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- Subject: Friendshipment for Cuba Welcomed on W.Coast
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- PEACE FRIENDSHIPMENT FOR CUBA WELCOMED IN WEST COAST CITIES
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- by Toby Mailman
- NY Transfer News Service
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- According to Tom Hanson, one of the coordinators of the
- Peace Friendshipment to Cuba, a west-coast delegation of the
- caravan has recieved warm welcomes on its journey toward Mexico.
- In a telephone interview with WBAI from Chico, California this
- morning, November 10, Hanson said his group, which will be
- meeting up with eight other groups on November 22 to cross the
- Mexican border, was warmly received in several cities where they
- stopped to give presentations. Expecting to collect about $250 a
- day to help support the caravan, they have been collecting an
- average of $1,100 per day.
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- The caravan is made up of 44 vehicles and more than 100
- participants from all walks of life, all ages, all races and from
- all over the country. They started from nine different locations
- throughout the United States and will meet to travel through
- Mexico. In Tampico they will load material aid, such as powdered
- milk, bibles, bicycles and medicines, onto a Cuban freighter.
- Some participants will travel with the aid. The rest will fly to
- Cuba. All participants will have an eight-day stay in Cuba,
- hosted by various church organizations. They will return with
- the vehicles to the United States on December 1.
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- The Mexican government is preparing a reception for the
- caravan, said Hanson. There will be concerts and parties to
- celebrate their mission, which is to minister to the needs of the
- people in Cuba, and to draw attention to the cruelty of the US
- imposed embargo against Cuba. (The Mexican government recently
- expressed its objection to the Torricelli bill whose purpose is
- to keep other countries from trading with Cuba.) The embargo is
- more than thirty years old, and the Torricelli law, recently
- ratified by the US congress, tightens the embargo, prohibiting
- foreign subsidiaries of US companies from trading with Cuba.
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- Participants in the Peace Friendshipment face a possible 10
- years in jail and a fine of $250,000 each for confronting the
- "trading with the enemy" law and the Torricelli law, should the
- US government decide to prosecute them when they return from
- Cuba. Lucius Walker, a baptist minister who is the main
- coordinator of the caravan, described the Torricelli law as a
- terrorist law. He said that he, as a man of religion, along with
- other religious leaders and lay people, must answer the call of
- their consciences above laws which they see as unjust. Walker is
- the head of IFCO (Interfaith Foundation for Community
- Organization) and a founder of Pastors for Peace, which has sent
- similar caravans to Nicaragua and El Salvador.
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- WBAI-Pacifica radio in New York City (99.5 FM) is giving daily
- progress reports on the caravan on the morning program at 7:00AM.
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- For further information, or to be listed on the emergency
- response network should the caravan run into problems, call IFCO
- at (212)926-5757.
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