The Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan, an ongoing project of friendship and solidarity with the Cuban people, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The 23rd Caravan includes nine routes scheduled to travel through more than 100 cities in the US and parts of Canada, gathering travelers and supplies for Cuba. Each night the route vehicle stops in a different city and the Caravan members are hosted overnight.
The route passing through the Rogue Valley will arrive in Ashland on Thursday July 5, with a welcoming event at the Presbyterian Church, Siskiyou at Walker. Everyone is invited for the social hour at 6 pm, potluck dinner at 6:30, and program at 7:30. The evening will include Afro-Cuban music by Las Senoras Locas, aka Patricia Aulik, Jenel Rawstern, and Susan Fey. The Caravan route speaker will share information about the Caravan and recent news from Cuba. Ashland Code Pink will make a rare appearance, with original songs.
Sponsors of the event are Peace House, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Ashland), and the Jackson County Pacific Green Party. For information, call 541-482-8915.
The Caravan in a disciplined act of civil disobedience against the US-imposed blockade of Cuba, in place for fifty years, and against the travel ban, which discourages US citizens from visiting our neighbor nation.
The Caravan travels to Cuba without asking for or accepting a US government license, stating that our government does not have the right to forbid us from visiting other nations.
Under the terms of the blockade, these conditions prevail:
*Sales of US products to Cuba are severely restricted, and selling Cuban products to the US is forbidden.
*Banks and businesses in other countries are being harassed for doing business with Cuba.
*The US blockade has caused the Cuban economy to lose over 750 billion dollars at current values.
*Tens of millions of US taxpayer dollars continue to go towards programs and organizations that exist to create instability in Cuba and to ultimately overthrow the Cuban government.
*The Cuban Five, political prisoners, have been held in the US since 1998 for trying to protect their people from terrorism.
The route passing through the Rogue Valley will arrive in Ashland on Thursday July 5, with a welcoming event at the Presbyterian Church, Siskiyou at Walker. Everyone is invited for the social hour at 6 pm, potluck dinner at 6:30, and program at 7:30. The evening will include Afro-Cuban music by Las Senoras Locas, aka Patricia Aulik, Jenel Rawstern, and Susan Fey. The Caravan route speaker will share information about the Caravan and recent news from Cuba. Ashland Code Pink will make a rare appearance, with original songs.
Sponsors of the event are Peace House, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Ashland), and the Jackson County Pacific Green Party. For information, call 541-482-8915.
The Caravan in a disciplined act of civil disobedience against the US-imposed blockade of Cuba, in place for fifty years, and against the travel ban, which discourages US citizens from visiting our neighbor nation.
The Caravan travels to Cuba without asking for or accepting a US government license, stating that our government does not have the right to forbid us from visiting other nations.
Under the terms of the blockade, these conditions prevail:
*Sales of US products to Cuba are severely restricted, and selling Cuban products to the US is forbidden.
*Banks and businesses in other countries are being harassed for doing business with Cuba.
*The US blockade has caused the Cuban economy to lose over 750 billion dollars at current values.
*Tens of millions of US taxpayer dollars continue to go towards programs and organizations that exist to create instability in Cuba and to ultimately overthrow the Cuban government.
*The Cuban Five, political prisoners, have been held in the US since 1998 for trying to protect their people from terrorism.
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