Series: Say Brother
Program: Invitation From Cuba
Episode: 914
Date: 1979-04-20
Subject: Cuba - Social conditions - 1959-; Cuba - Foreign relations - 1959-

Clip Description
Ricardo Austrich on cutting all ties between Cuba and the United States Program focuses on the divided opinions of Boston's Cuban population regarding the recent meeting between Fidel Castro/the Cuban government and representatives of the Cuban population "in exile" to negotiate the release of 3600 political prisoners from Cuban jails, the reunification of Cuban families, and Cuba's invitation for exiles to visit Cuba. Host Sixto Escobar moderates a debate between members of the community on whether or not Cubans in the United States should negotiate with Castro. Journalists Ann Kerscheimer (of the Boston Globe's "Living" section and formerly of the Globe's "Latino Community Beat") and Ted Temple (publisher of the monthly newsletter The Citizen's Forum) field questions to the "anti-negotiation" team of Ricardo Austrich (a wholesaler of baked goods to the Latino community, a teacher with a Boston bilingual training program, and President of Facts About Cuba), Maria Quintana (assistant comptroller for a local commercial bank), and Olga J. Dummott (relocation specialist with Boston's Redevelopment Authority) and the "pro-negotiation team" of Dr. Emilio Carrillo (resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, member of the Committee of 75 and member of the Executive Committee of the Cuban American Committee for Normalization of Relations with Cuba), Professor Lourdes Casal (Professor of Social Psychology at Rutgers University, Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Relations, and a Committee 75 member), and Mauricio Gaston (Masters Degree student in urban planning at MIT, member of Committee 75 and member of the Antonio Maceo Brigade). Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.

Program Description
Ricardo Austrich on cutting all ties between Cuba and the United States Program focuses on the divided opinions of Boston's Cuban population regarding the recent meeting between Fidel Castro/the Cuban government and representatives of the Cuban population "in exile" to negotiate the release of 3600 political prisoners from Cuban jails, the reunification of Cuban families, and Cuba's invitation for exiles to visit Cuba. Host Sixto Escobar moderates a debate between members of the community on whether or not Cubans in the United States should negotiate with Castro. Journalists Ann Kerscheimer (of the Boston Globe's "Living" section and formerly of the Globe's "Latino Community Beat") and Ted Temple (publisher of the monthly newsletter The Citizen's Forum) field questions to the "anti-negotiation" team of Ricardo Austrich (a wholesaler of baked goods to the Latino community, a teacher with a Boston bilingual training program, and President of Facts About Cuba), Maria Quintana (assistant comptroller for a local commercial bank), and Olga J. Dummott (relocation specialist with Boston's Redevelopment Authority) and the "pro-negotiation team" of Dr. Emilio Carrillo (resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, member of the Committee of 75 and member of the Executive Committee of the Cuban American Committee for Normalization of Relations with Cuba), Professor Lourdes Casal (Professor of Social Psychology at Rutgers University, Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Relations, and a Committee 75 member), and Mauricio Gaston (Masters Degree student in urban planning at MIT, member of Committee 75 and member of the Antonio Maceo Brigade). Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.

Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/saybrother/programs/sb_0914