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Join the 24 hour global online picket to end the U.S. Blockade on Cuba!

Oct 29-30

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24-hour Global Online Picket to End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba! + Remove Cuba from the so-called "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list!

24 HOUR GLOBAL ONLINE PICKET: Starting Tuesday October 29, 2024 8:00 pm (ET - Havana time)

Special Celebration & Wrap-up: Starting Wednesday October 30, 2024  7:00 pm (ET - Havana time)

Send video messages in solidarity with Cuba for the 24-hour Global Online Picket action: Telegram / WhatsApp: +1-778-882-5223 Email: [email protected]

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dcotoDWZRm-1UBsFn3ubfg#/registration

Event will also be live broadcast on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/events/474571148702025

On October 29-30, 2024 Cuba will bring a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly to end the U.S. Blockade on Cuba for the 32nd year!  While the government of the U.S. votes “no” to ending the inhuman and illegal blockade, the people of the United States & the world vote “YES, end the blockade now!”

With 90 days left for the Biden Administration it is time for us to make a renewed push for Biden to remove Cuba from the so-called "State Sponsor's of Terrorism" (SSOT) list and to end to the cruel U.S. blockade. The situation in Cuba is urgent, with a nation-wide blackout this week and an ongoing crisis in Cuba's electrical power grid the impact of over 60 years of brutal U.S. sanctions and blockade on Cuba is clear. This has been coupled with devasting and unexpected floods from Hurricane Oscar in the province of Guantanamo, which have killed 7 people. While the Cuban government and workers are organizing to repair damage, improve safety, and to solve these urgent problems, the U.S. government continues to try to strangle Cuba. 

This week folks will be taking to the streets, signing petitions, mailing postcards, printing an ad in the New York Times, and mobilizing ahead of the UN vote on Cuba's resolution to end the criminal and illegal U.S. blockade. 

We hope you will send a video message for Cuba and join us live for the 24 Hour Global Online Picket to End the U.S. Blockade on Cuba October 29-30, let's reflect the important work being done and raise our united voices around the world for Cuba!

By Ju-Hyun Park

Cuba was first placed on this list under the Reagan administration in 1982. In 2015, the Obama administration rescinded Cuba’s SST status as part of a broader push for normalization of relations. However, a lame-duck maneuver by the Trump administration in January 2021 placed Cuba back on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list. This designation has continued under President Biden.

By Scott Scheffer

The bipartisan nature of imperialist aggression toward Cuba has never been more evident as President Joe Biden carries forward the Trumpist assault on Cuba via the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list.

Sunday, June 25 - Washington, D.C., and across the U.S.

Biden, Take Cuba #OffTheList of ‘State Sponsors of Terror’

End U.S. Terror Against Cuba! Life All U.S. Sanctions!

By Maggie Vascassenno

The Let Cuba Live Coalition (LCLC) in Los Angeles is gathering steam for a fall offensive to take Cuba #OFFTHELIST and end the criminal U.S. blockade of Cuba. 

The local group is organizing to get the second largest city in the U.S. to finally join dozens of cities, counties, unions and community groups, including the New York City and Washington, D.C., City Councils, and pass a resolution to take Cuba off the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list and end the U.S. blockade of Cuba. 

Deputy Chief of the Cuban Mission Alejandro Garcia del Tore and First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy Javier Levy Hernandez spoke at a meeting at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice in Los Angeles. 

Activists and union organizers and leaders attended in person and by Zoom to hear from the Cuban diplomats about the destructive impact on the Cuban people after having been listed as a State Sponsor of Terror in the last days of the Trump administration. Biden can reverse the decision just by writing a letter, but has instead stayed on Trump's path of isolation and punishment of Cuba.