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Mission Statement
Our meetings are open to all
3rd Wednesday of each month
7:00 pm Note: Usually we meet in Brunswick, but ocassionally at other locations around the state, so contact us just to be sure.Contact us: (207) 743-2183 (207) 273-3247 (207) 443-2899 mail (at) letcubalive.org Let Cuba Live
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COMING EVENTSLet Cuba Live is embarked on a fund raising campaign to pay for a school bus leaving Maine on June 14 for McAllen Texas. Everyone is welcome, look over the schedule of events we have planned and join us in having a good time!Saturday May 10, 7:00 at Watts Hall, Thomaston. Dance with the "smooth groves" of old time Cuban music played by Maine's own Primo Cubano band. It's the Son style you know through the Buena Vista Social Club. There will be refreshments, snacks, raffles, games of chance, Cuban memorabilia - the whole works.Sunday May 11, 4:00 at Peace Action Maine, 644 Congress St, Portland. Tom Neilson will be holding forth with songs, guitar and barbed, politically on target humor. Usually the veteran folksinger is on the road to far corners so we are lucky he can join us in support of the the bus project.Sunday, June 8, 2:00 at Paris Hill Academy, Paris Hill. It's Primo Cubano again, this time for a farewell party for Ken and Fernando the bus. Dancing and sweet sounds will fill a beautiful, historic structure almost 200 years old overlooking the White Mountains of New Hampshire.On board the school bus will be humanitarian donations and a few Maine people determined to break the blockade against Cuba. They will move from there , along with other vhicles, to Tampico Mexico, their jumping off place for Cuba. Ken and friends will be joining the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan. Every year since 1992 the caravans have demonstrated against the injustice of the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba. Let Cuba Live has been involved from the very beginning. The bus this year is named "Fernando" after one of the Cuban Five prisoners unjustly held in U.S. jails.
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Recent Past Events
• The documentary "Mission Against Terror" was shown by Bernie Dwyer, one of the filmmakers, and Father Geoffrey Bottoms, international justice advocate, at several locations in Maine with assistance from LetCubaLive members. The film tells the story of terrorism against Cuba organized in Florida and how five Cuban men were defending their nation when arrested. The injustice of their trial, the cruelty of their sentences, and the suffering visited upon their families come across loud and clear. It's a story too of constancy and dedication to ideals. More info at our "Free the Five!" page and freethefive.org
• U.S.
Political Prisoners and their Families
(event at U.M. Augusta)
Archived Articles
- Critics Call Cuban Blockade Genocide 10/07
- New Worldwide Campaign on the Cuban Five 9/07
- U. S. Hypocrisy on Terrorism 9/07
- World Figures Attend Cuban Five Hearing 8/07
- Declaring Victory over Cuban Blockade 8/07
- Cuba trains doctors for U.S.
- Cuba achieves best infant mortality rate ever
- New agreements between China and Cuba
- The FIVE: For the World
- Book Review: Cuba, A Revolution in Motion
- New book on The Five, prologue by Alice Walker
- Link
to a collection of earlier articles