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EVENTS & GROUPS

Upcoming Events
Below are some activities you’re invited to, along with contact information for a range of local organizations (many of them NNOC members, though not all). Use the list to the right to jump to your location in North America or just scroll down. (Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and South America contact information is in the 'International Solidarity' category of the links section.)

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updated Tuesday 20 February 2007

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba
July 3rd to 17th:
140 cities across the U.S.
July 24th to August 2nd:
Cuba

Many people seem to think that big changes in US-Cuba policy have already taken place! But the truth is that - except for Cuban American family travel – nothing has really changed.

The blockade is still in place. Hurricane reconstruction supplies and other essential goods are still prohibited to come from the US. The travel ban is still in place. Cuba is still on the US government’s terrorist list while the real anti-terrorists, the Cuban 5, remain in prison. Guantanamo Bay remains illegally occupied.

A few weeks ago there was a flurry of statements from Latin American presidents, US politicians on both sides of the House, business leaders, retired US generals, and to a degree President Obama, saying it is time for the US to change policy on Cuba. Signatures are being gathered in both houses of Congress for a bill that would enable ALL US citizens to freely travel to Cuba (House bill HR 874 / Senate bill S 428). It is clear that there has never been such potential for ending the 48 year old travel ban and blockade .

But in recent weeks it has gone quiet, and the White House and US State Department have been making discouraging noises about any further steps on their part. It is clear that nothing further will happen without a lot more pressure from the grassroots. Which is why we are organizing our 20th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba this July to both express our solidarity and build momentum and pressure for a radical policy change.

We will spend 9 days visiting Cuba as it is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the revolution while slowly rebuilding from the 3 devastating hurricanes that hit the island in the Fall of 2008. We will be donating more than a hundred tons of humanitarian aid to help with hurricane reconstruction, as well as up to 10 school buses and trucks and, as Fidel would say, millions of tons of love and solidarity.

This caravan will have 14 routes stopping in 140 cities throughout the US and Canada. At every stop we will be talking to local people and local media about the need to lobby their elected representatives for a new Cuba policy. And when we cross the border into Mexico, bound for Cuba, we will be making a direct challenge to US policy – taking ourselves and the aid to Cuba without a US government license. The more people - the bigger the statement we are making.

SO – we are calling on our supporters to make this the year that you come to Cuba with us.

JOIN US when a vehicle passes through your city sometime between July 3rd and 17th - or meet us down in Texas on July 18th as we start preparations for crossing the border. We will be in Cuba July 24th – Aug 2nd and we will proudly cross back into Texas the morning of August 3rd

To get an application form or further information

Email cucaravan(at)igc.org
Call 212-926-5757
Visit our website www.pastorsforpeace.org
IFCO/PASTORS FOR PEACE
418 West 145th Street, 3-FL.
New York NY 10031
tel: 212.926.5757 - fax 212.926.5842 - e-mail ifco@igc.org

40th anniversary Venceremos Brigade special contingent
July 26-August 3, 2009
Cuba

Our two-week program is now full with 100 brigadistas! So we are offering this special one-week option to join us in our Travel Challenge and 40th anniversary contingent of the Venceremos Brigade. $1000 departing from Toronto on July 26th and returning to Buffalo, New York on August 3.

Let us know right away if you want to join us!

Venceremos Brigade
PO Box 5202
Englewood, NJ 07631-5202
email: vbrigade(at)yahoo. com
voicemail: 212-560-4360
website: www.venceremosbrigade.org

Cuba Labor Seminar
Friday July 24 to Sunday August 2, 2009
Cuba

70th Anniversary of the CTC Central Workers of Cuba
50th Anniversay of the Cuban Revolution

This delegation will be in Havana, Cuba from Friday July 24th to Sunday August 2nd, 2009. Our hosts will be the CTC Confederation of Cuban Workers. We will visit hospitals, schools, and worker centers.

The main organizers of the travel challenge are Pastors for Peace and Venceremos Brigade. The US Cuba Labor Exchange, NNOC will return and cross the border into the U.S. with the Venceremos Brigade delegation. This travel challenge is organized to defend our constitutional rights of free association, free travel and free speech. This is a powerful way to speak back to reclaim our right to see Cuba for ourselves.

The price of the trip will include: round trip airfare (Toronto/Havana), hotel (double occupancy), 2 meals per day (breakfast and dinner), internal transportation to and from the program, translation, visas and the program. The price of $1,450 is good until the end of May (price may increase for any application made after that date).

contact: US/Cuba Labor Exchange
P.O. Box 39188
Redford, MI 48239
Phone/Fax:(313) 575 4933
mailto:laborexchange@aol.com
http://laborexchange.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

Int'l Conference on Martí, Juárez, and Lincoln in the Soul of Our America
October 15th-17th, 2009
Monterrey, Mexico

The contributions of José Martí, Benito Juárez, Abraham Lincoln, and other leaders of what Martí called ‘Our America.’ is the theme of a conference in Monterrey, Mexico, from October 15th-17th. Guided by Martí’s statement, ‘To be educated is the only way to be free,’ the principal goal of the conference is to promote an Alternative for the Americas Inspired by the Ideas of Martí (in Spanish, Alternativa Martiana para las Américas—ALMA, or soul). Among the special guests will be Cuban leader Armando Hart, president of the Cuban National Commission of the Martí Program. Initial conference sponsors include the Latin American Studies Program, University of Houston and the Universities of Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Guadalajara.

Proposals are to submitted to Dr. Águeda Marisel Oliva of the Instituto José Martí de Educación Superior in Monterrey at marisel.oliva(at)josemarti.edu.mx

U.S. contacts are Dr. Susan Kellogg, Director of the University of Houston Latin American Studies Program, alma2008(at)uh.edu; Prof. Dionicio Valdés, Department of History, Michigan State University, valdesd(at)msu.edu; Prof. August Nimtz, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, animtz(at)umn.edu.

Interested non-academics are welcome to attend and participate.