Peace caravan to Cuba in July

[eridani]

Join the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba this July!

Email cucaravan {ata] igc.org or call 212-926-5757
Join us on a Cuban voyage of discovery! Spend 9 full days in Havana and a neighboring province, and learn how a relatively poor country
. provides free healthcare for all its citizens
. has become a pioneer in organic agriculture and sustainable development
. is training thousands of young people from poor communities around the world (including 122 from the US!) to be doctors, completely free of charge, at the internationally acclaimed Latin American School of Medicine
. offers protection to all its people when natural or man-made disasters (hurricanes or international economic crises) hit the island
. has sent hundreds of doctors to save lives in Haiti -- not just since the earthquake, but for 10 years prior
. has one of the most artistically talented societies in the world

Caravan participants with skills in construction, organic gardening or mural painting will be able to work alongside Cuban counterparts for a couple of days, interchanging knowledge, skills and perspectives.

Join the caravan in your city during July as we travel in school buses, trucks and cars along 13 different routes, visiting 130 US and Canadian cities. At every stop we educate people about the US government.s economic blockade of Cuba, while collecting construction supplies and tools, medical supplies and equipment, educational and cultural supplies, to be donated to our sisters and brothers in Cuba.

Or join us in Texas on July 18th as we prepare to travel to Cuba via Mexico, without asking for or accepting a US government license, as a disciplined collective challenge to the blockade and travel ban on US citizens visiting Cuba, and as ambassadors for a .people-to-people. foreign policy based in mutual respect.

We return to Texas on August 3rd - proudly declaring that we have traveled to Cuba.

For an application form and more details:
Email cucaravan {at} igc.org or call 212-926-5757
Our website is www.ifconews.org

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Alison Bodine
Project Coordinator- IFCO/Pastors for Peace
212-926-5757
alison {at} ifconews.org
www.pastorsforpeace.org

In solidarity,
Thomas W. Warner
(secretary, Seattle/Cuba Friendship Committee - a task force of the Chhurch Council of Greater Seattle)
8923 2nd Ave. N.E.
Seattle, WA, 98115
206 523-1720
warner {at} scn.org

[roody]

1. This is a wonderful experience. I have gone with them twice.

[Mika]

2. I can't go anymore. Due to a specific travel ban on professions regulated by Florida.

If I got caught violating the Florida ban I could lose my license to practice (and that could threaten my ability to practice anywhere in the US).

Another example of the "state's rights" that prevents the USA from becoming an actual functional nation.

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