White Rock

Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba Border Crossing

LET'S BREAK THE U.S. BLOCKADE ON CUBA!

12:00pm
- 5:00pm
Saturday June 27 2015

LET'S BREAK THE U.S. BLOCKADE ON CUBA!

PASTORS FOR PEACE BORDER CROSSING EVENT 
Picnic and Rally
SATURDAY JUNE 27, 2015
Peace Arch Park - U.S./Canada Border
White Rock, BC / Blaine, WA
12pm

Featuring Live Music, Poetry, Potluck Picnic & Guest Speaker:
NINO PAGLICCIA
Nino Pagliccia is the Editor of the new book "Cuba Solidarity in Canada: 5 Decades of People-to-People Foreign Relations"(Friesen Press, 2014). Nino received his political formation and university degree in Economics in Venezuela where he lived for 24 years. He moved to Canada where he has been a Research Statistician at the University of British Columbia (UBC) since 1986. He has managed Cuba Research Projects in collaboration with Cuban partners with a particular focus in Social Organization and Global Health. Nino has been the vice-president of the Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association in Vancouver and founding co-chair of the Canadian Network on Cuba. He has lead groups to do volunteer work in Cuba for over 12 years. He has travelled often to Cuba and within Cuba where he has participated extensively in fieldwork both as a researcher and as a volunteer. 
 

Plus LIVE MUSIC BY MARIA LUISA MELENDEZ - Salvadorean musician, will move the crowd with her beautiful music

 
JOIN THE 2015 PASTORS FOR PEACE CARAVAN TO CUBA!
LET'S BREAK THE U.S. BLOCKADE ON CUBA!

December 17, 2014 was a historic day, US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro both announced the first steps towards restablishing diplomatic ties between the US and Cuba after over 50 years of US hostility towards Cuba. However, despite ongoing negotiations and some important steps forward, the US government is still refusing to lift its cruel and inhuman blockade against Cuba.

The Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba is a U.S.-based Cuba solidarity project that each summer brings humanitarian aid and U.S. citizens to Cuba to challenge the U.S. Blockade and travel ban against Cuba. 

Cuba solidarity organizations across Canada have supported the Caravan since the beginning over two decades ago. Cuba solidarity activists and Caravan supporters from across British Columbia and Washington State will once again join the Caravan by supporting the border crossing at Peace Arch Park. We will be bringing humanitarian aid and Caravan participants across the U.S/Canada border on route to Cuba!

The Peace Arch border crossing has been the scene of several important recent victories against the U.S. Blockade on Cuba. Notably, the 2012 border crossing became an international event when U.S.  border officials repeatedly attempted to deny our humanitarian aid from crossing the border. However, by launching an emergency media campaign, legal challenge and extended demonstration on both sides of the border we forced them to allow the aid through. We need a strong presence at the border to ensure our humanitarian aid will cross again this year!

>> Rain or Shine!

>> The event will include a potluck lunch (please bring a dish to share if you can!)

For carpooling to and from the border from Vancouver please phone:
778-882-5223 or 604-719-6947

For carpooling to and from the border from Seattle please contact:
206-523-1720 | jezeh@hotmail.com

Please join the event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/966200043424645/  
Click here to view the poster: http://www.vancubasolidarity.com/posters/150627-P4P-send-off.pdf 

Border event co-organized by:
VANCOUVER COMMUNITIES IN SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA (VCSC)
(Member of the Canadian Network on Cuba-CNC)
Web: http://www.vancubasolidarity.com
Email: vancubasolidarity@gmail.com
Phone: 778-882-5223
Youtube: www.youtube.com/vancubasolidarity
Twitter: @VanCuba_VCSC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vancouver-Communities-in-Solidarity-with-Cuba-VCSC/228094570576786

THE SEATTLE/CUBA FRIENDSHIP COMMITTEE 
(A Task Force of the Church Council of Greater Seattle)
Web: http://www.seattlecuba.org
Phone: 206-523-1720
Email: jezeh@hotmail.com

Endorsed by: ANSWER Seattle, US Women & Cuba Collaboration, Free the Cuban 5 Committee – Vancouver and the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five (Seattle)  

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WHAT IS THE PASTORS FOR PEACE CARAVAN TO CUBA? This summer for the 26th time, the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba will challenge the United States government’s economic and travel blockade on Cuba, that has been imposed on the Cuban people for over 50 years.

The Caravan will travel through up to 100 cities in the U.S. and Canada, raising awareness about the U.S. blockade and gathering humanitarian aid to take to Cuba. After two weeks of travelling through the U.S. there is a blockade busting border crossing into Mexico. Caravanistas will then travel through Mexico and depart for nine days in Cuba, participating in a variety of educational and cultural events.  

Over the past 25 Caravans thousands of participants and over 30,000 tons of humanitarian aid have been brought to Cuba, building a ‘people-to-people’ foreign policy based on mutual respect, solidarity and friendship between the people of the U.S., Canada and Cuba. 

For more information or to join the Pastors for Peace Caravan please visit:
http://www.pastorsforpeace.org