Our JULY 4th INTER-DEPENDENCE DAY celebration is on...

We will be in the large pavilion at Stewart Park. Set up is 4:30. Event starts at 5 pm.

We have plenty of meat and vegan grill items for our July 4th event, including vegan shish kabob with pepper, eggplant, wild oyster mushroom, onion, garlic in a cilantro chipotle marinade and various veggie burgers in addition to hamburger, hotdogs, and sausage. As well, we should have a pan of Roy's congrís (Cuban beans and rice).

If you can bring a dish to pass, we need salads and desserts.

In addition to Ellen Bernstein, there will be two caravanistas from Toronto, and one from Buffalo. There is a lot of experience that can be shared about life in Cuba and the effect of the U.S. blockade. As well, we will be taking about what Cuba has to teach us, as Ellen alluded to in her radio interview this morning.

We will also be discussing a proposed three-way sister city relationship involving Greater Ithaca; Cienfuegos, Cuba; and Kingston, Ontario.

We will conclude with video previews from three different films about Cuban doctors and their work around the work, and doctors from around the world who receive training at the Latin American School of Medicine.

This was an obvious choice given the recent release of Michael Moore's film Sicko, which opens tonight at Cinemopolis.