{"article":{"id":146587,"heading":"Support the Caravan to Cuba End the Blockade","author":"IFCO","created":"2006-02-08 05:36:10","modified":"2006-02-08 05:36:10","last_modified":"Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:36:10","article":"

IFCO\/Pastors for Peace intends to respond to whatever new measures

Bush devises with our 17th US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan. In late

June we will be visiting more than 120 US and Canadian cities to talk

in meetings and to the media about the impact of the US blockade on

the health and welfare of the Cuban people. We will be collecting

medical and educational aid to take to Cuba in defiance of an immoral

policy that says we can't assist our Cuban brothers and sisters.

And in early July we will travel to Cuba, without a US government

license, as ambassadors for a people-to-people foreign policy.

In Cuba we will learn about its economic problems and shortages, but

also about its many social achievements and the ways it is providing

medical training and skilled assistance to people from many other

Latin American, Caribbean and African countries - the very things

that George W does not want the US people to see or hear about. In

Cuba with us will be another travel challenge undertaken by the

Venceremos Brigade. On July 17th, by different routes, we will both

return proudly and openly to US soil.

That's the intentions - but it needs our supporters, our network, to

make it happen. It needs people like you

To come on the caravan as a caravanista either within the US and\/or

to Cuba we want people to come to Cuba with us, but if thats not

possible we also want supporters to be there with us at the border

crossing.

To spread the word to your friends, neighbors, colleagues or

congregation we can provide flyers to circulate.

To host a caravan event in your community and to get the media

involved if you are interested in this we can put you in contact with

other interested people in your community

Contact

p4p@igc.org<\/a> for application forms and\/or information on being a

caravanista

cucaravan@igc.org<\/a> if you want to get involved in hosting or

contributing material aid

The full program is June 17-July 1: Caravan routes with educational

presentations and aid collections throughout the US and Canada

July 2-7: Participant orientation in Texas. Border crossing into

Mexico. Travel to Tampico and load material aid onto cargo ship

July 8-15: Fly to Havana for Caravan educational program in Cuba.

July 16: Return to Tampico, Mexico and travel to Mexico\/US border

July 17: Reverse challenge; cross the Mexican border into the US,

delivering aid from the Cuban people to the people of the US

$$$$$$$$$$ Of course cash is always needed to finance this ambitious

project

To make a financial donation - checks or money orders should be made

out to IFCO and mailed to our New York office, or you can phone the

office (212-926-5757) to make a credit card donation.

Our website at www.pastorsforpeace.org

< http:\/\/www.pastorsforpeace.org\/<\/a>> has information and flyers that you

can download.



IFCO has 501(c)3 status so donations are tax-deductible and a receipt

can be mailed to you for use in preparing your income tax.

Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization

418 W. 145th St., New York, NY 10031

Ph: 212-926-5757 Fax: 212-926-5842

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.pastorsforpeace.org\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The US blockade of Cuba causes shortages of food, medicine and other\r\nimportant supplies for eleven million people. The blockade is an\r\nimmoral policy that uses hunger and disease as political weapons. In\r\nNovember 2005 the countries in the United Nations General Assembly\r\nonce again voted overwhelmingly (182-4) to call for the end of the\r\nblockade. A month later Condoleza Rice responded by stating that the\r\nBush administration intends to intensify the blockade still further\r\nand is working on a package of new measure to be announced in May\r\n2006. US policy towards Cuba is totally isolated internationally,\r\nincreasingly discredited domestically and subject to many challenges\r\nfrom within Congress.\r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/02\/146587.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}