denied visit to Cuba

Pete Farruggio (pfarr who-is-at uclink.berkeley.edu)
Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:15:37 -0800

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>To:VYGOTSKY who-is-at uoknor.edu
>From:pfarr who-is-at uclink.berkeley.edu (Pete Farruggio)
>Subject:denied visit to Cuba
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>I just got word that I was denied a license to visit Cuba to attend the
>conference on Activity Theory because a grad student must be actively
>writing a dissertation on Activity Theory in order to get permission.
>
>This seems like the Clinton Administration reacting to the pressure from
>the right to strangle Cuba intellectually as well as economically. Of the
>35 applicants who used my travel agent to apply for the licenses, nine
>were denied.
>
>Are any of those other eight people on this list? Does anybody have any
>ideas how to organize some kind of internet protest of this?
>
>Pete Farruggio