Join the IFCO/Pastors for Peace 19th Friendshipment
Caravan to Cuba - June/July 2008
Between June 14 and July 14, 2008 the 19th US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan
will travel on 15 different routes to visit more than 125 US and Canadian
cities. We will travel in school buses, trucks, cars and a bookmobile
to Cuba via Mexico with medical and educational supplies donated by
groups across the US and Canada as a collective challenge to the US
government’s immoral. Inhuman and internationally condemned blockade of
Cuba .
We will spend 8 days in Cuba in fellowship with our Cuban brothers and
sisters, attending and participating in cultural events, and visiting
social projects such as organic farms, homes for the elderly and health
centers including the Latin American School of Medicine where 120 US
students from economically deprived communities are training to be
doctors under free scholarships provided by the Cuban government. We will
meet and learn from Cubans at every level about the problems caused by
the blockade and the ways they have creatively responded.
We will then return to Texas via Mexico, proudly declaring our travel to
Cuba and our opposition to the blockade and ban on travel to Cuba
Pastors for Peace believes and teaches, by word and by deed, that Cuba is
not our enemy. All the great faiths of the world call upon us to love our
neighbor as we love ourselves. When Jesus Christ was asked ‘and who is my
neighbor?’ he responded with the parable of the Good Samaritan, who
ministered with loving compassion to one very different from himself,
even at great personal risk. Today the Cuban people are truly our
neighbors.
19th US-Cuba Friendshipment schedule
· JUNE 14-28 Caravan
routes - educational events and aid collections in the US and
Canada.
· JUNE 29 – JULY 2
Participant Orientation in Texas.
· JULY 3-4 Border
crossing into Mexico travel to Tampico load material aid onto cargo
ship
· JULY 5-12 Fly to
Havana - educational program in Cuba.
· JULY 13 Return to
Tampico - travel to Mexico/US border.
· JULY 14 Reverse
Challenge, cross back into Texas.
Our website
www.pastorsforpeace.org
gives further information
JOIN US!
You can join the caravan as we pass through your community. Many past
caravanistas say the time traveling through the US, meeting and staying
with local community activists across the US, is as important a part of
the experience as the time in Cuba. If your time is limited, you also
have the option of making your own way down to join us in Texas on June
29th
For more information and/or a caravan application
Email: cucaravan@igc.org
IFCO/PASTORS FOR PEACE
418 W 145th Street, New York, NY 10031
tel: 212.926.5757 - fax: 212.926.5842 - email: ifco@igc.org,
www.ifconews.org