[NYTr] 18th Pastors for Peace Caravan Again Challenges US Blockade of Cuba
 
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:53:03 -0500 (CDT)

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Workers World - Jul 12, 2007 issue
http://www.workers.org/2007/world/challenge-0712/

Challenge to U.S. blocade of Cuba

by Anne Pruden

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 FISTbFight 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 Caption: 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.

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. bPastors
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.b

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

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