March 18, 1996
Marching in picket lines, holding press conferences, appearing on radio and TV shows in dozens of cities throughout the United States and in other countries opponents of U.S. government attacks on Cuba made their voices heard as Washington stepped up its campaign of lies and aggression.
The downing of two aircraft flown by members of the right-wing group Brothers to the Rescue after repeated violations of Cuban airspace has been used by Washington to impose harsher sanctions against the Cuban people.
A Militant Labor Forum titled “U.S. Hands Off Cuba! End the Embargo” was held in Miami drawing more than 40 people. Miami police tried to convince organizers to cancel the event, claiming they would not provide security after threats by right-wing Cubans to disrupt it. Forum organizers refused to back down.
Author of the article: Jonny Wakefield
Publishing date: Dec 25, 2020 • December 28, 2020 • 3 minute read • Health Historian Suzanna Wagner stands outside the University of Alberta s Pembina Hall, where a hospital ward was housed during the 1918 Spanish Flu. Despite the pandemic s death toll, the Spanish Flu has been largely forgotten. Photo by Ed Kaiser /Postmedia
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Inside the University of Alberta’s Old Arts Building is a small plaque honouring a victim of the Spanish Flu.
William Muir Edwards a civil engineering professor, athlete, and son of famed feminist Henrietta Muir Edwards died Nov. 14, 1918, after contracting the flu while caring for victims at a makeshift hospital in Pembina Hall. He had just turned 39.