Events with Lucius Walker this Week

Mon. Jan. 9, 7pm
An Evening with Reverend Lucius Walker, Jr.
522 Valencia, 3rd Floor, San Francisco

We invite you to please join us to hear Reverend
Lucius Walker, Jr. speak about rebuilding efforts
and community empowerment from New Orleans
to Havana.

Rev. Walker was recently in Louisiana with the
humanitarian aid caravans organized by Pastors
for Peace following Hurricane Katrina. He will
discuss the latest challenges to travel restrictions
and the efforts to end the blockade against Cuba
and work to normalize relations between our two
countries. Also hear an update on the Cuban Five's
case and the struggle for their release.
$5 donation requested.

Co-sponsored by IFCO Pastors for Peace,
Global Exchange and Committee to Free the Cuban Five.

Other Bay Area events with Rev. Lucius Walker Jr.

Palo Alto - Tuesday, January 10, 7:30 pm - "Cuba and
Your Constitutional Rights" - First Presbyterian Church,
1140 Cowper St. Palo Alto; Suggested donation: $7 -$15.
Benefits the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center and Pastors
for Peace. For information call 650 367 9183 San Jose -
Wednesday, January 11, 6:30pm - "From Brooklyn to Bolivia:
Another World is Possible" CWA Local 9423, 2015 Naglee,
(near Bascom) San Jose; $5-$15 reception with finger food
and drinks. For information call 408 975-0670 Santa Cruz
- Thursday, January 12, 7:00 pm - "Our War on Cuba: Trade,
Travel and Baseball" - First Congregational Church, 900 High
Street suggested donation $5-$15 - Benefits Pastors for Peace.
For information call 831 465 8272 Oakland - Friday,
January 13, 7:00 pm - Casa Cuba, 6501 Telegraph Avenue,
Oakland, $5-$15; benefits to Casa Cuba and Pastors for Peace.
For information call 510 658 3984.

A.N.S.W.E.R. Activists Meeting
Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 7 p.m.
2489 Mission Street, Suite #24
(Near 21st St., SF)
Third Anniversary of "Shock and Awe"
March 18 through 20, 2006

Thurs. Jan. 12, 7:30pm
ATA (Artists' Television Access),
992 Valencia St. at 21st
near 24th St. BART, San Francisco
$5 donation

ANSWER Film Series

BLOQUEO: Looking at the U.S. Embargo Against Cuba This
newly-released documentary features voices from the streets
of Havana and the Cuban countryside, Bloqueo (or blockade)
lets Cubans speak for themselves about how they have been
affected by the blockade, and what it means to live in Cuba
today. The 45-minute documentary also features analysis
from activists traveling with the Pastors for Peace Caravan—
an annual journey calling attention to this controversial policy.
Bloqueo looks at the successes that have made Cuba a model
in healthcare, environmental stewardship, and other arenas
that forge an alternative, and ultimately more sustainable,
system. 2004, 45min., English and Spanish with English
subtitles. followed by a short film

Workers' Democracy in Cuba

Workers' Democracy in Cuba examines the rights of Cuba's
3 million workers in Cuba's socialist society. Cuba's workforce
is 98% unionized. The video features interviews with working
people, and discusses the effects of the U.S. blockade.
It culminates with the million-strong May Day annual march.
Produced by Gloria La Riva. 25min.

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