[HCCN] Fwd: 20th Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba - Brunswick send off - July 5

[Judith Robbins]

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> PRESS RELEASE***CALENDER ITEM***PLEASE ANNOUNCE***PLEASE FORWARD
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>   On Sunday, July 5, from 2 to 4 pm humanitarian aid for the  20th  
> Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba will be gathered at a sendoff  
> celebration in Brunswick.  Let Cuba Live and the Brunswick-Trinidad  
> Sister City Association will host the event at the park on  
> Brunswick's Maine Street.  There will be speeches by participating  
> "carvanistas",  Cuban music , Cuban cookies and lemonada. The  
> celebration is open to all.  The function room at 55 Plus at the  
> corner of Maine and Noble Streets has been reserved in case of rain.
>
> The Brunswick event is part of an international effort initiated by  
> Pastors for Peace, a branch of IFCO, a 42-year old, New York city  
> based, ecumenical agency. Over 130  volunteers from the US, Canada  
> and Europe will challenge the US blockade and travel restrictions  
> against Cuba at the US - Mexico border on July 22nd. The  
> organization expects to collect  100 tons of humanitarian aid  
> during a two-week caravan that will converge in McAllen, Texas  
> before traveling on to Cuba. Pastors for Peace and the supporting  
> organizations are committed to  delivering school buses,  
> construction tools and materials, educational supplies, medicines,  
> and medical supplies gathered in communities throughout the US and  
> Canada, to Cuba, without US treasury department licenses.
>
> Pastors for Peace rejects the current licensing system as both  
> immoral and illegal. It is immoral because it inflicts suffering  
> and endangers  lives  of  Cubans.  It is illegal under  
> international law because denies medicine and food to people in need.
>
> The 20th Friendshipment Caravan will traverse 14 separate routes  
> across the country stopping in 47 US states and six Canadian  
> provinces.  In 2008 three hurricanes devastated the island. This  
> year communities have responded by collecting aid for hurricane  
> reconstruction.
>
> For more information  www.pastorsforpeace.org  http:// 
> www.letcubalive.org

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