<html><head><base href="x-msg://4/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>"REVOLUTIONARY DOCTORS: <b>How Venezuela and Cuba are changing the World’s Conception of Health Care"</b></div>
<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b>Venues in Brunswick and Orono</b></span></div></blockquote><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">steve burke <<a href="mailto:sburke@midcoast.com">sburke@midcoast.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div>Dear Friends,<br><br>Steve Brouwer will be coming to the University of Maine and to the Peace and Justice Center of Easten Maine in Bangor to do two special programs on Thursday, April 12th, at 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Please see the enclosed attachment that provides</div><div>all of the relevant information. I've also enclosed a second attachment, a brief newsletter article, that provides background info on Steve Brouwer and his remarkable accomplishments. Hope to see you on Thursday. Please spread the word to others<br>interested in these pressing issues relating to Cuba, Venezuela, and our healthcare system.<br><br>Doug<br><br>Douglas Allen<br>Professor of Philosophy<br>Department of Philosophy<br>The Maples<br>University of Maine<br>Orono, Maine 04469 USA<br><br>tel. 207-581-3860<br>fax 207-581-2928<br>e-mail:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:douglas.allen@umit.maine.edu">douglas.allen@umit.maine.edu</a> or <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:dallen@maine.edu">dallen@maine.edu</a></div><div>web site:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.umit.maine.edu/~douglas.allen/">www.umit.maine.edu/~douglas.allen/</a></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><div><b> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> PUBLIC MEETING –<i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Meet the author</i></b></div><div><br></div><div align="center"><b>"Revolutionary Doctors"</b></div><div><br></div><div>Subtitled: <b>"How Venezuela and Cuba are changing the World’s Conception of Health Care."</b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><i>WHERE - Morrill Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant Street, Brunswick.</i><br></div><div><i>WHEN: 7 P.M, Wednesday, April 11, 2012.</i></div><div><br></div><div>Brouwer’s book is the product of extensive, on-the-ground study of health care and medical education initiatives undertaken by Venezuela and Cuba.<b>“Revolutionary Doctors”</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>tells how it is that two countries of the Global South, each with revolutionary aspirations as to social justice, now offer effective, universal, and socially responsible health care. Their joint project, still unfolding, links preventative and curative care, medical education and health care delivery, and human resources of both countries – all on a vast scale. <br></div><div>For Steve Brouwer, tens of thousands of Cuban doctors engaged in clinical work throughout the world and tens of thousands of the world’s young people studying medicine under Cuban auspices exemplify Cuban dedication to international solidarity.<br></div><div>According to Steffie Woolhandler MD, co-founder of the US group Physicians for a National Health Program, “The Cuban medical educational model, so eloquently described in the this book, has not merely transformed health care in much of Central and South America. It has shown doctors and medical students who work in the unjust and dysfunctional U. S. health care system that another world is possible.”</div><div><br></div><div><i>For more information, please call Tom Whitney, (207) 743-2183.</i><br></div><div>Steve Brouwer’s presentation is sponsored by Let Cuba Live of Maine and the Maine Peace Council. <br><br>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:Public Meeting. Brouwer.doc (WDBN/«IC») (002C6F53)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></span></blockquote></div></body></html>