Challenge to U.S. blockade of Cuba

WW photo: Anne Pruden

Right, Daniel, a volunteer, painting one of the buses to go on the Pastors for Peace caravan to Cuba. With donated boxes of medical and educational equipment and tools to be loaded in donated trucks and buses, Daniel joined others preparing for the send-off of these gifts on July 1 in Brooklyn, N.Y.

On the 18th Pastors for Peace caravan to defy the imperialist U.S. blockade against Cuba, volunteers plan to meet others from all over the world in socialist Cuba. Groups such as FIST—Fight Imperialism, Stand Together, the Venceremos Brigade, U.S.-Cuba Labor Exchange, Pastors for Peace and others will protest the reactionary U.S. blockade, laws banning travel to Cuba and all attacks on the Cuban people.

Photo: Ramon B.

Right, the U.S./Cuba Friendshipment Caravan successfully crossed the U.S.-Canadian border on June 30, bolstered by about 100 demonstrators rallying and marching alongside them all the way to U.S. customs.

However, a June 30 press release from Pastors notes that aid destined for maternity clinics and nursing homes in Cuba was detained. “Pastors for Peace spent six hours in a standoff with Homeland Security attempting to negotiate passage of the medical aid before the shipment was detained for thirty days to investigate its security threat to the U.S.”

For more information, visit www.pastorsforpeace.org or call 347-423-4330 or 212 926-5757.

—Anne Pruden