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Pastors for Peace come to Fresno
The Pastors for Peace caravan came to Fresno yesterday on their way to Cuba. While here we had a potluck and learned something about Cuba - where they put peoples needs before corporate profits. The photo below is Sharon Peters (left) and Carol Cross (right). The bus they and a group of about 15 people are taking to Cuba is in the background.
Pastors for Peace come to Fresno
By Mike Rhodes
A Cuba aid caravan sponsored by Pastors for Peace was in Fresno yesterday. The local event, a potluck and presentation by the caravanistas, was held in the barn at Margaret Hudson's house. The main speaker was Carol Cross. Carol is a retired bilingual kindergarten teacher who first went to Cuba as a tourist in 1993 and realized then what lies she had been told about Cuba by the US government. She has been a solidarity activist ever since and has visited Cuba over 20 times.
She has been involved with the Pastors for Peace caravan for many years as well the Latin American Medical School in Havana and is the editor of the national newsletter of the US-Cuba Sister cities association.
Gerry Bill, a sociology professor at Fresno City College, joined the caravan and will be traveling to Cuba with Pastors for Peace. Bill is also on the Board of Directors of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence.
The video below is an interview I did with Carol before the Fresno presentation. In the interview she talks about why she is willing to risk a $250,000 fine and spend up to 10 years in jail to visit the island, about why she wants this country to Free the Cuban Five, and why Pastors for Peace is sending this school bus and supplies to Cuba.
About 50 people attended the Saturday evening event.
By Mike Rhodes
A Cuba aid caravan sponsored by Pastors for Peace was in Fresno yesterday. The local event, a potluck and presentation by the caravanistas, was held in the barn at Margaret Hudson's house. The main speaker was Carol Cross. Carol is a retired bilingual kindergarten teacher who first went to Cuba as a tourist in 1993 and realized then what lies she had been told about Cuba by the US government. She has been a solidarity activist ever since and has visited Cuba over 20 times.
She has been involved with the Pastors for Peace caravan for many years as well the Latin American Medical School in Havana and is the editor of the national newsletter of the US-Cuba Sister cities association.
Gerry Bill, a sociology professor at Fresno City College, joined the caravan and will be traveling to Cuba with Pastors for Peace. Bill is also on the Board of Directors of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence.
The video below is an interview I did with Carol before the Fresno presentation. In the interview she talks about why she is willing to risk a $250,000 fine and spend up to 10 years in jail to visit the island, about why she wants this country to Free the Cuban Five, and why Pastors for Peace is sending this school bus and supplies to Cuba.
About 50 people attended the Saturday evening event.
For more information:
http://www.fresnoalliance.com/home
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