President Diaz-Canel welcomes the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba, June 25, 2019
In Cuba, every action of the Pastors for Peace is followed closely in social media, because Cubans know who their friends are, and they deeply appreciate the solidarity offered year after year by the caravans. In this upside-down world, one truth stands out: We extend ourselves to our Cuban sisters and brothers because they extend themselves to the world, offering healthcare, education and support to oppressed peoples. Cuba needs us now, and Gail Walker and company represent our best way to stand up for Cuba.
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US builds fan base in Cuba, aiming at regime change, by Tom Whitney, June 25, 2019
Havana University students
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Photos from McAllen Texas
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 photo: Regis Tremblay
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Let Cuba Live is a Maine-based committee organized in 1992 to promote respect for Cuba's sovereignty and independence. Let Cuba Live works for an end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba; an end to travel restrictions that prohibit U.S. citizens from visiting Cuba; normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba; closure of the Guantanamo Naval Base; and freedom for the Cuban Five.
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Let Cuba Live & Pastors for Peace working together for 27 years
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Loukie Lofchie 1922 - 2017, photo R Tremblay
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Voices Against the Blockade
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photo: Radioangulo.cu
It's immoral.
“We at IFCO/Pastors for Peace continue to challenge the immorality of the US blockade, firm in the belief that love is the only license we need to normalize relations with Cuba! Now is the time to end the blockade of Cuba!!” Gail Walker, Exec. Director, Pastors for Peace IFCO/Pastors for Peace |
It's counter-productive. “I join the majority of fellow citizens of the United States and call for the U.S. Congress to respect our expressed will to remove the blockade against Cuba that impedes full, respectful, and productive diplomatic relations between the two countries and prevents free and fruitful people-to-people relations.” Danny Glover, Artist, Activist |
It’s destructive. "The vision of self-reliance projected by Fidel is clearly an idea whose time has come for people all over the Third World, a combination of decentralization and centralization which offers an alternative to the capitalist road of economic development imposed by the IMF and the multinationals, which is causing such impoverishment and immiseration in Africa and Latin America."
Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) |
 Bill Hackwell photo
“The thaw in US-Cuba relations may have begun but Cuba is still frozen out by an economic and financial blockade that causes untold suffering for a people fighting for the right to determine their own future.”
Fr. Geoffrey Bottoms, British Catholic priest, UK Solidarity Campaign Let Cuba Live Special Reports:
September 23, 2016 
Let Cuba Live and Caravané d'Amitie Quebec-Cuba
​support for Friendshipment Caravan by Tom Whitney, June 30, 2015
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“What country has ever needed help from Cuba and has not received it?.... [I am] proud to be amongst the majority of nations who affirm the right of the Cuban people to determine their own destiny.”
~ Nelson Mandela 
Solidarity with Cuba in a time of change,
by Tom Whitney Dec. 29, 2014 As US-Cuba Talks Proceed,
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According to polls, two thirds of US citizens are against the blockade of Cuba. photo: CUBA News Agencey
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