Pastors for Peace caravan in Maryland
Children and youth from Reservior Hill's African American
community and East Baltimore's Latino community worked together
to paint the local Maryland van being sent to Cuba on the
Pastors for Peace caravan in support of Cuba's health care
workers.
On June 4, the Pastors for Peace caravan carrying medical
aid in honor of Cuba's doctors and nurses traveled through the
Baltimore and Maryland area, bringing their message of ending
the U.S. blockade of Cuba.
The group traveled as a car caravan from the hall of the
All-People's Congress, a grassroots community group based in
Baltimore, to Annapolis, Maryland's capital. There the Maryland
Coalition to End the Embargo on Cuba hosted a fund-raising
dinner and rally.
Leslie Salgado, co-chair of the night's activities and
organizer for the Howard County Friends of Central America,
opened the meeting with a statement in solidarity with Cuba.
She said, "Cuba has led the way and served as an example to so
many of us."
In Baltimore, the City Health Department has traveled to
Cuba to study why Cuba's teenage pregnancy rate is so much
lower than in Baltimore. Olivia Burlingame, co-chair and youth
coordinator for the All-People's Congress, appealed to the
youth in the audience to travel to Cuba and learn more about
why we must break the blockade.
--Sharon Black
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