Tag: Car Caravans to end US blockade of Cuba

Puentes de Amor Denounces Senator Rubio’s McCarthyite Smears

By world-outlook.com on August 21, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

MIAMI — Puentes de Amor (Bridges of Love) leader Carlos Lazo condemned the call by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) for the FBI to investigate him as an unregistered agent of a foreign power — a violator of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Lazo was speaking at an August 13 news conference here, organized by the Miami Caravan Against the U.S. Blockade of Cuba. The group is another target of Rubio’s smears, along with the well-known Cuba solidarity organization Pastors for Peace. Univision’s Channel 23, a major Spanish-language TV station here, broadcast a report on the event the next evening. The Miami Caravan received numerous statements of support in response to Rubio’s threats.

June Caravans: ‘End U.S. Blockade of Cuba!’ Thugs Attack Miami Event; Join Campaign to Defend Free Speech!

By world-outlook.com on June 30, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

During the June 25-26 weekend, local coalitions organized car caravans and other actions demanding an end to Washington’s economic war on Cuba. The actions took place in a number of U.S. cities, as well as other countries. Organizers of the monthly Cuba solidarity activities in two cities, Miami and New York, sent World-Outlook the two reports that follow. Pete Seidman writes from Miami that “pent-up frustration with their growing isolation and political impotence boiled over on June 26 when about 30 ultrarightist thugs attacked the Miami Caravan Against the U.S. Blockade of Cuba. Caravanistas made a disciplined and dignified, if hasty, retreat to their vehicles and left. None of them were injured or arrested in the fray. Join the Miami caravan in its campaign to defend free speech!

May 29 Miami Car Caravan to End U.S. Blockade of Cuba Stands Up to Rightist Threats

By world-outlook.com on June 2, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

MIAMI, May 29, 2022 — The 23rd consecutive monthly caravan to oppose Washington’s economic war against Cuba took place today. What a victory for the fight against the U.S. blockade of Cuba! What a victory for the right to free speech in this city! About 130 people in 75 vehicles assembled along Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables to start the event. As one woman who had missed the last few caravans put it, “This is one I had to be at!” Supporters of the right to protest and speak out for ending the U.S. blockade came to show their support from all over: Vancouver, Canada; Minneapolis, Minnesota; New York City; Las Vegas, Nevada; Tampa and Jacksonville, Florida. Prominent activists came to stand with us in defiance of threats by rightist YouTube personality Alex Otaola.

U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference: ‘Cuba Yes, Blockade No!’

By world-outlook.com on March 27, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

NEW YORK CITY, March 20, 2022 — About 150 people from across the United States and Canada gathered at the People’s Forum here March 19-20 for the International US-Cuba Normalization Conference. It was the first such in-person event in two years. Previous conferences were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting’s focus was coordinating efforts to end Washington’s economic war against the Caribbean nation, launched six decades ago after a popular revolution overthrew a U.S.-backed dictatorship on the island and opened the socialist revolution in the Americas. Co-sponsoring organizations included the Canadian Network on Cuba, Cuba Solidarity Committee in Puerto Rico, National Network on Cuba (NNOC), New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition, and Saving Lives Campaign US. A large delegation from Cuba — including several leaders of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) — participated in the event.

February Car Caravans: ‘End US Blockade of Cuba!’ – Updated

By world-outlook.com on March 7, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The last weekend of February, car caravans and other actions demanding an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba took place in several cities across the United States, as well as other countries. This roundup consists of reports from four of these actions in the U.S., written by organizers and participants.

January Car Caravans: End U.S. Blockade of Cuba!

By world-outlook.com on February 6, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

On January 30, 2022, car caravans and other actions demanding an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba took place in several cities and towns across the United States, as well as other countries. These are reports from two of these actions in the U.S., written by organizers and participants.

Oct. Car Caravans: ‘End U.S. Blockade of Cuba! Lift Sanctions & Travel Restrictions’

By world-outlook.com on November 3, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

On October 30-31, 2021, car caravans and other actions demanding an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba took place in cities and towns across the United States, as well as other countries. This is a compilation of reports from five of these actions in the U.S.

Sept. 26 Caravans: ‘End U.S. Blockade of Cuba!’

By world-outlook.com on September 29, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

On September 26, 2021, car caravans and other actions demanding an end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba took place in more than a dozen cities across the United States, as well as Canada, the Caribbean, United Kingdom and other countries in Europe, South Africa and elsewhere in the world. This round-up includes reports and photos from five of these actions in the U.S.

Aug. 29 Car Caravans: ‘End U.S. Blockade of Cuba!’

By world-outlook.com on September 5, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

On August 29, 2021, caravans opposing the U.S. blockade of Cuba took place in more than a dozen cities across the United States, as well as Canada, United Kingdom and other countries in Europe and elsewhere in the world. This is a round-up report, along with photos, from four of these actions in the U.S.

D.C. Rally, Car Caravans: ‘End U.S. embargo of Cuba! Lift the Sanctions!’

By world-outlook.com on July 28, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

This is a round-up of some of the marches, rallies, and car caravans that took place in more than a dozen U.S. cities, as well as Canada and other countries, on July 25, 2021. Protesters demanded an end to Washington’s 60-year-old economic war on Cuba, which has been recently intensified with 243 new sanctions imposed under the Trump administration that are now enforced by U.S. president Joe Biden. These punitive measures are aimed at strangling the Caribbean nation economically and increasing the hardships caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.S. Orchestrated Protests Against Cuban Government

By world-outlook.com on July 13, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

This statement released July 12, 2021, by the International US-Cuba Normalization Committee “denounces in the strongest terms the latest campaign of bipartisan Washington to subvert and politically destabilize the Cuban government.”