Friendshipment caravan gets underway
As Canadians carried a printing press, medical
supplies and bicycles through U.S. Customs on June 29, they
were breaking Washington's blockade of Cuba.
The activists, pictured above, are part of the 14th
U.S./Cuba Friend ship ment Caravan. Canadian and U.S.
participants rallied at Peace Arch Park on the Pacific
Northwest border between the two countries.
This challenge to the illegal U.S.-led economic
strangulation of Cuba is organized by Pastors for Peace, a
project of the Interreligious Foundation for Community
Organization (IFCO).
The caravanistas will drive a school bus and an ambulance,
carrying aid and solidarity for Cuba, down the west coast of
the United States
On June 17 they'll meet up with more than 100 participants
in Texas to cross the U.S. border into Mexico.
When the caravan reaches Cuba, the Friendshipment materials
will be distributed to 170 elder-care institutions across the
island.
--Leslie Feinberg
Reprinted from the July 10, 2003, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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