Articles about Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro U.S. tour:

San Francisco Chronicle:
Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro at Yoshi’s

New York Times:
Cuban Musical Pioneers Celebrate an Island’s Soul

Opening Arms and Ears to Cuban Music

Miami Herald Blog:
Septeto Nacional play Hoy Como Ayer; music, family, no drama.

San Jose Mercury News:
Havana dance-music band Septeto Nacional makes first U.S. visit in 76 years

Tonight, Radio Cuba Canta presents a tribute commemorating the long-awaited arrival of the great Cuban musical institution, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro!

Host and Cuban music historian Emiliano Echeverria is joined by Luis Medina of KPFA’s Con Sabor to present a special interview with members of Septeto Nacional, discussing the group’s history since its formation in 1927, and its original founder,  Ignacio Piñero.

Septeto Nacional was finally allowed to enter the United States and bring their classic Cuban son to enthusiastic audiences in New York, Miami and California. Their performances at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco quickly sold out. Other performances have been added, but are going fast!

The program will also feature a jam session in the KPFA Studios recorded by our own C-Tone with members of el Septeto joined by Bay Area Cuban son-fusion group Pellejo Seco, with special guest Tito Gonzalez.

‘Radio Cuba Canta’ broadcasts Saturday 9pm Pacific in the San Francisco Bay and Northern California (12 midnight Eastern). For more information about the upcoming program and others, visit: www.RadioCubaCanta.net

Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay “C’Tone” Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores

Audio Archive

Listen: Radio Cuba Canta– Saturday, November 28, 2009

Mp3 Playback (iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media):
Radio Cuba Canta– Saturday, November 28, 2009

Original Broadcast: Saturday – November 28, 2009
KPFA 94.1 FM – in Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM – Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM – Fresno

KPFA FM live on the web at:
www.kpfa.org

Articles about Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro U.S. tour:

San Francisco Chronicle:
Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro at Yoshi’s

New York Times:
Cuban Musical Pioneers Celebrate an Island’s Soul

Opening Arms and Ears to Cuban Music

Miami Herald Blog:
Septeto Nacional play Hoy Como Ayer; music, family, no drama.

San Jose Mercury News:
Havana dance-music band Septeto Nacional makes first U.S. visit in 76 years

Listen to previous broadcasts & specials of Radio Cuba Canta with Cuban music historian Emiliano Echeverria from his collection of rare and vintage Cuban music recordings:

90th Birthday Tribute to Benny Moré:
Mp3 / iTunes Podcast:   Radio Cuba Canta – August 29, 2009

“Mujeres de la musica cubana” / Women of Cuban Music
Mp3 / iTunes Podcast: Radio Cuba Canta – March 28, 2009

Tribute to Ricardo Abreu
aka Papin of Los Munequitos de Matanzas
Mp3 Podcast: Radio Cuba Canta – May 30, 2009

Tributo a Joe Cuba and ‘Cachaito’ Lopez
Mp3 Podcast: Radio Cuba Canta – February 28, 2009

Produced and hosted by Emiliano Echeverria
Associate producer & broadcast operator: Clay “C’Ton” Leander
Community Calendar produced by Ron Flores

Live Broadcast:
Last Saturday each month – 9pm Pacific
    (12 Midnight Eastern)
KPFA 94.1 FM – San Francisco Bay & Northern California –
KPFB 89.3 FM – Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM – Fresno
Live on the web at: www.kpfa.org

More program info:
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=14315

Cuba Canta broadcasts monthly on KPFA-FM during Con Sabor, a weekly program featuring the best in Salsa, Latin Jazz and Afro-Caribbean music hosted by executive producer Luis Medina.

Tonight we bring you News Headlines from the Americas and highlighting the conflict in Honduras. We’ll talk with author John Ross about his latest book on Mexico City, “El Monstruo.” We celebrate the long-awaited arrival of Cuban musicians to the US with Septeto Nacional; will hear the music of the Mexican Revolution through the Streets of Aztlan; and salute the 40th Anniversary of the American Indian Movement’s take-over of Alcatraz Island, and the continuing struggle of all Indigenous people of the Americas to protect their human rights and the environment.

Produced by Carmen Andrea Rivera, Vanessa Bohm, Emiliano Echeverria, Julieta Kusnir, Clay “C-Tone” Leander, Ventura “Mr. Chuch” Longoria, and Nina Serrano.

Live on the air – Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM – San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM – Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM – Fresno

Live on the web at: www.kpfa.org

Hear the webcast:
(available immediately after broadcast)
Mp3 / iTunes podcast:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Hear previous broadcasts of La Raza Chronicles :
http://www.LaRazaChronicles.org

More info:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/37

Tonight we bring you News Headlines from the Americas and highlighting the conflict in Honduras. We’ll talk with author John Ross about his latest book on Mexico City, “El Monstruo.” We celebrate the long-awaited arrival of Cuban musicians to the US with Septeto Nacional; will hear the music of the Mexican Revolution through the Streets of Aztlan; and salute the 40th Anniversary of the American Indian Movement’s take-over of Alcatraz Island, and the continuing struggle of all Indigenous people of the Americas to protect their human rights and the environment.

Produced by Carmen Andrea Rivera, Vanessa Bohm, Emiliano Echeverria, Julieta Kusnir, Clay “C-Tone” Leander, Ventura “Mr. Chuch” Longoria, and Nina Serrano.

Live on the air – Tuesdays 7 pm PST:
KPFA 94.1 FM – San Francisco Bay/Northern California
KPFB 89.3 FM – Berkeley
KFCF 88.1 FM – Fresno

Live on the web at: www.kpfa.org

Hear the webcast:
(available immediately after broadcast)
Mp3 / iTunes podcast:
La Raza Chronicles – Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Hear previous broadcasts of La Raza Chronicles :
http://www.LaRazaChronicles.org

More info:
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/37

International Committee in Defense of the Cuban 5 Anti-terrorists in
US Jails Meets in Holguin, Cuba
by Daniel del Solar (danieldelsolar@gmail.com)

More than 180 delegates are in attendance at the International Colloquium in Defense of the Cuban 5 began a three day meeting in Holguin, province of Holguin, 500 miles to the East of Havana.

Representing active committees in 45 nations world-wide, the meetings will include work sessions at which will be discussed forthcoming plans to achieve justice for the Cuban 5. The 5 men face sentences ranging from 20 years to life. The meeting will conclude with a Plenary closing session this coming Sunday.

The case of the Cuban 5 is about 5 Cuban men, nationals from Cuba, who worked in Miami for several years attempting to identify active terrorist cells in MIami that had been carrying out terrorist actions.
Amongst numerous other destructive acts, the Miami-based terrorists, mostly so-called “Cuban Exiles” caused the death of a visiting Italian tourist in Havana and destruction of agricultural products, such as burning of suger cane fields.. Over the years of such terrorist activity, the local FBI office had been “unable” to discover the source of the terrorist activities nor the perpetrators of terrorist
acts.

The Cuban 5 were part of an anti-terrorist team sent by Cuba to the United States to correct the inability of the FBI to take effective action to stop the terrorism. The Cuban agents, attempting to stop the illegal acts, identified both the particants and the plans of the terrorist organizations and communicated this information to the Cuban Government, which in turn gave this information to the U.S. government
authorities.

Shortly thereafter, the Cuban agents were arrested and have since suffered extraordinary prison mistreatment. In the eleven years of their incarceration, they have frequently been placed in solitary confinement, a form of torture, and have also been denied access to conjugal visits by their wives. The U.S. Government has imposed this inhumane treatment through the denial of visas to the wives.

The men have been accused and convicted of murder, although they none of them had committed a murder. The prosecution alleged that the information given to the Cuban Government had led to the shoot down of a small aircraft over Cuban national territory based on the information given to them by the Cuban men. In fact, the Cuban
government had warned the US authorities that the continual violation of Cuban airspace by aircraft from the so¡-called ¨Brothers to the Rescue¨ would lead to a shoot down months before any specific information was transmitted by the Cuban agents in Miami.

Brothers to the REscue had overflown Cuba deliberately more than 40 times and it was clear to US government authorities that the aircraft involved in illegal activities departed from airfields in Florida and tracked them via radar as they approached and then violated Cuban airspace.

The prosecution argued successfully, but in error, that the shoot-down was attributable to the Cuban 5 and therefore they warranted charges of murder, as a pilot and passenger where killed as a result of their violating Cuban Airspace. The US military had been advised by Cuban military in the course of an informal meeting, months before the fatal “Brother´s” aircraft shoot-down, that further flyings would be met with force, and pleaded with the US military to prevent such illegal
flights.

The Cuban 5 where also accused of spying, but this was not a formal charge as several former US military witnesses asserted that the Cuban 5 had not taken any actions that could be considered ¨”spying.”

For more information on this complex case, one can consult the web (http://www.thecuban5.org

The Coloquium will have working sessions on Saturday and will conclude with visits and information exchanges in Cuban communities throughout the region on Sunday.

For La Raza Chronicles, this is Daniel del Solar reporting from Holguin, Holguin Province, Cuba.

Dr. Luther Castillo

Audio archive
PLAY NOW – Mp3 (iTunes, WinAmp):
Dr. Luther Castillo speaks on the Crisis in Honduras
San Francisco – November 2009

Bio:
Dr. Luther Castillo is a spokesperson for the National Front Against the Coup, a coalition of various civil society organizations and individuals who oppose the June 28th, 2009 coup in Honduras, and advocate for a popular constitutional assembly as the resolution to the crisis. Dr. Castillo graduated in 2005 from the Latin American Medical School in Havana, Cuba. He then returned to his homeland of Miskitia on the Honduran coast, where he led construction of Honduras’ first Garifuna Rural Hospital. The project now serves over 20,000 people in the surrounding communities. In 2007, Dr. Castillo was named “Honduran Doctor of the Year” by Rotary International’s Tegucigalpa chapter. He is featured prominently in the award winning documentary Salud. Dr. Luther Castillo spoke at San Francisco’s Centro del Pueblo in mid-November.

This week, Radio Cuba Canta presents a tribute commemorating the long-awaited arrival of the great Cuban musical institution, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro!

Host and Cuban music historian Emiliano Echeverria is joined by Luis Medina of KPFA’s Con Sabor to present a special interview with members of Septeto Nacional, discussing the group’s history since its formation in 1927, and its original founder, Ignacio Piñero.

Septeto Nacional was finally allowed to enter the United States and bring their classic Cuban son to enthusiastic audiences in New York, Miami and California. Their performances at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco quickly sold out. Other performances have been added, but are going fast!

The program will also feature a jam session in the KPFA Studios recorded by our own C-Tone with members of el Septeto joined by Bay Area Cuban son-fusion group Pellejo Seco, with special guest Tito Gonzalez.

‘Radio Cuba Canta’ broadcasts Saturday 9pm Pacific in the San Francisco Bay and Northern California (12 midnight Eastern). For more information about the upcoming program and others, visit: RadioCubaCanta.blogspot.com

Articles about Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro U.S. tour:

San Francisco Chronicle:
Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro at Yoshi’s

New York Times:
Cuban Musical Pioneers Celebrate an Island’s Soul

Opening Arms and Ears to Cuban Music

Miami Herald Blog:
Septeto Nacional play Hoy Como Ayer; music, family, no drama.

San Jose Mercury News:
Havana dance-music band Septeto Nacional makes first U.S. visit in 76 years

International Committee in Defense of the Cuban 5 Anti-terrorists in
US Jails Meets in Holguin, Cuba
by Daniel del Solar (danieldelsolar@gmail.com)

More than 180 delegates are in attendance at the International Colloquium in Defense of the Cuban 5 began a three day meeting in Holguin, province of Holguin, 500 miles to the East of Havana.

Representing active committees in 45 nations world-wide, the meetings will include work sessions at which will be discussed forthcoming plans to achieve justice for the Cuban 5. The 5 men face sentences ranging from 20 years to life. The meeting will conclude with a Plenary closing session this coming Sunday.

The case of the Cuban 5 is about 5 Cuban men, nationals from Cuba, who worked in Miami for several years attempting to identify active terrorist cells in MIami that had been carrying out terrorist actions.
Amongst numerous other destructive acts, the Miami-based terrorists, mostly so-called “Cuban Exiles” caused the death of a visiting Italian tourist in Havana and destruction of agricultural products, such as burning of suger cane fields.. Over the years of such terrorist activity, the local FBI office had been “unable” to discover the source of the terrorist activities nor the perpetrators of terrorist
acts.

The Cuban 5 were part of an anti-terrorist team sent by Cuba to the United States to correct the inability of the FBI to take effective action to stop the terrorism. The Cuban agents, attempting to stop the illegal acts, identified both the particants and the plans of the terrorist organizations and communicated this information to the Cuban Government, which in turn gave this information to the U.S. government
authorities.

Shortly thereafter, the Cuban agents were arrested and have since suffered extraordinary prison mistreatment. In the eleven years of their incarceration, they have frequently been placed in solitary confinement, a form of torture, and have also been denied access to conjugal visits by their wives. The U.S. Government has imposed this inhumane treatment through the denial of visas to the wives.

The men have been accused and convicted of murder, although they none of them had committed a murder. The prosecution alleged that the information given to the Cuban Government had led to the shoot down of a small aircraft over Cuban national territory based on the information given to them by the Cuban men. In fact, the Cuban
government had warned the US authorities that the continual violation of Cuban airspace by aircraft from the so¡-called ¨Brothers to the Rescue¨ would lead to a shoot down months before any specific information was transmitted by the Cuban agents in Miami.

Brothers to the REscue had overflown Cuba deliberately more than 40 times and it was clear to US government authorities that the aircraft involved in illegal activities departed from airfields in Florida and tracked them via radar as they approached and then violated Cuban airspace.

The prosecution argued successfully, but in error, that the shoot-down was attributable to the Cuban 5 and therefore they warranted charges of murder, as a pilot and passenger where killed as a result of their violating Cuban Airspace. The US military had been advised by Cuban military in the course of an informal meeting, months before the fatal “Brother´s” aircraft shoot-down, that further flyings would be met with force, and pleaded with the US military to prevent such illegal
flights.

The Cuban 5 where also accused of spying, but this was not a formal charge as several former US military witnesses asserted that the Cuban 5 had not taken any actions that could be considered ¨”spying.”

For more information on this complex case, one can consult the web (http://www.thecuban5.org

The Coloquium will have working sessions on Saturday and will conclude with visits and information exchanges in Cuban communities throughout the region on Sunday.

For La Raza Chronicles, this is Daniel del Solar reporting from Holguin, Holguin Province, Cuba.

Nina: based on our communications last week, I’d arranged to present
that piece on the state of US-Cuba relations, travel and Cultural
exchange, including an interview with the Latin American Working
Group. I’d already prepared and put them off twice for other
priorities. Could we update the promo description to include this
week?
– clay/ctone

On 11/23/09, ninaserrano34 <ninaserrano34@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Promo: La Raza Chronicles November 24, 2009
>
> Tonight we bring you news headlines from the Americas and highlighting the
> conflict in Honduras. We’ll talk with author, John Ross about his latest
> book on Mexico City, “El Monstruo.” We’ll hear the music of the Mexican
> revolution through the Streets of Aztlan and salute the 40th anniversary of
> the American Indian Movement’s take-over of Alcatraz Island and the
> continuing struggle of all Indigenous people of the Americas to protect
> their human rights and the environment.
>
> Produced by Vanessa Bohm, Carmen Andrea Rivera, Ventura Longoria, Julieta
> Kusnir, Ctone, Emiliano Echeverria and Nina Serrano.