Direct from Cuba: Seminar on recent developments in Cuba
Saturday, July 17: 9 am Eastern, 6 am Pacific
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Message to the Solidarity Movement
with Cuba from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)
Dear friends,
As reported by the highest leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Revolutionary Government, street riots have occurred in our country, organized and sponsored by counterrevolutionary groups inside and outside the Island. These actions resulted from an organized plan designed and financed by the U.S. government in theirattempt at overthrowing the Cuban Revolution.
Just a few days after being isolated in front of the international community — when the United Nations General Assembly for the 29th time overwhelmingly voted in favor of lifting the blockade — the U.S. government used its propaganda machinery to foster
the social disorder in the Island. They promoted a misinformation campaign aimed at imposing a public opinion matrix through the hashtag #SOSCuba. They used the new COVlD-19 outbreak and the complex economic situation that they themselves have increased by means of the intensification of the blockade to justify their hypocritical call for "humanitarian aid" in Cuba.
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples strongly rejects these actions, It is part of political-ideological destabilizing plan aimed at undermining our independence and sovereignty, manipulating the social network and the mass media. They are very
much upset because for more than 60 years most of the Cuban people support the socialist and revolutionary project.
Cuba is not alone. With solidarity, millions of friends from all over the world have joined us and will keep on accompanying us in our fight against an intensified economic, commercial and financial blockade. Together we reject the 243 additional measures from the last period.
Next July 17th 9 am (Cuban local time) and @SiempreConCuba on Facebook and YouTube platforms, our Institute will present details of the present situation in Cuba.
We make a call for you to follow us. These are times for raising our voices in defense of the truth and for rejecting and denouncing the imperialist threats.
#LaCalleEsDeLosRevolucionarios
(#StreetsBelongToTheRevolutionaryPeople)
Long live socialist, independent and sovereign Cuba!
Join a Caravan for Cuba on July 25!
July will see one more month of Caravans for Cuba throughout the country, all the more important now given recent events. The caravan is timed to coincide both with the July 26 anniversary of the historic attack on the Moncada Barracks which began the Cuban Revolution, and also with the arrival in Washington, D.C. of a group of Cuban-Americans who have been walking for the last six weeks from Miami to D.C. If there's not a caravan already scheduled in your city, organize one! It is critical that American supporters of Cuba show their support in the streets on July 25!
Caravans whose details we know about as of today (all Sunday, July 25):
San Francisco: 11:30 am, 1875 Marin St.
Los Angeles: 12 pm, Victoria Park, 419 MLK Jr. St., Carson, CA
Seattle: 11 am picket, 12 pm caravan, junction of Beacon Ave. & S. Lander St.
Video from the June Caravan in San Francisco
Cuban President Díaz-Canel:
Revolutionaries to the Streets!
On July 11 Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke to the Cuban people after first going to the site of one of the several protests that took place in Cuba that day. His speech is absolutely essential reading for providing critical context about those events, with information covered up by the mass media in the United States.
U.N. votes to condemn the U.S. blockade of Cuba for the 29th year
Cuba had been promoting the hashtag #ElMundoDiceNo (“The world says “No” [to the blockade]”), but the message of the speeches was actually the opposite — “The world says “Yes”…to Cuba”. Rarely if ever has one country received as much praise from so many other countries as Cuba did today during the debate condemning the U.S. blockade.”
Read our full coverage of the debate here, including links to the speech of Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla
Formerly the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five (U.S.)