IFCO / Pastors for Peace: See Cuba for Yourself and Challenge the US Blockade!
This year, through an exciting educational and cultural program, we will
celebrate and honor the achievements of young people in Cuba, as well as learn
about their daily lives and experiences as we visit organic gardens,
neighborhood projects, health centers and schools.
We will also be commemorating and lifting up the life of Rev Lucius Walker,
Jr., the founding director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, who for 20 years gave
prophetic and visionary leadership to our caravans to Cuba in defiance of the
US blockade, and who died peacefully in September 2010.
In July 2011 our caravan will travel in school buses, trucks and cars along
12 different routes, visiting 130 US and Canadian cities. At every stop
we will educate people about the blockade while collecting construction
supplies and tools, medical supplies and equipment, educational and cultural
supplies, to be donated to our sisters and brothers in Cuba. You can join us as
we pass through your community, or you can join us when we reach the border in
McAllen, TX on July 17th.
From Texas we will travel to Cuba via Mexico, without asking for or
accepting a US government license, as a disciplined act of civil disobedience
against the blockade and travel ban, and as ambassadors for a
‘people-to-people’ foreign policy based in mutual respect. When we
return to the US, we will proudly declare our travel to Cuba and our opposition
to the immoral blockade.
Join us on a voyage of friendship and discovery!
Cuba is well known for its rich culture and focus on human development
– all which comes from investment in human beings. We will meet the young
scientists, doctors, teachers, social workers, artists, musicians and community
activists who are increasingly at the forefront of developing their own
society, and participating in internationalist missions to assist the peoples
of other countries.
WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED
Join the caravan as a caravanista – contact us for an
application form. Email cucaravan@igc.org
Sponsor a young person or encourage others to apply –
distribute our brochure; sponsor someone from your community.
Get involved locally – help host a caravan event in your community:
email us to get a local contact - if there isn't one, you or your
organization can take the initiative to host the caravan!
Collect material aid - we can send you the aid information
packet.
Make a financial donation. Donations are
tax-deductible.
Checks or money orders should be made out to IFCO (write
‘Caravan’ only in the memo line) and mailed to our New York office
- IFCO, 418 W 145th St, New York, NY, 10031.
For credit card donations simply click on the ‘Donate
Now’ button on our website www.pastorsforpeace.org and follow the
instructions, or call our office 212-926-5757.
CARAVAN SCHEDULE
JULY 2-16
Caravan routes - educational events and aid
collection - US and Canada.
JULY 17-19
Participant orientation in Texas.
JULY 20-21
Border crossing into Mexico - travel to Tampico - load material aid
onto cargo ship.
JULY 22-30
Fly to Havana - educational program in Cuba.
JULY 31
Return to Tampico - travel to Mexico/US border.
AUG 1
Reverse Challenge; cross back into the US.
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