REBEL MUSIC NIGHT!!!

Is Cuban youth what you call you wallet,

Which youths is the money going to and how?

I believe the money will be going to a sound system for young people of Caimenaira (sp?), the town nearest to the border with the US base at Guantanamo Bay, which because of its location (in a militarised zone) has received far less investment than other parts of Cuba since the revolution. The money is necessary because of the difficulty and expense imposed by the US blockade of getting sound systems in Cuba

Members of RATB are going to Cuba in July to take over a sound system and to see what live is like in Cuba. They have been doing so for a decade now to different parts of the island and helping in work and visiting different workplaces and organisations - from schools, to AIDS units, from women's groups to government officials. As their website says:

"In 1995 the UJC, which organises one in seven young Cubans, asked us to donate sound sound systems and disco equipment to provide entertainment for Cuban youth. At that time the British government had introduced the Criminal Justice Act which penalised young people and criminalised rave music. The contradiction was clear. Our capitalist government was threatened by youth culture and street parties. In Cuba they believed that young people needed 'soul food' to improve their quality of life.

So far RATB has taken four sound systems to Cuba. During the trip, people on the 'brigade' lived and worked among Cuban people, learning about how Cuban society is organised in the interests of people and not profit."