James Counts Early is joined by activist and doctor, Mary Louise Patterson, to discuss Mary Louise’s upbringing under two leading organizers with the Communist Party USA, the importance of community and family in the lifelong struggle for liberation, and her Cuba solidarity work with IFCO/Pastors for Peace.

Mary Louise Patterson is an activist and doctor trained in the former Soviet Union at the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow. She works with Physicians for a National Health Program and is a member of the IFCO/Pastors for Peace medical committee for the Latin American Medical School (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba. Mary Louise is also the daughter of militant Communist Party USA members William L. Patterson and Louise Thompson Patterson.

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