Art Heitzer

[Art Heitzer @artheitzer]

#FactCheck 🧵re: #CashBail, @TheOtherMandela #Barnes & @RonJohnsonWI
* In our country everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty at trial. This is true even though they may have been arrested & charged w/a crime.

*#Wisconsin & the fed. gov't both have ... 1/9
#WisPol

[Journal Sentinel @journalsentinel]

UW-Madison faculty walk out in support of protesters https://t.co/idNZEud0FV

[Cuban Embassy in US @EmbaCubaUS]

.@CarlosFdeCossio comment about the immigration talks held today between #Cuba and the United States in Washington D.C.

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

U.S. music promoters struggle to book Cuban musicians because the visa process is drawn-out and “unpredictable." Cultural exchanges flourished under Obama, but were stamped out by travel restrictions imposed by Trump and kept on by Biden. @NewsHour
https://t.co/qkSYyES3J4

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Ex-CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong to @dw_espanol : The U.S. “has spent $600 million” to overthrow the Cuban govt. via programs disguised as “democracy promotion.” Armstrong said Cuba's July 11, 2021 protests, while rooted in authentic demands, were “well-planned” with U.S. support.

[Art Heitzer @artheitzer]

Pompeo told European diplomats that the goal was to “starve” the island, and Biden has kept almost every Trump measure in place, and added a few as well.

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

The @WFP has sent 144 metric tons of powdered milk to Cuba, in response to Cuba's first-ever request for “urgent assistance" to WFP. Cuba's economic crisis has been fueled by crushing U.S. sanctions imposed by Trump and maintained by Biden. https://t.co/HjrfOv5uW7

[Art Heitzer @artheitzer]

This reaction, pull & point your gun at this self-immolation protestor, has been cited as a sad commentary on where the US is at today.

[Art Heitzer @artheitzer]

I just wrote a @CODEPINK letter: Tell The House Foreign Affairs Committee: YOU FAILED!, in voting for cutting off US funding of UN refugee support for Palestinians (UNRWA). Write one here: https://t.co/9Ev60yvaBD

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Cuban pianist @dayramir has kept close ties to Cuba since moving to the U.S. in 2010 – and he has been criticized in the US for it. Yet, every year, he returns to his country for the Jazz Plaza Festival. “I have a responsibility to the amazing education I received in Cuba."

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Colombia’s government and ELN rebels announced a six-month ceasefire extension this Tuesday in Havana after their sixth round of peace talks. Cuba has helped mediate negotiations between the Colombian government and armed groups for years.
https://t.co/1xSHlWtZsQ

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

No. Sorry. They are not “collateral damage” they are human beings who happen to have been born there and live there and most of those human beings are stuck there. Have some compassion, they are Palestinians not buildings or roads or things, they are human beings and so are the hostages whose lives you may also be destroying. They aren’t “collateral damage” either.

“Netanyahu Calls Palestinians ‘Collateral Damage’ As Israel Destroys Gaza”
https://t.co/oUrUOofXZ9

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Grammy Award-winning musician Norah Jones announced she will travel to Cuba in February 2024 and offer two concerts at Havana's Teatro Marti as part of four-day educational & cultural exchange.

Jones is the biggest U.S. artist to perform in Cuba in years.
https://t.co/SzjE2m2yDK

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Mexico’s president @lopezobrador_ said he will personally urge President Biden at a summit next month in San Francisco to open dialogue with Cuba as a way to contain surging migration from the island to the U.S.-Mexico border. https://t.co/ccycOQULgG

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Before meeting with @SecBlinken in Mexico to talk about regional migration issues, Mexican President @lopezobrador_ said that sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela are responsible for the staggering number of migrants showing up on the U.S. southern border.

https://t.co/KlF8wwilCH

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

In Cuba, iPhones can’t be legally sold and the Apple App Store is off limits due to U.S. sanctions. But a “community-driven ecosystem” has developed as savvy tech entrepreneurs have created their own Genius Bars. @restofworld

https://t.co/8a3hlIZzER

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

NOW: Nearly a hundred activists in D.C. mobilize in front of the Cuban Embassy to denounce two Molotov cocktails being thrown at the building last night.

It’s not the first attack on @EmbaCubaUS.

Three years ago, a gunman opened fire on the embassy at 2 AM.

[NLG International @NLGIC]

The NLGIC denounces in the strongest terms the criminal attack on the Cuban embassy in Washington DC, clearly an attempt at intimidation as Cuban Pres. Diaz-Canal attends the UN General Assembly and spoke to a massive crowd in NYC against the blockade just days ago.

[Cancillería de Cuba @CubaMINREX]

President @DiazCanelB paid tribute to Malcolm X in New York, alongside neighbors of the surrounding area and from Harlem, a community with which #Cuba 🇨🇺 has longlasting sentimental bonds.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I always just block people who try to tell me Jews rule the world and are the source of our problems, because I know I'll never hear anything worthwhile from them. They've frozen their worldview in a state of analytical infancy that's incapable of understanding the real issues.

If you think the world's problems arise from Judaism and Jewishness it's because you don't understand the world's problems — and you never will as long as you cling to that immature perspective. Most of the world's worst empire managers are not Jewish, and the overwhelming majority of Jews have nothing to do with the world's problems. People blame "the Jews" because they are ideologically prohibited from examining the actual sources of our problems, like capitalism and imperialism.

[Erik Sperling @ErikSperling]

@GRamsey_LatAm If you're truly concerned about hunger in Venezuela, you could join Reps. Casar & AOC who are advocating for lifting Trump's indiscriminate sanctions that have contributed to the collapse of the economy, harming tens of millions of innocent Venezuelans.

https://t.co/EgZDkDWCJg