Solidarity

WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST THE BLOCKADE

At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting on June 23, 2021, Cuba will bring its annual resolution on the necessity to end the United States’ “Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo“ against the island. For 28 consecutive sessions, the UNGA has overwhelmingly voted in favor of ending this criminal and unjust US policy towards Cuba.
 
There is no doubt that this year, once again, the world will stand with Cuba in this vote. Cuba solidarity and anti-blockade activists and organizations in the United States and Canada are calling for united international action to increase the pressure on President Joseph Biden and the US Congress to end to the over 60-year-old cruel sanctions and bellicose hostility against Cuba!
 
In this light, the US-Cuba Normalization Committee is inviting people from the US, Canada, and around the world to get involved with a Week of Action Against the Blockade, beginning on June 17, 2021, through June 23, 2021, the day of the UN vote. Below is the initial list of events being organized, including the June 20th Car and Bicycle Caravans to defeat the blockade, and a 24-hour global online picket action that will culminate with a victory celebration of the historic UN vote in an international webinar.

#UnblockCuba2021 #EliminaElBloqueo 

June 17 Facebook Livestream: Solidarity vs. Blockade
9 am Eastern
6 am Pacific

On June 17th, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) is organizing an international event to lead up to the June 23 vote at the United Nations against the blockade.
Featuring:
Karima Oliva Bello, Doctor in Psychological Sciences and political analyst.
Helen Yaffe, Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Founder of the solidarity organization Rocks Around the Blockade.
Johana Tablada de la Torre. Ambassador and Deputy Director for the U.S. at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fernando Gonzalez Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)

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June 18 UN Decolonization Hearings on Puerto Rico

Once again, the friends of Puerto Rico’s decolonization and independence and all who oppose the criminal US blockade of our sister nation of Cuba will show our united solidarity.

Join the ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, The NY-NJ CubaSi Coalition, The Venceremos Brigade, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace for a solidarity picket/protest for Puerto Rico at the United Nations! Once again, the friends of Puerto Rico’s Decolonization and Independence and those who oppose the criminal blockade of our sister nation of Cuban need to show their solidarity. For the first time in recent history, the United Nations decolonization Committee Hearings on Puerto Rico and the annual vote on the Cuban Blockade are taking place within a week of each other!

On Friday, June 18th, the U.N. Decolonization Committee Hearings on Puerto Rico will be held. It is important that the international community see that the Puerto Rico Diaspora and its allies are united in demanding Puerto Rican Independence and Self-Determination.

Friday, June 18th at 5:00 pm-6:30 pm 
Picket and Protest at Ralph Bunche Park
1st Avenue and E. 42nd st.

A film about the untold story of Cuba’s contribution to help victims of Chernobyl.

SUNDAY JUNE 20, 2021
5:00 pm PST
7:00 pm CST
8:00 pm EST

Olexandr Savchenko, “Sacha,” was one year old when the explosion of the nuclear power plant Vladimir Ilich Lenin at Chernobyl occurred on April 26, 1986. He lived in Chernigov, a village in the Ukrainian countryside near the area of the accident. He got sick shortly afterward and doctors were unable to make a clear diagnosis because the healthcare system had collapsed while the then Soviet Union was close to disintegrating. Sacha’s condition worsened to the despair of his mother, Lidia Savchenko, who took her baby from one doctor to another without his getting better. One day, other mothers in similar situations told her that there was a possibility that he could be treated on a small island far away. Sacha, it turns out, is one of the 26,000 boys and girls from Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine who were treated in Cuba over a 21 year period after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl.

This is the context for the history told by the new 39-minute documentary film; Sacha, A Child of Chernobyl, directed by Cuban film-makers Roberto Chile and Maribel Acosta Damas and produced by the Argentine news agency Resumen Latinoamericano.

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For nearly one year, a group in the United States, “Puentes de Amor” (Bridges of Love) led by the Cuban-American community, has been promoting monthly “Bike & Car Caravans” against the US blockade on Cuba in cities across the US and Canada. This inspiring movement against the inhuman US blockade has become a collaboration, initiated by Cuban-American activists and organizations and supported by the US and international Cuba solidarity movement. On June 20, the car and bicycle Caravans will be taking place in dozens of cities across the US, Canada, and around the world as part of the lead-up to the June 23 vote in the UN.

 We encourage you to get involved in this important Caravan movement – and join in your own city. We are stronger together! Register your activity — starting time, location and public contact person. Email to: June20register@nnoc.info

Listen to a message from Carlos Lazo, Cuban teacher whose bike ride from Seattle to Washington DC inspired these caravans

Join Our Online Picket Line

24-Hour Global Online Picket Against the US Blockade on Cuba!

Starting: June 22 – 8 pm Eastern Time Special celebration and wrap up: June 23 – 8-10 pm Eastern Time

As part of international mobilizations at this important time – we invite you to unite your voice with people around the world at a 24-hour global picket featuring speakers, cultural performances, live-streaming of UN debate and vote, and more! To conclude the 24-hour picket action, there will also be a victory celebration international webinar featuring speakers, distinguished diplomats, and musicians from Cuba and around the world!

HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED?
1) Make sure to register: www.tinyurl.com/24hr4Cuba
2) Send your own 1-3 minute solidarity video messages speaking out against the blockade. These could be in any language. These can be sent over WhatsApp to +1-778-882-5223 or over email to webmaster@canadiannetworkoncuba.ca
(with Wetransfer or other file transfer services).

Organized by: the Canadian Network on Cuba 

http://canadiannetworkoncuba.ca

Endorsed by: Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP-Cuba), El Movimiento Colombiano de Solidaridad con Cuba (MCSC-Colombia), Australia-Cuba Friendship Society WA, The U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference Organizing Committee (U.S.), Cuba Support Group Ireland (CGSI), Associazione Nazionale di Amicizia Italia-Cuba, Table de concertation et de solidarité Québec – Cuba & The National Network on Cuba (NNOC) – U.S. 

Cuba at Human Rights Council

The anti-Cuban maneuver in European Parliament

A farcical debate on Cuba in European Parliament
The anti-Cuban maneuver is intended to hinder relations between Cuba and the European Union and to undermine the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement which is being implemented in a positive manner, building bridges between our peoples and governments

Internacional news staffjune 8, 2021 09:06:43

Cuba’s international medical brigades are an example of the solidarity and cooperation the world urgently needs. Photo: Juvenal Balán

Today, June 8, the European Parliament has scheduled an artificial debate on what they call the political situation and human rights in Cuba. “If the European Parliament decides to discuss Cuba, the debate would necessarily need to refer to the massive, flagrant and systematic violation of the human rights of the entire Cuban population, by the genocidal, immoral and illegal economic, commercial and financial blockade that the United States government has maintained against our country for more than 60 years,” reads a statement from the Cuban diplomatic mission in Brussels.

The text asks if the promoters of this farce would be willing to demand that the U.S. government end this aggressive policy which, through the end of March 2020, caused accumulated damages to the Cuban economy amounting to 144,413,400,000 dollars. “Are they also willing to defend European natural and legal persons affected by the increasing extraterritoriality of the blockade? Will they ask their U.S. counterparts to repeal the Helms-Burton Act? Will they demand the elimination of the 243 measures adopted by former President Donald Trump, which the current U.S. administration maintains in effect?

It is shameful that a group of representatives has promoted the inclusion of this issue as part of the agenda of the European Parliament. European voters and the international community in general would expect objectivity and impartiality from the European legislature, instead of selectivity and double standards when examining issues related to human rights, when every day events occur that touch the universal conscience, about which the European Parliament has maintained and continues to maintain a complicit, immoral silence, reads the embassy’s communiqué, published on the Cuban Foreign Ministry’s website.

This obsession with Cuba has an explanation. It reflects the agenda of the United States government which has been attempting to overthrow the Cuban Revolution for more than 60 years, unable to tolerate the existence of a people that does surrender to their designs and resists the ironclad blockade, criminally tightened in the midst of a global pandemic, the Cuban mission emphasized.

The statement pointed out that this anti-Cuban maneuver is also intended to hinder relations between Cuba, the European Union and member states, to undermine the implementation of the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agreement, which is being implemented in a positive manner, making clearly evident the political will of the signatories to continue building bridges between our peoples and governments.