[NYTr] Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Aims to Cross Mexican Border 7/17
 
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:11:57 -0500 (CDT)


Via NY Transfer News Collective  *  All the News that Doesn't Fit
 
Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)
http://ainch.ain.cu/mailman/listinfo/ingles

Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Aims to Cross Mexican Border Tuesday

Havana, July 16 (acn) Activists of the US's inter-religious and 
humanitarian organization Pastors for Peace arrived in McAllen, Texas, 
on Friday and will try to cross the Mexican border on Tuesday in an 
effort to bring 90 tons of aid to Cuba.

This 18th edition of the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan 
includes 150 activists from the United States, Canada, Mexico, and 
several European countries.

Reverend Lucius Walker, executive director of the Inter-religious 
Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), denounced that American 
authorities stopped medical aid on the Maine-Canada border, although 
they allowed it from Vancouver and Winnipeg.

"Anything can happen in the border," warned the religious leader.

The aid includes medicines, seven vehicles, school buses, and two
trucks.

'On our way through the United States, many people showed interest in 
knowing more about the Cuban health system, especially after seeing 
Michael Moore's 'Sicko',' said Ellen Bernstein, a member of the caravan.

For his part, Walker noted that "our work strengthens the bonds of 
friendship and the cultural and family exchanges between our two 
countries." "This caravan will be another blow to the over-45-year-old 
US blockade that has been condemned by almost the entire planet," he 
concluded.

Upon their arrival in Cuba, the group will attend the first graduation 
of US students at the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana.

                          ***

Workers World - Jul 19, 2007 issue
http://www.workers.org/2007/us/san-diego-0719/

18th Cuba Friendshipment Caravan Gets Rousing Send-off in San Diego

Solidarity with Cuba event in San Diego

by Bob McCubbin

It was a full house at the Malcolm X Library July 9 when San Diegans
gathered to welcome West Coast caravanistas with the 18th Cuba
Friendshipment Caravan, initiated by Pastors for Peace, on their way to
Cuba with medical and other humanitarian aid. 

In the photo, from left to right, Ananda and her grandmother, Gloria
Verdieu of the International Action Center, who spoke on the case of
the Cuban Five; Emiliana and her mother, Catalina GarcC-a, of San Diego
FISTbFight Imperialism Stand Together, who will be part of the FIST
delegation to Cuba this month; and Kathy Hughart of Friends of Cuba and
the International Action Center, one of the main organizers of Malcolm X
Library event. 

The event was sponsored by San Diego Friends of Cuba and co-sponsored
by Activist San Diego, the San Diego Peace and Justice Coalition, the
Peace & Democracy Action Group and the International Action Center.

Articles copyright 1995-2007 Workers World. Verbatim copying and
distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium without
royalty provided this notice is preserved.

Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011
Email: ww@workers.org
Subscribe wwnews-subscribe@workersworld.net
       
                                *
================================================================
.NY Transfer News Collective    *    A Service of Blythe Systems
.          Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us         .
.339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012     http://www.blythe.org
.List Archives:   https://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/
.Subscribe: https://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr
================================================================