IFCO/Pastors for Peace 2006 Caravan to Cuba

[struggle4progress]

Wonder why George W. doesn't want you to know the truth about Cuba?
Find out this summer!

... The US government says you can't go to Cuba and see things for yourself. We say you should. For fourteen years, IFCO/Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravans to Cuba have called international attention to the cruel and immoral US Blockade of Cuba by delivering humanitarian aid to the Cuban people without a Treasury Department license. The blockade causes shortages of food, medicine and other important supplies for eleven million people. The blockade is an immoral policy that uses hunger and disease as political weapons.

In November 2005 the countries in the United Nations General Assembly once again voted overwhelmingly (182-4) to call for the end of the blockade. A month later Condoleza Rice stated that the US government's "Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba" is considering more blockade-tightening measures to be announced in May 2006. US policy towards Cuba is totally isolated internationally, increasingly discredited domestically and subject to many challenges from within Congress. We intend to respond to whatever new measures Bush devises with a Friendshipment Caravan that gathers the maximum possible support and publicity, and for that we need your help.

In June/July 2006 the 17th Friendshipment will travel on 13 different routes to visit more than 120 US and Canadian cities. We will travel in school buses, trucks, and cars to Cuba via Mexico with medical and educational supplies collected from groups across the US and Canada, refusing US Treasury Department licenses, as a collective challenge to the blockade and travel ban. You can join the caravan as a caravan vehicle passes through your community from June 17th onwards. Many past caravanistas say that the time traveling through the US, meeting and staying with local community activists across the country, was as important a part of the experience as the time in Cuba. But if your time is limited you also have the option of making your own way down to join us in McAllen, Texas on July 2nd ...

http://www.ifconews.org/Cuba/caravan17/main.htm

[IndyOp]

1. Discover the truth - meet the people our leaders fear....

Since the Cold War, when US economic embargo against Cuba drove Cuba into the arms of the USSR - US leaders have feared our finding out that the Cubans...

Just want to live in a tiny island south of us with whatever form of government they democratically decide on.

The HORROR!

Pastors for Peace - Good Group.

[Mika]

2. Why was this put in the Religion/Theology forum?

It should have been in the GD Politics or the Activist forum.

This isn't a religious issue, its a political issue.

:shrug:

[struggle4progress]

5. Justice isn't a religious issue?

[Mika]

6. Yes it is. You're right.

Thanks for the splash of water to wake me up. :thumbsup:

:hi:

[beam me up scottie]

3. Good on them.

I wish I could join them.

I :loveya: rebels.

[SPKrazy]

4. And Some Say Liberal Christians Aren't "Doing Anything"

this is but one of many activities that liberal churches and pastors have undertaken over the years.

remember we probably wouldn't have civil rights without the black churches activism, and the liberal churches that are predominantly white leading the way. (not to say that there weren't non-religious voices that were loud, I'm just making a point that a poster in another thread tried to make saying that "it was about time" that liberal churches "did something")

[roody]

7. Don't miss the bus!!

I'll be on it.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Have you gone before?

If so, what's it like?

[roody]

9. I went on the 15th caravan.

It was extremely empowering. All my life I thought that I would never get to go to Cuba. The trip with P4P was intense, working together with 100 other people. The travel was a bit hot and rough on old school busses. I participated in every activity on the schedule. We heard presentations from many people. It served to whet my appetite for more Cuba travel. To really experience Cuba, one would need more time and a more relaxed pace.

The travel ban is illegal, immoral, and violates our constitutional rights. Civil disobedience is the obvious reply.