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Sandy Berman on ALA and Cuba

Sandy Berman, who was honored in absentia at ALA’s January, 2004 midwinter meeting in San Diego, wrote this after the conference:

“If any SRRTer [member of the Social Responsibilities Roundtable] truly believes that opposing the Draconian 2003 crackdown on Cuban dissidents and demanding both their release from prison and return of all confiscated materials fully qualifies someone as a ‘fanatic foot solder on behalf of the White House and State dept,’ then that’s what I am.

“But so are the editors of American Libraries, MultiCultural Review, Counterpoise, and the Progressive; Eduardo Galeano, Ariel Dorfman, AI, HRW, Reporters with Borders, Vaclav Haval, Bogota major Luis Eduardo Gazon, Stanley Aronowitz, Noam Chomsky, Barbara Eichenreich, Barbara Garson, Susan Griffin, Naomi Klein, Michael Lerner, Grace Paley, Katena Pollit, the late Edward Said, Cora Weiss, Peter Weiss, Cornell West, Howard Zinn, Eric A. Herman, Peter Gay, Mark Crispin Miller, Samantha Power, Ellen Willis, Elizabeth-Young-Bruehl, National Book winner Carlos Eire, Michel Allsert and James Weinstein.

“I’m proud to be ‘among that number.’ And suspect that most SRRTers don’t regard these veteran activists and humanitarians as merely deluded fools and foils.”

You-me too, Sandy.

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This was written by K.G. Schneider. Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 1:12 am. Filed under Cuba. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.