Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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So I have a flight to seattle tomorrow. My friend that was gonna drive us to South Dakota could not get the rental car for reasons that don't matter. I am going to be in Seattle tomorrow and I have no other plans than to go see the Lenin statue while I figure out what the fuck to do next. I have an extra travel budget of $1300 if we don't get the rental car sorted in which case problem solved.
If anyone has any experience with this sort of unplanned travel any advice is welcome.
One way or another I am making it to sundance.
Also if anyone wants to hang out in seattle I am at the point where I would. We can meet at the Lenin statue lol
I should open a stand at the Lenin statue and sell knock off Leninaid.
If I see someone at the Lenin statue at around 2pm holding a Leninaid I am gonna lose my fuckin mind
Amtrack has (or did last time I was in USA) time based tickets so you can get on any train any where for a certain number of days. You can just get on the last train in the evening and sleep on the train and wake up in some random city or town and then wander around and get another train the next evening.