Group works to end U.S. blockade of Cuba
Pastors for Peace, an ecumenical initiative of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, brings its 20th Friendshipment Caravan to Charleston on Monday.
The group of volunteers is challenging the U.S. blockade of Cuba and related travel restrictions. The two-week caravan travels around the United States and then delivers the humanitarian aid it has collected along the way to Cuba.
Pastors for Peace was founded by the Rev. Lucius Walker Jr. in 1967 and has delivered more than 3,000 tons of supplies to Cuba over the years. The caravan last stopped in Charleston in July 2007.
"President Obama has taken a small first step to change U.S.-Cuba policy," Walker said in a statement. "But as a people of faith and conscience, it is important that we make our voices heard in favor of even stronger measures for reconciliation and normalized relations."
The caravan will be hosted Monday evening by the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston. For more information about the stopover, contact the Avery Center's Curtis J. Franks at 953-7610 or James E. Campbell at 762-7169.
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MC29461 (anonymous) says...
Another group of do-gooders who have no clue to the damage they are doing supporting Cuba, a country which does not tolerate religious activities like what they are doing.
July 11, 2009 at 4:59 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Sark (anonymous) says...
Sanctions and embargos never work in non-democratic states. They always hurt the people that the West supposedly wants to help, while only slightly inconviencing the regimes that they are supposed to be targeting.
July 11, 2009 at 5:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
desspec (anonymous) says...
"We" put ours hands on the Queen of England and bow to the King of Saudie Arabia. "We" pretty much tell Israel they're on their own and support the Hesballah. "We" tell Moslems we are not a Chridtian nation, but one of the lagest
Moslem nations in the world ... any bet on what "we" will do with Cuba?
July 11, 2009 at 7:14 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
UnoCubanito (anonymous) says...
I was born in Cuba and we left when I was 11 yrs old. I am 27 years old now, and I don't have a problem with ending embargo, but want what comes to Cuba help my people. The government has a strong hand in what we in the US take for granted when it comes to water,lights,food, and working.
July 11, 2009 at 8:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
spengler (anonymous) says...
Send Kenyatta there to succeed Castro- Cuba's his kind of country. And they don't check birth certificates, only your Communist Party Card. I'm sure he has one.
July 11, 2009 at 8:33 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
realamerican (anonymous) says...
Spengler, thanks to knuckle dragging idiots like you our states citizens are barely ahead of Cuba now in quality of life issues. Unfortunately you are to ignorant to understand that the party and ideology you support would eventually have the citizens of our state working for slave wages in order to enrich corporate fat cats. The very same situation that led to the Cuban revolution in the first place.
Oh and by the way, the Cubans don't need to check and recheck adnauseum someones birth certificate in order to try and find a loophole to throw out the majorities will.
July 11, 2009 at 9:34 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
rlong (anonymous) says...
I wish they would open cuba for travel from ths usa my friend and i would like to go visit it. the pictures and the history that is still in tact would be nice to see. it is a beatiful place.
July 11, 2009 at 10:46 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
captwhizbang (anonymous) says...
How about this spin on the idea. Say restrictions to travel to Cuba are eased and U.S. tourists visit the island in droves, including many U.S. citizens of Cuban ancestry; Wouldn't you think that Cubans of the island might see what we have compared to what they have and desire something better? There are many U.S. citizens of Cuban ancestry in Florida and I can imagine that they might be quite eager to show their cousins that there is a better way.
July 11, 2009 at 11:14 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
TheSheikh (anonymous) says...
Cuba is no match for group of real man.. Cuba is subject of National Joke of Old Country--they have president look like homeless trash-head!!
July 11, 2009 at 2:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
stephaniem (anonymous) says...
we are friends with china even after what was done with Tibet and last year's human rights violation
we are friends with saudi arabia although they have honor killings vs. Iraq where females have legal rights
we shouldn't be friends with cuba? even though their people can swim into our country? bad choice
July 11, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
gringolandia (anonymous) says...
it could be worse we could still have four more years of George W. Bush
July 11, 2009 at 11:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
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