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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.)

NNOC Groups
View the list of NNOC member groups.

updated Tuesday 20 February 2007

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL

Celebrate Int'l Women's Day with the Federation of Cuban Women
Friday March 7th [note date change]
John Jay College, Room N-1311, 445 W. 59th St., Manhattan

Rare opportunity to hear from and discuss with Cuban leaders (in NYC to participate in UN events around Int'l Womens
Day). Contact CubaSolidarityNY.

**Spring meeting of the National Network on Cuba**
Friday evening, March 28th through Sunday, March 30th
Washington DC

Planning in process. Watch this space for details or, even better, join the NNOC mailing list.

Unionist Conference of Our America
Monday May 5 to May 7
Quito, Ecuador

This conference was organized during the celebration in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, of the First International Meeting of the newly born Central of Working Women and Men of Brazil (CTB), and Workers' Central of Ecuador CTE.

The people of Latin America have suffered the implementation of neoliberal policies. However a new scenario is being built in our continent; one with changes and the integration of peoples. Nowadays, Cuba and its Revolution are not alone. The Bolivarian Revolution is continually getting stronger. Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua are undergoing radical process. That’s why this moment is so important to strengthen the solidarity links of peoples and, above all, to consolidate a higher level of unity without exclusions of any sectors of the workers movement.

To join a trip from the U.S. to the conference, Saturday May 5 to Saturday May 12th, contact US/Cuba Labor Exchange

Phone/Fax:(313) 587 9285, email LaborExchange(at)aol.com

Cost of trip including airfare from NY or LA, hotel, breakfast and dinner, conference registration, translation is $1350.

Support the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba – End the Blockade
June/July 2008

In June/July 2008 14 different routes of the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba will be on the road visiting 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 as a collective challenge to the inhuman and immoral US blockade and travel ban. Five of our buses will be named in honor of the Five Cuban patriots who are unjustly incarcerated in US jails.

We will spend 8 days in Cuba attending cultural events, and visiting social projects such as organic farms, elderly person’s homes and health centers including the Latin American School of Medicine. We will meet and learn from Cubans at every level about the problems caused by the blockade and the ways they have creatively responded to those difficulties.

This year’s caravan will also host our second Hiphop Without Borders Exchange We will take many hiphop artists to participate in an international hiphop festival, as well as carrying turntables, keyboards and other musical equipment to support Cuban hiphop.

In Cuba with us will be other travel challenges undertaken by the Venceremos Brigade and the US-Cuba Labor Exchange. On July 14th, we will all return to the US proudly acknowledging that we have challenged the US travel ban.

That's the intentions, but it needs our supporters, our network, to make it happen.

It needs people like you

–to come on the caravan as a caravanista, either within the US and/or to Cuba. We want people to come to Cuba with us, but if that is not possible we also want supporters to be there with us at the border crossings.
–to spread the word to your friends, neighbors, colleagues or congregation. We can provide flyers to circulate.
–to host a caravan event in your community and to get the media involved. If you are interested in this we can put you in contact with other interested people in your community

Contact cucaravan(at)igc.org for application forms and/or information on being a caravanista or if you want to get involved in hosting or contributing material aid

Our website at www.pastorsforpeace.org will soon have information and flyers that you can download.

The full program is

June 14-28: Educational presentations and aid collections throughout the US and Canada
June 29 – July 4: Participant orientation in Texas. Border crossing into Mexico. Travel to Tampico, Mexico
July 5-12: Fly to Havana for Caravan educational program in Cuba.
July 13: Return to Tampico and travel to Mexico/US border
July 14: Reverse challenge; cross the Mexican border into the US.