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Join us for 2 Lower Mainland events to send off the Pastors for Peace
Caravan to Cuba!

Part of the 6-stop B.C. tour to End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!


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FEATURING:
BILL HACKWELL - Bill Hackwell has worked on the Pastors for Peace
Caravans to Cuba since the beginning in 1992. He also participated in
many of the caravans to Mexico when Pastors for Peace delivered
critical humanitarian aid to the indigenous highland communities in
Chiapas. Hackwell is a known social documentary photographer and an
organizer with the International Committee for the Freedom of the
Cuban Five in the U.S.
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(((1))) VANCOUVER PASTORS FOR PEACE CARAVAN TO CUBA SEND OFF EVENT!

Special Guest Speaker – BBQ - Music - Poetry - Food - Fun!

SATURDAY JUNE 30, 2012
Trout Lake Park (Near the concession and beach area - Look for the Cuban flags!)
3350 Victoria Drive
6:00 pm

* The event will include a BBQ and potluck dinner (please bring a dish
to share if you can!)

Event co-organized by:
Vancouver Communities in Solidarity with Cuba (VCSC)
778-882-5223 | vancubasolidarity [at] gmail.com
http://www.VanCubaSolidarity.com
&
BC Aid Network for Cuba (BCANC)
bcanc.cubaid [at] gmail.com | 778-889-7664
http://bcanc.blogspot.com - http://www.bcanc.org


(((2))) PASTORS FOR PEACE CARAVAN TO CUBA >> U.S./CANADA BORDER CROSSING

Picnic and Rally
SUNDAY JULY 1, 2012
Peace Arch Park US-Canada Border
White Rock, BC / Blaine, WA
12 noon

Cuba solidarity activists and caravan supporters from the Lower
Mainland, Vancouver Island and Washington state will join the Caravan
at the border challenging the U.S. blockade on Cuba by supporting the
border crossing. We had a major victory last year when after being
told repeatedly by U.S. border officials they would not allow the aid
to cross, an emergency media campaign, legal challenge and extended
demonstration on both sides of the border forced them to allow the aid
through that day! We need a strong presence at the border to ensure
our aid will cross again!

* The event will include a potluck lunch (please bring a dish to share
if you can!)

For carpooling to and from the border from Vancouver please phone:
778-882-5223 or 604-719-6947

Organized by:
BC Aid Network for Cuba as well as other Cuba solidarity organizations
and individuals from Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, Victoria, Nanaimo,
Courtenay/Comox, Kamloops, Bellingham, Tacoma, Seattle and Olympia.


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WHAT IS THE PASTORS FOR PEACE CARAVAN TO CUBA? This summer for the
23rd time, the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba will
challenge the United States government’s economic and travel blockade
on Cuba, that has been imposed on the Cuban people for over 50 years.
The Caravan will travel through up to 140 cities in the U.S. and
Canada, raising awareness about the U.S. blockade and gathering
humanitarian aid to take to Cuba. After two weeks of travelling
through the U.S. there is a blockade busting border crossing into
Mexico. Caravanistas will then travel through Mexico and depart for
nine days in Cuba, participating in a variety of educational and
cultural events. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Pastors
for Peace Caravans to Cuba. Over the past 20 years thousands of
participants and over 30,000 tons of humanitarian aid have been
brought to Cuba, building a ‘people-to-people’ foreign policy based on
mutual respect,
solidarity and friendship between the people of the U.S., Canada and
Cuba. This Caravan also commemorates Rev. Lucius Walker, Jr., the
founding director of Pastors for Peace, who died peacefully in
September 2010.

In British Columbia, Canada, the BC Aid Network for Cuba is
coordinating a 6 stop tour along with various local organizations,
which will include aid collection and events in Comox, Nanaimo,
Victoria, Kamloops, Vancouver, as well as the border crossing where
organizers from across BC and Washington State will converge to ensure
the aid crosses into the U.S. Many of the tour stops are in new
locations which have recently become active with the Caravan!

All BC events will feature special guest speaker Bill Hackwell from
Oakland, California!

For more information or to join the Pastors for Peace Caravan please visit:
http://www.pastorsforpeace.org
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