Online Meetings April 17-18

No to the Criminal U.S. Blockade of Cuba!

Montreal

Friday, April 17, 2020 — 5:00 pm
Organized by the Table de concertation de solidarité Québec-Cuba
Join the Zoom Meeting here.
Meeting ID: 895 6482 0423
Password: 960934

Participate in the visio-meeting on April 17 to demand the end of the U.S. blockade against Cuba and to learn about and support Cuba’s contribution to the global fight against COVID-19. The video conference will be dedicated to Miguel Angel Cespedes Pino, who passed away on April 6, taken from us by COVID-19.

Ottawa

Friday, April 17, 2020 — 7:00 pm
Organized by Ottawa Cuba Connections
Register in advance for meeting here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
with information on how to join the meeting.

The Ottawa Cuba Connections’ monthly picket at the U.S. Embassy demanding an immediate End to the Illegal U.S. Blockade of Cuba is replaced by an online meeting. We will pursue our monthly campaign in solidarity with the Cuban people who are heroically facing the difficult situation under the illegal U.S. blockade and are rising to the occasion by providing an example of international solidarity for the whole world by sending medical teams to countries that require assistance to fight the pandemic and defend the people.

Let us get together to once again call for an End to the Illegal Blockade of Cuba and demand that the U.S. get out of Guantanamo and abolish all unjust U.S. laws targeting Cuba.

Viva Cuba!

Program

Opening remarks by OCC

Giuvel Orozco, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Cuba In Canada will
explain how Cuba is resisting despite the enforcement of the criminal U.S. blockade
during the pandemic thereby depriving Cuba of needed medical supplies.

Isaac Saney, spokesperson for the Canadian Network on Cuba will then speak to us
about the campaign to raise funds for the Cuban medical brigades operating
in more than 11 countries at this time to help stop the spread of the virus

An exchange of views will follow on measures Ottawa-Cuba Connections can take to
support this campaign or other initiatives which can be adopted to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba.

Everyone is welcome!

U.S.-Cuba Normalization Webinar

Worldwide Health Crisis Demands Solidarity, Not Sanctions!

Saturday, April 18 — 2:00 PM EDT
To register for Webinar here.
Hosted by Organizing Committee of International Conference for the
Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations, New York-New Jersey Cuba Sí Coalition

Co-Chairs

Alison Bodine — Fire This Time, Movement for Social Justice, Vancouver
Brenda Lopez — Co-coordinator, Los Angeles, U.S. Hands Off Cuba Committee.

Speakers

Ambassador Josefina Vidal — Cuba’s Ambassador to Canada. Lead negotiator in
Cuba’s talks with Barack Obama Administration

Dr. Christine Knight — US Graduate of Latin American
School of Medicine, Havana, Class of 2019

Medea Benjamin — Co-founder of CODEPINK, Women for Peace

Dr. Horace Campbell — Professor of African American Studies and
Political Science, Syracuse University, New York

Fernando Perez-Viart — Former Cuban M.D.; President of Louisiana’s Cuban Club; Volunteer Director of
Proyecto Hispano de Ayuda a la Comunidad, a Latino Social organization in Acadiana.