Pastors for Peace 2023 Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba
Welcoming/Fundraiser Event
A Benefit to Send Medicines to the Embargoed People of Cuba
Friday - May 19th, 2023 from 6 – 8 PM
Zao MKE Church – 2319 East Kenwood Blvd. – Milwaukee, WI 53211
The program will begin with a potluck dinner and Cuban music from 6 to 7 PM, with a program from 7 to 8 PM. This will welcome and send off this year’s Pastors For Peace Friendshipment to Cuba, continuing over 30 years of support for the people of Cuba, often as acts of civil disobedience.
During the same 30 years, the United Nations General Assembly every year has almost unanimously condemned the continued US economic blockade of Cuba, which was tightened during the pandemic and continues today. Cuba is now experiencing severe shortages of food, medicine, and fuel, and sharply increased emigration to the U.S. as a result.
In addition to hearing from a representative of the Pastors' Friendshipment Caravan, the program will feature Dr. Alexandra Skeeter of Milwaukee, a recent graduate of Cuba’s international medical school in Havana, which offers tuition-free education to qualified students from over 60 nations in the developing world, and to US students of color especially. Original Afro-Cuba art and other items will be available for donation.
This event is organized by the Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba. It was founded in 1994, inspired by organizers’ first-hand witness of serious food and material shortages in Cuba, alongside the commitment of the Cuban people to endure. The Coalition’s points of unity include respect for Cuba’s sovereignty and opposition to artificial obstacles between the peoples of the U.S. and Cuba and to all means of economic or other coercion.
For more info: www.wicuba.org
facebook.com/WisconsinCubaCoalition
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Email: wicubacoalition@gmail.com.
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